The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1868-11-18
Rallroads-.Let us have more and better
Railroads.

among the masses of the South has increased
at most encouraging ratio. The poor men
who were carried by Gen. Lee, for the first
time in their lives into Pennsylvania, were
beauty and durability of the farm houses,
and the great number of substantial rail
roads they crossed and were compelled to
tear up and destroy.
We once heard the commander of Con-
federate corps say that the Confederacy was
not defeated by superiority in numbers or in
bravery on the part of the North, but in the
superiority and numbers of her railroads.
We replied by saying that superiority in rail
roads and all other material improvements,
implied superior enterprise on the part Of the
people who made them Wenever saw good
plank or macadamized road without finding
beside it, every few miles, good school
house and neat, commodious church. And
wherever we find school houses and churches
numerous, we always find good roads leading
from them.
Railroads and telegraph wires followed
the Federal army as closely as the quarter
masters train: and in one instance, to the as
tonishment of even European powers, two
entire army corps were transported thirteen
hundred miles in seven days, and completely
ruined the well laid plans of the Confederate
generals nthe late war between Prussia and
Austria, Prussia avaied herself of the expert
ence ofthe Federal commanders, and with the
aid OF railroads, concentrated her troops so
rapidly that, in one campaign, she almost
strumental in building up the innumerabe
cities of the North in time of peace, was
found TO be of inestimabe value in time OF
war; Troops were hurled from the Missis-
| sippi to the Atlantic with the same ease and
in the same period of time that Gen. Lee
| would consume in marching through few
counties in Virginia. Railroads were the
Instruments, the school house and the church
on every hin top in the North. were the
heart and brain behind them. The cultivated
and ingenious mind of the Yankee made
even fighting intellectually exciting and sug-
gestive of ten thousand cxpedients to make
the war he waged an entirely original and
4 different thing from what the world had
1 seen before.
I But with the election of Gen. Grant the
war Of the sword is over; the railroads are
pursuing their normal occupation, and quar-
| termasters and commissary stores will roll
into the great marts of commerce, in
| stead of the great battle-felds of the re-
bellion. The soldiers of the South, during
the late war, learned in school they will
never forget what constitutes the material
| superiority of the North and the Northwest.
! The schools and churches and newspapers OF
4 the North cultivate the minds of the masses,
| and the first thing cultivated minds set them
| selves about is to economize labor and OBJ
tain the iuxuries of life with the least posi-
BILE expenditure of physical force.
To-day you start from Paris and ride into
/ the palace of the Cenci in Rome; it will not
! be long before we can start from Raleigh
/ in ''palace carr and ride into the halls OF
the Montezumas The palace Of the Cenci
makes an excellent depot; the halls of the
/ Montezumas in q few years will be thronged
! with passengers coming from and going to
the ends of the earth
/ To-day / saw dragon fly
4 Come from the walls where he did lie
An inner impulse rent the veil
j OF his cid husk from head to tail
I Came out clean plates OF sapphire mail.
4 He dyed his wings; like gauze they grew;
4 Through crops and pastures wet with dew,
| A living fash of light he flew"
j We are indeed in the midst of reyolu-
ton, not only in the political sentiment OF
the nation, but Il revolution in all our modes
of life and thought and action. Herbert
Spencer says that it would require volume
to trace through all its ramiications the con-
tingent effects ofthe every day act of lighting
a fire. These effects are imperceptible; but
the influence of steam locomotion, as applied
to trade, is apparent as it is infinite. In
creased communication leads to increased
activity. Prices reach a level, produce is
exchanged, labor goes where it is needed
New York and San Francisco are nearer
each other to-day than were New York and
Washington in the days of our fathers A
few Atlantic States not very long since were
thought too large for nation-now whole
continent is talked of, and the wings of the
American Eagle are said to be broad enough
to stretch from Cape Horn to the North Pole
/; Every true patriot who fought on either
side during the war desires the return of a
lasting peace. The election of Grant tends
first of all to give strength to the peace
/, party OF the country. Let all good men
/ join hands and trample into dust the dis
organizers who would destroy our laws
laws dispel all hopes of a bright day Of
/ happiness and peace.
i Iowa rolls up total majority for the Re
4 publican ticket of $1,000. Her Legislature
1 is three fourth Republican.
1 Kansas gives Grant and Colfax $4,000
majority. The State Legislature is strongly
| Republican.
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