The weekly North-Carolina standard., 1869-04-28
:, ,.,;sm-Commercial and Anti-Com-
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IN believe that Norfolk, Virginia, should
oorIv w belong to North Carolina. Yet we
e no hope of obtaining Norfolk Still
oro is no use in saying the grapes are
~. and forever turning our backs on Nor
II. which is the natural outlet of the gar
., snot of North Carolina.
1ocalism is the hane of our Legislatures. es
peryades our business communities. l.
.s never been feeling of sufficient impor-
.nce or liberality to he dignifed by the
amc of rivalry in art or commerce. 1t has
reu and is now a mere idea of locality,
here my property is and where Tam to
benefited. Thus we sec New Berne
,aous of Beaufort or Morehead. Winning
N Jealous of Charleston and New Berne,
nd the whole State Jealous OF Rlchmond,
Ietersburg and Norfolk Charlotte, Raleigh
nd Greensboro we believe, have been more
Sempt from such localisms than any other
ties in the State
Now. without disparaging the claims of
Wilmington or New Berne, and against the
Elaims of Norfolk, we boldly say that More
head City has the best harbor on our coast.
Yet it languishes, and under the present
.blighting influences OF localism, VIII see
many suns rise over the placid waters OF
tbe Atlantic ere If becomes the grand port
of Carolina.
We expect to have our contemporaries
.Dhout our ears for what we are saying, but
Ike 90 still further. Let the people of North
Carolina trade wherever they can get their
poods cheapest at the lowest freights. Some
# our towns are finished. Others are to
p built up. The life blood of trade should
hen flow in natural channels; and in the
place OF decayed and sickly villages, we will
have great cities and seaports.
It is said that North Carolina has expend
ed millions to build up her own towns; and
Eet she has had no adequate return. This
is mistake. Every dollar thus far expend-
I'D, and every dollar to be expended, will
return ten-fold to the State Yet we are an
enemy to localism, which is the idea of one
5n,llty. city or town to the exclusion of all
bther sections or places. Rather LEI our Leg
Esators and people cast aside the idea OF
State lines and created commercial centres,
and aid and foster the opening up of
the country, whether the avenues of trade
run into or out of tie State. Let US have
more railroads in the West, more in the
Acputre, more in the East, and half dozen
rnore running into Beaufort harbor.
And in this connection, we would call the
attention of our people to the fact, that until
, they begin to manufacture in large quanti-
ties the raw material of their own State,
they can never build up their cities by the
sea or commence an exporting trade. Look
at England, France, Germany, and the New
England States. They export sohat they
naautacturs. There the factory makes the
town of mechanics, the mechanics make the
merchants, and mechanics and merchants
. relieve the farmers of the products of the
soil. 1t is to the interest of our farmers
and our Legislators to foster mechanic arts
in North Carolina, both in the West and
East. Boston, New York, Philadelphia
and Baltimore are backed up by thousands
. OF manufactures. Seldom in the world is
a city made by nature as New-Orleans, St.
/ Louis, San Francisco or Chicago. Norfolk
might have been, and will yet be, the rival
Of either of them Prior to the revolution
she was the first city of the colonies. Hel
people in the interior began to farm and
plant tobacco. Behold her now. The peo
pie of New England began to farm and
manufacture. Behold their cities. We need
more life. therefore, in our midst Broader
IDEAS, diversity of art, and more varied
skill. We must have manu- = of oul
raD material on the Cape Fear, Yadkln,
Catawba, Neuse, Taw and Roanoke. VIZ
must have them at Wilmington, New Berne
Edenton, Elizabeth City and Washington
and we must have thousand of them OIL
the waters of Beaufort harbor, where the
grand Atlantic stretches away to the shores
of Europe.