The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1871-05-17
INTERNAL IMPROVEMENT NESTING.
A Printing once fun Or Enterpr,se.


a meeting of the editors and employees
ofthis paper was held In the Recorder
office last Saturday morning at ten d clock
to consider the building of the HILLsBoRo
AND DANvIILE RAILROAD Charter for
which was granted by tile last Legislature.
Mr.. t. j. Freeland, a worthy farmer of
Orange, was called to the Chair and Mr..
Daniel McDade appointed Secretary. The
meeting had barely come to order ere
Mr.. q. N. b. EVANS WAS
loudly called for. Mr.. Evans responded
in the following vein:
Mr.. Chairman I am unaccnst0med to
rostrum exercises and 1t Is with feelings of
no ordinary diifidenceand embarrassment
that rise to respond TO the call made
Indeed, sir, ssyoil would scarce expect one
Of my age to speak In public on thestage,n
and appearing upon the forum to-day
for the first time since my schooi~boy
days, / must ask this large and intelligent
audience to view me not with critics
eye" and to sspass my imperfections by.n
Mr.. Chairman, as understand the OBJ
ject Of this meeting It'll sto consider the sub
ject ofa Rail Road from this town via
Prospect Hill and Yanceyville, to the en-
terprising town of Danville, Va, which
furnishes the planters of Carolina and the
border Counties Of Virginia with d tobac-
60 mart equaling any other to be found in
the United States for ready sales and fair
prices. The Road we have under consid-
Grafton, Mr.. Chairman, penetrates the fih-
est tobacco country In world and gives
Rail Road facilities to q tax-paying people
"A N
rs much as any other section i'm the State.
II may be asked why the people ON this
route are siumbering in such criminal
indifference in regard 10 the building of q
road that will enhance the value of their
lands three-fold? Sir, If they will give Ii
half tile attention thrown away on party
politics, it will not be long ere the ir0ii-
horse Is heard snorting in the vicinity of
Prospect Hill and Yanceyyille. Let no
man fold his arms and say e can't be huit.
That is the stereotype cry raised against
all embryo Pail. Roads. ITcAS BE RUITT.
Wherctfiere Is a will there Is way. But
IL no action is taken--n0 effort made--y0u
may bet your bottom dollar the Road will
not build itself.
/ perceive, sir, that q Rail Road meeting
was held last Saturday at fanceyville, but
rs understand that meeting considered
different Inca Road via Company
Shops TO the Coal Fields Of Chatham
This would leave Orange and portions of
Caswell and Person That need Rail Road
facilities standing out in the cold, and IL
.ebooyes the frieids Of the Prospect Hill
route awake from their apathy aud come
10 tliesrescue. This Is u bee-fine from YAM
ceyville 10 Raleigh, and Is about 20 or -
miles nearer the markets Of Wilmington
and Newbeni. And there " q Rail Road
almost completed running from the NJ. G.
Central Road to the Coal Fields, intersect-
ing the Central route this side Of Raleigh.
This would put Danville in trade with the
Chatham Coal Fields, without the expense
OF constructing q road from the Shops to
these fields.
But, Mr.. Chairman, while the property
holders Of this town and the iandhoiders
Of the County evince no disposition 70 Sc
cure the building Of this Rail Road, why
should 4 give myself the least concern? Il
do not own land enough la the town or the
county 70 give me a grave. I never ex-
pect 10 own az long rs follow the mis-
fortunes of printing. And 1t ulay--fiay,
Il probably will be deemed prcsumpiious
In me to lii my voice for the improvement
Of this town. Sir, anticipating more curs-
es than thanks, close up with the remark
that / do not care three stitchesof dried
flea, whether the Road Is built frpm Dam
vile 10 this place or to Compasiy shops.
Give me leave To add, sir, thni the Roa.l
will be built, nc no distant day aud
without al effort-I may say without "a
long pull, astrong pail, a pullaltogetller
Of the people ON this route VIM ought to
feed much more interest IN Il than do, Il
WiH teape usistimg-hoaorcd Old torn stand
ing 0a In fie cold.
Loud and unanimous calls were then
made for
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