The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1885-11-26

entire of Lake Erie and touches Can +
ida. Three hundred feet Of elevation =,
oeing equal to one degree of latitude,
t will be seen that an elevation of g.
100 feet from tide water would give
North Carolina the same climate as
though she stretched North and South
for nearly ten degrees with the same
elevation. The geological dependence
of our highest and lowest lands upon
the sea is Obvious when it is observed
that the general course and tread OF
the shore almost precisely conforms to
that of the Blue Ridge which IS the
water divide for the Southern Ale
ghanies. Even the growth of the long
leaf pine in its junction with the graVel
and the rock, which marks unmlstak-
ably our ancient coast line, observes
the same conformity to the mountain
Gus ranges and the present coast.
In a land with such a conformation
might naturally be expected much va
riety of climate and production: In
fact every TODD and textile plant that
hourishes in America grows in North
Carolina unless it be the pine apple
and the banana Of Florida, The cen
sus table shows this, for North Carroll
ma puts something in every column q
enumeration. Around Wilmington /:
found the sugar cane and the palmetto
around my summer home on the slope:
of great Craggy are found the Balsan
FRS of Canada, and the Rhododen
drons of the Himalayas. In man,
places in Eastern Carolina the Their
mometer reached or exceeded last sum
mer 100 degrees; at my mountain re
sort it but once reached 81.
Our climate is also singularly ex
en- sm pit. trSm en- cptllSI4 s.t1s@s
! .I iss1 e a'st5Fb mos
4 countries. Great drouths and genera
floods are almost unknown. There
no grass hopper on the wheat, n
worm on the cotton boil, no bug o
the potato, and happily, no longf
, any niger in the wood pile.
t Its woods and timbers as might /
! expected are varied and abundant b.
yond description. In the various qua
tiles of pine its supply is equal to tn
of any State in the Union, whilst
t resources in the hard woods used
the arts far exceeds that of any 9th
State and is destined at no distant d;
to be a means Of great wealth to 0
people if properly economical. OF
o mines and minerals, its water powe
e and facilities for manufacturing, ne
O not dwell. In this respect Nature h
~ done all that we could ask.
IS Such is brief glance at the physio
=. aspects Of the State in which we IL
" Let us talk now of its people, who, (
$ cording to the poet, really constit'
V. +the State.
of In the first grand chronological
,o vision of the human race our Feo
: belong to the Aryan or Indo-Germal
section. Subdivided they are. i
III tonic and Celtic: Nationally, they
of English, German, Dutch, Sw
m French, Irish, Scotch and ScotCh-Ir
and Welsh or native Britton. !
English clement largely predominant
w the Scotch and ScotCh-lrlsh next; t
." the Germanic. 1t will thus be ST
that SO far as our origin is concer1
W we descended from the most emerge
~, y" and mastertul grand division ofthe
-; man race. The speculation of Hert
- Spencer upon tie future of the PEG
!; of tie United States with such a n
49, ture Of noble blood, permitted to
w velop in this great fertile land un
free institutions and all stimulants
y our wondrous surroundings, natura
iN arise in the mind as we view our {
people. He believed that if not
M organized or destroyed at a pre-
rs tu-e period, our society would in t
ice generate breed of men and wo1
De, such as this earth has not yet seen
eSS conceived Of. In my opinion Il
mes suggestions will receive their ear
GIN Notifications in North Carolina !;
am the reason that the steady inCon
ave Of new elements into most ofthe Ar
III lean States Will delay social crys
10 zation and the evolving of tyr
ON characteristics, These types which
cen to distinguish the future American
OF first show among the people Of
our purest strains of blood. Now in \
nit Carolina, though the original c
'ch mingling of race blood was as Va
also as that of any American commul
city there has been but little mixture 81
: as We are nearer one people than
APP other State in the Union. The &c
at reports for 1870 and 1880, show,
relatively, but absolutely, fewer Cit
and of foreign birth in our borders tina
Is it any other State. In my nume
are campaigns in North Carolina /
800 .-- -.