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i INT r, i a i , m f ; : ( v va rx':' An :djournf d meetintr ofthe friends of Internal Improve ment was held this day. at thd ourt-house in this place; -Dr. James Webb presiding. ; ' The minutes of the last meet in bavins been rear, the com rnittee . appointed for the . purf pose reported the following Ad dres. 7'o the Free People nf Orange J Cftvnty. . Tellow Citizens, The subject of Internal I in provement is one in which yot have already given uneqtuvo ml evidence- that you are deep ly" interested. The advantagci of cheap and quick transport:! tion, for all sorts of produce and merchandize, are daily 1 coming as familiar and we understood, and the yearly losses vre sustain by be wan of them, are so severely felt thrft a general conviction pre vails, of the wisdom, not to say the ' indispensable necessity, o instantly discovering, if possi ble, ahd adopting as soon as the discovery' shall be mad tome effectual means o'f4reIief. Las,t uecemuer tnis . wa made a subject of deliberation at the seat of government, by d cumber of our fellow citizen from different parts of the State 0nminees of atrency were! -then appointed in every county whose duty it should he-active I ) IU ,111 INK IIIU 111.1 III! ll objects of Internal Improve rnelit, to explain its methods aod to cHect jinion of senti rnent, and co-operation in ac tion, anioncr all the people. A .central committee was aiso'ap- pointed, consisting of members from, different parts of the country, to; hold its meeting an nually in the city of Raleigh, to.be an organ' of commmiica- tron to the countv committees. and to concentrate their efforts. To us these measures appear to have been well chosen, and they have our cordial approbation. -In conformity w ith them our meeting has been called, and u;e have cheerfully obeyed the summons. After-a comparison of our views, w.e are pre paired to give our firm and united opinion, not only in behalf of Internal Improvement general ly, but pointedly and practical ly on the importance ot com mencing, Without delay, such a plan, whatever it may be, as af ter due -.enquiry and opportuni ty of choice shall be most eligi ble' for opening -to all the peo ple a free and unexpenive pas sage into the market of the world. Wc arcf now at a period vdien .all around and without is loudly calling us into action. The forest is fallincr before the axe of the husbandman, the earth is subdued by an impro ved culture, and made to yield a better increase, new resources are developed for augmcntincr the means of growth and vealth;to our population.-! All these' would be of little valuo. would be labours unrewarded.' and must languish and die fori want of vital action and impul sivp noiier. without i.n - t i" Ties and veins oi commercial in- .' - - - i ... . : i : r . ? : i : I . . . f t Sr,hS,aniXc T Intion to tlie ouickenimr nnnci-1 lation to the quickening princi ples' .individual and public in terest through the various mem bers of tie political body. In reflecting on this subject, it vividly occurs to us, that we rank with the old and primitive 5ed thro' the tierv ordeal of the revolutionary struggles but ma- uy other States recently cil, . h ave, by I n ternal I m pro ve- xnent, made large advances career of 'national pros rri r-lnrv whilt Olir COlld b1 11 'n - - ------- f crirrrlv ahereil from th vhich nature originally pi nc 'She has put much but little or nothing btates of the. Union. Hy the ; t midly. ..en we, ? tue is -large enonCh to send into the market by the fa- jneans of opening the channels Mine has bee recently discov. last census we were inferior t6 ; eople of the county of Ora , aut or j. the expens, of pmvi- cihtie, of Internel Improve; of commerce to the people of ered in Davidson Cof contain-r three others only i.rpop,,lanm. . v e confnlently beheve i!m , ; d.n the m.ns of carry m- it ment be more than recompenl the Slate, than to aPempt to : in- a veiii of the precious mc Not only those who with us ; ddres none who do not clam, mu In Won the.r nvers ed for all that he could be form an unaided opinion for ' tWl, c-ichty fi'et in lidtb Thic constituted the original coufed- t e honourable , tbti,cticn of have one been made navigable caller! upon to pay for the pur- ourselves. A we apPrehed is the hr Jest vein ever herd rf r;ti , .tmi witn iiuiii -"s "iiuuj i ui".!""1 ""'imcuin, tiii rnar 01 sncii i.jsbdcii lo:.c.'- For.; the spsccs half n , century, we have enjoyed, with little interruption, peace with; the richest pmiledgescf liber- ty, both civil and religions and a what is the example which we Imvb exhibited to the world: We have buried our talents in the earth, and Iivfd without improvement upon tlie bounties ; of Providence. Nay, do wc not hear annually and almost habitual!', from multitudes of our people, ami from those who I represent them in the legisla tive bftdy, murmurs ascending to heaven at the hardness of their lot, even while a payment is required of us yearly of no more than half the um neces sary for the support of gov ern ment? For we must remember that one half of the present an nual funds of the treasury are not collected from the people, but are derived from IJanks and other resources. Did we not witness as many as two attempt? made in our last Legislature1, to coin money, or which is still worse, to isnc treasury notes to such an aihounl as sixty or se venty thousand dollars to re lieve the people even from the j moiety which they now pay for ! the support;' of croveriiinenr? Had we bullion on hand, to coin money would be an appropriate use of it, but to issue treasury notes, is to tax future trenera tions for our support, while we are avowedly in possession of the highest priviledtfes which Providence ever 'bestowed in ! its bounty upon a nation. It is true, our discontents did not push us to the adoption of such measures, but these are not the only testimony which we have exhibited of complaint amidst all the advantages we enjoy as a people. Can the opinion of numbers then be correct, that we are. labouring -under an op pressive load of taxation? If to furnish a bare sufficiencyor the subsistence of government be really burdensome to us, more than to any other people, we knoiv not where to look for the cause, if it be not in our un yielding perseverance to with hold every thing in the form of a kat, small ami reasonable. as it may be, for the creation of com mercial and other advantages. - We cannot believe that our condition is thus desperate, or that in reality we are so oppres- ;ed, as is implied in the groans uid discontents heard: among- lis. As a State we possess not inly vast physical powers, but resources for the formation of a iberal public treasury, by which we might make large ind visible advances from year o year, in a course of Internal inprovement. Surely all that s necessary to these mighty ef- ects, is a deliberate and detcr- nined purpose to gve action'to hese ' capacities. Under the mpclling force of such; a spirit, he oppression would cease with he feelings of reluctance and apprehension in which alone it ist. In the exercise of such energies as animate a public pirited people, we shrill tlisco er that we must proceed fir fvr!ifl thr n:iv nipnt iirt.s.nr- I ) . not only to the mainteunnce ot , ii - iiuiiii LOtri iniiriii. Mil nil iiii-.iu r I y. . Jr M . m m f 1 1 -k rh I i I 1 r I . I I . .1 na i i . - - nuai suooiv oi a ,ironeroiis (-'" 'or'lniorn.l In,prov" ,. I i i - nual supply ot a ironerous lefore we ever approach even i tax-i- a the border tion. of o ppre? ;ive rri:t. :. ...'.!. .1.: . i. 1 1 1 j tin w nicn i - i n i it i mot o nn 1 1 1 . i stood .-1. 1: .1..1.. L- to tout 11 n-niiy f-r urov vmenu. Let noi una- u ne, nowever. th it we can I . 1 1 ' .1 . .?. " "..4 1 "Aiiiiu me mtisi exneotent nrp mlormerl nt a tmf nrm-i support any prpnrr claim to this ,tvaM growth, its wealth and know that, as to most nf. r... .1.- " rI Jl ' T w tr ,eet. distinction, if -maintain an? capital, its enterprise spirit, ductions, we are in ccTrn'oo L h5 rul" r 'll 1 ma Unconditional op.tion to ev-.and the mart of lucrative trade Vear under a comnlete Jn.nr. .f. " . - perity.Hrvhiw calling upon ut to aid which it furnishes to the neonl, Htrt- in thn "r UTC CLP zm Ot:T. A ition .M: forward ith our: fund,. Ev- most remote' from the Ashore. c " '"a u . TJ' V T l,l,,lc onr consi-le- ; ccn,mao rrmru . hr fmn at in t ry tar that is to bear ,m.i5, ,UnU.- , " "V V ,s rP' rai,on :nn our tUnU. Alter-; ,M. GLmr, aced Uiv tip,n any man f. Vhis 'and ma.niticein eZ IZZ ZS 1" ZZV. havini h.,i. inour r any other obje t, we, shall fertilmnc: virtues off.,,.! "s '11": ' T ol his .hir!. m'Wr V! 45 trcauouslv resiit in or I I Tu T' . ",;4U" W-V,us rnetnods ery and depression cofi,li?t nlI , , r ' r 1 i ; . cl carryintbem on nark-; on divided cfns-h. -md tVi. i , .. ' -Uif.ture ar.V c in the State. Jim ther people .it evidrth is, and evidentlv nuist be yam for us to assert ourselves the advocates of internal improre - inem, if we re.t it m every hnp. inwhicb it is practicable. 1 We retx at it then 'rmpliati- ! rally antl distinctly, and can- not doubt tfiat x rm will concur -Ji . i ft.. : .f. V.IUI lis III Hie I UIiCIUMOII, iuii ; tm I hijiiiziiou?- ui' im? , . - - r . . , v a fund mint be created by tax-j State, while we are disputing, in the same beds which - -tin i-v Let those -'cf us w hose lot it still ation for the purpose of inter- ; nay positively assuming and j occupied more than., a century -j. is o, be shut out from the mar n'al .improvement, ami that, if actintr upon it as a selfevident j ago, when they were Jet oHjs j ket of the world, or o go into we are not prepared to pro - nounce heartily and earnestly for this determination, w e do Imt amuse ourselves with the t!.antoms of a fond imazrina- tion, hnd assert to ourselves a character which belongs to usj . . c not in reality, but in name on- benefitted by the reduction ot .nuai prosperity, out exerx nope ly. To this day, and at this j carriage to a few cents on the l imb w hich w e flatter ourselves, late period of our existence, it hundred miles, that his nett i will be directly in conilict with is an undeniable, and must it profits upon his very first load j the laws of nature, itself, pro not be felt t( be a. mortifying; will be more than enough t6.jnpunci.ng anew a sentence of fact too, that in no instance has ! return the whole payment he ; frustration of every efibrt uc a law ever been enacted by the j would have to make for com-1 can make to contend with otliers Legislature of S'orth-Candina, ! pleting the object. in, a market, into which, they the object of which vvas to raise This you will say is a most i c,tt?r hy means of Internal Im a contribution in the form of a ' 'important truth, if it can be provement, while we must niake tax for the purposes of Internal niat'e to appear. It is form- Pod our way 'without thcni. Improvement. Is it because : nate for us that the present is a e Ina heroically or persevere the peculiar advantages which 'period when" the advantage of!KI'v sustain ourselvesj with a we originally enjoyed from na- ture made it unnecessary tons. m comparison States.' The trutl with - other s confessedly the very reverse of this: While we have been under a stronger ne- own rountry5and in our pecnli cessity than most if not all o- ar circumstances. By the dif thei s, to . prosecute some efii-ifvrfrrt methods of canals . and cient plan for opening to our-: rjvcvs and rai'ways, the trans selves commercial facilities, j p0'rtntions of trade are effected must we not admit that we arc, u different States at the rate of . tat the very peop.c, who have been QUC tuo? tnre( and qt tje llt. most remiss and motionless in - mot Ouir cents a ton per mile, regard to these great- objects ; When goods are conveyed a alisolutoly essential to our wel-;n)jit. at a rCnt a ton, it is the fare? samf as five cents a hundred for: We make not these remarks! a hundred miles. When it is to dwell on a subject w hich ! done for two cents a mile for a must be ungrateful to us all But if such considerations hav e any effect upon you, as they have upon us, to stir in us a spirit of activity, and an inflexi ble purpose to enter practical ly, at as early a period as pos sible, on the most advisable plans of Internal Improvement, they w ill not have been present ed in vain. We are aware that this sub- ject of Internal Improvement still continues, in the 'minds of i some, to be clouded with ditS-! culties. We sometimes hear it j asserted as strenuously-, as if it had been completely ascer tained, that the trade of North Carolina is not sufficient to justify the expense necessary to any plan of sufficient extent "to j open the market of the world to the interior parts of the State. Ou what foundations are such conclusions built? Cer- tainly nothing more than vagne ! by means of Internal Improv e- ! sam privileges, how shall conjecture a id gratuitous as- , ment at five cents a hundred fori lt aPPar that in withhollding sumption. Yet if wc ask Le- a hundred nil s, it is a saving ! ne efforts necessary to their at trislative measures for determin- to. the farmer of twenty-eight tainment, vp arc not cousjVif u ing such questions as tliese, an ' dollars anj) a half upon every OUf;Lv -the authors of tiur own utter aversion instantly appears t loatl of thirty hundred weight; oppression? In the orie cast to the most obvious and cost- at ten cents a hundred weight we should delay lio longer than less methods of resolvimr them. ; for a hundred miles, it is a sa- ,l wPuld be necessary to prepare The number of inhabitants in j ving of twentyi-seven dollars for fr action How then in the Xrrth-Carolina is at least se- the load of thirty hundred; at other,, so much easier alterna ven hundred thousand. rirr fifteen cents a hundred the same the, shall w be. reconciled' to ciuia, the largest of the Soutli- crn hlates, probably has little more than ten hundred thou- in 1 1 r 1 Minlli-r 'ririliiii ft -tr lint. .i - , . - -' - ii uii (in u tiiifii.i oil. Willi . i firir ilur. In all these and other c i t , lrr'1 "T" T nrnvpmpn nip Iwon nun- 1 vanc,n5 w'lt1 raPi(l and "iuter- jrupted stritles. In such as " .7 " . t . , , . - ..., uiHi'us j i nnf I Ji r lllIorir mini ! I. .i . , 1 1 lit tn inese spe'-uia- 1 1 ..... ikiiio. Moiihiv iiki hi -ii .-. . .. : mm 11.1 e ari-eii, llelher tlieir ',fi c , c 1 exirii.i i iar: aiio upr u.o tr . , :. : " mention ivnchhurg alone, with true of S. Carolina, in regard io"Uthc construction of roads the preparation of c anals, and clearing obstructions fit m it; 1 ncr. lioth ircmia anu . i Carolina have ever been at vast 1 expense to provifle tDese com- i mercial opportunities wn lor such portions ol our trade as they could hope to secure along . ! , - l.rtr- C vii - i principle, that the whole trade i me original sou 01 iur- 'of North-Carolina is not worthiest. So long ascomirjercial in- the expense of providing for it tercourse withthe rest of the : But it must be enough to put I an end to tliese fanciful diffii ! cullies, if every farmer feels conxinced that he will be so . . . . , . v. Internal Improvement have )rrn inrontrovertibly establish - ed by actual experience, not on- K In the onions of F.nrone na n their application to our . ..... r ton, it is ten cents a hundred for a hundred miles. At three cents a ton a mde, it is carrying a hundred weight a hundred miles for fifteen cents; and at four cents a ton per mile, it is twenty "Cents a hundred for a" hundred miles. When we consider that one of the great effects oT Internal Improvement, especially by some of the me thods praclised, especially by canals &: railways, is greatly to shorten distances, it may safely be assumed, that where carriage "w eosts a dollar a hundred, it would by the methods of Inter nal Improvement, cost no more than five, ten, fifteen, or at the utmost twenty cents. These rates of toll and transportation are taken from the laws passed in different States where such works are actually advancing, or else already exist. If transportation be effected distance, he saves twenty-five dollar and a half; and at twen- that; without which it is impos ts it is less costly than bv &hle that we can ever flourish tv cent tlm r- cm t m A a -v - .-r . . no EAi . lit iiiinir ifi i.cii i i.ii't- ii . . r , . uvp nil. n rnn nrc nr iho cmn load of thirty hundredweight. m '"V riIpd " !..-c.. U... . V "V" o-i-cuy- eicrht dollars and a half upon e- very load of tljirtv hundred ... " . I, i riLm vim. ii fi;r a nun- , ., .. . urea miles, when a f:irmrr rf - 1,. ' .... iii ' . : the v erv hrt onr h cJ. . . r , V " ' ftmr triVl PTpi ... nn. r,u v e are now situated, who hordes as in our western forest. Oiir wagons arc tl e' iw-t ui- w icldy and expe nd r. tr.at Jiirs which the nrst coirrm none ci- mzamm ui -yvV nish; anu thisj ! r ptopld t an lur- a becessarj conequemi- i..u. .u.,un inc.. have not risen one-sicp in nn- prov emeui wn. .i rai siaie. xiii- iutn sun m " in rnr rivers, for the most Dart, world is conducted byi such in- strii mentality 's this, & labours under these disadvantages, we ( may look for national or indivi- i i i .L-.:i persuasion that the difficulties ! tnrou 11 U1 ctir -w ay by Ithis dif- j Terence, may be somehow redu - I ced in magnitude, or at least i 1. ..." ooint wuii patience, out every strugelc with obstacles so real and immutable, must inevitably terminate in disappointment and loss, and when our eiu i?-anee shall hare .been r worn thread bare, we shall find that if easier and less costlv methods cjnild be compassed by human ingenuity than those of Internal Improve ment, as it is now proved and practised by other men and in. other parts of the world, it is but little probable, it may be counted as absolute certainty, that the invaluable discovery would not be left to . be now made by lis, . Let us for a moment imagine our State 'to be traversed through its whole extent' by a navigable river, wide and deep, ahd an interdict of its use by the law. of some imposing pow er, as btirdcnsome or obstruc- live as ui;u v i iicii ine Tant or internal, improvement makes us feel every year of our existence, do you think, fello-.vcitizCns, that we should continue ttl sub- mit to such oppression because of the treasure that must be put in requisition',- or even of the blood -which must be made to flow, to establish ourselves in the enjoyment of such inestimar ble privileges? If by an expen diture less in magnitude, ! and far less terrible in its nature, wc can secure to ourselves for ever an indefinite procrastinatitin of n i n nirkrtl ' a,.L - i" (tn r- in . i it i i Siliit-r I f n ri nn p inc; ' With respect to the various i .hhiu '-"h Pf r choice, i . T : wuetuer oy turnpike roads or by clearing our ri parinc canals or rivers, bv pre- 1 nii ui IIIIL? i ! . . t ! mi uav-. u- c mnM .:..!. :. -r- 0..uuiu uiuih ii wi- car An-.rT.... ( . t. - .1 I r - . r1, inririMiri ... . i v hjiui scientiticengi ineers, i .1.,. A'fT in-ureatesi uimcuuv to w in etiectintr a cordial disnosition ! considerate indugk ncev il.v. not say of personal vicwsn partial n trtrsts and 1 cp f judicrsi shall vt not I t ? ,i, our ruixens vjii cons r,t u . . . ii . i- '.: rrpiiit-i, mumii iM CUliarilH i t 0- 7..nu, io turu so neces,arv j aim nonoranie a condition; f .rc.:Ku, as ui.u mcn nas tor j ie nyt-u. m -Aan h inte Q the scale nf rank nnrl nri JI..-, j v on nit immense sacrn.cfs which we now .endure, never rn j mit our assertion of those rights and privileges, winch it is the proper object, of civil socis tv. and of n humane and wise pn. yernment, to guarantee to its ci- tizens.; A Cruel 'Experiment. A rs port of a ; steam-boat accii! w as circulated in I3altintt rr, on the 2d inst. said to l;3e been made by a person, for li e purpose ! of ascertaining what would be the eficct n tlie n ir d of a yonnir lady, w ho w a tip posed to be atlache.d to. a g n tleiUati, then a passenger in the boat. ,- "In conversation witn her, he stated that on 4he passant of i the Vessel to uaitirnore," lu r boiler burst,. and killed two per- J .1 . jC ...l'j .!! , sons; one oi wnouj wu n tan man, antl described the individ ual in such manner, as to carry conviction to the voting vvtiman, that her lov er as one of the unfortunate sufferers. The effect of this sudden and afflicting intelligence upon an ardent imagination, produn j the most unpleasant coueqii n ces, and the shock received, (kis rendered her recovery !oub ful: The habit which some persons. j indulge, of hoaxing their : qitaintance, cannot ho too !,- cidedly reprobated and wherK, even a remote possibility eits. ot exciting unpJeaapt te I'.ntrc to atte-r.pt it, btr.iv s a he;rt tlevoid tjfal lionorable and correct sent: men t. SHOCKING The Cfal borne Herald states that a gen tleman in Marengo county in that Staf!e,'w bile on his kin r evening' prayer, a few w t ks since, was shot thro the heart by some unknown assassin, and immediafely expired. Yesterday forenoon a voTut man was brought to the He lev tie Hospital in a most de plorable state of mental de rangement, and?died in' a fevv hours after. It appears that he had been discovered that -morning in a swamp, up to his Twid dle in mud and mire, and con cealed by the high grass, somewhere in the neighborhood of the Hospital, w here be: hnd been for three day.-, and wh'W it is presumed, he had remain etlthc' whole time without mod or any thing to satisfy the cra vings of nature, other than the vegrtaiion which surrounded him. He was completely ex hausted vvhn found, idi scarcely the breath of life ii Jii botly, aAd exhibited a most pitiful spectacle; He had been labor: ng under, v insanity f:r some time, and although Vlose- kuuiiiv ; wan cu . n . his parent,. i-,,i, citv, . ' Jv and tenderlv washed bv ceeded in eludinjr their vitri anee and made his escape to - .i . tii t ciii r: 3t 11 ibed , which nroved his rrave." : : . - - if r - '""' - - . - .. -.1 " .t ' . . eiuser in mis or any other eours- trv: Th hey generally vary in I ' -. : i '' -
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