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7 3loriI;-Caralina KSLhHiD niiir by ' WILLIAM C. DOtTB. XMTOX AH D rBOMHlTOt..; TERM St ' ; If paid ttrtetly la lilnMt, tw dollars psr an num ; Ui dollars U1 fifty cents, if paid within sis tilths; asd tbre dollars at ths ad of tb year. - ADVKBTISEMBSTS not txeteding sixteen Han will be Inserted on tint for one dollar, sad twenty -iv test for oach aobseqnent Insertion. Tho of rrtv length will be charged proportionally- Court Order nd Jitlieielsdvert'mota will n charge 26 per Met. higher than (b sbove rata. A reasonable deduction will bt made to thaat whe advertise by the year. Book and Job Priutisg done with neatness and despatch, and oa secommodating terms. gmf Letters to the Editor mint he post paid. iSDIEII OV jr.- . HON. A. W. VN ABLE, Dxuvxaio roI " The First Annual State Fair of North Carolina, October 18, 1853, Tt wn with Bneh hesitation that I consented 'to deliver the address at the opening of this, the ' first Stale Fair of North Carolina. The short lima fur preparation, and the pressure of other encasements, teemed to present insurmountable difficulties, nspecially, when I was informed. Mutt two distinguished gentlemen, who were inch more likely than myself to be equal to th occasion, had been compelled to decline the duty. The Committee, however, deeming that such an inauguration could not be dispensed with ; and desirous that nothing should be omitted that would advance the agricultural interests of our . State, or arouse her citizens to the fulfilment of the high destiny which awaits them, urged upon sne to content to be the Speaker, to. day. Defer, ring to their judgment; I determined not to con .aider personal inconveniences, hut cheerfully to employ whatever- influence I might possess in aid of the eat cause, a subject, of aH'others. moat likely to furnish compensation fur the brief epaoe allotted to preparation, in the richness of the theme, the var.ety of its interests, ant, above all, the rasttiest of its importance. Borrowing nothing from novelty, the interest which it com. snands is referable alone to its intrinsic merit. We assemble, tii.iluy, to do honor to this, one of the noblest, and most useful of human occupa lions, that which came first to the tupplr of the want oi man, when " Mn threw a blight ' over the bloom of Paradise, and the curse rurtailed the bounties of nature hy res-ruining 'ho soon, taneous fruitfulness of the enrih. Man was sent forth from the garden of Eden to till the ground from whence he was taken," with the as eu ranee, that " in the sweat, of thy fU.ce, ehnlt thou eat bread." This is the patent from which Agriculture dates its institution, and it comes to us vonerable as well for its high antiquity as for its diviue origin. And he nha said to the first of our erring rife. " cursed be the ground for thy sake, mid not on that curse so heavily, but that human skill, and arduous industry, might so far mollify its effects as abundantly to supply the wants, incident to our nature. It wna kindness, at well as justice, whi.'h im. posed the necessity of labor upon a race which bad Inst its' innocence. All ciperience tenches that tho necessities of life are indispensable to the perfection of human character. Stem and inflexible (dehors they are, but as faithful as they are stern, and at important at they are in' flexible, types and shadows of the thorns and thistles, which our great ancestor for the Im time saw springing from the ground, a g nee? quence of his transgression, when he, who hud gathered the fruits of Paradise for his refresh, ment, was told, that he should V henceforth ent of the herb of the field." Then began the work which has since continued to mark the gonera. lions of our race, a mark so distinctive, a proof so conclusive, of the identity of that race, that we may well smile at the credulity of those en. quire ra who have failed to find in revelation enough to remove their doubts. Man alone tills the ground for his bread. Sua. tained by the recurrence of seed time and har vest, be saws in hope end cultivates in joyous expectation, fn all conditions of man from the deepest barbarism tj the highest civilisation, the existence) of religious feeling, connected with the cultivation of tiuiaareh, lint been discovered The very aeeupation, depending fi r its succes upon changes of season bey nd human control, points to aa overruling Providence ns the source of prosperity And the history of every people perpetuates the memo y of seasons of sadness as well as oi rej icn.g, as the earth withheld or bestowed in bountiful profusion her fruits, From the green corn dance of our own Indians to the Festival in bom of Ceres, i.ur own joyous loir, rest times, and the rej dcing of the world over the ingatherings of the fruits of th earth, we perceive that the feelings' of tho h'urt have conned through the same channels shich I'd io the earliest times Hi the offering the first frails of flocks and fields to the Author and Dispeusei of all pd. The progress of itt improvement snd the ex tent of its advancement are most certainly in diuated by the manner in which the earth is till, ed, from the villagea of Indian Wigwams, and the small pstt lies of gr in cultivated Jiy their women, through all the gradations of social or, gsniiation, until we reach the highest refine menu of civilised life. Nutions gradually emerge from the tuibulent, semi. barbarous an aggros, sive slat of war and conquest, into the perms, nent quiet of sn agricultural age. Men seek such a condition for the security of pershnt end property; the cultivation of social affections, and that expansive benevolence which looks to the human family at one and the tame superior race In the full prosperity of agriculture national prosperity is complete, -h-vallf into existence and sustains all ollttr professions, which enlarge and increase its-own success. .Like an unfailing fountain, it refreshes each with continuous streams of vitality. As limji, at Ajjcttliiire flourishes and maintains its precedence, or. at least, its equality in human employments, a n:i. tion would be unconscious of the wasting In flu ence of decline, or the presence. of decay. It is when those who till the ground, to whom the wildness of barbarism and the fl-rccness of a warlike spirit, yielded in the constitution of a wll.orgnnied Government, resign their trailer, ship and fall behind those who have grown up under the shadow of, and lived upon their labor. . that the imWility of age and decline ia seen and felt' Nations, like men, grow old and fee pie. bat for eery different reasons. Neither the highest virtue, nor the most unvarying prudence, cin evade the doom, " The dust'i hall return to the dust as it was." But wisdom to devise and patriotism to execute good, just and wholesome laws, would continue tha existence of a nation through the generations of men. There would be a current of happiness and prosperity, of progressive increase, of dcvo.ion to such a Oo vernment, th.it would give strength with ege and ., inspire a vigor, which would resist the invssion of decay. Liberty, which consist in the enual. ivy of right, opening a field fur enterprise, would giro ceaseless employment to those, energies which are always salutary, when not unwisely restrained. Success would be the result of well directed effort, and acquisition of independents and wealth the snd of a virtutue and judicious industry. : Idleness and improvidence would find no favor by authority of law. But, whilst agrui culture is producing only, and leaving the man. agement of affairs to those impelled by other in. tcreiU, innther state of tilings arises, the ten- asney of watch if sure and steady to the over, throw of free institutions. W hen wealth aceu. mulatet. and diScultie are thrown around its alienation and consequent retora to the common atouki thus -ia;.,,. I : : . i - - v.fc.M iii a f again ia bor, a contest, in which tho right arm of the people ia often crippled nr paralvxed, io which the complete success of capital" produces the at iat alyect condition o ihuae who loik to labor as a source of support : this is a decisive tvtnp lotn of national senility, tha substitution of the will isT the creature f that ij the Creator, thtt irregular diffusina of viul energy, that in. equality in the distribution of thoss ..;,K. ih.t bouid balance each other, which disorganixe anj WOT VOLUME XLTV. destroy tho rich kept very rich and the poor very poor, by the force of legislation a state of things which finds its termination in revolution, or the law of force, or in our more civilised age, in the emigration of poor and oppressed labor, until capital is compelled to yield, for the want of subjects upon which tooberate. It is the old age of Europe, tho oppression of labor by eapi. tal, " the mauling tho ox that treadetl out the corn," and forgetfulness of the truth, that " the. laborer is worthy of his hire," that has pouted upon our shores that stream of emigration which for many years has presented one of the most remarkahl phenomena of the ago. They come to till the ground, where all it new and fresh and tree, snd, above all, where labor commands capital, because laltor can always command bread jwhere industry never fsilt to secure com fort and independence where the cry of want or the ravages of hunger never distress or in vatd We art this day engaged in doing honor to the great businesa of tilling the ground, and those who till it, and to the occupations which grow out of it snd depend upon it wherelalior sits the presiding genius to control and jrive di rection to eupital, using it aa a stimulant to give force and effect to tha enterprises conceived and executed by itself. It is not my purpose to confine my remarks J exclusively to practical agriculture. ucn a discourse belongs more properly to another oc casion, and would be better suited to the meet, jog of' an. Agricultural Society devoted to the execution f,.tWlotils of this great profession. We meet mit only af farmers, but to recognise all the results .of that profession in the kindred productions, msrh auric and tin arts to claim fellowship with ' thosejpjlustrtar'pursuits which deriving support from the fanner's tuit. in re turn diminish the severity of his latmr by inn proved agricultural implements, ami which add to the comforts, luxuries and elegancies of his house, those manufacturers which taste designs and skill perfects7 to demonstrate that agricul. ture is the great centre Irotn which all imluttri. al pursuits radiate, until they form the circle of icrfcct social organisation, the great b.ilance wheel that should govern and control tha motion of all itt iiitrtniic mechanism, securing regular ity and precision in every movement. When any disturbance in the conduct of a free gov. eminent is observed and felt, it will be found in the undue influence of sums other professions and interests, which, for the time, have com bin ed for the oppression of agrutjirai4lustjrjjlj sucn grievances are usually pitieutly endure.1 for a lung season, and sometimes left to TTi our. itive influence of time. Agriculture, like, fai bled Atlas, which upheld the Universe, has great strength and great powers of endurance Its recuperative energy is inconceivable. Like the centre of a; great army when the light troops and skirmishers are driven in, it forms a nucleus upon which order may 1st restored and lostct retrieved ; in every orisis and calamity of a people, the Agricultural interest, sustain and enables them to endure. Commerce may flag, the industrial arts may cease to be remun erative, but the tide mutt turn in timeand prosperity return with it. But when the earth within, lis its increase and the flocks and herds perish in the fioldt, when the toil of the husbandmen it vain, and gaunt, fumino stalks forth in the land, Hope depart, lospair comes, and stern Kuin begins its reign. Large portions of our earth, once populous and rich, radiant 1 with all the splendor of art and genius, fostered by wealth nd power, are now, either- from nat. ural causes or the oppressions of government, lonely and without inhubitantt, and in the si lence of their desertion, speak to the heart that the labors of the husbandmen were vain, that the genius of Agriculture, having lingered until all hope was parsed, departed to some happier and more auspicious country and nith its flight wenlth, power and population hav erisbed from the land. Indeed the strength mid power of any people must be found in iheir Agricultural capabilities. No nation enn long exist who im port all Iheir supplies of fimd neither can any people prosfier permanently, where Agricultu ral interests are either oppressed or neglected by Legislative power and authority. Legislative neglect it at fatal as actual oppression, and it is demonstrable that much of the di'p.essi.in of this great interest in North Carolina is referable to Such neglect.' It is not only nalural and proper, but nocessary to the perin-iiience of any.such government as our own that the cultivators of the soil, those who direct l lie details of the work, should govern and con. trol itt operations, and take carj of its own in. terett. In any other hands exclusive! it is un nfe because not guarded by personal interest. A necessary consequence, of the neglect of our ta rulers to assort and exercise the right to con I p i and govern the country, is the degradation )t tb" prvfei'ion in perlect cultti ition nnd di. mint ed profit Whilst ugi-i ulture a ka no oooiiiies Ir. iii governments, no inequalities oi legislation to advance itt int-roti. it should de man I the removal of obstructions, and resist the imposition of burthen. .To secure this, there must be a strong representation of tbitin. ttrest in the legislatures of the Country, a rep. resentaiion at once enlightened and learned, in all the details of this important subject, which sect' in the agricultural prosperity of our State and country, something higher and nobler thai the enterprir.es of clap trap politicians, and their paltry schemes In order to do this, there must be a change in the tystem of oducation, which baa prevailed amoug-t us!' Agrirulturista. furi inert, in the practical sens of the term, have not been numerous amongst those who adminis ter our government either in this State, or in the confederation of States which form our Ke, public. The result has been manifested in the burdens which agriculture has sustained, in the pampering which other individual pursuits have enjoyed, in the wealth which such hot house culture hss placed in certain localities and the occasi. n d depressions which have curtailed the profits of producers. In this state of things, it ia true, we have a demonstration of the in, destructiliility of agricultural energy and pro ductiveness, of its capacity to endure and pros, per under circumstances which would ensure rum to tiny other employment. Murmurs hate sometimes been heard and impatience made so apparent that the fears of capitalists, awakened to an apprehension of J he loss of all, have in duced the relsxation of a grip which would never have yielded to generosity or a sense of justice. , Astuteness and cunning, unrestrained by any particular scruples at to justice, gave an ascendancy to interests which had selected such representatives, whilst unsuspecting farmers were diligently engaged in tlioir occupation, leaving the government in the nanus of those who choose to manage it. In fact, educated farmers were brought up fur that purpose? though til til branches of the highest liters, tore and the onat enlarged science are not suffic iently numerous amongst ns. The cultivation of the earth snd the representation of those who cultivate it it notoften confided Io tuch none, principally because toch an one it pot alwayt to be found. The farmers themselves hare not regarded their profession at one in which such enlarged education is necessary. The have not considered the discoveries of science or the tf.asuret of art , .M a 'powerful part of there, sources which bring the soil to its highest state of productiveness, and cover the loos of the country with rural besuty. They seemed to bins adopted the conclusion, that at to other pursuits,; .- . - . . . ; ."A ata asstitrve his Uae Is mry trade, 8 Ftnssrs, Faratert art tlnadj wtds." TJnder tuch auspices, no wonder that tha dis. appearing forests ane replaced by worn out and abraded surface! an. I that the productive power of our lands has suffered continued domination. Agriculture has been considered as an art de pendent for its success upon leers labor, how, ever unskilfully applied, and improvements hare advaneed slowly, because neither understood nor adopted.- Even in the application .f titi uuroj, the tame ttal error has prevented sue EALEIGS, MOBTH CAROLINA, WEDNESDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 2, 1853. oest.' , An ignorance of agricultural chemistry, which precludes any certain knowledge of the constitution of the toils to which manures art applied has left it pretty much to accident wheth er they succeed or fail. Like the nntkilful practitioner of Medicine, the tame dose it ad, ministered for every disease, and in the tame qutntiiiet, and it should not surprise as if the effects are as often as mischievous at salutary. Farming seems to have been regarded as a business which msy be taken up when ail oth ers fail, and abandoned a soon as any other shall be offered which promises profit, because benefitted , by the progress 'of improvements which have been recognised and adopted. Such hsi been the indifference to ag-ieultural educa tion, tiat hy for tha greater portion of what has been written for the advancement of knowledge upon this subject has been but little read and asually been denominated aootV farming, and treated with neglect) if not contempt. Any new suggestion, however valuable, must juts the ordeal uf a comparison with the layings and doings of soma individuals, who, having in some measure succeeded, give law and nriinion to the circle in which they are known. The disappra bation or distrust of such persons would lie con. elusive against any. improvement, unless its utility is to obvious af immediately to tileno all opposition. Oar farmers bare not generally been educated for the business. The opinion has generally prevailed that the highest mental culture was not necessary for sucoett in this employment. They have been taught the use ol the plough, the hoe, snd tho spade. They can feed and raise domestic animals with tome success. But they have not been enlight mel by the concentrated experience and learning of those who are toccetsful at well as practical and have given their learning to the world. Tltey have not learned 10 make the host, the most easy and profitable application of their prsc leal knowledge how to increase fertility with increased productiveness bow to demon, strate that exhaustion is not the legitimate con. sequence of production ; and that, under wb.e management, the contrary it true. Our tanners have a-Ojnired much 'from experience we admit, but individual experience, although a certain, is a most slow and expensive teacher. The loss of time and the failure which it rocord;leave it far behind other instructors when we oosid er the value or amount of the information ob. tained. Men should lesrn from experience, it is true. hot. it is cheaper and better to learn Iroin the experience of others thai our own Facts discovered are common property and a proper agricultural education would store the iuin.Tf the ' young farmer at once with the. tacts which centuries of agricultural experience hat developed nnd preserved. The most learned lawyers physicians and scholars are those who devote a long life to their profession, as well in study and investigation, ss to the actual prnc. tic, and he would lie regarded as simply pre sumptuous, who would claim distinction in any of those pursuits without similar preparation, (low, then can a business which calls for all that is known in science and philosophy, at woll. at the improvements in mechanics'' and the arts prospor, when those who control its operations do not seek information upon these subjects T Wt arc often surprised at the contradictory experience of Farmert upon tho application of tome concentrated manure, u itn one, the sue. cess it astonishing and complete ; with the other a failure, and so on in every grade between the two extremes. Usually, tuch experience ends in the adoption of the improver by thote who have succeeded, and its abandonment by those who have failed, without enquiry as to the cause. A tnottorate proficiency in agricultural chemistry would reveal all tho mystery. Perhaps a spur! out article wat used when there was a failure; possibly, the soil abounded even to the produc tion of barrenness in the very element which was introduced to produce fertility. 1'raotical agri. cultural education would removo all such em. barrassment and prevent all tuch failures. The first and great step to be taken is to eduoate our young men to agricultural and kindred pursuits, look for our own engineers, geologists, mechan ics and architects, and instructors of youth amongst our own sunt. Thus dignity will be given to the most aneiont at will aa honorable uecupatirma of life. They will fill our Legisla tive hvlU-ovrd occupy the high place in our gov ernment.. Their counsels will always be cootor rative, for their interest are not based upon speculation but the steady accumulation of labor. I'eace is their policy, because pesce is their interest. Their estates very visible and fixed are most liable to the influences of charge from nn. tional disaster and always the subject upon wh ch aiation falls. And more than all, thecountn will smile under the hand of enlightened culture, whilst population snd happiness will increase with tncaloulivlile rapidity. Our people will be -alirtied with homes which yearly afford new ttiiictions and the exhausting dr tin of emigra. ion which has so fearfully depleted us will tic s ayed. 1 would arouse the ploughing people 0 the state to an appreciation of their importance and their responsibility. Let them remember that they arc the bone and sinew uf the itcpuh. lie. the profier possnasoit of its power and influ. once, and if that power is not felt and that iiiHu ence not employed, in a salutary manner, the blame reett with them. Kducation. knowledge ,nd learning develops mind, and inin.l governs ihe world. Intellect and virtue, kn-wledgo and industry, are the nristocrscy of this our happy land, and a patent for this nobility is within the retch of ail who may devote themselves to the pursuit- One generation of farmers and those of kindred pursuits, educated for their profess, ion, would do moio (or North Carolina than all Ills politicians nave neon able to enect in tlur-J half century which hot passed. Instead of beiiijM their tails, make them in fact your te.reuniio As. sums the direction yourselves, and none will gainsay' or dispute your right. There is a great work before the farmers of North Carolina. I bars glanced al one of the causes of the pre, I'M ttate of depression snd neglect which our agriculture discloses; but let us not do injustice to those wbo have gone before us It is true that much of our native forest has fallen by the ate and been wastefully destroyed ; large surface of exhausted land pain the eye and aieken the heart ; melancholy musings spring up within u when ws meet crowds of emigrants to other S'stes, composed of those to whom we should have looked to uphold our own. We Snd our selves censuring the wstteful agriculture ol our ancestors, and concluding that the policy mutt havt been unwise and ruinous which dictated such a course. In such a conclusion, we take counsel of our feelings, rather than sound di. creet judgment. We are deciding a question and determining a system too far removed from the circumstances which controlled the first settlers of this country. They had a great mission to perform, and well and truly did they do their work. Tha history of colonisation affords no parallel to that winch stand forth on the North American continent, occupied by the Anglo. sax on race. We shall look in vain for anything which approaches It, "either in the rapidity of its progress, the mnnituda of the results, or the brilliant tuccess which crowned the whole enter, prise. - Landing oh a foreign ihore, far rem ived from cultivation, they encountered the hatarda of climate and1 perila of a lavage population. they found a wilderness which they resolved to sabdue, and having tamed its wildness, to ieavs it for a home and a legacy to their children. The resolve itself was sublime, but there wasa higher sublimity in ita execution, perfected amidst ths inadequate resources which they could com. mand. Nona hot men unacquainted with despair would hare embarked in the enterprise 1 none but those, who were every man a hero, would have succeeded. To clear snd subdue the forest, rieb in virgin' soil, was threir work. Ths supply of immediate wants eonld not be deferred; emigration pressed so powerfully upon them, that there was nu time left for any oi her employment The simple b cabia wat their shelter, sad the plainest nrwiucfiont of tbe earth their food. Sue-1 I Let for cultivation wat ; demanded, and tht - vere labor necessary V) procure it, taxed their energy to ths utmost. They had no time, no right to rest USeir fields, in order to recuperate their powers of production. Human wants pressing upon them, forbade it, and a higher duty com pelled them to continue for a season, a system of exhausting cultivation. They Were laying the f mndation of a great Republic, and their first duty was to provide for the nurture and support of the people, who were to give it foundation and endurance. Circumscribed by forests, which, for all practical purposes of production were a complete a harrier as the sands of ths desert, they prostrated thm hy th ir indomitable indue try, and a great and powerful people occupied the country which they had redeemed from tho wildness of barbarism Agriculture was, of necessity, in a primitive state. He who rem .red the trees and gave space f.v the pr Hlu-lin of bread was a great beneTnetor, and Hie necessity of improving soils never occurred to those before" whom a boundless snd fertile country spread its inducements to advance still farther. They ful. filled their mission, snd gave us institutions, in which we, in common with the trienils of civil lihertv throughout tbe civilised world, rejoice. The tin of exhausting tho country and bringing it to it present s(a'", resit not upon them, but upon tha generations who sucoeed them, upon those who adopted this system, after ths nsees, tity whieh produced it had oeased I ' lticannot 0 justified by pleading ths example of those to whose wisdom and experience we looked for gui dance and direction. Their mission was fulfilled. Ths reason ceased, and the practice ought to have coated with it. Tli-ir's was the natural state of agriculture in every new country. It is only necessary to visit one uf th fruntlor States in I look over the immense fields, where the crops grow amidst deadeued trunks, standing almost at thick as ths criginal forests where the exu herant fertility of the soil makes up for impcr. feet oultirstion. and you have a picture of many portions of North Carolina a century ago. This state of t things, with all Its disadvantages, bat this blessing connected with it : No want of the necessaries of life is ever found in such a state of agriculture It is only where tbe density of population gives rise to constant apprehension of famine, that the earth is taxed to it utmost ea. pacify of production, under the influences of ths usual application of stimulating manures. Hear, en has vouchsafed this security to the adventurer into the forest aud the tiller of ths rough soil of our country. A system, at first necessary and unav ndnble, was improvidently continued, and tha eonse 3uencea, in exhausted surf tees and ths emit nued eplntion bv emigration, have been fully experi. enced. It is encouraging, however, to be astu. red, that a change it commencing, and that ws are beginning to realise the importance of resto. ring that fertility which hat lie n lost. Nature has done much in recuperating by ber nwn un astitted powerthe waste of imperfectagriculture, and all pretent indications smangit ths farmers of the State justify the anticipation of a brighter and better day, a time when the restored lands of our State, thote which were originally best and for that reason seleetod and cleared by our forefathers, ths II be again the most productive, and when Farmers shall not annually calculate upon a farther invasion of the forests to make out their crop. As a general remark, it is con clusive against the skill of a Farmsr, who has much open surface upon a farm occupied hy him for a series of years, that he has to clear land, in order to obtain productive surface for cultivation It is cheaper to restore land once good, than to clear and cultivate that which it inferioi, with all the advantage of itt freshness ; and when the value of timber, every dav enhanced by itt destruction, is considered, it beoomos a snbjoet of grave importance. An error, which has been productive of great evil in the progress of agricultural improvement, consist in the opinion, that farming can be sue. cessfully prosecuted without tha occasional aid of active capital ; that ths earth, stimulated by labor, can furnish wealth continually, without suitable returns to sustain ita productive powers; that money made by cultivation, must find some other itirjhtinent, and lhatit isbad management, to expend any of it upon the land again. Some even avow that the true policy ia to wear out and exhaust one tract of land, to afford the means of purchasing another. Such a policy has only to be named to be repudiated. Carried fully out it would reduce- the country to a bare desert, dee. troy alt the inarm of home with ita sacred as. ociationa and its d miestie virtues. But others, wLotWMuld disavow sujh a Isald and unpitri tic system, practice npou one which must ultimately lead to results of a similar nature. There are those who make money from cultivation and ex pend large sums for buildings and other improve, mcnts, who would hesitate or refuse to make a small outlay for manure, which would at once repay ths money advanced in a superior crop .n I love the land improved to in am .ant fnlly equal to that outlay. Lei it not hesuoposei that objection is in l ie to ioipr.veuieiits in our rural architecture. Nu money is more prudently pent than that which add to the beauty of the houses, and the personal comforts of those who reside upon slid till the land. No.indi. a'lon of general prosperity is more conclusive than a complete state of repair, even to neatness nn I elegance,'of the curtilage of the residences of t .e farmers of a country, where gardens, nrch ards. enclosures, ornamental trees, and shruhi all indicating the hand of industry, directed bv taste, speak a language not to lie ntisunder.sto.el. that the owners are satisfied with their homes. Whenever the eye of the traveller is refreshed by such schemes as these, he may rest assured that there agriculture prospers, tbt the love of their homes hss inspired the hope in their own era, that their children will occupy them, wh-n they are gone, and protect their graves from des ecration ; that they are residents, inhabitants, of the country, not mere sojourners (or s srison, ready to abandon til f irspsswbtttve emigration are men who feel that patriotism, as well as ev eryjvthev virtue, grows most kindly and matures mosTTpeTrectly under the influence of local at tachmant. til sacred circle which includes their homes : wbo )ie'ocive great evil in the frequent uprooting of those plant of tender growth t who feel that it is a bitter trial to sevsr and destroy these tie which bind men together in neighbor. bood association. It is not to such expenditures aa these that I object. These ought all to be made and prosperous agriculture would in thit way adorn and beautify our whule country. But I refer to that indiscreet financiering which would add thousands to the rare of. neut, in bu I Ings and liks improvements, but withhold mod. erst annual return of its own increase to tu. tain its fertility, and recuperate its pewers of production impaired by previous bad cultivation. Many large farmers would peomitly refused to invest in Ouan, Lime, I'laster or other ton centrstcd manures, whn would not hesitate to invest thrice that sum in some unimportant sn. terprisn, the profits of which, in three years, would not equal the increased production of a single crop, i'n-m thejudioious application of the manures which that sum Would purchase. If nil the income front sericulture i to be vested in stocks and loans if its -most valuable snd ex. hausting productions are to be annually exported, without any suitable return to Ihe Soil, ultimate exhaustion must be the rssult, Tbe merchant invests capital in goods, calculating on a profit in bis sales, aid increase the extent of his bost nes by the return of those profits to I'm purpo. see of trade. ' 1'fiia seems to bs ths tonne of all other occupations, with tht exception of agricul tural pursuits.. That it etpected to supply all other demands from tvery other direction and still sustain itself, unassisted and alons. And yet nothing mors certainly makes a remunerating Mtara for money expended than land nronerlv t-lrtanuredi carefully preserved, and skillfully eul itvsieu, jse intnstniensui capital ss move secure, certain or satisfactory, r t v - u-,y Tlte history of Kuropevn agricnliure, and es. pecioily that of Kngland, teaohrt a aavst inttrut. tive lesson. " In no. emiutrv. has capital boen tanv ext. n.ivel emj h.yed in F nn eg in bjw has the land been mors permanently or rapldlr '. improved, and no where hat increased prodac lion made a murt certain and satisfactory r. turn. On hundred and fifty years ago, ths pro. ductioa of wheat in England did L-iw exceed an average of ten bushels an acre, and the grain it. self was much lighter and poorer. By rsgular improvements, arising from tht liberal tipeadl. turn of capital ia manures, by superior eultiva' lion and increased fsrtilitf , the production hat quadrupled, with aa enormous increase sf pop. ulakkm. and the eorrstapoudent aeeomula-ioa of agricultural wealth. In no country ia thers a muh capital and science devoted to agriculture and its ' kindred occupations, and in no govern, uieut it the will of the farming interest uttered in euoh langoaga uf caninand ia the Legislation. Tho eipertenoe of many nf tha old State of our Union confirms whet has been said. Fsrmert have learned that not only tht vegetable produc tion of Ihe earth may be returned to tnrich it. after tht most valuable element hav been em. ployed to support animal lift, and to minister to human eomf irt, but that the ocean and the lake, tilt forests and the rivers, together with th ex. hsustless resources of mineral fertilisers, treas ured up iiv th? earth, all create agricultural tap. itnl and skill In successful progress. to tmpluy profitably that which would I ether wiss ussiest er aoasylaa. To rarest usotisy in stacks, whieh must return profits nr. all other occupations, mast Mast, ""trillrus of agriealuiral as of other em. ployineiits, that liberal and judiciout expenditure is wist economy, and hero wt find tht illastra. tion of that seeming paradox, "there it that scattereth, and yet increasath, had there it that witliboldeih more than it moot, but it tended! to puvorty. The first step in th) rightdirectiun towards the renovation of our exhausted lands, and ths in. crease of agricultural profits, is a determination to cease to cultivate land tin poor to make a rea. sonable return for the labor emp!oye3. Labor is the Farmer's sieury, and when thus employed it makes a bad debt one utterly inconvertible to any valuable nte. Tbe merchant who should sell his wares nn credit to those who art hopelessly insolvent, mutt end in bo coming so himself. It ia equally true, that bs whu devotes himself to the cultivation of land, which do not, by their production, pay for the operation, must bt ruined a the' prosecution of businesa. If it is asked, what are those te dowbohavt at rich land, the reply It : makt all rich that yon cultivate, reduce tht lart'act and incroatt itt fertility, and, if yoa havt surplus labor, smpkiy it at you would other, capital, to the accumala. tion of ths elements of fertility. Tht original settler of this country fuand that resource ia the rich and endlest forests which they cleared and from the productions of whieh they became rich. Clear land prudently but not wastefully, and by judicious management -retain and In. crease th fertility. It would astonish any ont, wbo it not familiar with such calculations, to learn, that at least one third of ' the whole agri cultural labor of tha country ia wasted on ex hausted lands, or applied without skill, thus making a dead loss to tht Country and Ibt world. Tht proceed do not pay tbt expenses of the operation. How great must bt ths profits of judicious labor oa rich land to sustain an occupation with sack an item of loss in its ac count I An acre of land which, in Itt txhausti ed state, would not yield fivt bushels, ma bt mads to produce forty, with oneighl of the la bor and expense that would bt required to makt from tight acres nf such land, nn equal aeaoans of corn. This illustrates ths value of tht ap. plication of capital to farming. After having collected and applied all the manures which art In reach and available on the farm, tht turfaoe to be cultivated may bt Increased and enriched by the purchase and ate of fertilisers, with which our markets abound. I speak from experience as well at observation, that, in tbt application of Uuaaa, although ai porently, n high, priced tertiliter, Ihe increased crop has paid for thrice tbt tost of tht manure, and left an improvement rn tht toil fully tqual to tbt turn invested. This Is certainly true in refer, tnce to wheat and tobacco. I learn that its acts most powerfully on cotton. , I know that the production of corn it greatly Increased, but its priot being less, ths immediate return in money value tf not so great. Men art covetous of securities, which yield with certainty si x per cent. Hers is otis that, in five rears experience, ha never yielded less than ont hundred. tiuano is used as an illustrater, without intend (tig to disparage lime, plaster and other fertilisers iih which agriouMiritti art familiar, ' la reply to the suggerlnn, that tht tystem of dealing snd exhausting land ought to lay than' doned, we are often told that this is necessary, because of the growth and increase of labor on the farm. If this were a necessary consequence of such increase, it would bt a great calamity, for it looks dtreoily to the utter impoverishment of the country. Laborer! everywhere grow up and Increase. Such ought not to be Ihe result. Labor, it is trne, may lie so directed at to pro luce detirurtion, instead of profit, hut it is on. ly th nnskiltul who make such use nf this great source of prosperity, A farm has its limit, for the profitable application of lalwr, as well as to ita aurfiiot, and to surcharge it with labor, ia certainly nowise' Let a farmer, thus tmbar. raised with physical force, hire out soma of those lalsirers, and invest iht money derived from the hire, in concentrated manures; let him faithfully and skilfully apply them to hi lands, and he will find in Ihe increased crops, ss well as ths additional valut givsn to his estste ia per manent fertility, a more satisfactory application of surplus labor, t- Another error, most fruitful in mischief, and which seems to havt Strang hold upon Ihs minds of ths agricultural community, is the notion en. tartuinod oi nesting land, by a rotation ol en pt, with occasional interspentions in cultivation. Let it 1st remembered, that tht rotation is only because tht laud is charged with tht production uf erupt not natural to the soil, and all of which are removed after they are produced. Land never grows poorer by the pridurtlon of its Ba live growth, however abundant the crop, if it is not renewed. Our rich forest lands have pro" ducedttietr imiuens burden of timber.and with the small return of th foilage, retain their fer tility. Nature doe not look to destruction, but Io production. The spring makes hast to atone for Ihe barrenness of lbs winter, by restoring the beauty end perfection which it biting frost had dealnyed. Indeed Ihe richest tints ta tha land1 escape, colored by the benevolence of heaven, art seen in tbt tendency of nature io renovatt its beauties, and reproduct Its fruits. It is only when aa artificial process is introduced, that si' tilkiil aids Ixemie necessary. Ths intn dustion of cereal grains and othtr tropt not natural to tht soil, has rendered rotation neeea, tary to Iht continuance of fertility, unless there 1 a continual supply of suitable manures for ths support of ths same crop often 'repeated. If that wert done, cultivation might bt unremitted. It it a strong figure of speech to say, that land becomes tired and needs rest. Land becomes poor by a constant draia of Ihs element of fer' tility, but it immediately recuperate when they are restored. Art doe thi promptly and. at once, and nature slowly and by degree, an 1 hence tht notion, that land, aequirsa fertility by rest. So far from absolute rest, whtn left with out cultivation, it produce vegetation to tbt tti tent uf its t apaeity. If annually manured, cul tivation each year would increase ita powers of production. Who thinks of resting a garden? Old garden spots sre lbs best, because although cultivated in lb samt" and those txhausiing traps, they art every year mannrad, ' But I am speaking of the system of shifts, as it it called, as a meant of improvements.' Many farmers seam to suppose, lhal, with these hills, th system is complete; that the process of eultiva' Hon may continue independently, without det rioratii.ai of the soil. ' This Is a great and fatal error. Land, it is grintsd, will not grow poorer under this tysteia, at rapidly as it would antler the mere alternation ol crops from year to year, but tbe difference if ulliui ile exb'tustica hi only NUMBER 49. qoostton of time, This Is tht mors certainly tru sine tbe nsoal ersetiee. ia tht year of rati. is to cover tht field with stock, grate It oloss" and' titan and Tsav it pressed by Iht hoif and scorched by the tan. It reminds Bt of tht petes which follows Ibt footsteps of a ruthlsst. conqueror; ( , - 'Marti when kit earns gt sas kit ceaaaeslt stats, . t sukst a sstitat ss4 sails oW pest,' w Lend taxed with two suoctssivt year of produc tion Is delivered over to tht tejsih and hoof of aa tverttorktd farm snd thai it called rest; No system of rotation, which inrlu let leas than fivt tli ifta, tan secure increasing fertility and sustain a lull stocking of domestic animals. And tveo tht may bt aided by tbt application of all tht manure wnica san o tt'lltciea to cover tne land and supply it with elements of production. Orasses adapted to tvery variety of soil esn bt ci r ... , i s . 1 1 -j l- rvauoy luunv ass siwnsavnt win uvcioe woicu art tht best. These nith deep and effectual fdoughing, and relieving tut islds from th gras. ng of stock until wall covered with turf, would produce result ia improvement whieh would astonish tliost who hava not tried tht siperi ment, ,:. - .. "- Without the diligent and oertcveriog eulti. ration of grass, farming cannot prosper. Thott belonging to ont climate appear lata In tbt spring and art destroyed hy tb first euM weather of tht winter. A number, such at clover, herds grass, and other, remedy Ibit tvil and ifford abundant means bo? increased profits In raiting and fattening cattle, . In the abstnee of inch a provision, wt art thrown entirely upon ths eropt com ana oats, twin oi great vaiuo, ana, inaeea. indispensable, but both, in our present lyttom, great exhauster. It is impossible to pass through tht country la the spring, without bs. ing pained to observe the cattle which havs juat achieved tbe enterprise of enduring the winter, Thott which have survived, givt unmittaketbl indication that their peril hava been great, and tht danger of starvation imminent. No branch of our farming operations would b mort profitable than this, if prudently conduct, ed. If tht farmer, on one overstock, and oa the other, provide ample means, of feeding, by devoting low and wet lands, . which areunsal for cultivation, to-meadows for hay, would at one perceive tht valut of tht system, in in creased domestio comforts and tht profits from sales mads iron his farm. Thers must be bad management wbtr tht seabord towns of North Carolina purchase bay and garden vegetables from tht Nsw England 8tatst, The remedy of this evil is not to ot toona alone In Improved breeds of cattle, bogs or sheep; neither Durham. Tswater or Ayeshire, amongst cattle Outs' wolds, Suuthduwns or Merinos, amongst sheep nor Birkthirei er Irish gratters, amongst bogs, will alter tht statt of things, product prosperity and success, without first sscuring ample means for their rearing and tbe fattening.: Our eld va. riety, brought up under privation and hardships of our prsseut management, art better, unless this is first attended to. They can live and endure tven tut trials to Which they art sab. jtcttd; tht others would dtgenertt and di, Sheep farming Is a neglected source of great nront annual remarkable lucilillss lor ths 'jusi' nsss. Tbt littlt Stats of Vermont produces tour time as much wool at iht Butt of Aorta Carolina, although tbt cold season continues eight months of tbt year, in that bigb northern latitade, and demands e atinued feeding to tbt stock; whilst our free mountain range and an' q nailed grass country in tht Piedmont region, remains unemployed for this valuable' purpose; and this too in Iht tact or Ihe nigh print of wool, and tbt heavy importations from foreign coun' tries to tnpply our home consumption. Where, it may b asked, it n lemedy to be round for the slat of things wt havt described? It is In bt found, first, in diffusing Information amongst ths farming masses, by rendering them conscious of ths profit which they loos and th russet which thty incur by the went of inform lion, or tbsir own censurable neglect, by tht formation -or agricultural association in every soonty, and every neighborhood, and inducing the intcrtonrs and collision of minds amongst titrate engaged in common pursuit, by lb sir, eulatioo of agricultural periodical', especially tltose in our own section and climate; and per. mix me nev tu-caprvas my svs seas Off ooilga lion to Ihe editor of the Farmer' Journal, par lh tsal at well as ability with whieh he has tsonmenced, and it prosecuting his valuablt ta. lerprise. The Romans presented aetrtcerown to tht man who saved the life of a eltisen; how much mure Worthy of tuch a distinction ire those gentleman who art demting their lives to tht renovation of a country greatly exhausted by imperfect agriculture, and awakening ibt impaise of that pure patriotism, which ntvsr rests, until our country shall smile in beauty and abundant, on wide extended seen of ver. du and fertility Tbe name and services of Kdmuud Hutbn, tbe author of ihe eteay on oil. eareoui manure, will ba remembered, and sp' preciated, when politicians who filled a large apace in pahlit i otorie y, and who won high irises by their dsep sagacity, shall be utterly orgotten; th on ha written his nam upon the imperishable annals of the improved agri, culture of this State and country, whilst th deeds or the other will slumber ia tb grav which terminated hi career, however luooeas ful it might have been; tliaon it Ibt benefactor of hi roue, tbe other tho promoter of hi own personal Intertst. i would add the promotion of agricultural libta-ies, cheap, and easily obtained by every association, and frequent meetings, free discussions and comparisons of txpsrienot. Nothing Is more fatal tu improvement, or indi vidual hnpiness, than constant nssoeietion with those whu take our opinions , without invsstig. tion, or from wheat our own stock of knowledge is not sulfated. v , i i It is a great calamity for men to he deprived of tht I rivilege nf intrrcoorst with their equals, and superiors in Intelligence, ihe human mind develops in proportion to the frequent opportu nities uf putting forth all of itt powers, and th human heart is improved and cultivated, by Hit communion of feeling, which .Ui h high exercises create.' II wbuit contented to be the oracle of his neighborhood, will become a hig't, and b surroonded by syeophants and flittemrt. , Er. Mrs tnust b perpetuated in ucli a society, and improvement e is. A he grow older as will become mors unteactiable, and when n diet. his mantis will moat probably fall oa a worst ubject than himself, becaus Imitation is the most sinner specie of flattery, ht will hart acquired petition by such a prnes. Frequent aisrrnhlie of ths Farmer in agricultural clubs, and societies; Hi taking and reading of journals devoted to those and kindred pursuits, will de throo tuch a petty tyrant if b exittt.and pre. vent bis rit if not already in power. ' ' Men will try and set t will observs in Iht tri als rtf their neighbors, tht success or failure oft each new suggestion ; and their owa practical good seas will appropriate all that It valuable, and reject what is Worthies. -., , ,, . t .., , . On no subject I enquiry mora anxious, and knowledge songht With greater avidity, when one the mind is awakened to the importance which lie longs lo It. 1 am told that in th conn. ty of Edgeciimb alone there sre more than sight uuntireo c.ipicn 01 agricultural journals lasen and read by the farmer of the county ; and the resuscitation of lgtninbin her agricultural interests demonstrate the power nf knowledge. the msgle effect of information diffused among the maiea, Ths tame it tru of other portions of the Stats and the progress would be much more satisfactory, If tber was a mors general ei -oulstion of thos messages of light te Ihe far user, those papers which., uvis- iled bvth dirt drivel of party politicians, nnd rising above ths themes Which they soggest, come borne to the b iarttand Interests of tha t-sople, tnd direct I ii-m 10 sue uiKnestanu nouienni employment t Let tack member of thi State Society detetm'nt I to day, to esttnd tk circulation of our own Ag, r.culmrril paper, and thus elierish tho tffoit of '" I . M Ml I I Lt' st teakas editor to improv tbt Stat whack gav him birth. Th present occasion presents ene.tl.er sou row ' of high gratification to vry North Csro'inian.' Thm display of meehsnioal prey ret indicate ... that much is doing in that way fur agricultural -improvement Tht benefit to farmers In improved agricultural implements hss crested lo our sk. (hanics a celebrity, which w in ppiad to a ac knowledge. vYbts wa look ts.day npon tb -ploughs, th reapers and threshing machines, which nrechanirtl skill bat given to agricultural industry, and remember the inferior furnishings -In the respect nf thlriy years, we s oi gratis bt; ourselves, anil th aountry, up.. sack nr. -paralleled tuecess. Nor doe var high gratis, titlon eeas hers, fn th higher and mm ta-" pa naive branches of mechanic arts, there ia equal progress, and lik improvement. We art at thit moment almost in hearing of the sound , of ths hammers which f.geoutand com plat 'tht Locomotive fur oar Rail Rtwds with all their complicated machinery, whilst tbt ears aud soaches equal ta any star b ganc uf finish, or provision for til personal umfor of passengers, sr mad by mvebaniel nf your aa good citr. When to thest wt add that tbt Wiies of North Carolina, our fsrmers' wive and daughters, - -havt increased tbt attractions as wsll is the at. fulness of this first Fair,4 thit Oala day in our State, w cannot but believe that a nsw light . hat beamed upon us, I biv to look upon a gar. -den; that concentration of tb loveliest produc. lions of nature, thos umamentsl nervations to th eye, refreshing th aensat and improving tb heart. When God mad man innocent h placed him io a garden. When be forfeited hi favur , , by transgression, k xpalled bim from tha garden, and laid on him th necessity of makii g on ia imitation of that which be had lott, if he would eheriih a recollection of its charms. Ther is aa iodisoribabi interest which belongs J to a garden ,' its roses, its hyscintha, and their lovely Companions. F.very farmer should leach bis children to lo a flower garden. It gives a charm to boms, it teach th love of th beau. tiful. In every tint and thad of III flowers, radiates that benevolence of Heaven, which ia in itsslf all beautiful. W', in patting through tbt fields; ho not paused to admire th wild flower, smiled upon only by tb sunbeam, and " kissed only by the dew drop ; and ss be looked felt grateful that there was one more evidence of the kindness of bis Maker, in such a reflaed tourc of enjoyment in the beauty of hi works. - Tbe prosperity of agricultural pursuits, it has been remarked, brings gonenti prosperity to any , country.' Ths present is a season peculiarly fa vorable to a great effort mi the part of those thus employed for proeresa and improvement. All of the productions of the earth are saleable at most , remunerating price. Breadstuff's and provisions will probably approach cotton iu valne, as an ex- -r port, more nearly than fur many prctiou yearn. t The prices are high, and n guldeu stream flows into the purses of producers. Much ought to bo . done, and much can be done in this groat inter- est, if tht season is seised, and ,v'i tide now sot- ting in our favor is now allowed to'pasi away. Now is th timt to roust up this great interest to the duties which thej must perform or sink into an obscurity, th very snppotitioa of which im- plies criminal neglect. Now is the time to shake ' off old prejudice and to arrest lb pro, rest of . orrorriMicfr-ceoakoi a .ad prophets of evil. Croakery has been must successfully cultivated : at aa accomplishment ia the Oond Old North i Sta o. Tht Raven croakt at toon at he ia re leased from the egg shell which ivercd him, and j many of our eitiiens seem to hat taken leaaoua : f tun that bird of evil omen, Tho complete sue- . cess of this first Kair, the vast assembly present. i and tb interest felt and xprctscd, indicat lb , most cheering revival of interest where interest , must It ftdt or all is lust. Todeielope knowledge) , byfiexlomuf enquiry.antl through investigation, f' to xpos p ipular and tnUcliievout errors, and to .t f n l otit aud make known th reasons which pros dure result, th principles which are active in bring'ng them slxoit, ia the Intent of all such in- ' atitut'ons, and ought to b considered a primary. -duty on th part of tvery member. 1 select a 1 single Instance. It It n generally rece'ved opine ion that tiuano, although a stimulant which pro- ' dtiees an immediate crop, leaves the land in an " exhaustive state, and filially unproductive. Thi t may or may not b trust, according to the skill with which it is applied. Ouann being I highly -ooneatstrntod manure, composed ehietly of am- ' sain and pksspbat of luam act a th leaves) 4 e on th other element of the soil and cum production, . Tht element of fertility wcranwnT : of them already there, just at Ibt t'.ewtnto uf . bread ar in flour; lait the leaven it r.cossry ": lo the production of the article in high excellence,, ' Leaven of itself, will K't make bread , if thi 1 Htiimilous, without any other supply of mannrt, t be frequently applied, baneuness must earn. ' booaus tliei will bt nothing for the hjaveu tct -a ;t upuo. But if rotation uf eropt it adopted and graasos sown, ther is no improvement nior: permanent, and, I may mid, more cheap. I say cheap, because of ths e ue nnd cheapness of iW -application. Let Ihe Farmers reason upon the " ssilijects and they will c.ne In th pnsjer ,' elusions. Let them read and iinpmve. . Let -t:em assemble at our , Fairs, and they will find 1 development and improvement, 'which awaken hope, give rigor to action and ensure eueees. We shall bo induced to cherish ntiii genius and our own mechanics, and, by offering Indue. : - -meiit get tht highest attaiiIuir;U in vry 1 branch uf industry. . , . . . i 1 havt already remarked, that no people can proaonr permanent I v. where agricultural inter' st ar (iilier oppressed or neglected by Irgiela- - UTS auuiuriiy; Hint legislative neglect is mm inju rious as leuialuliio onnression. and that it is tic- monstrablo that much of the dejivession of Ihia great interest in North Carolina is icfersblc to tins neglect. .,' ' ,, , ;, v' ' No Stabs of tho Old Thirteen Viosscstet mora undeveloped1 resourees-s-hone of Ibit of greater . value. This is not a recent discovery. Wsbavo long boon conscious of the fiu-t, aud havo loiiu- looked upon tho development of the wealth and . power in the States, which urrouna ut and lia upon our borders. We have seen the humnis , practical advantages the il.calcuhihlo benetiu, V which they have dorirod, whilstwe liavejiist coin- , menced a moveiiHiiit in that direction. Virginia and South Carolina have boon our exiKirting State and have obtained credit in their commer cial statistics for tht production of N, Carolina. With all that we furnish to commerce, from lh forest and th soil, we still, in our own name, ' stand amongst the smallest of the old States of tills I nion. Wt have baen content to leave lb ., counties lying near onr northern a southern border to f silt to Virginia and Stuth Carolina for th means of trauspnrtion as well as a market for our product. . And these cotintici have prow pcred in prtvportion to thotr proximity to such ail- . vantages, while the centro of the Stats is land- ' lockotl and ncgloite-l. ' A oontest in tht Legislature, lietwern the Kast- . era and W estorn interests, continued for t toust sucitossbin of veors. The jcaiiHisy ami distrust which hare grown out of that straggle hav par- . alysesl our energies and h'ft the improvement of Uie State to abide the ronseiuenees of victory, i of a hitth, if gained by either, is orthlcse and nn itniirtant. Ureat interests have been sacrificed to tu personal ambition of those who ha' c sought promotion by skiitnl monnem""'. ni these etc- j ments of discord, ami the whole State has suffers ' ed in the result. It dis;s mat seem m have occur- rd to those to w!Hnv onr iuternsts havt been committed, that if every portion of our Stat en joyed the liem-lit of the mt inswif transportation. siiax 11 a a ny a a ossnc-j vi our own aeep w Bier, or our own ocean-snoro, that if, from Salisbury to the Tennessee line, nnd fnnn liobisboro' to t Keoaif.irt, ana band nf iron shouM bind thtssa remoto part together, truss oui.bhxso K.vsr sjin a Wgsfl Tho olxtaalo pre-ecd by tima and spae would ! so far overcome, as to maka us feel that wo are oue ami Ihe same people. '( With such n c iiitmuation ofi ubf eit Central -Rav', aul.be fei d trs ami hi r tie. which tb i itnrortt of our i ado would indica'e. our fcrtilo lands and eshn istleaa iniuci, now in a great uicvsu e valueless and unpeoductivo, wouhl at once swoll thew j, - It s nd importance of th Statt beyond Ciloul ition. We should suci-esslully ' romnote with other lines from Mnrji.iid, Viryriit Is, Ntuth Carolinv and tiu-gio, which are dri- .' ring the proiliut out of Ihe Vail y of tb Mis ai ssi i mi to th da.iots of tratle 00 th Athuitio Ci n tL . Thes enteriirisc m'isi be leun, oarried on 1 pushed torward be.1v by tho t aroi tbt a 'leuliunU intrrcus 01 li e country, in - ea est losnent must rebel id ti the nltivatnr, w 10 is t.'.e prcalucer, and he would find. In di : .J.111 'hed vp"' sid tbe iVe in ti e value uf hit)
The North-Carolina Star (Raleigh, N.C.)
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Nov. 2, 1853, edition 1
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