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SUBSTANCE OF THE Remarks of Mr. RAI SER, of Hertford, 05 THE " RILL CONCERNING THE WILM1.1GT0X AND lULElnlT RAIL ROAD COMrAKT," H TITE HOUSE OF commons, janf art 20th, 23d akd 24th, 18 19. concluded. : This is no fanciful estimate of my own. The foregoing data aro taken from the officii! state merits of the Wilmington and Raleigh Rail Road Company, itself. According to their own show ing even, if they obtain all the benefits contempla ted by this bill, with a nett annual dividend of 6 per cent on the capital stock, they will lack $14,000 of paying the interest on their debt. I have said 6 per cent nett dividend was an extrav agant estimate for a Southern Road. Yes, 4 per cent is an extravagant estimate. It is more than the average cf Southern Rail Roads, except as I have said before, they monopolize the travel, or terminate at a lurge commercial town. If the Cen tral Road is ever to be constructed altho I fear, as I will hcruafler attempt to show, that it can Dot suutain itself if this bill passes, yet it will of course, be a rival to the Wilmington Road, in re gard to travel i and when we take this into con sideration, the most sanguine friends of the latter cannot calculate on more than 4 per cent, nett profit. I have no idea it will ever reach it. But even if it should, the nett income on the capital stock of $1,500,000 would be 800,000, to meet art annual interest on their debt of $68,000. Here then would be an annual deficit of $8,000 u the interest alone ; and this too, even admitting the friends of the bill agree to abandon their pro position, authorizing $300,000 to be raised by a ale of stock, for an investment in the Manches ter Road. Out if the bill passes in its present shape, with a nett annual incoutt) of 4 per cent, on its capital stock which, by the way, I consid er a very liberal estimate the road will realizo $36,000 to pay off an interest ol $08,000 per an num, thus leaving a deficit of $32,003 annually, in paying the interest upon its debt. We aro told however, by the advocates of tho bill, that tho Wilmington and Raleigh Rail Road Company will bo deriving an annual income from its stock in the Manchester Road. Aye, that is what we always hear of roads before they are built. It is a very easy matter to rypher out these immense profit with pen, ink and p-'per, upon an assumed hypothesis, but experience has always told another tale, especially here in the sparsely' aettled regions of the Si uth. Let me not be mis understood here. 1 am nut urging this, as area' on why rail roads should not be built. The beiv efits which they confer on the citizen and on the State, are not so much in the way of profit, cent per cent., as in the spur tlioy give to industry, and ia the development of pb ysical and mora! power. But as the friends of this bill, arge it Bp on us as a measure ol pecuniary interest, it is in that point of view that t am examining it. As to this Manchester Ro:td, it will be several years before it can bo completed. And when it is, how can we expect for it so much better a fate, than has almost uniformly befallen all Southern Rail Roads? Built at a. coat lar exceeding the esti mates, tlioy have had to struggle for an existence for years, under unseen difficulties and liabilities encountered during their construction. And if this project of taking stock iu the Manchester Road succeeds, the Wilmington and Raleigh Road, in lead of deriving a profit from the investment, will for years be still further crippled in its resources, in having to sustain, and provide for the embar rassmeuU of the Manchester Road. Wo are also inferred by tho friends of this bill, to the fac fated in the memorial of the stockholders, to show the difference of expense and repair, between rail roads laid wi'.h heavy ' iron, and those laid with the ordinary thin iron. The South Carolina road u referred to, to prove this. This South Carolina road does not present a fair illustration of this question. That is a dew road. The original su perstructure i still good, the timber andueayod, 4lie bridge uninjured, the ditches not choked op, the embankments not washed away. ' But in a Jfew years, li exRsea incident to tliese will begin to increase; and the iron itself, unless it he genuine T iron, will require continual 'replace, incut and repair. ' " , Tho State of North Carolina now has a mort gage on the Wilmington and Raleigh road, to se cure her sg.iHHt-kwnm tlw bonds of the Company endorsed by the StatA to the amount of $25 ),000, and agiinrt los on (lie $45,000 due by the Com I p my Ut'u Ijlt jraryFunl; making togother $135, : ll I. T iW uill asks us to pojtpoiu our murtgign, t . .. i r'jTi to be exocuUl for the $J2 ,0tw proposed to be borrowed, and to give the latter mortgage priority ever the one we now have on the road. Suppose this is done, and the road is uniuio to pay the Interests on its debt as I think I have conclusively shown, it can no do. Which will be the last debt, en which the Company will pay the interest, if it finds itself embarrassed J of course, the debts due the State, and for which the State is bound for the reason, that they will, and reasonably may, expect more, for bearance and liberality from the Stato, than from their distant creditors. Then one of two things will happen. The Company will fail to pay the interest on the bonds endorsed by the Stato, and on the debt due the Literary Fund ; and the State will have to pay the interest, and ultimately the principal. And when you resort to your mott gage, you find another mortgage of $320,000 to which you propose to give priority by this bill, in terposing between the State, and her resort to the law for re.lress. This latter mortgage must be first lifted, before the Slate can move a peg to wards securing herself against loss; or, on the oth er hand, the Company will fail to pay the interest on this $520,000 debt, and the mortgagees under that debt will bring the road under the hammer ; nd the State must first bid tho $520,000, before her own claim can be satiaficS. The State then, m ust either give up her own claim as lost, or she must give to the amount of $335,000 for the road and then she will have two insolvent rail roads on her bands, instead of the one, which it has long puzzled the ingenuity of the Legislature U know what to do with. Sir, the passage of this biliis tan ta.inuot to giving to the Wilmington and Raleigh Railroad, as a mere gratuity, $335,000. Pass this bill, and the State's mortgage on the road will not bo worth the paper on which it is written. The tone of the arg'irr.cnt or rather of the ap peals of (he friends of this bill, has becomo some what changed, since the commencement of the discussion of i merits. At first they nrged it on the grounds of policy and of interest to the State, in a pecuniary point of view. But after being a- gain and again called upon, to answer my facts and my figures, which no one has yet attempted to do, they now appeal to the liberality of the State and insist that my opposition to this bill is incou sistent with my professed zeal for internal improve ment. Let us now examine the subject in refer ence to its claims upon the liberality and protec tion of the State. I admit, as I have do.ie be fore, that much consideration is due to the pub lic spirit and enterprise of the people of Wilming ton. They are entitled to the regard and foster ing care of the Legislature. In providing for a system of improvement, their wishes and tbeir in terests should be respected. But I insist this has already been done, No section of the State has had so much dene for it, at this very session. Tho Cape Fear and Deep river improvement, and the Fayetteville plank road, although not directly de signed for the benefit of Wilmington, yet received support on the consideration, that ultimately they would tend to tlie commercial advantage of that place. The road from this place to Goldsboro', was especially designed for the interest of Wil mington. How much further are we expected logo? VVhen this additional draft upon the lib erality of the State is presented, I, as one of the atatdians of her intercuts, can cot honor it. So far as I am concerned, it must be protested. There is a limit to legislative liberality. We should take care, lest In extending our liberality too far to wards one section or one interest in tho State, we are guilty of injustice to others. And I honestly believe, as I shall hereafter attempt to show that if this bill passes in its present shape, the central road, y ever built, never can sustain itself. (Mr, Rayner having moved to amend the bfli by striking out the words ' $520,009 for tho pur poses mentioned," and insert in lieu thereof, the words " $260,000 far the purpose of relaying said road with new and heavy iron from Wilmington to Neuse River 5 and that said sum thus to be bor rowed shall be applied to this use, and no other " went on to speak on this branch of the subject. Now, (said Mr. Rayner) this brings me to con sider the relation of this bill to, and the influence it is likely to exercise on, the great internal im- prove;wut measure of the session. I meat) the mad from Charlotte, via Salisbury and Raleigh, to Goldsboro', or Neuse River. It strikes me as par Bible, that not only are we not' required bv a snir- it of liberality, to pass this bill, but JO we expect the central road to be built, thai then justice and policy actually forbid it. The great error at first, was, attempting tosustain two rival parahW roads across the State. In their rivalry, they have ever kept each other crippled ( and not only individuals, but the Stato Is still suffering from the effects of it. This multiplying of rival roads may answer in i densely peopled and commercial country ( es pecially when their termini are large commercial town. But we have not yet reached that condi tion in North Carolina. It may bo, that the Leg islature ought not to' refuse to grant charters fur rival roads, where individuals merely ask the priv ilege of maki.ig '(heir own improvements, with their own means ; but the State should not Invest her means, in thus encouraging actional prejudi ces and hostilities, and at the same time hazard ing the loss of her investments. Of course, my remarks are intended to apply to communities when these improvements are in their infancy ; and such is the case in North Carolina. Wheu a country ; has become wealthy, prosperous and poorful, I before operations towards the construction of the commercial onterprize can woll boar competition, road shall be commenced. But suppose I am mis- Two millions of dollars iu the central road is a taken in this. Suppose the anxiety of our Wes heavy investment in North Carolina. We may tern friends for this improvement is so great, and expect "it to be severely criticised by public opin- the excitement of hope raised so high, as to secure ioH ; and that the public feeling will be sensitive the subscription required on tho part ef individials. in regard to the tax necessary to supply the moans. Suppose the road built and in operation. Can it No one who is willing to do his dsty, will falter on support itself by freight alone ? Can it defray the this account ; but then it is policy, it is wisdom, expenses of running it, much less pay the interest it is propriety, that we should provide for this road on tho debt of two millions proposed to be borrow being established upon a basis that will make it ed by the State. Unless it is in fact, what it pur popular as wel! as useful ; that it should avoid the ports to be. a connecting link in the gtoat inland odinm which has befallen the two other road? in metropolitan route, for the conveyance of travel the Slate ; that it should not be a source of eternal lers and the great U. S. Mail ? The representa agftation on the hustings, affording endless capital lives of the Wilmington interest do not pretend to for demagogues. In order to attain these ends, deny, that their purpose is to monoplise the travel our calculations should be based on data author- and the mail, and that in presenting this bill they ising the conclusion, that the road will at least have that object in view then must we not only support itself, after it is constructed. My purpo- enable them to do this, but build the Central Road ses is to secure a mutual dependence, a kind and fraternal feeling, a joint and harmonious, action, between the Charlotte and the Wilmington road?. And how can this be done, if this Legislature, in this solemn manner, after deliberate consideration and discussion, declares to (he world, as it virtual ly will do by the passage of this bill, that the Wil mington road shall be put in complete order at the public cost, (for the postponement of the State's for their commercial benefit besides, and that too at a great pecuniary sacrifice both to individuals and the State 7 Whit sort of compromise I What sort of reconciling conflicting interest? What sort of establishing mutual depeiidanco and har mony is this ? So far as regards the commercial advantages that will enure to Wilmington from the Central Road it is a strong and urgent argu ment in its favor; but in providing for this, let us mortgage is equivalent to a gratuity to that road, at all events, retain for the road the means of sub- of $335,000) and that it shall be kept up as a sistence. separate and isolated improvement throughout its entire length, from Wilmington to the Roanoke 1 And this too when you are assured by the advo cates of this bill, that the road from Wilmington to Manchester will be built, whether the State au thorises the Wilmington Company to take stock in it or not. For the purpose of identifying the interest! of I do not pretend to say, even if the stock of the Central Road should never pay any dividend, that the people in their individual interests, and the State, in the development of its resources and the increase ef agregate wealth, would hot be benefit ted far beyond the outlay in the building of the road. But in laying down tho basis of any sys temwhether of internal improvement or any olh- the two roads as much as passible, for the sake of er public policy some regard must be had to pub conciliation and harmony, for the sake of liberali- c opinionin every free government. I am not ty even, I have been thinking of a compromise speaking of public opinion for the present, in its to postpone the State's mortgage to the extent of operation on us but of public opinion for the fu- $26,00u, to be borrowed and invested in the pur- ture, in its operation on our policy. It may be pa chase of heavy iron to relay the road from Wil- triotism to sacri6ce one's self on the altar of pub- mington to Neuse River, where it is proposed the I lic opinion to-day, but it should be with a hope and road from this place shall intersect that, although reliance that in the future, public opinion will do it will bo recollected that I gave notice of iny in tention to strike out all that part of the bill propo sing to postpone the State's mortgage. But vn con sulting some of the friends of this bill, with refer ence to such a compromise, they promptly declin ed it. Well, sir, under no circumstances, would I go one step further. Wc are not legislating for a day or a year, or even for the present generation. We arc legislating for posterity. Our object should be to do something, which will not only subserve the interests of the people, and promote the honor and reputation of the State for the time being ; but which will stand the test of public opinion. Gen tlemen may talk about patriotism, State-pride, and self-sacrifice that all sounds very pretty iu a har angue, and looks much prettier when carried in to practice. But frequently, policy and a due re gard to public opinion is the best sort of patriot ism. I am not speaking of the effect of public 0 pinion upon the Representative, but upon measures themselves. A system of internal improvement in its first adoption, can only be carried through and sustained as a system. Measures of considerable importance must frequently be yielded to sectional wishes, in order to secure those of paramount con sideration. This is in the nature of things, and I am ti i dispoeed lo complain of it. But to sac- justice to his course. To labor for the establish ment of a system, howsoever good in the abstract, with no prospect of its ever being sustained by the popular will, with an assurance i fact, that it will ever be a source of tumult and agitation, is mere transcendentalism. We live in t, practical age. and in matters of this sort, our efforts should he directed to practical ends. How can we expect internal improvement to become popular in the State How ca n we expect this Central Road to bo the favorite of the State, sustained by its pub lic spirit, and regarded an the great agent in devel oping its resources and cherishing its commerce, if it fails to defray its current expenses? After having made one failure in the way of internal improvement from the shock of which, the pub lic mind in some sections has not recovered now if we make another failure, may we not expect a death-blow to be given to the system for a century to come ! If the Central Road is to be built, I wish not only to see it serviceable to the people of the State, but I wish to see it popular I wish to let the people discover from its successful opera tion, that they have notufliciently hitherto appre ciated the benefits of internal improvement. ; ; If this bill passes, should the Central Road ever be built, 1 do not think it can ever be sustained, rifico tho great and paramount interest in providing except by an annual contribution from the public lor details, is not wisdem, is not statesmanship. treasury. You will have said, by the passage of It is paying a heavj price for an article that is rendered worthless by the very terms of tho pur chase. Now looking at every thing done or proposed to be done, during, the present session, for internal 4mpruremcnt, as a syitem, it must be admitted that the Central Road from Goldsboro' to Charlotte, is the great paramount interest. This is designed to bo the main vertebral truuk, the basis of conver ging lines penetrating the remote sections of the State, in the time to come. In passing the bill for this Central Road, too much is put to hacird, for nothing to be attained but a mere temporary ebul lition of joy nad hope, to be soon sadly disappoin ted No minor tneasare intended as a mere ad junct to this, 1 hould be allowed to present any im pediment to its construction 5 or to destroy its use fulness after it is constructed. And if this bill passes, t must believe such will be its tendency. If this bill passes, it will be a virtual oV?Ura tion by the Legislature, that the Wilmington R d shal be sustained throughout iu entire length, nut only as a means of building np the commercial prosperity of Wilmington, but at a rival both for the travel and the great U. S. Mail! Under this state of things. Is it to be expected that capitalists this bill, that you do not expect this road to be the line for travel or for the conveyance of the mail. And front freight alone, it cannot live, without an annual appropriation from the Treasury. And this the people will never bear. This Rail Road question wilt thus become an everlasting bone of contention, over which demagogism will growl for the next half a century. It will be the issue on the hustings, and an apple of discord in our legis lative coancil. The masses do not usually stop to Inquire into the remote benefits of any system. That which costs money, they expect to bring mo ney in return, and more especially, when distant sections are called on to contribute no matter how little, to the support of a system in which tliey cannot perceive they have any direct personal in terest. Agitations and excitement, jarrings and heart-burnings, lire inmhtbly the result. So that sooner or later tlie road will be abandoned as sinkinj concern, its authors and' advocates con signed to odium, and then, farewell to internal im' provement in this State. I will now proceed to state candidly what I wish to see done.- Our great error at first, as I have before said, was tlie construction ef two parallel road through the State. Although we cannot will take the million of stock, required by the char entirely repair that error, yet, let as try to come ter T Owing to former failures, capital in this State, as near to it al we can. Ia the first place, every will be remarkably shy of rail read investments, thing should be done, consistently with oar means, even under the most promiaing auspices, but with towards directng our marketable products to Wil. 11 assurance (a will be afforded by the passage mington, and bailding up that place aia Commer. of this bill) that tlie road will barely pay the ex- olal City. I think the measures of this session penses of keeping it in operation, how de yon ex- have, for the present, liberally provided for that pect individuals to invest their money in the In the second place, mstead of attempting to sua scheme? Believing as I do then that the passage I tain two rival and conflicting roads throughout of Una bill will deter all prndent men from has- their entire eitent through tlie State, kt as endea. aiding their money in tlie Central Read, I oppose it vor to harmonize and identify their interests, by because I think it will offer an inso-?rable ebsta- rerdering thorn mutually dependent oa each other. clc to the construction of that Road, For the char- I This can only be done by providing, so far ss our Goldsboro.' The idea, then, of the Wilmington road being sustained for the purposes of through travel, and the transportation of the U. S. Mail, North of Goldsboro', roust be abandoned. Gentle men say, " Why not sustain both roads why not give bjth a chance?" For the simple reason, that so far as State patronage is concerned, it is impracticable. Desirable as it may be now, and practical as it may be hereafter, to have two roads, or twenty roads running through the State, just as if may be, to grant conflicting charters, when the entire work is to be accomplished by private enterprise, neither tlie condition of the country nor public opinion is at present prepared for two rival systems, to be sustained at the public charge. In attempting to do too much, iu endeavoring to accomplish impossibilities, we may ruin every thing. If you are resolved to sustain the Wil mington road, as the great high-way for travel and mail transportation from end to end then a bandon the Central road altogether. If you think tlie interest of the people, and the character of the State require the construction of the Central Roar! then a due regard for its eupport and maintenance requires, that the Wilmington road north of Golds boro' shall be abandoned, except for the purposos of local freight ; and I confess I wohIJ prefer to see it abandoned altogether although I do not ask it. it ii no answei to the argument, for gen tlemen to talk about" a hard case for the people on that part of the road" " abandoning a work already in operation," and all that. This may all be true. But we are dealing with facta that are stubborn ; we are dealing with an unnatural state of things, the fruits of an erroneous judgment orig inally. We can not cure all the evils which beset us ; our proper policy is to pursue a course that will effect the greatest good, at the cost of the least evil. I'd make the Central Road auxiliary to the commercial prosperity of Wilmington. But then tlie Central road must be supported; and I would so regulate the relations between the two roads, as to prevent the Central Road from becom ing a public char jo to the State From the trav el, the mail and freight, even allowing fur tlie com petition of the road South ef Goldsboro' I believe the Central Road will not only pay the interest on the State's investment, but may ultimately pay off the principal. : Without these advantages, I be lieve it will prove a sinking and profitless con- rn. If this bill, "concerning the Wilmington and Raleigh Rail Road Company," as it is tilled, is to pass then I shall consider it a great error ever lo have passed the bill for the Central Road-: I cer tainly never could have been induced to vote Cor it, could I have supposed it was to be followed up by such a measure as this. I do not wish to aid iu imposing any more insolvent and rickety Railroads as a burden on the public treasury. Neither do I wish to kill the cause of internal improvement in North Carolina for a century, by another f.ita.1 er ror iu legislation. It is perhaps fortunate that t'ie Central Rail Road bill is not yet beyond our con trol. Amendments ia the Senate are necessary to its validity in making the State's inscription a- vailable. If this passes, and the bill for the Cen tral road comes to us, I will not say positively that I will vote against the whole measure, but my impression now is, that if this bill paeaes, 1 will vote for (he repeal of tlie Central Rail Road bill the next hour. First, if this passes, I believe the Central Road will prove an abortion. Secondly, iTiTcernnot succeed, except by such appliances as the passage of this kill, it ought not to succeed at all. ' - Appeals are made to my professions In favor of internal improvements I am told of the effuiU and sacrifices of the friends of the Wilmington road, and of the loss and ruin that must await them, unless they obtain the proposed r-'Li 4 am told of tlie bright hopes and cheering prospects of the friends of internal improvement I shall disap point and destroy and I am U d that if I succeed ia defeating this bill, all the other great measures of internal improvement will necessarily be defeat ed and that I shall be 'pointed It throughout the State, as tlie main agont in defeating the efforts that North Carolina is aow making in the cause of internal improvements. Sir, these appeals to pat riotism and public pride, and liberal feeling, sound very finely J but they do not answer my facts and my figures. What it done on this subject, should not be done from the impulse of feeling, but from the tuber dictates of judgment. , Feeling might induce as to attempt to relieve all the evils that afflict society 5 yet the history of mankind vui'.i teach us that sncb an effort would be worse than vain. Let those who charge me with illiberality of feeling, sak themselves the question, whether some of their patriotism does cot spring from con siderations of sectional intcres', either under , this or the other bill As far as my sense of publ e du ty will allow me, I am willing to go, without in ducements af sectional interest, sly section of tlie State asks for nothing. But what is done, I wish to be done with a due regard to all interest. I wih it moreover, to be able to bear the test of lime. '' -;- ' ' N0fi.J-ln accordance with the intimation above given, when Uw Central Rail Road bill came back to the House of Commons from the Ssnate, where it had been amended, to as to provide for the issue of State bonds towards raising the two millions of stock to be taken by the Statu, Mr. Rirmt voted to lay the bill vn the table, after a disctfsioa and understanding on the partot tlie tiouse, that laying JOHN SMITH. The Sequel to Cpt. Rice's Treat." Some few years since, a gentleman residing not a hundred miles from this, travelling, in the neighboring State of Arkansas, on a collecting ex pedition, had occasion to call upon a customer, whom we shall call John Smith not the immortal John Smith, Jr., who write for the newspapers, but in all probability, a relation of tlie " great orig tnal, whose portrait hangs upon a peg against tlie cabin wall." Being, as be thought, in the neigh borhood, not knowing precisely tlie whereabout of the aforesaid John Smith, he accosted a copperas- striped specimen of the old North Carolina State, who was rather listlessly engaged at work in front of a cabin, hewing out an axle-tree for an ox-cart, from a pine sapling. ' , Traveller. Good morning, sir; will you have the goodness fo direct me to John Smith's 7 N. C. Certainly, sir; if there is any thing in this world I do know.it is the way to John Simth'a. Why, John Smith and me came out together from North Carolina, We cut out that new rosd lead ingacross that branch and over that hill. We Traveller But, sir, will you have the goodness to tell me where he lives ? N. C To be sure I will. As I was saying, if there is any thing in this world I do know, it is the ( road to John Smith's. Why, sir, John Smith and me married sisters ; and ha got tiie smartest wife in all these parts. She , Traveller No doubt of it, sir 5 but I want to see him, and have nothing to do with the good quali ties of his wife. Will you direct mo? N. C. Of course I will as I said before ; if there is any thing in the world I do know, it is the way to John Smith's But a I was observing, bis wife spins her six-cuts a day, besidos attonding.to family fixings. Traveller. She may spin sixty for all know or care ; but that ha nothing to do with my question. I wish to find her husband will j ou lull me where he lives? N. C. Will I tell you where John Smiih lives? Well, that' good one. I tell you again, that if there is any thing in the world I do know, it is where John Smith lives. Why, sir, as I said be fore, we came from North Carolina together. And he has a yoke of the truest pulling oxen-fn all these parts. His negro nun-Jim is the smartest Traveller. My dear sir, it is growing late, and I wish to get on. If you can direct me, why don't you do, it? I ask you again if you will direct me to John Smith's ? N. Cf Havnt I told you a doien time If there is any thing in this world I do know, it i where John Smith lives f Iiavn't I told you that w come from North Carolina together? But speaking of his boy Jim he can pick out his hundred weight of cotton in a day, and shell out " a turn of corn for mill" at night, and no mistake. Beside si; Traveller. Zounds, man 1 what have I to do with Jim or his cotton, or his corn 1 I have ask ed you a plain question, which I will ask again. Is there, or is there not, such a man aa John Smith living in this section, and ifyoa know the way to his house, will you point it out to me ? N. C And founds, man t h'avn't I been telling you all the time, that there is each t man ss John Smith living in these diggia and if there i any thing in the world I do know, it i the way to hi house J I tell you again, we not only come from North Carolina together, bat cut out that new road leading across that branch and over that hill. Why,sir,Jehn Smith has tin smartest little daugh n 1 you ever saw. She baa only been to school two years, and has got m far as amplification.' Traveller. Confound hia danghter, and bar am plification too! I think yoa have got that far your self. For when I ask you a plain question, which yon might answer in a half dozen word, you spin a long yarn about road, wivea, negroes, oxen little girl. Now do, that' a good fellow, just talk 4 little more like a man of sense, and show me the road to John Smith's. , V . 1 h N. C. Don't yoa confound Ja'.n's darter, mia ter ; she' my niece, and a smart one aha ia, too- Why, you are a Utckous a a skinned eel, and won't let a body direct you when they are trying to do it with all their might. To be abort with yoa as yon teem to wish itI tell you again, we caw from North Carolina together w bought land to gether at a dollar and a half an acre w bought three hundred a piece. John Smith 't land lie just across that swamp, but ha dont live then now; Traveller I tee I am not likely to mtaa an wr of you to-day ; to I may a weU keep, eu, ask you now, and for the list time, will you,n will yoa not, direct me the way to John Smith's N. C And I tell yoH now, fr the twentieth time, if there u any tiling in this world I do it ii (Ac way to JuKti Smiik'u . But I mau kit yoa about hi fine blooded mare c4 Tunojeon filly, She tuck the pat last &Mrdy was a fortnight, at the Bijf Deer Llok coiirne. like Et'ling pffa lot, She' a bely witter, ( tell you and throw it io a little thu krron the griw-aad shouts ahead t, telle Jot th m tlie fast kind of KaHliiing", v Tra vollir-t5at4 ttiyrMf, :As3 may old. Kir V take John Smith,' hi wif 3aug!tr, negro., !. sundries In general ; tad you and your 'nui,iiii- catiou' In particular (Put iurs to his terse in ter of the Central Road require that $500,000 action lrt cn effect it, that tlie rivalry, if any, ,t on t.hc table would bv tautauivwt to dcft of 1 ft Voute dfsjxtjr ef fiVfcitiirig djfi cj thkU have been actually subscribed by individual, I (hall ceata at the Junction of the two wadf near ! the bUl. ' vm tu sluip o,anttoa.) .-(! -.pit-J
Raleigh Times [1847-1852] (Raleigh, N.C.)
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April 13, 1849, edition 1
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