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! : " V i : .-r.. . . - - '! It ( ! j - . . .. - . ! jf . - . , - 5 v If 5. " . ' !.:-f. V ' . " - - v, v -. : ? , V I - v. .'.1 h ":;-.( ill. J V. . " V . r i 1, i r it ;" 5 : . f Mil ' -I f i " I' it - I. ; t 1 i ? r U' Vi " i : I i 2 A i -. 1 . - VI: : Gov,' Graham's? Message, To the Honorable, lie General . ' Assembly cf North Carolina: Legislature, after the lapse of two more years. demands oi tis renewed expressions of gratitude and praise to an all. bounteous Providence, for the. numerous manifestations of his beneficence, with which we Have been favored. With rare excep tions, health has been enjoyed among our popular tion in an unusual degree,1 the bruits of the earth have beenjrielded in abundance, not merely for the supply- of all our wants, but "to relieve the distresses of our famishing ;brethre), in other lands, and btir domrnoh. Codntry has been res-. ' iored td t lie blessing of PeaceJ f ' 1 " .The Regiment bf VInnteek', required for the War with Mexico, which was being levied at the ; last adjournment of the Iegislature Was mus tered into the service of the United Stales, and embarked for the seat of War. as early as prac ticable, after their arrival at Smithville. Being assigned to the column of the army commanded by I Major , General Taylor and reaching their destination after the .memorable - defeat of .the enemy at Buena Vista, which overthrew and dis persed his forces in that: quarter, they did not hare the cood fortune to participate in those vic tories which have so Ftgnallyjlhistrated our arms They bore however their full share ,of the priva tions and hardships incident to camp life, and con tributed more than their due proportion of victims to a climate more dreadful than the foe. Had "opportunity been afforded them, to test their prowess in battle, I doubt not, that under the discipline and lead of their gallant and ab!e com mander, they would have won laurels for them selves and brought home honors for their Coun- 1 try. Under the Resolutions of the last Session making appropriations tothat end, I drew from the Treasury, at:sundry times, from January, ti'l ; May 1847. the sum of eleven- thousand two bun dred and thirty dollars; (Slli230) for the use of the Regimenti for ihe disbursement, of which. vouchers have beed deposited in the office of the Comptroller of public accounts. An act having been passed at the recent Sen - fiioii of Congress, to refdnd to the States, anv monies advanced for the comfort and transoorta tion of their Volunteers, prior to being mustered into service, with interest on the same, I trans mitted to the Secretary of War an account of thp advances just stated, as well as of the trans portation of a part of the :Reffiment.over the Raleigh and Gaston Railroad, on their way to the rendezvous, and; desired; its' early .adjustment. A strict construction having been placed on this act by the War department and proof being de manded which requires the vouchers of disburse ment to be exhibited before it6 accounting offi cers, it was deemed best to postpone the further prosecution of the claim until they shall haveun- ', dergone' the examination of your Committee of .Finance. ' f I . ; jThe above sum is exclusive of an expenditure of 8293,03, under a separate Resolution of the General Assembly to purchase Flags for the Regiment, Which have been returned to the office of the Adjutant General, and are subject to your disposition. i . The Fiscal affairs of the State still continue to claim the first place in the consideration of .the Legislature. The .detailed operations of the Treasury, since the last Session, will be found in the Reports of the Public Treasurer and Comp troller of public accounts. While its resources have been sufficient to satisfy all just demands and to uphold the publio credit, it will be per ceived that but little progress, has been made in - extinguishing the State debt, and. in making pay merits, bymeans obtained on loan, we have only exchanged one creditor for another. In my nr?t message, to the last General Assembly, I stated in extenso, the various liabilities of the i reasurv. and traced the historv of those arising from en dorsements for, the Raleigh and Gaston Railroad Company. For a clear1 comprehension of the subject at present, it may be necessary to repeat that on account of her first suretvshiD for th Company, the State is responsible for the sum of 500,000, of which, the? interest is to be! paid semi-annually, and the principal "at such time after the 1st day of January I860, as the Legis The-advantage of allowing the new loan aeon against isoroe of them whicli had been Dreviouslv i lit whnlii nn dmiht he nreferahle to convert this " resources : containing in the Countres wthin siderab!e time to runat ten ycafs.) is that it Dendinir. - J l' 'Vi. 'rJ''lvS.i:. V ii hmnprtv r,mAe fnr the rplipf nf the Treasurv. twenty-five miles of tho most direct route, more would ensure its beingvh immediately at par J i iM ' opinionif theIeffal responsibilities of these rather tha.i in ma anr other disDOsition of iu han 230,000 kouIs : and within fifty miles, mmc if hoit;a premiuin. It is however, contrary to nartieswas presented at some length in the mes. iTo l emnd it Wr aVf ion however! would be to han one half xf oar whole popalation.j who are -II a. - 1 . r T3- - .',, I ". . r r w it. -. . . . . : I i . . - - . i i p. 1 1 o Tnnirma m M iin rt aa w rt ru r - m iici n - j- a The recurrence of the regular, Session of the KvuhontIso providing not onUor the interest, Lideration nut for the gradual redemption of the pnncip.l . . . . . . i . , i , r . . T. ; r : . - r . i " unvi " " v r - i , a i - - - . . t If the foregoing suggestions be adopted, they per subject for adjustment: by compromise, and a committee, of vour body shall 'have: mada a Kill not 'permit me to dwell on its, numberless will consolidate the Bank debt, and the residue that liberal terms should be allowed by the State. IthoroiKrh- invesfiTHtion i of the afiairs of the road, benefits in this regard, which will readily occur of the smallerdebt on account of; the; Railroad in The transaction- which occasioned it has been and to that' end shall have examined on oath its to any one who looks on the Map of the htato a loan of 8256.500. redeemable in. ten years. I tm Iv unfortunate for hnth nartips' While nrtthn Lffior. ow if AoaoA nvi' with the eve of a statesman and patriot. 2nd. It And if the nresnt Legislature shall! Drovide fori on hand it haW im?nospH "' iitirthtn on ihe Trpa-Ur jri..xi..f .a I Da would add incalculably, to ihe business and value theextipguishment of this amount of the public sury, which isjiieavily felt; qn theotherlhe whole I present themselves; to-wit 1 1st.; A re-sale ta of one' at least, (and -ultimately of ! both,) of our uui.buuuo iVin ; turn, penwu, aim i.ic puMw.ua. j ca pnai "hik oi s4 ju.uujj su oscnoeu f'-u piu j ine ;ormer stockholders Jby rom promise 01 me suirs j pre' vtm wane, m ..- y a'..l. ( II LI, I i, t Mil .liv- ....Vaa., L 1 1 1 . . 111 T sle, thev Will have jn has been lost to the individual contributors and now nomlihtr - if Knitahln tnrr'n.4 be offered. 2nd. Jao interest, and make them productive blocks. accomplished as much, as may beat preseiit need the b'roperty in therRoad which it went to con-mi retain' .tanprmBnt nrKoerfv of the State- 3rd;': It would unite tbe middle and eastern with ful, Jeaving to their successors, the' adoption of Utrnct has been ourchased in bv the State, and ftPr' rpmirin it hod- manner. . 3rd. Tn the western, section of the State, in a domestic measures fur the repayment of the debttif 500,- affirds the accommodation to the public which was uiiite it with another work, thrnueh the interior trade, and exchange of productions toocumber- anv lime aiier ine isl oav 01 januarv. iha rhipt imtiiromcni itt tho Lptruiaiurp m uf ika ...lll ....ii ...t ..,rP enmp nr hp nmeni noue u cuiiiev:itr. ursiuui j - - - j , .- . . ..w va-w m ...a. - v........ . . w, umic w IliCII will Uir iijui t; 000 'at ioou as originally stipulated. - I his arrange- atithonzmor its cnnirurtinn If in addition tothe ItWrt in thd Mn.l :Tk. WMIrt require a sinking fund ot .about $2.),- loss of the stock already sustained, they shall be f Railroad Compahv have regularly paid the in- course. 4?h.v By running over the most pract ja m . , . yr I 1 I LI rnent will e particularly no- some for the present mode of conveyance, besides iVton and Ratei"h facilitating travel, for health, and social intr- 000 annually for ihe rederiiptfon of the principal, Su Ejected to art equal recovery on the"responsi-: terest on ail their debts, and effected cons besides about 645.000, for interest 'j The latter bilities subsequent iy contracted on account of the ble improvement on their Road with the ir lh!e mute from Raleigh to Sa isburv, and thence luuia1' - rv . . . . turnintr sntithwestward to Charlotte, it would sum, .lowever, wiIJ gradually fall to N,j(J.lH;U as f?oad. it will be a double crrievaiice which manv nf ho last tivn r. a m;n..fb cimpnt nf tho bisect the State for more than- a hundred mues. ihe debt is diminished. 1 In other words, it ivill rf annrehentJY will: he iinah!etn bear. A nnrt'inir Lnh'!;iinri Ar ii. or,; mnnv tiip'Ra brinTiner the most remote on either side within require 8i0,000 or thereabouts to be annually i them have no doubt sufficient means to meet Wt nf the nrA of Intomal ImnmiPmpnt. - 1 1 fifty miles of the Railroad, and would be in a fa. - . i - I ; - : - - - -i w. iiiivi m mum . , - ' But Ihe! larger num-lam ffraiified to observe a verv handsome addition ivorable location for being extended still farther ivs. nmhans. clernrw. 1 ' tKoir roinlnie' in tda Tf froirrUt 9nH ,, ,11 west, from the former olaco, and fo coonecV.sd- glng about. a Hke m. making the whol amount men, mechanics, -planters with large families and (travel, shawiric that the local ! accommodation yantageously by means'- of Turnpike roads wih wanted for each year fcl40,UUU. ;. . moderate estates, have heretofore lell the depri- from this work is becomin"- much; extended all the .Northwestern part, of our territory; , i in.ine aiessaore to uie lasi Leffisiaiure aireauv Batirn nr the maha inveteui m- fht -Knarf. as 4- Tk0.'.cni ! r ka ......k . ih-n nff th-- vvni st it wouia 'comer iueiucncin .i i I " - - " v . w- .m.-v v y u I. ICT IV 4 U CPU I7t UG UliaUlO IV U VfJ IWI . . . . . to, our Revenue System was reviewed calamity, and cannot .'suffer, an exaction of a like principal of their bonds- guaraijtied hy the S:ate. interior Cutitry, nowJepressed and partially ex. rence to .the demands on the 'I ,reasury,' amount now wiihoui riiin. i I submit, these obse'r- i i n'd' mnnni inn A nm i. wi.i J-h vviil hemme due eluded from all profitable commerce, the objec- and an arffument. was submitted to demonstrate. Vat ions (becoming, as 1 think, thecandor and im- the 1st of JanifarV next - But so Ionr as thev con- tion has not been overlooked thit it does, not that me atate annually lost seven or eight thou- oart,ality of a Chief Magistrate) with the less tiiiue to meet the arrrnino- tnierest with their ac- point immediately to I the seaboard of our own i23 nl nAllarc. frrtm failnra" trv PilKct Ianii fnr v: I r-,. ' ?'i L-- J' ' I Lr h -i. " i i ; i ;i. 0 Qtato anI tr on Snroiconf irSo nrnaMon! v rf mir ttmo in f h- 11 t'- i . r i iiuq su 111.0 v wi a. entirely or from under valuation, by means ot the persons concerned hvbich could occasion any same terms as wnicn, ii nan peen avoiqea in pan : ana inat pro- improper bias. What may' be fitt no- terms of ac- nerioH l.li i i : .v.- t..ii r x,i- 'I, i ii . i . .; . . . -irr uauiv au eijuai sum wds iuai in uic i nn.iai num j cotpiuodatjon a like criminal negligence, in rendering lists of taxable persons. Accordingly, me vqi or. ine last Session directed a new assessment, and a more vigilant supervision of the enlistment of lands. The result has been, that the land Reve nue of 1847. collected under the nqw Law, has exceeded that of 1840. under the old, by!the .6um of 5,911 02. A table attached to the tie port of the public Treasurer will show that Ithe 'total number of acres taxed in 1846 Was 2-2.36S 558, and that in 1847 it rose to 24,359 075 and that the arfrrefratrf Valuation of land and town proper tv in'lS46 was 855,254,194, and thafin 1847 it srrew to S66,430,821. With thes ditions in quantity and valuation taxes received from real estate, is yetllovver by caif ojly be deibrmined. by the heretofore or even for a longer I1 In surveying our, territory, with an eye to the . . . . r . ! . . I ' Rpason. Alter the completion oi ine main irar. I T- I . t ''!..' a branch to f avettevilie or otner poini on ine Legislature; and can Ve more readily negotiated present i interest and wants of the people, I am navigable water of the Cape fear River, will be ov a conierence or mse interesjed witn a cum mittee of yonr body; than.iihi any other mode., J he operations of UieuKaleiffh and braston Railroad for the past two years will bo fully de tailed in the Report of the Board of Commission- ers, i ne staienrtent or us l reasurer, puone-iied more thartfeverj impressed wjithj our destitution, of easy aocomplisliment. ol: facilities for cheap and speedy transportation, eigh to Goldsboro would In this regard, however unpleasant may be the admission. I am;forced to the fconviction, that we labor uiider greater disadvantages than any Slate m the TTniiSn -"iAi.l wp npvpr- ran he enuf c mi in the j newspapers, in ianuciigy to the Keportf of petitors with their citizKs in our Agriculture, the the Corr.pfcrolier, on the Fbl;c Finances, tor the pred.iminanl pursuit anions us, until these di. year ending the 1st ixf November 1847 showed I advantages are ill a great decree oyercohie. The its earnings to hayie' been S6bJD0257iand disburse- man who is obliged to transnort in wajrcoiis over orients; $65.457 -93' i For tfeTol lowing year, end- no better roads than ours, a distance varvinff from portant improvement which should first engage n j-i I . i i I ' . f ' . . . . : .. i. : . . . - . . . : i : : . a J the poeetl our a.iiem.oii anu our eneriiicB. nnu i r i ' i - more coii- antao-e. or fiagrat ion. which de'stroyed'the principal ..building Railroads or-good naviga tion'.l thaii c.i n the JSpin Its extension from Ral. be invited by the con nexion thus to be formed, between Wilmingtoti and the upper Country, and eventually it might realize that scheme of a central Railroad con secrated by the patriotic labors ol Caldwell, in an extension from Goldsboro'.tp Beaufirr. Wheth er therefore we regard' it as a single 'work, or a.,; the groundwork of an'extensive plan, the Road I. from RaietVn tfwCHarlotte aDoeari to be the im- .". v!1 lffr' menfsj $65,457 93 For thefoilownig yiear end- no better roads jhan ours, a distance vary 1 that i n 1847 it inq November 1st, '1848, h earnings were about sixty to two hundred and fiHy miles, at il se material ad- 57,Q0Q and disbursements (exclusive of extra- of lwenfy:five miles pe'r diyi canvno mi ,f the amount. of ordinary repairs,rendereU lecessary by a con ' tend for'prpfits'wjt.h him. who has the adva dingly recornmend it to the patronage of the Lpg islature, o the amount of one half, or at leWjfwov fifths of the capital, necessary for its construc tion.; The, distance is about one hundred and sixty miles by the inait mute, and the cost, of the ad and equipments over such route as miy,b 119 persons, against 165310 in the previous year the machine shoo and engine house at the depot be esteemed too great to effect our deliveranci two or three thousand dollars, than ought to b .of the 'Road at Rafenrli.YSb2.479'7i";' ' Addto-ihU nimr Wheel whri the fff.iiot. alilfi :-Had'we ever obtained at the present rate. There has been, ti)a amount of these, rena.rs viz. S2S.791 93 and been in a more favornhle situation in this-resnect. also, an increase in (he year of 81561 78 in he the sum total of fdisburseUents will be S81.271 and had the imDedlments; which! now beset us I Road; poll tax. It appears now to Recollected on 173,- ga. On the night .Vf- the 25ih of Feburary last, been i m nosed bv hXiman bower, no sacrifice would selected would probably not exceed $?1,C()0.000 in Ihp nrpvmn vea r .l: '..l.l: - i : . :i X: u l. - . . -l- . ' ' -. . . - . r . ' i - , I . ... :.l.....nn) t . ikli .km.i .t r -.- un t is ciu iuiiutuiiiciii iiu uiin ei ii.vtiici ii pip. therefore a n opportunity for disposing of . ihe; Kaleign cc- Gastpn Road," as has been inlimated in the pre--' ceding remarks, on ! that, topic. A Company might he .organized tocinbrace the entire i lino from Gaston to Charlotte, and' the Ruad jnov these, gnev- owned hy the Mate transferred to.them at a Ja;r valuation in payment of her subscription for stoc.r prosperity. It is I am yet satisfied ...however, firom the statistics in'Ra eih with all their Icontents of a coaibusti- and restore our a rv K-l fA In rv rr I fArmnp m ct ceo rro . Irin birori t Ii ia I i y ' ' ! i . i 1 f- Z . ; a c - ' lli" I s t- ' CUIUUUICU III tiJ J I IUI UllI liivcco; , f UJUk. uno number fulls short taxable population will call for your on land of bb,4d0,o21, at six cents, on the oe to repair the injiifv or to permit the Railroad with ought to bie undfirtaken, to remove hundred dollars, value, yields only $37,921 21 .i.u J iivVr. in timcMatl Findint no NnrpS '9nH nlaofthpir 'i-ndiiisfr'V.'iUy at least 195.000 taxable polls mj powqr adequate to the exigency cnferred on the Udual'foot inr with 'those of" iheir! fe.l and why, out of i.hr on nn - , i i , Dower adeouate to the ex hencv conferred on the ennal footimr with those of" their! fellow citizens Of the particulars of such an arrangement if fa- therState, more, fhab 20,000 yet escape taxation commissioners of-tlie roai l tfoiivbed the Couu-lih other States?' It must bei admitted, that from' vored by ' the Legislature, no deliivatirui is here altogether. The important addition to i the. reve cjj 0r; State, and'subtnitted to them the- alterna- fdeofrrautiical causes! the ouestioh'i was oriuritiall v required. I havealreadv treated uf this subject nun nn roil rrrrprtir- anrt nnlla nf near Ss7.5()0 1 . :" . ' Lr:.L- - : . ::. L'u .T :l .. .. U ..;....l I . t' 1 ir : i . e L i . : ' i ( l i' I ..... ,;..,.i,.,i.tl..In l. nnmnrSi. a ""- f vf v -j rm -t' 'wv- lives oi e liner t oovoKiiiir ajie isiiiui t-, buccih one rauier a mcuii or soiui ion. ;inu our lormer wnn iom r ujiiiui -nrro . nun nm fuiuppnis, K wa f nn f ,l-a. m rt.i on .na n n nnf on 'it 1 hfi lot I -J' " . r I ; f i : . . -r :rl Session, has been ihe product of ho new unposi our consul uer.rs, Hon on our constituents, out ine mere, conse quence of a fair and equal contribution to those formerly existing, uy a sun closer scrutiny oi the subject, especially in the., department of ihe Poll tax,'! apprehend that a plan may be devised a-.KiWiH' ih avfrtnt ?iVn; i,f rliW- la tier, and an1 arranor,.' 10 ouiain a si in jui iiier iijci cniciit vi uvc ui .a Session, to provide! the needful means, or of jenterprize.s in Internal Imprpvefiient, having faii--! in an address of this kind, because it has as yet Un 1 l . ft T. f t, ai c 1 1 rv. .t I J r .... . 1 M .L. ... . A i . . v I n t an a.t Al K.it litl In nf iiha nun ho otfinfirtn- 9 'I 000 .(the ''amount offlloss and d'amise occa- ed on. the State! has of hire vears taken no aciionl from a deep impression of.it utility in allevuti:f sioned.bv the fire, as estitniated.bvtits President) jib constrdctin'er works of this kind, and many tniod the "condition of our industry and reviving. t!i , " : . .. . . . : .i- io : . I . . . . by virtue of the. power conferred on the u-overnor and council ito make? safe of the .t . ciHizens same. They . j v. , 1 1 im Vai u - i a i .saix'v North Carolina, to advance the sum required, at such times as they inihtj be called for Uy the pro true, but in the main ffress of the renairsi on bbhds of the otate, reci ' . . - V ; ; .lature shall hereafter appoint that she und.er took a second responsibility for the Company fo ! the amount of 286.500,' with interest payable in like manner, and the principal in annual instal ments of 830.000 each from 1845, till 1854 and that four of these, instalments have been already discharged, so that there, remain of this class of bonds, outstanding the stim of 8106,500. But to aid the Treasury, in paving these instalments of principal, while sustaining the ordinary expenses of government, and the heavy drafts for interest on the aggregate of both these classes of debt there has been borrowed, from the Bank of Cape Fear, within the last four yearsthe sum of 90,- 000, besides the.loan frptn the Literary Fund, hereinafter'mentioned. . Such are our responsibil ities- The scrupulous regard for the public hon or, which is justly the pride of the State requires them to be promptly met lo provide for this in the mode . least burdensome to the people, is the appropriate duty of their Representatives un less and until something may he-realized from a resale 'of the Railroad bf a rec6very -aanst its stockholders and bondsmen, our only reliance is upon some measure for an increase of the Rev enue, Which shall furnishthe means of gradually curtailing the principal, while it keeps down the interest. The- principal of the debt of '$500,000 doe's not press whh anyjiramediate force as we have already een, and requires nothing! at pres ent but a provision for its interest. The Bank of Cape Fear is also bound: by its Charter to lend to the' State, at any time when called for,an amount hot exceeding" $l50,000j and no stipulation is made! as to the time of payment. The residue therefore of 816G.500, is' the onlyportion of the. uaoiuiy, naving a nxea ano eariy oay, ror us li quidation. To meet the interest on the three descriptions of jdebt, an'd the principal as it may become dueof that last referred to, I reeommehd, 'that when the means in; the Treasury are insuf ficient for these ends, tKej Treasurer be author ,t ized- to issue Stale Bonds redeemable in ten years, to an amount equal to the deficiency. It is also worthy of ypur attentive inquiry, whether like bonds should not be at once issued in lieu - of the debt of 890,0004 due the 'Bank of Cape Fear. - To the State it is a matter of indifference whether she shall havethe loan from the Bank, or from other capitalists. But ini.a community where Banking capital ;is limited,1 and with the s freest use of their means, the Banks can afford no greater accommodation than is required for the demands of business, it is a serious priva tion to commercial men to be without the facili ties, which would be furnished by the loan of made with the B.mk I the State ot thousand dollars, from tbe same sources at exist ing rates. ; v .. '...'. But with all the aid.deiivable from such mea- suresi the .Treasury will need additional means to reduce our liabilities as proposed above. The Revenue collected, the present, vearj from all sources, amounts to fcyO.OUS Otf. rijy Correcting ,lat,l in Ahnl M.iv. am f Julv lastVamoiintniir in imnellerl n, the deficiences just now exposed, it miy be rais- t,lft .JuflU to SSnOOO all!navab!e the 1st January Wideration ' , . r fr i itn nnr i L J C . . ' . r -1 . . , . ; 1 -'. . . I . ed to exceeu 3xuu,uuu, leaving a ueuc i oi awuui nextJwere neiroiiatedard adeed in trust execu- I ' I I I I . . I I e ....... e aa ...11. apnenn lo nave; conciuutid, thai.'iurtner waninir ionunes oi our counirymeu -wniie v efTi)rts: were y'aihi.asour doom to! priyation in ihis ffives an assured hope ef profit on the rapilaf'm particular vas fixed fite.. 51e4nuhile otherlSlates vested. i i . ' 'i ' . have pushed forward their improvements (sotrte I haye remarked With much satisfaction nf inem vvun' a rasn ana extravagant nana, i s some rmernrtsm? persons nmoiifr our iuow c;- with the most beneficial izens, have cfimmeoced ilie Navigation of Neu.i results,) overcoming obstacles far greater tban ting an their faceVthe consideration and a deed in any which impedes us, and obtaining for them trust on the Railroad and jts appendant property, selves! ?still jjreater advantages lover us in the to secure their payment..; Accordingly, bonds c mpetitipns of the market. Ve; are therefore not only bv ail-theimore obvious con and Tar rivers with Steam' IJ'.ais nf a liifht cla'nf and that a spirit is awakened amonir thet people, iti I lie' upperf section of j the Cape: Fear tolrpen that river for', navigation to or above tle. condu. ! ence of its 'main braiiches. "Every successful, ef S40,l'00, to be supplied from other resources. tcd sume provision is therefore ui mis it may oe rtuiiduic u.ui.uiilcu,lliai,y.f-. take up these bonds- IJesi gni ng 000 per year-may be derived, from co. lections on whole subject under the control 6. ihe Repfesen Cherokee bonds transterrea to ine i reacury irom tatives of the neoDle at the earliest convenient .. r .r i-.:- IT - ..JJ .i.A.,1. . . . necessary 10 7 - to. place the s which appealed to us in former times' fort at ohjectjof ths ritureis a public benefit, and but by ;a reasonable self defence, to abandon deserves the fostering aid of the Legislature. the fund for Internal Improvement, under ah Act of the last General Assembly. If twji cents bp added on the hundred dollars value of real estate. as was the law prior to 1821, nnd six cents on the poll, they would yield enough with the claim on the War department, before mentioned, and the debt secured by mortjrasr oiv the V eldon Toll Bridge to the Board of Internal 1 Imurove ment, which is not vet collected, .to make' up the residue. It is however "the peculiar- province of the Legislature, to devise the wavs and means to' fulfil all our engagements,' and i preserve the public faith. And in suggesting those jjist named, which are simple, usual and certainly reliable, I derire to be understood as entertaining no pre ference for them, above any others, which the wisdom of the Gene'ral Assembly shall approve The duty of thelE-xecutive is performed in pre- sentmg vvith frankness the necessities pt ine Treasury, leaving1 the manner ancfj time of relief to the proper ;constitutioual' department of the Government. It! is of moment however that mea sures should be taken irt due season to liquidate by degrees the State's liabilities, and the process :erein recommended is not more speedy than a ' . ' t , . i. . i i i .: ' wise -policy demands, it auauionaij resources shajl be realized; from a sale of the Rnilroad or; against the stockholders. day, I did not propose any longer term of credit If this however be desirable, it doubtless can be easilv affected, bv-issuing State Bouds at five years for an equaj sum and requiring the Railroad, if refaineu bv the Slate to pay the: interest as it may' accrue and gradual yj to extinguish the pnn cipal. . .-; ..rf i : .. .: L What course'shall be adopted' by the Stale in relation to retaintngr disposing of this Road yet remains a nnestion tf oreat interest. -Such has . . . . . ! . - .; i . - improvements been the demand for repairs and that it has yielded no dividends to the Treasury fo'r the ! last two years. lvo new JLocomouves however have been nu -chased at a cost of more than 87,000 each, and the other Engines refitted fexceDt one wholly ruined by the fire before re ferred lo) so that the tnotive pewer of the esta blishment is in better cjonuition "than at any time heretofore. New and superior also purchased, and laid down, for from Gaston Southward, and the structure bf the Road Has been renewed for that distance. Verv extensive renewals have aiso been made in the wood! Work of the line general ly. But the process of repairing on u rrdef great disadvantage, for relay a considerable part oi me ron has been near ten miles whole super recoveries in the suns againsi ine siochnomers, nfPs(.nr Parnin(rs of the'rbad are hev will come opportunely in furtherance ot the nni,ro measure for reduction now proposed; but .the ex pectatioii of them does not justify its postponement at the-present pession You will doubtless observe in the Reports 'of the ComntrollerL that there is no statement, of any tax, received on the succession jo estates, real and personal of deceased persons by others than lineal descendants, which was imposed by an act ot last cession. v ueuier.An uun ness of this source of revenue thus faK has been owinor to the failure to prescribe any specuic lime for its payment to the clerks: and: for its be- is now earned want, of Iron ito track, and the insufficient to ,thejline,.over causes, is this amount among thera. inor accounted for by them, or to other a question for your investigation Agreeably to the instructions df thelAct of the f . - i ast Session, I caused an lnformationstn tnena- tnre of a Bill of Eauity to be instituted in the proper Court of Wake County, against the stock. holders and other obligors ot ine rtaieigu auu Gaston Railroad Company, to recover the indem nitv stmulated in the event f any loss to the State, by reason bf her 8uretyffhijS for;that Com pany. The great number of parties defendant and the changes of parties by transfers of interest, and by deaths, have delayed the progress of the cause" to final decision. And as it embraces the main subject bf controversy between jthe State and any of. ihe defendants, the counsel for the State haye not pressed for trial the actions at law pocUre it. I he northern halt o vvhich the heaviest trains pass, was originally laid with thiu Iron, which is much broken, and occa- sions a great waste of abor, in temporarily refit- fino- with fratrmenis. iliat are sooin to be broken asraln, as well aS constant damage to the Engines and Cars from the severe wear and tear to which it subjects ihem.f A 'prudentv economy bften con sists in a liberal expenditure. Any 'proprietor nf Vli ra wniV. Votild find St his true interest to put it in complete repair, even if it were necessary to give lien on the property to raise the means If therefore the road shall not be transferred to other hands during your sitting, it is obviously expedient and proper to purchase j immediately Iron Railing sufficient ':o refit it. for "'at least thirty miles, j Fifty thbusahd doflars expended ;fbr this purpose mightj enable the State rp receive as pro fits some fifteen-I twenty, or twenty-five thousand of the fifty-five lb seventy-thousand, the present income of the road, a large part of which is now spent on the ine ffectual reparation above describ ed.:,1 Its operations may go on, as at present with but such aid, but they afford no prospect of profit! If a Iqart be contracted for this object on; liberal time, there can he ; lidle doubt of the ability of the road to pay it with interest.. And in the event of ajuale, it would enhance the price of the whole property by an amount certainly eqdal to the money thus laiifouU' : further hesitation and adopt at once a system of imprpyement, coinrnensuratei-vvith ithe wants and interest of i be ."State.'-. ..-Toonuch ! sh'ou Id not be undertaken at once, but what may be attempted, should be thoroughly completed. 1 As ll)e com mencement' of such a system, and a basis, oh which other works may be engrafted, to any de It has not been thought expedient lo exercise the power donferrd on the Buird of InteriiHl Im provement by the las General assiembly (tb sell the Club-Foot and. Harlow's Creek 'Canal., and it expired by limitation) with the opening of your Session.', ' ' 1 i ''" : ;' .. ' I beg again to impress on your attention the ' sirablcf extent, 'as our nieah may from time to indispensable necessity f improving our public time permitfa Railroad from Raleigh to Char- Roads. 1 is little creditable to our enterpnz'j totte by way of i Salisbury, appears to me of the ahd intelligence, tint 'although we are cousidera firt raorrieut, ;T bly taxed, in. the frequent calls on our labor for considered heretofore, and derives much of its im- this object, our method of maintaining th publicV portance from .a kindred work, now in progress highways has made no advance beyond that exis from Charlotte to Columbia South Carolina. : ting in England in the time of Phillip nd. Alary.. Already from Rileigh Nrthward contiguous ,If Commissioners not excepding two iri each ' lines of, Railroad and Steamboat transportation 'County, were elected . by the' County Cexirti with stretch jtbro' the towns f Virginia and the great jaiithority .. to" inspect the. chieT public roads, and cities of the North, to Port and ' in Maine and, Tay them off uv the , most favorable ground, and Butfaloon L.k Erie.V Sifiiilairl works also ex- were . clothed with j authority to pupervisd and di-. ist, or are in progress, with a cert&iiniy of com pie- rect'the hanos as.-ombled to work them, it would, tUin in; the course of a year orj two, extending from ! doubtless, . tefnd "ini;ch lo their ' irnp'rovrment ' Ch'a-lptte Southward through Cbluimbia to Char- lihese Courts ehould also be invented wiih power leston: and again from theMormer ''of these through -t make appropriations from the County funds to Augusta, and the interior of Georgia, and t en- a ter and improve the most difficult parts, and tp - nesseeto Nashville, as well as to the AIississippi. I make plank roads where necessary a fid oraclica- wr leans, oy wjay oi me, witn ine means at their command. Indeed iti is orcred upon vour ihnuirv. whether the recent ! at Memphis, and to New Orleans, by way of IMontcomerv and Mobile. Thrbu?h a nart of North Caroiina alone, a link: is wanting, to com - i-hprovement of the plank rod, may not he intro plete the grand chain of communication, from diicpd into extensive use in this'State. Thenim one extremity of our Country to the other, and pficity' of their construction, involving little or ho to lurnrsn to ine wrmie nation tnose . lacuities ;pr lexpense for engineenro1. the abundance and intercourse which . the inhabitants North : and cheapness of timber, and their adaptation to the South of us, enjoy, in their severaj sections. l he sand and swamp of the; lower, and the clay soil connexion proposed tnereiore being as it were a n the upper Country,; recommend them to us Cars, having at either end the great highways of K A Geoloaical survey of the State is more than the Worth atid South, with their numerous branch ever demanded, in conpequence of fresh discov- es tor a ihousand miles in-both directions, pro- eries of usCfu and valuab m neraU in nw mises a'reasonable remuneration for the outlay bf situations, and the important results of like cx i.constrdctjoDl'frpiiMhrpigh" transportation : prorations in other States. 'J,- and in a military and'other points of view, would We have been as yet without any proyision be of creat national advantage. V Had nature siiu- frrthe meliorafion of the condition nf nur n.nrwr plied us with navigable rivers like rhe Mississippi. liunatics. Those of ifie poorer classes who have flowing from Raleigh and Charlotte, respectively, been visited with the ; loss of reason," have been to New York and New Orleans; or even to Char- abandoned to their fate, except in cases of furious eston all would at once perceive the beneht of n adness, in which they have been committed to the junction of the tvvo, through the interior of the the common .jails, a disturbers of the Peace. State, as clearly as (dijl the genius of Clrhlon that Iris noyv ascertained that these diseases of mindl arisins; from the union of t lie! Hudson With the (he severest inflictions of Heaven on our'raee'l great Lakes. " The parallel may not bejyet per- aj-e curable as, those of the bodrt.aud most en feet in the present state of Railroad conveyances. lightened States haye established hospitals where but is destined to be so at no distant day. the poor thus afflicted are watched. over during . But the foregoing are.merely incidental induce- the eclipse, of the understanding andi Bupnlied ments to undertake thi work. It is commended with needful remedies. A distinguished nron : to us as a great North Carolina improvement, ap- of the gentler sex who has devoted much of her ! pealing to our interest and State pride, by argu- life, to the pious duty of pleading the cause of ments which it Were almost criminal to overlook, the Lunatic, before States and" con.innnitie. st: It would open to the market of the world an his recently traversed a considerable part of this i extensive resum of the State, reaching from the Stale, in search of informat inn rAtnorlinn itinan CapitolImost tbthe blue Ridge; of great fertility unfortunates amone us. and will nrohablr ant andcapacity for indefinite improvement, by rea- leave to present their case to rou. at n earlw son of its AgrtculluralMineral and Jklaiiulactar. day. I, cannot too earncttlj cornareni the cause ' . nn. . f i vocal j-.-l'u ;rine oeen t nnrr i tituj traclJ expo the 1' twen bcs'id croM ; au; valua at th Ppurtl and i .'nual ;porf OriPirf fon)i i in ei i sale i i riot i auih cxp- this ill tl liei the c cntr ing ' .I- V . ' wan . Dan "had for' ther- rar to tl) al.ki ! UHJc r i y i I :' " v; . Won I. TV tra mm to 1 rpin J ii r. ln( .1 v-ioj Wll 7 H'i'lJ i I of II . ,'i Lilt Hill clip th' to t L for . Inn Bin! Sr, I I I! 'J- r I 0 j - - ?
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