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Whole No. 460.
Tarborough, (Edgecombe County, N. Cj Saturday, August
10, 1833.
Vol. IX No 50.
lac "Aorlti Carolina Free Press "
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when it gathers the reward of industry
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provement, and to genera) prosperity.
The o-reat wants of our State then are
emphatically, good marts of fmffip. nnH
ure is beautifying jibe means of cheap transportation. Un
til tfie.se can be supplied, our forests teem
to little purpose with the luxuriant and
valuable productions of nature, our allu-
f?" .ClilT1 !ororl':-l"ti'..ti-,ns vial landh present .00 feeble nitraciions
. ; uuiiiujiiiu om-juie numeral treasures with which our
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PEOPLE OF N. CAROLINA.
A numerous and respectable portion of
your Fellow citizens, who assembled at
this place on the late Anniversary of A
merican Independence, to consult on the
means of improving the condition of the
State, have directed us to lay before you
the result of their deliberations. With
out pretensions to authority or the wish to
obtain it, without party or sectional views
of any sort, and with no influence save
that of reason, we claim your attention
simply because of our communion of in
terest with you on a subject of deep and
abiding importance, and because of a sin
cere and hearty zeal to advance the pros
perity of our common country. Nor do
we deem it too much to hope that, even
at this moment, amid the din of political
strife and the struggle of contending can
didates for your favor, these claims will
not be disregarded by an intelligent and
w ell-meaning comm u ni ty .
North Carolinu is endeared to us by
every tie of nature and every obligation
of duty. Her advancement in whatever
is great and good is insepcrably inter
woven with our hopes and wishes, our
patriotism and our pride. Keen there
fore is the mortification, to be obliged to
confess that she is falling behind several
of the States of this glorious confedera
cy, in that career of distinction to which
all were invited by the bounties of Pro
vidence, the freedom of the American In
stitutions, and the capacity of the Ameri
can People. Forty four years have pass
ed away since, under the auspices of the
Federal Constitution, she entered upon
this generous competition. In extent of
territory she had then the advantage of
Now-York and of Pennsylvania. Exclu
ding their principal cities she was not in
ferior to either of them in wealth. In
free population she nearly equalled New
York, and was but a third less than Penn
sylvania. Her superiority in extent of
territory yet remains, but in all other
points of comparison bow changed is the
scene! Her free population is now to
that of Pennsylvania as one to three, and
to that of New York as one to four, while
in wealth she bears to each of them but
the ratio of one to six. In New York,
and Pennsylvania, Colleges, Academies,
Scientific and Literary Institutions are
spread throughout the" bind, presenting
the opportunities of acquiring a finished
education to those who have the means
to procure this invaluable blessing; while
ample provision has been made by law
for communicating necessary instruction
to every child in the community however
poor and destitute. In our State, not
withstanding the injunction in our Con
stitution, and except in the erection of the
University, and in the incorporation of a
few Academies either without funds or
witli funds not derived from legislative
grant, no public Schools h:vebeen estab
lished "for the cheap and convenient in
struction of youth." In Pennsylvania,
more than seven hundred miles in New
York, six hundred miles, of Canal Navi
gation have been created, while Rail
ways are every where in the process of
construction, stimulating and employ
ing labor, making and defusing wealth
throughout their wide spread borders
from a prosperous community to ihe Fa-
therof the human race for His blessings
on their exertions, and mute but expres
sive solicitors tor a continuance of His
consume, unless the surplus may be' con
veniently exchanged for the commodities
which refinement has made valuable, or
can be stored up in accumulations for
j the winter of age or the wants of posteri-
bounty to those who delight in doing'ty. While production is thus kept back,
fewv.. iu i imuicii 01 men. now are
all these things in North Carolina! Fel
low citizens, we do not require your an
swer, nor do you need information from
us. You know how they are and ice
forbear to speak. It is sufficiently morti
fying to discover, it were too painful to
dwell on the humiliating contrast. In
deed, did we not hope that this reproach
would ere long be removed from amongst
us, we should endeavor to bury it in thick
night, hide it from the world, and if pos
sible forget it ourselves. But we trust
that a blessed change is in store for us.
We kno.w that there are difficulties, and
serious difficulties to be encountered
but we are sure that there are none
which may not be subdued by wise coun
sels and united exertions; and we are
convinced that on You, People of North
Carolina, it depends, whether the State
shall or shall not become all which her
warmest friends ought to desire for her.
"Be fruitful and multiply and replenish
the earth and subdue it," announces to
man the first direct command of his Cre
ator, and a command rich with promised
blessings. To subdue the earth, implies
effort; effort would have been unnecessa
ry, had not difficult ies been purposely left
for man to overcome; and He who is all
wise and all good, never would have im
posed an obligation impossible to be ful
filled, nor have enjoined an act which
was not pleasing in His sight. The sub
jugation of the earth can be effected but
by labor-and the steady, judicious and
economical application of labor to this
purpose lies at the root of human pros
perity. The extraordinary fertility of
the Gennessee Country, like that of the
valley of the Mississippi, no doubt attrac
ted to it many citizens from the adjoin
ing Slates, and many emigrants from
foreign countries, and thereby hastened
its settlement and growth. But taken in
the whole, it may well be doubted whe
ther New York or Pennsylvania present
ed a better natural soil for the labors of
the husbandman than was generally to be
found in North Carolina; while in the
mildness of our winters, the higher val
ue of the products of a Southern climate,
and the greater ease 'with which our
earth is tilled, we had on our part deci
ded advantages. But these were com-
uensated. and more than compensated, by
two physical blessings bestowed on them
in an eminent degree. Each of these
had a port of safe and ready access from
the ocean, and bold rivers penetrating tar
into the interiorpossessing thus the
means of cheap transportation to a home
market, and of easy exportation to tor
fi(rn ones. Marts were to be found with
ineach State for all that the industry of
its citizens could produce, and the pro
ducts of labor were not consumed by the
pxrifMisps of reaching the place ot sale
While adequate motives were thus fur
nished to excite agricultural industry, its
success gave activity to mercantile ad
venture and employment to tne mecnan
ical arts. The profit, of these built ur
ranitab and capital led to enterprise, to
the discovery of new sources of wealth, to
the extension of facilities in business, to
there is neither supply nor demand for
commercial capital. The products actu
ally made, because of the costs of trans
portation, are of little value, and there is
therefore no increase of agricultural cap
ital. Slovenly farming, slender traffic
and a languid circulation, general want
of enterprise, inactivity & listlessncss be
come habitual, and generation succeeds
generation with scarcely a perceptible im
provement in wealth, manners, science
or the arts. If by a sudden dispensation
of Providence-, the shoals which endan
ger and impede our maritime navigation
were removed, and the various streams
which intersect our State were rendered
fit for the purposes of conveyance from
their very sources, all will admit, that we
should spring forward with resistless en
ergy to the. consummation of our hopes.
The impulse given to business of every
sort would be felt in every section of the
State and in every department of indus
try. Let children Indulge in daydreams;
but it is for men to inquire whether they
have not the power of supplying the de
ficiences of nature, and of acquiring by
their own exertions what for wise purpo
ses was originally denied. Obstacles
surmounted and difficulties subdued, as
they are the best trials, so they become
the noblest triumphs of virtue, intellect
anil courage. Often the most eminent
among men have been trained up to forti
tude and wisdom in the sc hool of adver
sity; and the most illustrious of nations
have usually passed through the stages
of infancy and childhood, struggling for
existence, gradually gaining and consoli-j
dating their strength, and by severe trials
acquiring the qualifications aiid forming
the habits which were to be displayed in
the maturity of manhood. "Heaven
grants the gifts it grants the power to
gain." Is the navigation of our rivers
obstructed! To a considerable extent
wd with no mighty effort, we can remove
these obstructions. Where these are
not removable, or the streams are too
shallow for boat navigation, or streams
are wanting, experience has shewn, that
the Canal and still more the Kail-way,
urnishes better means of conveyance.
As in no country are these more needed,
so in none can they be made at less ex-
nense. The process of effecting speedy
and safe communications with the ocean
has already commenced amongst us un-
der the happiest auspices. Art in mis
resoect. signally triumphing over nature
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dredge boats are removing in uours
the slow accumulation of years; and we
announce to vou with joy that the day is
not far distant when our main outlets to
heen will afford ready passage to ves
sels of sufficient burden for all ordinary
.nmmnrrial purposes. There is then
ample room for exertion, but there is no
cause for despondency.
We are aware that injudicious attempts
heretofore made in the cause ol Interna
lmnrnvnments Iiavo prejudiced many
,.rninat the renewal of any efforts at im
provement. But prejudice is a wretched
,..,n,,Mlor. whether it seeks to concea
id, selfishness of the sordid and tin
fears of the timid, or is seen in the apa
thy of the sluggard, or Npeaks in the
snears of the scomer. We have at
tempted too many plans at once -wd
have fritted away our means over too
great a space, and have expended much
money in many silly schemes. Let us
then profit by experience. Let it teach
us caution, judgment, and a proper appli
cation of our resoures. Let it guard us
against the recurrence of former errors,
but never let it repress exertion in the
cause of duty. Others have by a well
devised and spirited course of Internal
Improvements, brought incalculable bles
sings on their country. And why may
not we? Are the people of this Slate by
some irreversible interdict of Providence,
disqualified for improving their condition?
ff so, in what does this incapacity con
sist? Do they Want mental energy? Look
abroad and see the sons of North Caro
lina, wherever a field is presumed, con
tending gallantly in every department of
manly excellence for the palm of victory.
We nave been called hu unpretending
State, and long may it be before a wret
ched self conceit shall cause that epithet
to be exchanged for one less equivocal
& far more to be abhorred. But it were
not a want of pretension- it would bo
self-degredation, ingratitude to God and
treacherv to ourselves to admit any in
feriority for good or great purpose to
the proudest among the members of lliia
Union. Do we want the pecuniary abili
ty? If we were called on to raise at unco
a large sum of money to be sunk in tho
ocean or transmitted to a distant land, it
may be conceded that we could with dif
ficulty comply with the requisition, and
should severely feel the loss. Bui it is
among the striking effects of this sytem
to which we invite your attention, that it
disburses within the community what the)
community furnishes, and returns speedi
ly and in abundance all which it exacts
From the moment of its commencement,
it creates neighborhood markets for la
bor, materials and provisions, and throws
out money into brisk circulation. As it
proceeds, it not only contributes by its
profits to pay the interest on advance-, but
it extends more and more the sphere of
activity; so that, independently of the im
mense benefits which it promises in the
end, it pays in its progress by the excite
merit which it communicates to industry
and the impulse which it imparts to busi
ness of every description. Money thus
employed is not sunk, nor lost; but is
money put out at compound interest.
Such a course of expenditure and restitu
tion is like that of the blood in a young
and vigorous body. It gushes forth fronx
the great reservoir, the heart and is pro
pelled through the arteries to the verr
extremities, enriching and strengthen'iBg
the entire system in its course, but is re
turned by the veins to be again ar.d again
stmt forth in a round of life-giving circu-
ation. Our very poverty then, the result
as has been seen of unrewarded labor,
anguid trade and limited production, is)
the strongest reason which can be urged
for engaging zealously in the system.
The one vanishes as t'ne other comes for
ward. True we must have, or procure
wherewith to begin the experiment. But
here there is no real difficulty. If each
one amongst you will consent to set apart
half of what he can spare without in
convenience to his family; if he who has
not money will be ready to make his ad
vance in timber, food, or work; we shall
at once have a capital more than suffi
cient for the undertaking of every use ful
enterprise. But the State Treasury
ought to aid, and if you say so, will aid,
in their accomplishment. Wfiy rjas a
public revenue been collected if it is not
to be used, and where is the advantage
of public credit if it is not to be employ
ed for the public good; and where is the
service in which either can be more bene
ficially engaged? Is the character of the
Stale part of the property of everyone
of its citizens? Does his heart throb with