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FARMERS' REGISTER-NORTH CAROLINA, &c. 



causes, we may sM the temptations offered in the 

 western states "to immigrants, by the cheapness of 

 (lie land, the unembarrassed state of its title, and 

 the natural fertility of a new soil^the first and 

 the last diflTicultics might be overcome by indus- 

 try, and the more easy access the Atlantic states 

 have to the "primary markets;" but, thanks to 

 the lawyers, in the legislatures of the old states, 

 where land is held under the grants, and law admi- 

 nistered under the acts of Wiliiam and Mary , Anne, 

 and the three Georges, and every modern improve- 

 ment studiously precluded, there is no hope of re- 

 moving the Ibrmer ; and hence the necessity of 

 these states patiently awaiting the ever varying 

 decisions of these legal lords, and paying their 

 sedulous attention to apply all the means in their 

 power to avail themselves of the advantages they 

 so decidedly possess over the new stales, as to lo- 

 cality ; and not only as to locality, but in their 

 naturally superior perseverance and talent in tlie 

 application of all modern improvements to their 

 now declining agriculture. 



The times anil the situation of the state urge it. 

 The result of the lale Raleigh convention adds to 

 the motives that should induce every patriotic and 

 intelligent North Carolinian to look, and to look 

 well, to the subject ; especially when he sees that the 

 great and important counties of Anson, Buncombe, 

 Burke, Cabarry, Caswell, Davidson, Guildford, 

 Iredell, Lincoln, Mecklenburg, INlontgomery, 

 Person, Rockingham, Rowan, Rutherford, and 

 Stokes, cum multis aliis, counties, many of which 

 now deal almost exclusively with Augusta, Charles- 

 ton, Columbia, Camden and Cheraw — when he 

 sees that these counties, occupying so large and 

 important a part of the producing and consuming 

 power of the state, did not send a member to the 

 convention — when he sees the mild, judicious and 

 conciliatory resolution offered as a substitute for 

 that above quoted, by a member from the lower 

 region of the state, evidently showing a diminu- 

 tion in the caloric which was in such full force 

 when the " instructions" were given which were 

 paraded with such pomp by the Kaleigh Regis- 

 ter — when he beholds this, he will learn the folly 

 of longer delay ; ho will see, from the proceedings 

 of the convention, the utter impossibility of pre- 

 cluding the formation of a rail road from Fayette 

 to Raleigh, and thence through Louisburg to the 

 point on the Roanoke, where the rail roads from Pe- 

 tersburg and Norfolk will unite. The low coun- 

 try Carolinian too will see the folly of feeding and 

 gormandizing New York with his small craft. 

 He will anxiously await the moment when the rail 

 road from Fayette to the Pee Dee shall be com- 

 pleted, and Norfolk with her harbors whitened 

 with the sails of the largest merchant vessels, will 

 not only becomie the port of North Carolina, but 

 offer a market to the eastern sections of South Ca- 

 rolina. 



It will be no wonder that such should be the re- 

 solution of previous doubts on this subject, and 

 such the clearing of so darkened <i vision, when 

 we recollect the power and population, the influ- 

 ence and information, the consumption and conse- 

 quence of the above named counties, whicli it 

 should seem unanimously declined sending a sin- 

 gle member to this far famed convention. They 

 know their wants as well as their power in the 

 state, and the proper channel of their trade — a 

 power which, like the influence of the departed 



patriots of Rome, at the funeral of Germanicus, 

 was more sensibly felt, because Tiberius would 

 not suffer their statues to be carried in procession. 

 These counties of their own accord, declined an 

 appearance in the convention; but their influence 

 must have been felt and acknowledged. 



Some persons have strange notions of national 

 wealth, uniformly forgetting the increasing white 

 population of all the upper, and a great portion 

 of the middle sections of North Carolina — continu- 

 ally forgetting the complete dependence of Charles- 

 ton and Georgetown, Beaufort and Savannah, on 

 the small Atlantic ports of North Carolina — equal- 

 ly forgetful of the dependence of Clicraw, Cam- 

 den, Columbia and Augusta on her western and 

 mitiland counties, for wheat, corn, flour, &c. &c. 

 they imagine North Carolina to be sinking in the 

 scale of national importance — and this " vain im- 

 agination" arises, in the one instance, from a want 

 of attention to the value of the produce exported ; 

 and, in the other, from the impossibility of forming 

 an accurate estimate of its amount. It also arises 

 from the utter ignorance or misapprehension of the 

 fact, that the sale of J^ilOO worth of provisions is 

 equal to the sale of an infinitely larger amount of 

 cotton, perhaps a two fold amount — also, continu- 

 ally forgetting that the total of the United States 

 Bank exchange transportations at Fayette, with its 

 comparatively little business, was ^4,850,553 34; 

 when that of Charleston did not exceed ,$7,005,- 

 639 89— that of Savannah being Jg 10,024,026 88— 

 and of New Orleans only S16,838;598 51— the 

 three latter ports exporting to the amount of 

 !§24,000,000 in cotton alone, besides the vast mass 

 of other produce finding its way down the Missis- 

 sippi — equally forgetting that North Carolina has 

 been able to close a bank, and withdraw a large 

 portion of its paper circulation, and that under 

 this pressure, iier land bears a higher price than 

 that in Georgia and South Carolina — totally un- 

 mindful of the reports of her tax lists, the citizens 

 of North Carolina proclaim, that because she has 

 no large importing or exporting port, she does 

 not occupy the rank she ought to do in the Union. 



W hat would have been the case if the colonial 

 minister of the crown had fixed the present southern 

 boundary of North Carolina as that of Virginia. 

 Would the mere want of a "primary market" 

 in the present separate state, have been a legiti- 

 mate cause of separation, and must not Norfolk 

 have then become the port of North Carolina, cal- 

 led as it would have been, Virginia.'' 



The saving in government (this is said delibe- 

 rately and advisedly,) would only have been equal- 

 led by the politic al and moral influence gained by 

 such a combination ; and well would it be for the 

 south, if the Virginia of 1833 was the Virginia of 

 Charles the 2d. 



But as it is, the boundary line, and the conse- 

 quently ambitious spirit of sectional pride, cannot 

 alter the slate of thhigs. The mandates of sove- 

 reigns cannot create moral and commercial boun- 

 daries, and force trade into unnatural channels. 

 Hence, the shallow artifice of appealing to the sec- 

 tional pride and the proud passions of a people, in- 

 stead of to their reason and right feeling, must, 

 in this instance, as in all others, fail. Petersburg 

 and Richmond must become the depots, and Nor- 

 folk the port of import and export — in short, the 

 " primary market" not only of North Carolina, 

 but of the eastern sections of South Carolina — 



