Excerpt: ... the last Governor selected by the Legislature? 10. What two candidates were before the people in 1836? Who was the first Governor elected by the people? 13. How had the Northern States acted in regard to slavery? What checked the liberal spirit of the South concerning slavery? CHAPTER XLVII. INTERNAL IMPROVEMENTS-THE COURTS AND THE BAR. A. D. 1836. There had been many changes effected among the people of North Carolina by the lapse of time when the year 1836 came in. Bartlett Yancey, the two Drs. Caldwell and ...
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Excerpt: ... the last Governor selected by the Legislature? 10. What two candidates were before the people in 1836? Who was the first Governor elected by the people? 13. How had the Northern States acted in regard to slavery? What checked the liberal spirit of the South concerning slavery? CHAPTER XLVII. INTERNAL IMPROVEMENTS-THE COURTS AND THE BAR. A. D. 1836. There had been many changes effected among the people of North Carolina by the lapse of time when the year 1836 came in. Bartlett Yancey, the two Drs. Caldwell and Archibald Henderson were all dead, and their places filled by other men. Cotton was becoming more and more widely cultivated, and, year by year the value of slave property was increasing by reason of the profits realized in the cultivation of this great Southern staple. 2. The Dismal Swamp Canal was at last ready for traffic between the Albemarle country and Norfolk, in the State of Virginia. A change was soon apparent in the trade of the towns thus connected by a new watercourse with the outer world. The dangerous voyages through the inlets and out into the ocean were by degrees abandoned, and almost all direct trade with the West Indies ceased. 3. The first railway charter given in North Carolina was that of the Petersburg Railroad. This was in 1830, and was followed, two years later, by that of the Portsmouth and Roanoke route. Soon after, Governor Dudley and others organized the Wilmington Railroad, leading to Weldon, the same terminus fixed for the others. This was for some time the longest single line in the world. 4. A few lines had been constructed in the United States prior to these, but they were among the pioneer works of the vast network of railways now seen in every portion of the Republic. Wonderful changes have taken place in the travel and traffic of the States. The vast extent of the national territory once presented to wise observers of our institutions a bar to any unity of thought and interest; but steam and electricity...
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Good. No Dust Jacket. A Good copy (at best) in heavily rubbed printed paper-covered boards over black cloth with a small chip at the spine. Numerous iterations of an early owner's name from Boone NC. A sound reading/reference copy of this 359-page text, and not ex-library. 1881 at copyright page and 1882 at title page with no statement of printing. Thus, the first edition, but uncertain if the first printing.
