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« f§^tmt published by kitldek si bingham s.yl.isitt!u^l tvy-.sd.vi set'tv.^u^yv 5 8\>0 vol i no z the wksteiix caiiolinian is published every tucs duy ut three dollars per annum payable at the end of six months at this rate cost 10 dollars hire and 10 more for maintenance making for the spade wheel-bar row and all g25 this cover one inch thick would make this 10 dollar land yield the next year at least 25 hushels of wheat or 1000 wt of to bacco that is in wheat 825 in tobacco g80 ; de duct the third for cultivation i;ives profit s17 66 2-3 for wheat or g53 33 1-3 profit in tobacco — with this tedious mode of improving it this land would now only cost 35 dollars the acre ancl in one year after paying for the land the owner would have a surplus of gl 8 33 1-3 that is more than 150 per cent profit in income and 250 pel cent profit in the increased value of the land in all 400 per cent i am not you all must per ceive when you reflect speaking ol impossibil ities but of what you know can bc done ancl i have stated the mode of manuring in the most difficult ancl expensive way and not in thc usual way with carts and yet the profit of manuring is such as you see it to apply manure in the cheapest mode that many of us have it in our power to clo it is profitable ii there is any truth in arithmetic in a degree lhat infinitely surpas ses any other useful occupation i herefore gentlemen it is self-cvilent tt me that there is no more profitable business followed by men than farming if industriously an-l judii it.ii-.lv foi lowed lt remains only for us to gather the besl experience and to make the bcsl ise of it to im prove rapidly our cont'.ition and consideration in the eyes of the world quirics about health and the common pine re 1 itable effect of an examination of ex pane evi marks ou thauweather before they are invited to j dence in any case but especially in a chari><e drink intoxicating liquors t..e wclconi is i which is supported by witnesses employed to col deemed kind ancl sir.ee ro in proportion to the meet evidence and remunerated for their test i frequency and earnestness ol the importunities to i inony but the report now produced is certainly think — liberal in proportion to the variety cf the more grave in its accusations more unhesitating liquors ; ancl their richness and prolusion add to in its assumptions and more direct in its languitgo the other temptations to drink not to offer than had been generally anticipated the queen them would hc deemed unfriendly mean or un herself seems to be somcwl.'at shocked anel sur mannerly not to accept them would be attribu prised at its unexpected severity she stiil ted to ill-nature or a want of politeness 1 iencc however remains confident in her ability to show the visitor drinks to reciprocate good will for the by the roost sadsfuctory proof that the testimony proffered kindness or in self-defence against the against her is false and the witnesses corrupt imputation of ill-breeding and the visited takes her own evidence will of course be liable to a glass for the company's sake as it is culled the same imputations ami tlm the affair as it and to evince his satisfaction em seeing his hos respects public opinion will rem in exactly where pitality accepted in the spirit i:i which t is offer it i tlie partizsns of the queen will discredit ed in this way do tlie laws oi fashion and ens all thc asseverations of the accusers whilst hev tot.i constrain people it drink who otherwise adversari « will equally disregard all thc evidence would have no inclination or who have acquired it her defence that inclination from the frequent if not daily oc jn tins way the whole dispute though simply casions which occur for ten lei ing and ree ipso a piestion of fact will serve only to exasperate eating through thc customary channel ciiti the fury of contending parlies with scarcely any ments of hospitality and good will to their asso chance of producing conviction on either side dates friends and strangers thn i ia the vice of — intemperate drinking ingrafted su the virtue of . he queezn hospitality and so long as that virtue is cher r z ™ ar 9 l » ol lansdownc and lord erskino ished and ardent liquors continue to be tendered having signihed to the house of lords their wisi as evidence of its existence so long will the use 10 feline serving on the committee appointed of that article as a drink continue anel thc vice j vestigale lhe charges preferred against the ol intemperance grow out of it this unnatural queen their resignation was accepted by the blending of virtue and vice together with the firae h,hlse ' jr,<1 lie earl o ««™ w i and lord ellen lice of using inebriating drink as a table beverage borough were appointed to serve in their stead are the radical sources of that intemperance which j ho addresses ol the city of \ ork and the is uid to be •< the crying and increasing sin of the town am neighborhood ol nottingham were nation it is at the family table the first nidi presented to her majesty last week and were ments of intemperance arc taught ; the lirst ex most graciously received amples set and thc first essays at tippling at addresses were voted yesterday week to he tempted the practice is continued by the frc majesty by the common hall of london antl by quent display of hospitality and politeness l c borough of southwark about six o'clock through the medium of ardent drink i he cc , c same afternoon the queen went to ou.kl quired habit shows itself on holy-days at dining ' , ? u .' accompanied by alderman wood her and other parties and on all convivial occasions ; m j cst y w5 j s received at the door by mr h veil is pursued at taverns and at last descends to w several gentlemen of the common council and terminates its career at grog-shops look bea !. n s want,s ' ," cr majesty was paruculuily at the catalogue of family misfortunes and few ami0us u . sc ? ?»« 8tal " e ol thc atc k . ln « ' '" , will be found to have escaped the direful disease ! j 8 accordingly led to the room where h slatids of intemperance ; few which have not hael their i h common council chamber was crowded vvuli prosperity and happiness blighted bv the extreme ! well dieted ladies who waved then hanclkei of that vice in some one or more of their mem t '* ul '^ " s h f v n a jf **? ™ akc * r . hl ' ol i h their ranks hers the evil is as widely spread in the upper ! 0ne u r knelt down and ejaculated a fervent as in the lower class of society ; and although its j p^yer for her majesty » prosperity i he que e.l most debasing extreme is not so frequently wit 1 n,,bet . 1 er « md b p ok u e a f ? w w " y ", ° f , ' l,,l ' kb ." nessed in thc former as in the latter still if the | h i r > "\ a , m « n " er } t showed she was greatly demerits of vice are to be graduated by its iniu j afl . cct ? d !' j >' \ he dent her majesty was re rious consequences intemperance in the weal ccl , ved * ll . h 0 , ll . d che , e1 ' 8 b v u11 wh ° had ll " ; l """ r ail.uitteel into the hall tn sec bit p.iv ii :} c no paper vvill be discontinued until all arrearages lire paid unless at the discretion of the editors whoever will become responsible for the payment of nine papers shall receive a tenth gratis aiivkiitisi__ii_-nt8 will be inserted on the custoinary terms no advertisement inserted until it has been paid for o its payment assumed by some person in this town or rs vicinity cj'all letters to the editors must bu post-paid or they will notbc attended to agiiutciitlftvai columbia's son spurn not the rugged toil ,- your nation's glory is a cultured soil increased hi laurels while he tilled the earth : e'en china's monarch lays the sceptre down nor deems thc task unworthy of the crown pome's cinei iinatits of illustrious birth extract from an address of athanasus fkv.vick est to the agricultural society of st mary's county md published in tlie american farmer " the most rapid fortune i ever knew to bc made on land that was new when it was bought was by a man named george castor a laboring man who had amassed money enough to pur chase 50 or 60 acres of land and to retain i:i hand over and above the purchase 4000 dollars lie moved his family on this land and for two years diligently devoted his whole time to manu ring and improving and expended all his surplus 4000 dollars in this way and not till the third year after he had moved on the land did hc at tempt to make a crop when his land was thus made capable of producing and worth thc labor f cultivation he commenced making crops and succeeded to make money fast and to become wealthy \\\\ erm^ettmc e . extracts from a pamphlet published by order of the new-york society fe.r the promotion uf internal im provement entitled " an expuse of the causes e)f intem perate drinking c by thomas elerttell although these places grog-shops occasion much ofthe vice complained of and the larger dealers in ardent drink bv contributing facilities to its practice influence its increase anel duration ; there arc oilier cax-ses which constitute thc radi cal sources of the evil to which no attention seems to have been paid — no remedy attempted to bc applied — anel of which grog-shops and all their attendant train of vice and immorality are but a part of thc effects it becomes proper here to state what i am confident i shall be enabled to prove that tly intern crate use of ardent liquor originates in the fashions habits customs and r.r amples of what arc called the upper or wealthy classes of the community who is there so ignorant of the customs of our country as not to know that intoxicating li quoi's arc universally used as a daily table drink and that exceptions to ihis remark are not siilli cier.t to impair its truth as a general observation the total absence of wines and other inebriating m farmers who have not like him surplus mo ney to begin with and to maintain their families while putting it in a condition for cultivation may many of them at least spare more time and la bor from the crop necessary to thc maintenance of their families ; and it appears to mc that no business of profit that ever was pursued by men is so profitable as labor applied to manuring if commerce which yields 10 or 12 per cent per annum on capital can afford to pay 6 per cent to banks for thc loan of money manuring which certainly yields at least 2 or 300 per cent per an num where wc have not to buy the manure and at least 50 percent where wc have to pay for it may also afford it it is because il is too easy for a farmer to live somehow and keep clear irom thy is far more reprehensible than in the poorer class the customs ofthe rich constitute the lavs of fashion and none arc more implicitly observed their power seems often paramount to the laws of morality ll.\t the habit of using ardent drink originated with it would as i have before re marked have been limited to the lower class — because the rich do not imitate the practices of the poor ancl therefore cannot bo contaminated with their vices whereas thc latlei e to the extent of their means follow the fashions ofthe former and hence a vitiated bv theii e-wi ex amples carriage was drawn by thc populace in spite of the most earnest remonstrances to the contrary the queen it appears has now taken lhe ie e union to pass her future life in england ; which fact was announced lo the livery of london yes terday week by mr alderman wood on saturday last at one o'clock mr broug ham had an audience of her majesty to present mi affectionate and loyal address from preston signed in a few hours by some thousands of tho hihabitailts her majesty returned the following answer " 1 thank the good people of preston lor this mark of regard the object of my com ing home lias been the vindication of my honor and 1 shall perform lhe sacred duty which i owe alike lo thccoiintiy and to myself without m ik'hilj myself a patty to the political divisions that nt present exist but i never can forget lhe grati tude 1 owe t the english nation or cease to feel the liveliest interest hi its prosperity on saturday afternoon her majesty tot at airing to blackhcath in a private carriage - site returned through the city and called at the shop of mr alderman waithman ; on leaving which she was recognised by the populace who notwithstanding her majesty's remonstrances look thc horses from her carriage end drew it themselves monday being the day appointed for present ing the addresses of the borough of southwark anel of the common hall lo her majesty consid erable crowds began to collect in portman and oxford slice's at an early hour notwithstanding the unfavorable slate of the weather i'he win dows were crowded ve ith well dressed female i and rows of carriages lined the streets a f*vv minutes past one tlie southwark procession ap peared antl was saluted with cheers by the mill litude sir 11 wilson in the uniform ofa gen eral officer mr calvert and the high bailiff of southwark in their court dresses with a number of gentlcmeni elector of the borough were pre sented to the queen and i.ad the honor of kis sing her majesty's hand i'he address was read to her majesty but as the original ropy had been sent to mr brougham who is indisposed in the country she bad not previously perused it so as i to e able to return t written answer her ma jesty returned a most gracious verbal answer and promised that her written answer should be immediately sent tothe electprs of southwark the deputation then retired and was a second lime greeted by the enthusiastic cheers of tho people at thc same moment several benefit , societies marched by with their flags and music the whole scene was ititercstiiij and animated ; in the extreme the lord may ov u:*c the other '«-••.*• a»-tth»rttict fljorrljc apcr »«•♦». appeared vw iquors on those occasions so rarely happens bat when such an instance occurs it is sure to become the subject of ill-natured remark and is usually attributed to meanness and parsimony such being the practice the parents ofa fam ily must of necessity adopt one of the two fol lowing measures : the children must be per mitted to partake ofthe common table beverage or they must not in the first place they are reared from iheir childhood to the habitual use f ardent dink if the olher course is pursued and thc use ofthe liquor interdicted to the children vv hie llie parents daily drink it in their presence he is very little acquainted vvith human nature who does not know that the value of the article is thereby arbitrarily enhanced — the disposition to enjoy it increased ; ancl that as soon as the restraints ofthe parents are removed and an op portunity presents lhe forbidden fruit will be tastedj'witli as much avidity as il both conscience ancl justice demanded satisfaction for lost time and pleasures under such circumstances how vain i il to hope that children will not acquire the habit of intemperance and how weak is it to wonder at their becoming drunkards i par ents can hardly be said to have arrived to years ol discretion vvho shall expect that their admo nitions against intemperance will be heeded while their daily example is counteracting their influence how ridiculous it is for them while ianraiiiaui&;n*tti lle comes thc herald of a noisy world news from all nations liiiiib'ring nt his back debt that farmers have been long in the habit of not calculating the best modes of time anel labor what other business e trade mercantile or me chanical pursued so carelessly anel with so little correct calculation as farming is every where ear ned on would fail to make men bankrupts and j utterly ruin them merchants are every day be coming bankrupt with all thc keenness and at tention which they give to their business while farmers hardly ever fail totally in thc worst of times with infinitely less attention to their inter est i does not this shew what are the resources of land ? thc management of land is yet cer tainly not well understood ; but it appears to mc that money judiciously applied to land anel culti vation may be made to yield a greater profit than in any other way of employing it usual an-ong men particularly where land is as cheap 5s it is among us we can buy ii from 10 to 30 dollars per acre and such will yield from 5ta!5 bushels per acre and deducting 1-3 for the ex pense of cultivation it yields from 83 33 1-3 to 10 dollars per acre when cultivated to the 10 dollar land apply 25 dollars worth of labor and manure to each acre at the very cheap rates that manure and labor can be obtained here say for a man 860 per annum ancl 820 for a woman ir boy lhat is one sixth of a man's yearly labor < r two months labor on one acre of one man — in two months one man could cover an acre with manure with no other implements than a spade and a wheel-barrow : i choose this most difficult and expensive mode for the s_»ke of t-x ample a cover one in it uuel gf manure vouid foreign latest from engl ind riiif.ai'bi.i-iim attgvst 17 — by the arrival of thc fillip factor captain sliced in 34 eljys from liverpool tin editors of the american ccntincl have be cn favorcel with the liverpool advertiser of the 8th of july containing 1 intelligence li-oin england eight clays later than that here tofore received copious extracts will t>i found below ily the dublin evening post we learn thut mr r.llis has been elected to parliament by a majority of 1 1 4 votes over mr grattan in the evening ufle.r tin election closeel the friends of mr grattan broke the windows of a great many of tin houses of those persons vvho hatl supported the election of mr ellis disturbances appear to have liken place at brest and caen the empc rorof uussia issui.l to have adelressed u declaration to all the european courts relative ta th late political eliange in spain i.i v kit pool jijly •'- — the concerns ofthe queen have made considerable progress during tbe present week the report ofthe committee i of the house of lords was brought up on tues j day night and it was couched in no equivocal or qualified terms the queen is charged on lhe evidence of various persons in different parts of europe with having can led on adulterous inter course with a man whom she had raised from tbe rank ofa memial servant and she is charged also with general licentiousness and impropriety of conduit the very serious weight of this ac cusation it must be conic sec has rather gone beyond the public expectation that an unfa vorable report should be produced was a matter of course because no accusation was ever brought forward which did i.c-i appear sufficiently valid before the defynce w heard ichh the ir ••<•• drinking wine and brandy in the presence of their children to attempt lo persuade them that it is not i;oocl for them 1 should it happen that in a family of half a dozen sons there should bc a sober man the merit is his and not his parents ; nor are they to be pitied except lor tlieir folly should tbey all be drunkards and such is fre quently the result thus almost every family becomes a school for intemperance and a nur sery of customers for taverns and grog-shops a;_;uin : inebriating liquors have become ihe medium universully adopted by society for n-.tmi feating friet.dahifl and good will one to another — it need onlv to be mentioned to be admitted that it ik the common practice when fiiends or even strangers i^it each other tbey have scarcely itimej fv bfruig ■•-•-.• 4 t make the nstud bv
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Title | Western Carolinian |
Masthead | Western Carolinian |
Date | 1820-09-05 |
Month | 09 |
Day | 05 |
Year | 1820 |
Volume | 1 |
Issue | 13 |
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Creator | Krider and Bingham |
Date Digital | 2009-04-13 |
Publisher | Krider & Bingham |
Place |
United States North Carolina Rowan County Salisbury |
Type | Text |
Source | Microfilm |
Digital Format | JP2 |
Project Subject | State Archives of North Carolina Historic Newspaper Archive |
Description | The Tuesday, September 5, 1820 issue of the Western Carolinian a newspaper from Salisbury, North Carolina |
Rights | The SA of NC considers this item in the public domain by U.S. law but responsibility for permissions rests with researchers. |
Language | eng |
OCLC number | 601578942 |
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Title | Western Carolinian |
Masthead | Western Carolinian |
Date | 1820-09-05 |
Month | 09 |
Day | 05 |
Year | 1820 |
Sequence | 1 |
Page | 1 |
Technical Metadata | Image was scanned by OCLC at the Preservation Service Center in Bethlehem, PA. Archival image is an 8-bit greyscale tiff that was scanned from microfilm at 400 dpi. The original file size was 2576061 Bytes |
FileName | sawc01_18200905-img00001.jp2 |
Date Digital | 4/13/2009 8:03:35 AM |
Publisher | Krider & Bingham |
Place |
United States North Carolina Rowan County Salisbury |
Type | Text |
Source | Microfilm |
Digital Format | JP2 |
Project Subject | State Archives of North Carolina Historic Newspaper Archive |
Description | An archive of The Western Carolinian a historic newspaper from Salisbury, North Carolina |
Rights | The SA of NC considers this item in the public domain by U.S. law but responsibility for permissions rests with researchers. |
Language | eng |
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« f§^tmt published by kitldek si bingham s.yl.isitt!u^l tvy-.sd.vi set'tv.^u^yv 5 8\>0 vol i no z the wksteiix caiiolinian is published every tucs duy ut three dollars per annum payable at the end of six months at this rate cost 10 dollars hire and 10 more for maintenance making for the spade wheel-bar row and all g25 this cover one inch thick would make this 10 dollar land yield the next year at least 25 hushels of wheat or 1000 wt of to bacco that is in wheat 825 in tobacco g80 ; de duct the third for cultivation i;ives profit s17 66 2-3 for wheat or g53 33 1-3 profit in tobacco — with this tedious mode of improving it this land would now only cost 35 dollars the acre ancl in one year after paying for the land the owner would have a surplus of gl 8 33 1-3 that is more than 150 per cent profit in income and 250 pel cent profit in the increased value of the land in all 400 per cent i am not you all must per ceive when you reflect speaking ol impossibil ities but of what you know can bc done ancl i have stated the mode of manuring in the most difficult ancl expensive way and not in thc usual way with carts and yet the profit of manuring is such as you see it to apply manure in the cheapest mode that many of us have it in our power to clo it is profitable ii there is any truth in arithmetic in a degree lhat infinitely surpas ses any other useful occupation i herefore gentlemen it is self-cvilent tt me that there is no more profitable business followed by men than farming if industriously an-l judii it.ii-.lv foi lowed lt remains only for us to gather the besl experience and to make the bcsl ise of it to im prove rapidly our cont'.ition and consideration in the eyes of the world quirics about health and the common pine re 1 itable effect of an examination of ex pane evi marks ou thauweather before they are invited to j dence in any case but especially in a chari> |