Hints on the Internal Improvement of North Carolina: Respectfully Addressed to His Countrymen (Classic Reprint)

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Now it is just this conflict between general and local inter ests which has caused so much money to be wasted, both in our own country, and in England, upon railroads. Fortunate ly, North Carolina has not yet proceeded so far in the actual work as to prevent the adoption of awise general system what she has already done may be incorporated into such a system, and we therefore proceed respectfully to suggest some thoughts as to What that system should be. It may take time thorough ly to complete it; some of its minor details too may doubtless be advantageously modified; and new details may be added, the value of which can only be revealed hereafter by facts and circumstances now unknown. But the great features of the system appear to be plain; and it may perhaps be deemed wise now to adopt a settled plan for those great features; and let the future work up to that plan. We shall be more apt to work wisely when we work to definite ends.

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