. The South : a tour of its battlefields and ruined cities, a journey through the desolated states, and talks with the people: being a decription of the present state of the country - its agriculture - railroads -business and . re, — composed mostly ofa respectable and worthy-looking yeomanry — battling overthe question of negro testimony in the civil courts ; spendingday after day in the discussion of a subject which could besettled in only one way, and which ought to have been settledat once. One member remarked outside: Ill never votefor that bill miless driven to it by the bayon
. The South : a tour of its battlefields and ruined cities, a journey through the desolated states, and talks with the people: being a decription of the present state of the country - its agriculture - railroads -business and . re, — composed mostly ofa respectable and worthy-looking yeomanry — battling overthe question of negro testimony in the civil courts ; spendingday after day in the discussion of a subject which could besettled in only one way, and which ought to have been settledat once. One member remarked outside: Ill never votefor that bill miless driven to it by the bayonet. ^Anothersaid: I m opposed to giving niggers any privileges. Thesemen represent a large class of North Carolina farmers ; butfortunately there is another class of more progressive and lib-eral ideas, which are sure at last to prevail. - The business of Raleigh was dull, the money in the countrybeing exhausted. A few Northern men, who had gone into ■ trade there, were discouraged, and anxious to get away. So great is the impoverishment of our State, GovernorWorth Taid to me, that a tax of any considerable amountwould bring real estate at once into the market. Amongother causes, the repudiation of the entire State debt con-. 580 A GLIMPSE OF THE OLD NORTH STATE. tracted during the war, had contributed to destroy tlie re-sources of the people. The middhng and pooi-er classes hadinvested nearly all their surplus means in State treasury notes,which became worthless. The cause of education suflFeredwith everything else. The University of North Carolina hadall its funds invested in the banks; Repudiation killed thebanks, said Governor Worth, and the banks killed the Uni-versity. A million dollars of the common-school fund wentthe same way. North Carolina, like several of her Southern sisters-, hadpassed a stay law, which threatened a serious injury to herinterests. By preventing the collection of debts, it destroyedcredit, of which the people, in their present condition, stan
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