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Gazette Of The United States
New York, New York County, New York
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North Carolina correspondent critiques foreign (English/Scotch) influence on trade and morals, low government standards and salaries, lack of schools and failed seminary funding, increased imports amid money scarcity, endorses federal bank system, notes southern republicanism in Congress, and supports U.S.-owned shipping for exports.
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In this State there is not such a flow of national ideas, as there is in the Northern and middle States; we are over-run with English and Scotch adventurers, factors, and settlers, who engross the trade and corrupt the morals of the people by their examples; while our old citizens are too apt to be servile imitators of the manners and customs of these Europeans, so much so that we can't think for ourselves, nor spurn the chains with which they cramp our trade. There are upwards of ten thousand Scots in one county only. The government as a State is not upon so respectable a footing as I think it ought to be; the Governor's salary is low, and all the appointments in the State are on the same scale.—We do not see that form and order in doing public business which prevails elsewhere, and which is necessary to inspire that decent respect for each other which should subsist between rulers and people. We have no schools—no provision is made by law for the support and encouragement of learning. The last session, efforts were made by the eastern members to establish a seminary, but it could not be done—the house would not grant more than 500 when 3000 was necessary. As to business, since the establishment of the new government it is much altered and increased—the goods brought into the country have been to an immense amount, to what were heretofore imported—money has grown scarce—silver nearly as plenty as paper. The bank system must extend the influence of the general government; it is a wise and politic measure.
I know not how it happens I will not pretend to say, but so we think the fact is, that some of the Southern members of Congress have been more truly republican in their speeches, than the Eastern: There is one idea however in which the people of this State agree with the Northern States, and that is respecting being the carriers of our own produce to market. It is a general opinion that the shipping owned by the citizens of the United States is at this time sufficient to carry off all our exports. The federal interest will and does increase here—notwithstanding there is too much of a disposition to depreciate our national character and importance, owing principally to the foreign influence before mentioned.
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In this State there is not such a flow of national ideas, as there is in the Northern and middle States; we are over-run with English and Scotch adventurers, factors, and settlers, who engross the trade and corrupt the morals of the people by their examples; while our old citizens are too apt to be servile imitators of the manners and customs of these Europeans, so much so that we can't think for ourselves, nor spurn the chains with which they cramp our trade. There are upwards of ten thousand Scots in one county only. The government as a State is not upon so respectable a footing as I think it ought to be; the Governor's salary is low, and all the appointments in the State are on the same scale.—We do not see that form and order in doing public business which prevails elsewhere, and which is necessary to inspire that decent respect for each other which should subsist between rulers and people. We have no schools—no provision is made by law for the support and encouragement of learning. The last session, efforts were made by the eastern members to establish a seminary, but it could not be done—the house would not grant more than 500 when 3000 was necessary. As to business, since the establishment of the new government it is much altered and increased—the goods brought into the country have been to an immense amount, to what were heretofore imported—money has grown scarce—silver nearly as plenty as paper. The bank system must extend the influence of the general government; it is a wise and politic measure. I know not how it happens I will not pretend to say, but so we think the fact is, that some of the Southern members of Congress have been more truly republican in their speeches, than the Eastern: There is one idea however in which the people of this State agree with the Northern States, and that is respecting being the carriers of our own produce to market. It is a general opinion that the shipping owned by the citizens of the United States is at this time sufficient to carry off all our exports. The federal interest will and does increase here—notwithstanding there is too much of a disposition to depreciate our national character and importance, owing principally to the foreign influence before mentioned.