7. What law was enacted concerning a convention?
8. What is said of the memorable convention of 1835? What changes were made in the Constitution?
9. What was the majority of the votes given to the amendments? Who was 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.