Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1828-01-30
f'on TnE CoNsrirC rioNAL WAia.
BALTIMORE RAIL ROAD.

have been much gratied by the notice taken In
your paper under the signature of sFree Trade and
Eoquirer the goth of Dec. purportns 10 be memo
ral &C. to the Legislature. Although there are some
feelings manifested towards the author of the
not entirely hauering 10 him lie could have wish
Cd; yet as he knows, he does deserve any thing
the kind, he is in the E,an gaifed with the notice
that has been taken OF him; because the subject which
ne has much at heart is noticed at the same time An
he wishes is, that that subject should be well werbcd
ana understood by the country, and iudgmeu,
formed concerning il. 20 this end ii the Wing has not
Pun''soeo hat memorial the au thor would be greatly
ooged 70 the edttoso insert it, together with This re-
ply to "Free Trade end Farmers' II: ghl.n
The author of that memorial dsca;n,s asy sectional
eecs on this subject Ca the contrary Here is no
man 10 the State who is DESTROYS that our nayeo
bic streams every where and especially the grea,
tories of the Potomac James river and Roanoke should
be improved as speedily possible.
Tue memorial IS predcaed this rs lis ultimate OBJ
Ject; and Norfolk - liked the Emporium near the
ocean, Through which all the trade must pass az point
common TO all, though the James at the head o ,Ie
water will be the intermediate points with which the
farmer would he connected and where lis produce yi
10 me nrs instance be sod; as Albany is 10 New York
His fear IS that Raj! E:.>i is PIT an end to the
Improvement of our rivers and become substitute for
That mode of communications and ifs benieprecates as
no ordinary evil. He will respectfully put it to tue
good sense snd caada OF Free Trade and Farmers,
Rights" whether tic rail road author i.c. by Tho art
OF The last session, would better accommodation In
his section of the State than the pproy ,nen, nj tho
~ fn nf
changed AID It IS taken up the valley by Coyingtou
ana In The great kanawha many uf The counties mon
TONED oy hin " Ill have greater accommodation than
al preseat and must ssort back to navigation if il can
uere he obtained 1t on tho ether hand j, not chan
ged so as to go up the valley how are al, the es,oo
ano hSesterB people 20 he accomtnoJ aed but by
navigation! In either point OF ve,y then OUGHT w q ia
Isque OF the adoption OF oew and un:ried schemes the
improvements we have all hitherto locked for Tho
author of the memorial COOS the Ancient Don;n;op
one and indvisabe for that improvement Of he ,sht.
OIL which the country every where fully susccptib:e
He will also respectfully suggest, for the copsde,a
ton OF the whole upper country, whether Rail Roads
even II they could be made in both d ec:ions wouJ
be as valuable as navigation? Could the machines
travelling on them transport the lumber the hay the
i'nc-tO say nothing OF the poa, Toes cahba,cs Hc Sc
now brought to markets by water from the easI
and which moud descend our rivers if imn,oyeda
Can hare both sets Of improvements nnd will this b
INSISTED on oy those who doubt, whether our tonnage
wall pay for the expense of one? Ii bo,h cannot be
expected, much less If both cauuot traverse zach
tom Is II not safest 10 conform ourselves to that one
which will be must generally useful? The rich products
OF the banks OF our rivers, far they cannot be
transported by Wagons 'nns, remain where they grow
30 tar as they can be thus transported they must be
carried from their natural high ,oabs to the nearest
trace on the hail Road Ia it perfectly clear then that
Kan ROADS through such country, is better than
Davigationf Ought not the Country to have timo tn
weigh and reflect this matter, aIns The state NJ
Virginia be ored a: once to give up perhaps for ever
her power to improve her rivers beca us,, the n.
laure, at the Gerry close of The session. with lila boe
and without time to reflect, passed the law complained
Of when one viii be Injured one cent bv rcneajinp
u: NO money II Is presumed has Jet been cse,, or
spent What may be lost in cxpectancy is another
matter. II is very true, That muci, money has
'heen expended on the James river and the improve
ments as yet DO not pay the interest But who ever
expected improvements Of this kind made s3arcier on
the line, to yield profit, until the whole o. al leas, n
considerable portion Of the line, is completed? II can
be- demonstrated easily work sum in The rule
ut three that the present tonnage James river will
NJ r fhnt al
navigation to Pattonsburg. That itnprovemcn n,,gh
would in short time double the tonnage All the
duce 700 from the southwest would stop al that point
and al the back loads be taken in there Not bale ~
goods would be put up in lew York PHILADELPHIA o.
baltimore, for east or west Tennessee FOR tie south
west Of Virginia and few for the interior of Kentucky
or Ohio, unless such as would go by New Oseans but
what would pass up TO Pattousburp and he ,beuce
transported by Wagons until some better mode was
adopted -9luch, at all events would PASS nv tb,,
route; and few thousand dollars in addition to the
Iaoour OF the country would make better road from
Pattonsourg to Covipgton, than the wagons Dopy
travel on from Knoxville to Baltimore There
they would be ON the turnpike Kauawha, which il
IS said IS All excellent road. THUS the money expen-
ded on the James liver would be realized, the fund
for internal improvement relieved from that burtien
and together with any surplus would be applicable TO
other works.
VIXEN that is done, as il ought TO have been before
this time, and as Vt surely must be in two or three
years. If Rail Roads should then be con sdered best and
most practicable lei them be resoried TO. II is conf
IDENTIFY believe tho that this will not be found IN he
the case And then the state ought TO proceed W Tie
next most important rivers, the Potomac 3 Koa,,o.e
and then With all their branches and other inferior RI
vers. No one will go further or more earnestly &c
work with all these Improvements than the author IF The
memorial.
suspension OF measures tina, will be Eial 10 that
which may be found TO be best for the country-unti
that which is best is fully ascerained is all that e
wishes and praJs for.
FROM THE Enquirer.
BALTIMORE RAIL ROAD COMPANY.
We recommend the following MemoriaI TO the reid
ers attention. as the production of tespec,abl,
and patriotic citizen:
TO The General Assembly Of Tic Commonwealth o.
prgin,a
tbe petition and remonstTancc Of The Inhabitants o
laTre majority of lIc NJ