Virginia free press & farmers' repository. [volume] (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1827-1832, 1830-02-17
NO. 81.


counties, more rough aud billy by far
than the valley we inhabit, wants n
good system Of road laws at home even
more than we do. IL is. moreover, Sc
parated from market bv . ridge OF
mountains IN many places az formida-
bie as the Blue ride itself. IaltuJe Tn
that ridge which IN Loudoun is called
the Catocton, IN Prince William. the
Bull run mountain. further To the south
waru the south west mountain, and
which extends, under various names,
to the line OF North Carolina. Those
counties are, moreover, separated from
market by district ef country called
IN Fauqoier the Black Jack country,
and elsewhere by various other names.
all equally hateful to the hardy and
muoh-enduring WAGNER, because tic
rams aud SHOWS and frost Of each sue
cessive winter convert it into one great
and almost impossible slough. The
paved roads which will enable the peo-
pie OF these counties to surmount these
Obstacles, and pass through this annual
swamp, will be your roads to market
likewise. You may count. then, with
certainty, on perpetual legislative al.
lance, as To all road questions, as 10
all reasonable and proper plans Of in.
'ernal Improvement, between the peo
pie west of the Ridge and the people
immediately east of it, whose united
representatives will constitute n maio-
rity in both of the legislative 5od,rs.-
And What we're your objects IN the
great struggle In which you have been
engaged for fourteen yearss Did You
want power purely as CHS montana potr.
eT, or with the view Of efiecting great
useful practical results: And what
were the practical results you chiefly
aimed atf Was not the Improvement
OF the country Nv good roads the most
vitality important Of all? Give the far
mer good roads 10 market, and he will
grow rich space. lie will erect neat
and substantial barns and houses and
fences. IN place of those which now de-
form the face Of the country: he will
build school houses aud churches, anI
subscribe Literally To the endowment
al academies and colleges. In short,
facility Of tran.portion is Of the essence
OF the prosperity Of an agricultural
community; and II was the neglect,
by the old government. Of this inipor-
tant branch 0f legislation. which, moro
than all other causes, wrought it,
! downfall.
In tins aspect Of the case, then, you,
victory Is complete. You have de.
strooyed the paralytic government, not
inclined TO DO evil, but impotent foe
good, which, for half a century, has
benumbed the energies Of the people.
What more do YOU want?
/ But there is still another aspect in
which thus subject may be viewed. 80
which, u have not already exhausted
your patience, would respectfully ask
your attention. | will premise that
am FULLY aware that II is al ,uapOynlor
view, and that IL will tell you truths.
/ " they are truths, which yoT will be-
generally predlsposed 10 reject, with
some lndignaion, perchancc. against
hun who Is bold enough TO tell them.
But bow will you ever learn the Truth.
on subjects Of this nature, IL the public
servants to whom you have specially
committed the duty Of searching n out.
after isbOriously performing that duty.
have not courage to tell you what they
believe 20 be the truth, because they
Know that II IS opposed 10 all your prc-
conceived notions? Popular VI unpop.
ular, here u is:-
We have beet accustomed 10 consi.
der our trans Allegheny fellow eli
lens as our natural allies, IN cOatradis.
tinctlon from our fellow cil,Zens OF the
middle country, ia that unhappy Wal
~ sectional interests which the UNEQUAL
distribution OF power made By tie old
eon't'tution compelled ~ to wage. |
ask you graVely to consider. whvtber
lhis vas not an error ia point Of fact
l admit that our trans Alleghany be
tlren aided % ~ bringing about a COZ.
iNentiOn, aud that. ia that respect, they
"cre our political friends. But 49, t.
the reality of any supposed identity Of
Interests, in regard 90 the resUts 0f thr
convention, have looked IN vain for
the proofs " Il. have, on the contra
nv. supposed ~ 10 De undeniallv true
that. however if,eadly their feDiger spa
feelings may have been, they wsut into
the convention with inisTssfs ho,tile 10
ours on the principal question whicL
was there o. be settled. IheU went
into the convention. having 50 repre-
sehtatiSss ~ a house 81 delegates Of
ga, and being entitled, even Ob tho
white basis 70 but a.. according g.
the oeBsas Of 1890. ne vent toto the
convention with 90 representative (ol
the valley, being entitled 60 -, &c
cOfding 60 the same censgs- Ne, then,
were gsIevcusly under represented
ftfy were OssF-Fsprsssnled. Ne went
mia fhs eonNeafiuu IN otsstu frot,