Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1835-11-19
THF TENNESSEE Rail. ROAD.

THE TENNESSEE Rail. ROAD.
We nlyertcd, n our la.t paper, 10 the Memoir
81 recently adopted by the people Of Buchanan,
and 10 ong ,lioria article in the " Advocate"
Of that place, the design Of which TO show the
suIeror advantages vi hat ambitious little village,
over our more unprcrndmg cooperation, rs the
east, IN point of termination Of the contemplated
all Road, through Virginia. 10 Tennessee and
sc promised TO take more extended notice Of
those papers this morning, should We deem ii eA-
pcdtnt, on farther reflection, So to do. We have
pcrused both the Memorial and the Essay, with
the attention which the Importance of the subject
and their intrinsic ability called for bu our for
ucr opinion is sill unchanged, for reasons which
We proceed briefly to sci forth.
We may as we'll promise in the fr,t place, that
ttc assumption Of the Buchanan people, that the
Jane, River Canal viii stop at Lynchburg, pro-
,dca the Rail Road terminates at that point, is al
together erautous. Nothing has occurred TO an-
thorxe This supposition; and, from What We have
been able learn, no such thing i. in contemplation.
The appeal 10 the cupdity Of the agrculturalin
tcre.l, therefore, based on this Assumption in
ference to the heavy tuIls which change in the
mode of transportation from the Canal to the Rail
Road, cas,waldv from Buchanan, would occasion,
falls 10 the ground. Whctherthe Rail Road ter
inmate at tins place not, the Canal, we have
every reason to believe, will bemade, agreeahly to
the decision of the stockholders Of the James River
and hanawha Company, At their first annual meet
ING, 10 Corineton and ii will not, have the
same grounds for believing stop sIotof tia, point
even If Buchanan should fall heir to the eastern
end Of the great Rail Road. It is apparent, there
fore, hat the " heavy and bulky ariiccS,' which
We are told, doubt correctly, by the Buchanan
Advocate, g" can be much more cheapy trans
ported upon Canals than upon Railways will
have choice Of routes, aud nor be compel
led as that paper argues, to seek a market by
the Rail Road, atan oppressive increase Of the
cost Of transportation.
We arc likewise. told, hat the route bl Buford',
Gap j. upfactio ,be-,hat thu Blue Ridge
not be crossed. To this assertion We oppose, FIRST
Tie opinion Of the Engineers who have surycycd
il; and 2lly the fact that greater didcuI,e, than
the Bluo Ridge presents, have been already over
come BY the skill aud enterprise Of the age.
These would he arguments Of some Importance,
and would be entitled To serious and wcglty con-
sidcraiou were ii Tie fact, that there is contest
between L,nrhhurg and Buchanan, for the benefits
winch viii be consequent upon the termination, nj
eithcroi those points, of the Tennessee Road. But
this isnot the case Itis not contemplated that the
Rail Road shall ST p either at Buchanan al
Lynchbur, or indeed at any point short Of Rich
mond-connrc,ing al that city with the Freder-
ck>burg rlil road, North, to Boston, and with the
Petersburg, South, 10 Charleston. SO that, in
combating the claims of Lynclhurr, tie Buchanan
people are fighting shadow; and in demonstra-
tiny the impossbty of crossing the Blue Ridge
If ,hcy could do so, they would be furnishing an
argument which would defeat the whole scheme
rhr grcat design of this Rail Road is to form an
unhralru chain of connection hctwepn the South
west and the Notwithstanding short Of this will
enlist thr capital sufficient to consummatc it--and
conseqnt uly, if II appear that there are natu-
..ral distractions in the way, which will render il
necessary that huge gap be left in the linc from
Buchanan to Richmond the utility of the scheme
will he shown 10 have hcen ovrrra,ed, the main de-
sign o, il viii be defeated, and il pWbc abandon.
ed
Again-fsen on the supposi,ion that the pas
sage OF tive Blue RIDGE hy Rail Road is really Il,
impractcahlc as tie passage of the Alps by nu-
mcrous army, with all the munimcnts of war before
the indonilablc energies OF Napoleon Bonaparte
>ubdued The barriers which had seemed to be in
surmountablc--and suppose that the work should
nevertheless be undertaken, with the understand
ing that its eastern terminus should be at Buchanan
where would the capital be obtained TO com.
pletc it Do the people of Buchanan suppos.
that their brethren of Eastern Virginia are SC
blind AZ to employ their means for the purpose OF
+ throwing the great Western trade into the lap OF
, Baltimore What is the great object of the gi.
eantic excrtions now making in Virginia to re-
tricvc the inactivity and apathy of former years
Is II to advance her owa interests or TO pr, mote
the ACKNOWLEDGEMENT of ncighboring State, who's.
commercial metropolis is stretching out its arms II
all directions, il it would monopoze not onl,
the trade which legtimately belongs to it, but al
50 that which would naturally now into other chan
nc, Unqucstinnably TIC former And yet tn,
people OF Buchanan would ask the Legislature o
Virginia TO give them charter, which, could it b,
obtained, and the Road done, would bring the en-
tire trade and travel upon it within sixty miles o
,hr point to which the Baltimore people have al