Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1836-09-12
RAIL ROADS-GEN. JACKSON


The Joncsborough (Tcnnessce) Repolr.
states that the President, in order to throw -,
water on the magnificent project of Rail h.,
between Charleston and Cincinnati. nnLl5
makes the following statements lst, thai H.
lance between Charleston aud Cincinnati i Ia.
miles, when, in truth, it is only about 500 mil.
IDLY, that the cost of constructing the Rail r.
will be 100000 fdollarS, when, accor3i,o.
the estimates of the able engineers. who L.
viewed the ground, it will not exceed L .0OOOha
odly' that no kail Road, hitherto Constructed :.
the l. States had Melted a profit of one -Imfofo..
per cent; when, in truth. many Rail Road, l,y
pad more, even Def re their completion wiq.
many OF them are now paving more than Legal n.
terest on the money invested and when
stocks of nearly every one Of them are at mr..
MUM. And 4thly, that this Road is device =.
Mr. Calhouns (Mordeca, sitting in the Kim,
cate } to draw of the attention Of the people from
notification, and thereby to regain his popnl,l.,
an eveln which would doubtly be most deeply ~.
GREETED by the magnanimous hero of the lern5..
age-But that this is not to be appreheolqd +.
shown concllrsivcly by the fact that among In.
hoding friends of this gigantic scheme We Ml
men of all parties, not only in reference to lhe de-
tunct bucaboo of Nullication, but to every olIe
subject on which parties are divided-amongrben
in South Carolina, Mr. Poinsctt, Col. Blandf
Col. lluger, and others, who cannot be suspected
OF any particular Partially for Mr.. Calhoun
Tho trut, ~ wo i,,ao;no f,,u L., r
most other old men, when they begin to fall MI
their dotage. The scheme is so vast in s.
that his inlirm mind saggcrs under the weight ofle
cptlon-and, viii, the natural incredibly andl.
nudity ofage, acknowledged difficulties are maga.
fled hundred fold as they pass in review bcforemm
while after all, like the Dutchman's son, he canna
any good reason why we should not conliml
to 90 to mill in the same road that our fathe,
travelled, and at the same good old og-trot. "
infer this, from the fact, that Gen Jackson In,
honorcd the scheme ola Rail Road from Re-
mond to the Tennessee line likewise with his hos.
tiIitv, declaring that a turnpike will answer all ii.
wants of tho country. In matters of this SORT i.
is evident the old gentleman is at least twenty
years behind the age. Such sentiments, indr,d
expressed in such country Southwestern Viz
einia, by man surrounded with the evidences d
the fact that its great wealth consists IN article
which would not bear the expense OF transpof1ll@I
to market on either common roads or turn Ms,
might be supposed, if we were unacquainted "
the uttcrcr of them, to proceed from some Ri
Van Wrinkle, who had been asleep some quara'
of century, and who, supposing ht the WI
had stood still while his eyes were closed found
some difficulty in believing that Rail Roads were
not matter of yet untried experiment. and 81
course Of equivocal utility.
Or it may be that the course pursued BY trI
Northern Rail Road Companies, in reference
the transportation Of the mail, may have excited
Gen. Jackson's rage against the whole SYSTEM
for with some minds, it is not very difficult 10
transfer hostility from an individual tie
entire class to which he belongs-and Gen
Jackson's mind is of that peculiar construction,
which, when once clouded by passion, loses the
power of discrimination imagining, that, II
system, however beneficial in itself be partial
" abused, it is wrong, and ought to be over.
having manifested disposition to charge his
friend Amos more than he, the said Amos, deem
ed an equitable allowance for Transporting tn
mail, the General, we fear, has imagined that l0s
abuse of their privileges is the natural consequence
OF Rail Roads, rather than an accidental occurrence
= Just as the refusal of Mr.. Nicholas Biddle re
move Jeremiah Mason from the Presidency
the Portsmouth branch Of the IT, s. Bank, con
WINGED him that Congress had no constitution
right to charter such an institution, and that,
fine, it was most dangerous Monster, the e1I"
tcncc of which was wholly Incompatible with PUT
lie virtue and public liberty. If Jeremiah Maso'
had only been removed agreeably to order, Gen
jackson never would have hated Nick Biddle-
ergo, the Bank would have been constitution
and the "democratic' party would have en-
braced the necessity of National Bank as a iun'
hope " the party" will not convert Rail Roads IN
to another Monster, and break them down Ike
wise, because Amos could not make an adsan'a
geous contract with certain Rail Road Compa'
mics, and the General consequently holds tIe" al
in adherence We might even consent to SEE
Mr. Calhoun's popularity restored, if we could Co.
a Rail Road to the Tennessee line thereby
TEXAS-THE U. STATES.
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