Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1838-03-22

terlousy strange 10 me, II Is 10 commence ~ Soue
named uu6xed point on The Tennessee line aud term
mite at Eyensham Wylhe Court house! And i! is the
first improvement in the scheme TO be made, ana u "
be made entirely State account: And ACCORDING "
the views presented in the Report repeated ana eh'
ed by its author, the gentleman from Augusta onu Gu
arged and deliberately dwe upon by The gentle man run
Northampton, the great reason is, that 1t is no" ai.
portant hold out nducement forthwith 10 PsoinP' i
nessee 10 continue the grand New Orleans ana t""
see Railrund which the gentleman from Nos'rnnp.n ~
formed US is now suspended by the paralysis OF the neS
beyond its junction with the mighty Charleston ano C"
cnnai ne-and the object we are told, is, TO tap Tue
vast valleys of the West and South west-lennessee
Alabama, &c., &c All yes, the mighty ONO anu MIS-
sssippi Valley comprising several entire States are 10
be drained by il; and their mighty downward volumes
to be hence conducted up stream, against the laws OIL
trade and Nature, into Wyhe Courthouse, winch gen.
tlemen choose call the very heart OF Virginia. ano
then from this central mart two great branches are 10
be thence constructed the joint stock three hltn PRIV"
cipe to lead off to James river the other 10 roam
oke-and by these arteries, the mighty continuous h1oo
carried against the natural current STILL 10 be hnay roeu
safely into the laps of old Richmond and Norfolk ou'
here be the great reservoir for all! MS oia
tai Tint we are told has been efl by shameui puoio
neglect stand still for half century, is at last oy s
grand scheme to grow up suddenly into great seapol
"a great exporting importing, and manufacturing 'o~"
and 10 rival New York and thus is dear old mo'hef
State to be revived and uctied Her decline mas oeeh
stalislically exhbited-We have seen the hgures tue
ponderous calculations and her falling OF has been won
derlu the few last barren years. especially leaving OUT
as gentlemen did, the whole amount which flowed out
down my forgotten Valley 10 Baltimore and the DISTRICT
We have heard too all about New York and tennsyi-
vania How with their assumed inferior natural adVan.
and capacities of productvenes and far less rich
ores mnes and minerals and every varty of the natu
raj Of wealth by their public spirit alone IN max
ing Internal improvements by taking and keeping the
start, have oyershadowed this Old Dominion TIL she can
hardly be seen any more-her commerce gone hef
rank lost and nothing but ancient glory Leland they
risen 10 mighty opuence and spendorI think these
are the expressions Our learned Chief Geological
Engineer, too, first procured to lecture US 10 tread
the ground and charm away our senses! listened
to HIM with ed6catinn | saw his pile OF Psooles
strewed over our table us The nfable indica OF our
vast, inexhauslibe mines of rich ores AND minerals,
locked up yet in the mountains and valleys OF ths orc
Sate vastly poor with all her stores OF haoen wealth.
and believed lust as much as pleased, with all my lg.
norance and creduy, and nothing certainly extraVa-
gany unreasonable; and surely, not half that heard.
We have since had all this over and again. But we
heard not word Of the amount that was to how out
of the State down this main artery. Every thing was
to flow in Yes according 10 the perfect plan, you must
make this main stem first and on State accountant
lest be startled at at the immense cost and The
idea of immediate taxation, we are assured that u is
only contemplated to e1pend, in oil, one million only
The first year. another the next and on 10 the end OF
the chapter it get there. Yes, Sir you begin al
the Tennessee lne in the wilderness as the gentlemen
from Halifax has said and you progress, step by step
till you reach Wybe court housethat favored spot the
CENTRE and you arrive here xpense the committee
say of 81 2000nO only but say, double that sum; and
here you are followed Immediately by the great food
from the mighty Ohio and Mississippi valleys 10 be de-
posted in Wylhe Courthouse! And Sir, what will you
do with this vast ocean OF produce, &c, when you gel
here before these two continuous stems which are TO
branch off here from this central depot of the mighty
West and South 10 the James, The other to the
Roanoke, and which, until after the lapse of one year,
according the plan presented not TO be begun
be constructed upon this old plough horse drag
gng prncipe-l the abused joint stock principle?
say what will you do with all this amount of CON-
merce, trade and travel, when you get bere Wait on
this dwelling mpracticabe, broken down plough.horse
three fifth system 10 work mracles-Yes, this abused,
denounced system, which gentlemen would set free and
yet have discarded must drag it here 10 this great
mart, TO bet mean old Richmond How long must
Wyhe court house hold this two three four five years
accumulated food immense? Sir, if this be the real
calculation and the 6n,,a fde intention, this grand mis-
called State system is most lamey planned. 1t is i'm.
practicable 1t plan that cannot work without amend
ment 1t must have State steam to propelit Why
not then, tell US so: DO not all how this thing is,
and how this ghly project at last 10 to be worked
and how is planned to be worked By beginning al
the Tennessee line, and State account, this main
great design Of the thing, if gentlemen and
their Report be right--that the trade, DC. will flow
in, will be begun and made first at the wrong end
The balance of the scheme will fall, by being left
in these hard times, to be dragged through by this
broken down pl"ughhorse plan. as dubbed by the
gentleman from Northampton, This is the secret
Yes Sir. Here this grand State Scheme is TO end,
unless. and until the Stale is dragged in 10 com
plee it. Is this the design? Why then, disguise IL
But say the hearts blood is TO folo eu dozen tbs main
artcry and 80 the thing is planned if not intended
for thus the laws of Nature have decreed and thus
mus, be- until they are repealed reversed until the
great "rver Of floods, aud its mighty tributaries are
turned in their coursethe seabuard transposed-New
Orleans and all those other great natural markets, and
all their apita and wealth sunk given 10 1t must
be so-aud why Disguise ii? Why not tell The friends
of the James and Kanawha Improvement the whole
TRUTH For my part, have no objection 10 this out.
flow as it will at last be unavoidable, and as that great
section OF the State will be benefited only object to the
principle upon which this great stem is to be made on
State account in violation Of the settled policy OF the
State, and of equal JUSTICE and is 10 be now embarked
in, when we are without funds, and already deeply in
debt and The country in distressed, deporabe condi
ton; and TO thus revoutonzing whole system of I'm
provements, and whole system Of equal taxation
The idea advanced in the Report, and which has been
eloquenty enforced that the productions Of the great
Valleys ofthe Ohio aud Mississippi thus to be brought
here, and, in Richmond consumed, exported hence,
is ell farce Virginia will stretch cher hundred
Briarean arms to embrace the great South western
world IL is but figure Of speech. Say what you may,
il is not Natures WILL practicable.
But if am mistaken in this view still this scheme is
eceplious well as unjust, and cannot support it
til materially reformed. II this main stem from Wythe
Court house to the Tennessee line lie 10 be inlet,
insisted instead of an outlet, and the State is not thus
to be insidously drawn into the whole scheme 10 make
the whole State account, yet will not make this
main stem Sote account. The country is not ripe
for it, it would not quit cost Besides, other sections Of
the State much entitled have their roads or ap
proprate improvements made for them by the State us
this. against taxing the many for the benefit of
the few; or otherwise general rule, than on the two
or three fifth joint principle, for the reasons beure
signed So the other hand if the great trade Of This
richest and mghest valley of the world could thus be
finally brought here while this road would quit cost,
hardly any given article would bear carriage should
view it still even IN their favorable aspect ns the scheme
The aorong end and but the commencement Of vast
plan too grea, to be accomplished with present
sources for years aud years comesayng nothing of
the peculiar mprudence Of undertaking under existing
circumstances The country must greatly improve first
and oil its agricultural and other productions multiply
much before it is prepared for the of such