Wheeling times and advertiser. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1839-1849, 1845-06-23

ancient Commonwealth, and To set up on it,
own hook, decent ebulilion Of its own self
esteem mpcls it to publish to the world a Tor
midable string ot gulpowder resolutions, full
OF sound and t,Ty. Deeply impressed with
the soiemn',y vt this obligation. a certain
Siriagsr OF rcsolutions, did, at the late Rail
road Convention held at Clark-hnry. propose
and submit u series of most resolutc resolves.
That Convention, being carefully druinmsd M
and being loado very numerous rs publishing
The names OF all the delegates who had even
been appointed, whether IN Attendance or not
was grave body well suited tn consider the
emergency, not To say the crisis, in which the
State OF Virginia aud the village of Perkers-
burg were placed by The expressions oil the one
and the valor OF the other. These resolves,
having spread out their tale of wo affirmed. by
way OF climax, that unless the Commonwealth
locates the Baltimore < Ohio Railroad TO the
seltsa town to which She constructed the
| Winchester and Stamton turnpikes then the
town of Parkersburg will be 'driven to the
necessity, while deprecating it, b. choosing
anaeration 10 another State or a division of
our own as an alternative preferable to con,in-
ucd oppression" The right of Parkersburr
(here called n. w. Virginia. TO the Railroad
is then declared to be "cear and indisputable. -.
and il eve still encounter the tyranny of a
refusal" it is solemnly proposed to resolve that
1--WE do hereby covenant with each other to
maintain them by other means to which we
shall from this day begin to look forwartu'!
We see nothing in all the proceedings more
worthy of the valor and maguanimity of Bum
bledom than these resolutions--and yet the
committee OF twenty enc declined to mcorpo-
rate them in their rcport--the convention
omitted TO pass them The solemn covenant
TO sustain their liberties was declined The
pledge OF lives, fortunes and sacred honor was
not given. Alas for the faint-heartcd cow
ardicc of B,mbcdom! ~
II would have been glorious to see the get
ters-upo that Convention preparing to resort
to those "other means" to which they begin to
look forward We imagine the sound of those
words must have made a certain worthy gen
eral prick his ears and snuff the battle afar of,
Well, we know that those who got up the
Convention are men Of wide dominions, own
ing great baronies of wild lands, so very poor
that all the money which Virginia has already
expended in making roads through them. has
failed to make them sell. Well, we know
that if hoop poles were men and rocks were
squadrons, these speculative lords of doubtful
patents and understandable acres might bring
into the field forces enough to trample East.
crn opprcssors into the dust knead the James
River Canal into guagmire, and carry the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad through the State
at the point OF the -bayonet. If they could but
cause ''the stones to rise in meeting if they
could but teach their unssleable and untillable
hills To uphcave their own rocks and trees
(Iitan-like) on the ranks of their enemies.
what havoc such armies would make under
the command of their sweet tempered gene
raj! Rocks, hoop-poles, oaks, hills, wild
lands, forests and mountains, all in franks.
squadrons and right forms of war;" lied on
by shallow Richmond" might strike mort
terror 10 rrr = wrrn DIrnam
wood shall come TO observation-disclosures
Macbeth"-"look out for the locomotive
here we come-bangl war! divide! annex.
Bum biS-i~''. s-----~--,
Light as the lightning glimpse they ran,
they flew;
From the foundations loosening to aud fro.
They pIucked the seated hills with all their
load,
Rocks, waters, woods, and by the shaggy tops,
Uplifting, bore them in their hands sc.
The Richmond Wing has spoken boldly.
clearly and unequivocally in behalf of the in
tercsts of the North West, as follows.
The NORTH WEST AND THE CENT
RAJ lMPR0VEMEN r-@TIIE BALTIMORE
AND OHIO RAILROAD letter from
Wheeling, OF June IL, states that the Counter.
Convention, opposed TO the change of the ter
minus OF the Baltimore and Ohio Rail Road Ia
Parkersburg, will be held at Fairmont in the
county oil Marion ON the 9Th July and that
the Convention will meet with the determine
non to sustain the bill of last winter making
wheeling the terminus, and also 10 sustain,
inc James Riper and Kdnd,ohd Improvement
''Lct (adds our correspondent the Eastern
section OF the State friendly 10 the extension
} OF that improvement TO the Ohio river only be-
, true To themselves, and they will find LARGE
portion OF the North West, sincere and now
erlul auxiliary"
! This is coming TO the point. We like tbc
dlrectness, and we like the promise. in the
iuliilment OF which we have confidence.
! And we believe we might safely reciprocate
the assurance, that, conir He'd b. their sonso
OF what is due to Virginia aud her interests
the James River interest, the South West and
the Central West, will never consent TO see
wheeling, the second city of Virginia. swal
lowed up BY Baltimore, nor the trade of riv
ers which are Virginia patrimony and inher
itance, transferred to those who do moi live
within hundreds Of miles OF their banks
We have been repro1ched for not 1ccly OK.
pressing our sentiments OH the subject of tin
application OF the Baltimore q Ohio Railrnad