Richmond daily Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1842-1861, 1845-07-03

RICHMOND DAILY WING.
BALTIMORE AND OHIO RAIL ROAD.
.s A Loud Appeal 10 Virginia.

a.. COZ. A Loud Appeal 10 Virginia.
We see by the papers Of Clnrksburg and Par.
kersburg that the Baltimore and Ohio Rail Road
Company is about (f the information of those
Journals is to be relied UPON to reject the act of
tho last session giving it the right ofway through
N. w. Virginia to the Ohio, at Wheeling. The
Company has advertised for a meeting of its stock.
holders on the 18th of this month to consider the
question Of acceptance or rejection of that law
and, in anticipation Of that meeting, their friends
in Virginia with much confidence announce its
rejection. What the renl interests of the Com.
pany are. we have means Of knowing: Ii may
BE- and we should not be surprised if the fact pro.
we'd to be 80, that this language Of the Carksburg
and Parkersburg papers, deeply committed to
the interests Of the Baltimore Company, is simply
employed to frighten Virginia with the idea of a
total loss Of the Railroad in her borders; one OF
those diplomatic tricks whic,sinder the auspices
Of the diplomatic Mr.. McLane, the Railroad
Company have been playing off for series OF
years, first to wheedle Pennsylvania into permit.
ting il to go to Pittsburg, next to trepan Virginia
into consenting to commit suicide, by permitting
II to strike the Ohio at Parkersburg.
Let US look ut this matter for a moment: Sup
pose the road ,oere los, Virginia by the Compa.
ny's rejecting the only privilege they most
suredly will ever obtain, that of striking the Ohio
at Wheeling: Ought it to be amatter of any very
profound regret to Virginia We doubt it, and in
that case should be much inclined to say to the
Baltimore Company-"Beggars, gentlemen, have
no right To be choosers--and since you do not
care to accept the boon upon our conditions, bu,
are pleased TO endeavor to dictate your own, at
our manifest peril if not certain loss, we shall not
again renew the privilege to you, of even going to
Wheeling'G This we think would bring this very
high toned Company to reason. They would
then be driven to decide between s,Ispendinc their
road at Cumberland where it is now pausing for
leave from Virginia or Pennsylvania to proceed
through their soil, and accepting Wheeling as
their Virginia terminus, the only one we repeat to
them, which there is u possibility of their oh.
tanning.
Pennsylvania, actuated by an enlightened re-
gard for her own interests and those of her great
improvements, has psremptorily and unqualifedly
rejected the Baltimore Company's application
We question greatly, the good policy of vireinia's
permitting that Company to enter her territory
and strike the Ohio within her limits at oil, even
10 far north as Wheeling. 1t had been wiser we
tious rival from participation in her natural ad-
vantages, and to reserve the patrimony of her rv.
er to herself But this is longer question: the
privilege of going to Wheeling has been granted.
and affection for thai city, though certainly no de.
ference to the intriguing Baltimore Company
would not permit 10 withdraw 1t, if the decision
rested with us. Virginia we say, in allowing the
Baltimore Company to strike the Ohio at Wheel
ing nearer point by Is miles than Parkersburv,
has done than justice required she has done
all that the most lastidious of beraty could
exact. She has come up 10 her character for fair.
ness and magnanimity. Therefore, the Balti-
more Company reject now what has been con-
ceded in spirit Of liberality and magnanimity,
and insist upon annexing their own conditions,
dictated of course by selfish regard to their own
interests and by no consideration for those of Vir.
ginia, we hope the Legislature of Virginia,
Justly incensed by such presumption, will retract
the privilege of terminating their road at Wheel.
ing. That Company will then find itself hung up
at Cumberland in the mountains, much as Baile
Nichol Jarvie suspended not far from the
Clachan Of Aberfoil. The in,erdicton of Penn
sylvana followed by that of Virginia will suggest
TO them the exPediency of more moderate and less
grasping views. The Baltimore object in mono |
policing the trade Of the Ohio country is self evil
dent. Her purpose is to tap Pennsylvania and
Virginia both and secure TO herselfthe vast com.
merce Of an almost unbounded extent of fertile
country. We may and do admire her enterprise;
but that is all we do admire. There is in our ewes.
very full share of presumption in that city's as.
piring to attract to berself-and to abstract from
Pennsylvania and Virginia the commerce of their
patrimonial Rivers; and when to this is added her
obstinate and logged perseverance in trying to
impose her oDn conditions, and to accept none
other, we cannot doubt that the spirit of Virginia
will repel the encroachment.
Our blind side in Virginia is Hberaliy a fond
desire to be thought magniiicently magnanimous
We are too much in reality. for our own good.
We should watch this national characteristic more
narrowly, and not suffer it TO dupe us into our
own ruin. Let us be just to our own State
and to ourselves, before we undertake TO be
so magnificently generous to others, who are skill
fully availing themselves Of our prodigal temper
to spirit away our fortunes and aggrandize them.
selves. We feel little disposition for one, to permit
Baltimore, 800 miles from the Ohio, while we think
the nearest part of Maryland is 200 miles, TO
snatch from Virginia what nature intended for
her-whch nature certainly intended not for
Baltimore