Richmond daily Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1842-1861, 1845-07-09
The Baltimore and Ohio Rail Road" Log
Rolling"

The Baltimore and Ohio Hdu hodd-" Log
Rolling"
The Clarksburg Republican comments upon
what we have heretofore said on the SUBJECT of
the maneuvres Of the Baltimore and Ohio Rail
Road Company, and pronounces our acceptance
of the profIer Of aid 10 the James River and IA
pswha improvement by the Wheeling interest rs
"Lcg Rolling"
Ii il were what the Clarksburg Republican de-
scribes it, we know of no sett of people upon
earth, who have less right to reProach others
with s'log rolling" than the Baltimore and OH"
Railroad Company, and the agents aud friends
of theirs who have prosecuted MS applications be-
fore the General Assembly of Virginia. Not TO
90 beyond the last session OF the Legislature
what was the history OF the winter but the most
dilpent .'Iog rolling with various state interests,
Mr.. Louis McLane, the President oithe Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad Company, experimenting and
directing the operations in person. He log rolled
with the Norfolk interest by the promise of certain
improvements in that quarter which Baltimore
was to accomplish, aud by stimulating the absurd
lealousy of and enmity 10 Richmond, ieH oy GER
tain Representatives, and he succeeded IN w'n'
ming the support ofa portion OF that interest; he
aIog rolled" with the Winchester Interest by oiier-
ing TO buy up the Winchester and Potomac Rali
road, and succeeded there too in securing por-
t;on Of the representation to the support of has
plans: But his master stroke at "log roil'ng
was in holding some 30 different routes through
North West Virginia, from Cumberland IN Uary-
land TO the Ohio River, and by delaying and post
nop;nu the designation or election of any one OF
the thirty. thus cnlisung the people on all the
thirty in favor Of the road, by the hope of ITS pass
ing near them, and humbugging all but those on
one route
Bv these artifices the Baltimore and Ohio
Rail Road application received many votes which
otherwise il would not have received. Even by
the aid Of these diplomatic exPediens the vote Tor
the application to terminate at ParkerShurs was
small: 1t will be eaner at another session, when
the arts of the Baltimore company shall have be
come better understood.
To be. charged with "log.rolling' by these
adrot ssIog rollers is the kettles calling the pot
black face. We hope our friends OF the Clarks
burg Republican will keep their breath to cool
their own porridge.
The Republican solemny protests that no I'M
friendlincss is cherished in that quarter TO Rich.
mond or her interests. We have never supposed
there was any, and much less have we preferred
ANY such charge. Richmond and the james RIv-
er Improvement, if the Baltimore design is per-
fected, will be led to execution without the sight
est enmity on the part of the eKecu'ioners; hut II
they are decaptatcd it will matter little whether
hostility, or selfshness Indifference, prompted
the blow.
Richmond, we feel every assurance, reciPro-
Gates warmly an afiectionate interest for \. W.
Virginia But 10 indulge the wishes OF portion
of her people for Rail Road, which, if compile
ted, would prove OF little advantage to grazing
country, it cannot he expected that she and the
great portion of Virginia identified with her,
should relinquish the hope, the last hope Of that
kind, of retrieving the fortunes Of the State -
Thus this question is viewed in this quarter, and
we believe generally through the State. No Ill
will no unkindness, 10 want Of affection Tor that
portion of the North West which desire The Rail
Road, dictates the opposition to it, but an eniarg-
ed view of the general interest, and an enghien-
ed and patriotic preference OF the good OF the
whole to the good of sections.