Staunton spectator, and general advertiser. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 183?-1849, 1845-10-02

~ The following new schemes of improve
ment are offered for public consideration by cor
respondent of the Richmond Wing:
SCHEMES OF INTERNAL IMPROVEMENT.
To the Editors of the Richmond Wing:
Gentlemen :-Beieving that, in your course
upon internal Improvements, you are ac,uated by
a desire to see executed such works as will be Of
general character, and extensive in their results
and Influences, submit to your consideration,
and 10 that OF your readers, the following schemes
which have no hesitation in believing cannot
fail TO succeed, by an union of efforts and spi-
rlt OF determined perseverance.
The reason why do not present any detached
scheme, is simply this If you accommodate any
particular portion of the State with an improve
ment, you at once delach that reron from the
cause, on the ground that the State cannot AFFORD
10 GO any thing more, or, upon the more selfish
Piea' That, having got what they want for them
selves, the delegates will not vote to impose tax
ees upon Their constituents to help any other part.
Men IN Legislatures, merely elected from year to
year, rarely become imbued with the policy of
true Statesmen, or, If they do, they are turned
out by the first demagogue who mounts the
stump and declares against taxation For these
reasons, acoud hold tie aohole internal inprops-
ment forces together, banded by a joint and COM
interest.
My schemes, then, are these: To prepare
Bill, embracing THREE grand improvements, to
accommodate THREE great interests of the State
two OF them kindred in their character and the
third Tor the purpose of accommodating that re-
gion o! the State which must, from its position,
trade with Baltimore, and that city only: 1. A
Railroad from Lynchburg to New River, and
thence branching from that point, one stem reach
ing in the direction of Tennessee to be finished
by that State to Memphis-2. Another, striking
the Ohio River at Guyandotte or some other
suitable Point-thus interceptng the trade and
travel of the Ohio, in such way as to defy COM
petition, North or South.
This, it will be seen, embraces and provides
Tor the interests Of the Southwest and the West
and would then provide for the North West,
or rather permit that region TO provide for ITSELF
as it proposes, by giving the right of way to the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad TO strike the Ohio
River at Parkersburg. The Valley Road i would
continue from Staunton to Buchanan.
Thus, the three districts of country now con-
tending for improvement, WHICH THEY NEVER
CAN OBTAIN IN DETACuMENTs, would be effectual-
~ provided for, and lateral TuRNprKEs, feeding
these, would follow as matter Of course, in the
development Of the resources of the State.
j understand a bill, embracing these objects,
VIII be presented TO the consideration Of the Lee
gisature, at the ensuing Session, and resolute
effort be made to give Virginia substantial start
in the race for prosperity.
If any body should ask how the means are to
be raised for all this, ! answer, that there are
Northern capitalists now ready to Join in a scheme
reaching from Richmond to the Ohio River, and
would lay the foundation Of fund by gradual
but regular Increase of taxation TO pay the inter-
est on the debt, until the regular and rapid devel-
opment of the resources Of the State should wipe
out the debt Itself by the certain accumulation Of
population and taxable property.
If there had been no reduction Of taxation Isss