Richmond daily Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1842-1861, 1845-06-17
State Improvement.

This all-important subject. seems to have arous-
ed the citizen in almost every section Of the State,
to sense Of duty upon their part; and we see
and hear every day ofthc lively interest which the
Editors of Virginia are now taking to push the
matter forward. Whilst some have, Of course,
their sectional feelings ON the subject, yet we
casionay meet with an article like the following,
which breathes the most liberal sentiments upon
the Importance ofimproveme mt for the benefit Of
the Old Commonwealth nj large. IL is a well
written article, found in the Lexington Va Gazette
and the same subject is to be followed mp hereaf.
ter. After speaking Of the political calm which
has necessarily succeeded the great commotion
throughout the country the editor goes to
say:
snow is the time IL ever, when the West move on
ward in solid mass IL desires secure the graufca
ton Of its long deferred hopes There is lu the po-
tca Storm We have at least two yea Of peace before
us,-let improve in establishing the substantial inter
OF the West aud OF Virginia. For ourselves We can
say, in all sincerity, that do wish to the
gies OF great commonwealth expended in building up
mere local and sectional advantages do wish fan
the fire Of civil discord, rather would pour d. upon
the flame; ask only for the West that share Of power
the councils OF the State to which she isenttled all
genuine Republican principles by her population and her
vote; ask only Tor her farmers, (who literally their
bread by the sweat OF their brow for her independent
Industrious honesty yeomany facilities for getting the
productions OF their soil and labor make-we ask for
Virginia, both East and West, that she will no longer
which earned BY vslor energy that should make
her blush for her present degenersey Alas what's vir
ginia nowl A splendid mausoeun, which great
are wnen in golden letters and great deeds recorded for
the admiration OF the world while within the silence
and decay of DEATH Would heaven that the slice pers
could awake start their feet and again the scepe
which once controlled the desinies Of the empire!
One OF the most eminent in the literary well
political circles OF the United States, Mr. Brooks OF ~ Y
Expressl wrote lew years since follows: ave Nor
thern people know nothing OF the resources, the nau-
be he hO
may have travelled it, in nearly all its paris have
often two among It's glorious mountains, and less glor
veays. From the Blue Ridge TO the Ocean, nigh,
l. mbardy II might be teeming abundant Italy,
Over and among the Alleghanies, it is Switzerland
almost-'There Is race OF men smongthese mour-
iains, IN whose FORM stature robust vigorous health the
world knows superior IT, after thewar De Win Gin
ton the embodied genius of America peace had been
Virginan. and could then and there, asin New
York, have broken the trames of all pejudices, Nor
folk would have been the emporium OF the CON-
merce OF the American world and canals and railroads. pro-
ha5e would have threaded every important valley of
Virginia. eeming with the rich trade of the and fruit
the Ohio valley TO New York BY the Lakes and It would
have been easier far conduct it through Aeghanies
Norfolk in Virginia All this, II thought of though
would have been Unconstitutional" with OF Riches
calIbrc." &c, &c,
With the Richmond Wing say, "et by.gones be by
cones" To familiar illustration lhe house is on fire.
and we must TS arrest the progress Of the flames which
threaten Its destruction inquire into the origin OF
the sOnfagraOn We must combine efforts and nO,c
IN his ausplclous moment unite IN pressing home
claims upon the Consideration Of magnanmous and "a
triOtc fellow citizens OF the East.
Look al our sister States, where liberal policy Of i'm
has been introduced and whose vision dull
distorted by State pride, be impressed with ths
moriyng superiority they present condition.
We do not point only To New York. which was once in
the of Virginia, but marches the van Of the
ConedeFacy,-ihe Empire Sale,-proving by glorious
Deeds tina, her motto Excelsior Wanting boast
Look TO Ohio, but yesterdays child in the midst the
western widerness-to day, giant the forest fallen be-
fore her indomitable energies and fertile plains smiling with
the fruits OF her PerseIsng toll See the result of engh
ened enterprise, opening market her agcu
tura population, connecting the Of great stream
upon her Southern border with the Northern lakes con-
strucng canals and railroads every direction and de-
seloPing all the OF the State. In in
wealth, in element OF greatness that young Common
wealth, 1--WE blush to say i) has surpassed Virginia The
hum Of her busy mutudes borne her noble river
with every breeze, forming melancholy contrast with the
silence Of our droyysy solitude.p