Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1851-06-26
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dustry, and developing the productive re
sources of the country-wc believe, we
cannot better serve thcintercsts cfthe pub
lie, than in encouraging and stimulating
those efforts and enterprises, which look
to the practical and she useful. Too much
Of the time and talent Of uur country have
been occupied. in the exciting and unpro-
fitable contests Of parties-and an infinite
amount Of intellect and zeal have spent
themselves in political polemics. which, if
employed in the cultivation Of science.
literature and art--in Improvements, dis
coveries and inventions, would have made
us wiser people and greater nation
1t is great weakness and a gross error to
suppose, that the prosperity ofthis coun-
try depends solely upon the predominance
Of one or the other party-and the ascen-
dency Of a particular set of principles
"Tbe might that SAUNDERS in a yeoman's
arm" is worth ten-fold more than the dog
mas that drop from the politicians tongue.
The skill that guides the plough and the
strength that wields the axe, are of more
avail, than all the theories Of statesmen, and
all the science of political economists
Give Virginia schoolhouses and factories
-rall-roads and acknowledgement and
guano, and she will become a crest Com
monwealth-the greatest of the whole sis
tcrhood. Refuse these to hcr-and all the
resolutions from $50 to the millennium
all the constitutional reforms(?) that have
ever been or shall ever be dreamed Of all
the distractions, that her subtilest intelects
may excogitate, all the Southern Rights
Societies that can ev CT be established, will
| not make her more than she is, or hold her
TO her present position. Labor is the lot
Of life and the condition of prosperity and
contentment and there is no nobler study
than the philosophy which it involves
Benign as is our system Of government, it
is upon our cxcrtions as men, that we are
to depend for the great desideyvtta of life
health, maintenance, comfort, and under
standing. To improve the soil and increase
its products, is lesson better worth learn
ing than the principle of ad raiorcm-to
furnish market by opening new avenues
of trade is a higher achievement than the
chartering or destruction of Bank. 1t is
time that these things should be known
and practised npon; it is time that our
Legislatures should be taught that there
are subjects gilmore importance to the peo-
pie of this State than the filling of Federal
offices. 1t is time that the people should
understand that there are things of greater
interest to them and their children than
cross--road meetings and country re.
solves. Shall the barren fields and Gull
lied hills ofour beloved old Commonwealth
forever eat like ulcers into her fair
form Shall our waters always waste
the strength which could move the ma
chinery ofthe world! Shall the coal which
might warm every hearth in the Union, lie
to all time, in Its heaped hills Shall the
iron which could girdle the globe with rail
roads, never ring to the stroke ofthe ham,
mer Shall our children grow up in ig-
norance-be men and die without having
learned to read the inscriptions upon their
mothers grave-stones Shall these things
be, and we in the ridiculous pride and i'm
beciity ola people, grown vain too soonand
superannuated inyouth, pirate Of the glorics
of the Old Dominion and the great deeds of
our ancestors We trust not; for we be-
lieve that new and brighter era has dawn
cd upon our Sta,e-an era of public spirit,
of enlarged enterprise, of associated ener-
gy, Of practical public good. We bow
before the genius Of such time, and bid
it, all hail
Believing that the press has great mis-
sion to perform in encouraging and sus-
tanning such spirit, we shall endeavo- to
acquit ourselves Of responsibility, by difTus-
ing from time to time, such information as
may diversity labor, direct enterprise, in
vitc capital, and draw out all TIE capabili-
ties of industry and art. With this view
we have thrown together the subjoined OK
tracts, upon subjects of that character.
Resources Of Virginia.
The Richmond Republican is calling at
tentlon to the resources of Virginia Lead
is there in abundance, and also Plumbago
in several places east Of the Blue Ridge.
Besides the immense salt regions of Kama
W ha, there are In Southwestern Virginia,
lnexhauslible stores Of this valuable nine
raj. The salt water found in Washing.
ton county, is stronger than that of any
other county. Fossil salt, the largest if
not the only deposit Of the kind discovered
in the United States, is found nearthe salt
hills above noticed, and has been bored into
at least so or 100 feet, and without going
through it. Gypsum, or Plaster of Paris,
ofthe purest kind, exists in great abun-
dance in connection with the Fossil salt
There are many deposits of iron ore, from
which refined and hammered iron can be
made, which will rival the best produc
tions of Russia and Sweden. Porcelain
clay, as fine as any in France, is found
near Farmville, and in other sections of
Virginia. The granite Of Richmond is
equal in quality and beauty to any in the
United States. The slate on Slate liver is
better thanthc Welsh, being harder, stronger
and more free from earthly matter. Mar
BILE and soap stone abound in many parts
of the State, of good quality and in great
variety. Water lime, or cement, is found
on the James river, ofvcry superior quail
ty, and has been found to be decidedly SUI
perior to the best English. In the same