Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1851-05-30

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very Piedmonte.e policy has united the Wnoie no an
northwest and northeast interest Will .ue ' 90
commerce of Baltimore and is daily conoininS
terest in those sections of country against
Richmond Norfolk and Petersburg are interested. and
hnt will he the fate of Richmond If this Piedmontese Po
lc con,nues2 Ruin and ruin alone She must PROVIDE
some sucb guarantee that Whlch nave iAu c Jou
table to-day making it mandatory upon te
to carry out some great and through io .i.''
80 20 tho Ohio river Now is the accepted time
dare not Richmond dare not let this very &C.
;o nass without securing TO herself TINS great WORK
70 the west TT she does what VIII DE the
WHY the very argument which the gentisnn h run
Richmond MIR SrASARD) used against Tue SUM As
nd which bas been relied on here Will be turned with
;sthle force and effect against the mixed Dass or
piemontese policy which has heretofore been pursued
II Won do not suon the mountains ener VIII
canal or it'll rail road you do not unite the M
nanla with the James river III some ioih VI ote
~ $3.50; oost and west will run into each other and
the trade to Baltimore AndWhat thenf Lac caPa
of Baltimore and tie interests of Baltimore e1
titled with the whole north with the
lev and il NAV be with the south as well rs the
you will have the whole OF these sections OF
~ So. oon,b;ned against Richmond and Underwater
Wbsn thev have the scales knocked from their eyes and
to the legislature for works for the connection OF
Norfolk with Lynchburg and Petersburg Tor the con
nacton of the terminus of the hana"hn cana III oo'
IinOf with
come before them for the central railroad Tor the great
Nav river rail road for the continuation OF the south
road for the continuation OF the Danvie ROAD
rhen Won come to concentrate all power and all your
osources to build up the cities in ghia
YOU will have all the dependencies oil the lola
/ Of Piedmont arrayed with Baltimore against YOU
say this for southside say it for the country lmme
,Eo,sIv hack of Richmond | say it for Richmond;
say it for Tide-water. And what s the argument o.
the gentleman from Fauquier; Fairly interpreted u J.
this: Adhere to the mixed basis little longer; give
y. fine works we want and then you can put an end IT,
,ho avstem Of internal improvement. do not say il
will applv to the gentleman himself, do not Deheve 4
will bnt it must and will govern the people whom ~
represents That is the policy, to prevent WHICH, ~ouo
not only give up five or ten, but even twenty re
presentatiTes know the reply the gentleman c"l
make to me. In the first place when tell him tina:
hese sv.u or eight representatives do not upon pnnc
ple belong to Underwater, and you have got REPRESENTA-
lives aso that do not belong to you; he tells me gran
il" that touches the moral question and the qnes
ton of political rght-but the question that am now
upon of practical expediency tell me now II IS
pedient that you should give up your representatives
order to subservc your interest. The question IS JUS
rs easily upon practical expectancy as 1t Is up
on the ground of principle. And 1t Is TINS: YOU nav;
three fixed facts this that statesman
NUT not Disregard aud what are they! why tina
Piedmont is rapidly getting through number of work.
which are injurious to the State. That Is txed tact
Your very alliance with the west is one that buys one
work with another. You cannot carry through Worb
under the alliance that you form with the west without
giving at least half million, as we are told ny the
S.ntlenmn from Logan and Boone (Sr FERGusoS,) io
Unnecessary works to get through that has any
thing to recommend it. There is another hXed Tact
The Ede-water Unfortunately opposed 10 all work.
of internal improvement. If you Will leave the poWe
that does not rightfuy belong to Underwater and Pied
mont in their hands, it cannot be exercised except o
the combination Of Piedmont with the west to carry on
this lsgrolng system. Underwater is indlscrimnatei,
opposed to every description ofworks 60 to that coun
ty of Northampton which represent in part, and mp
peal to nv colleague if it is not true that the represen
ave of that county his influence and popularlt.
there chiefly to the fact Of his ndiscrmnate opposition
10 every description of works Of internal improvement
some wears ago in that county of Northampton MI
Separ was the representative BY my influence in part
hat gentleman took decided stand for enlarged sya
lem Of internal improvements and wasrepuda!ed BY tn
county of Northampton upon that ground. he moved t
The county of Elizabeth city afterwards, and will d
Elizabeth city the honor to say that she has sustained
| MS of internal improvement and nn proEi 10
hyself that Mr. Segar stands III the Legislature VI IT
Enia sustained advocate Of an enlarged system OF IN
! ernal improvements. But he is the only man tina
Underwater sends here with anything like liberal view
upon this subject Are We to stand ten, twenty years
n it mar be quarter Of century tar aught kno"
for Underwater TO become convinced, Tor Ilde-wate
. be changed before this wa,:efui system OF expe1
litures under the Piedmont policy shall be changed
| So never The next ten Years, or the next twcnt
;ear. at the furtherest, will determine the fate
nc State of Virginia in respect TO internal improve
a1ents The next ten will determine whether III
c of nv friend here Noriok shall be city OF iorele
.rnmerce city with backcnnDsry crossing the noun
ains or continue to be what have denomnated IT. IN
Ter the piedrnontese policy, Curruck camp torfh.7
m.a There isa third fact The west will in another he
.,lu get the power Internationally. Gentlemen say
ou give the west the power now the west VIII use II
abuse it, and that they will carry the trade from thu
:itv to the city of Baltimore. warn gentlemen Una
MI they can do will prevent the west from acqn
ring that power or lator. And the question
whether the west shall acquire power-granting Thea
| ,rplmept TO be true-wth Internal improvements
! y1bont them You are now, people of Richmond an
| # Underwater opposed to extraragant and was e'
orks and YOU must see that do what you may, three
ourths of the State opposed to you upon the qe
ions of internal improvement. You cannot prevent IN
appropriations either upon the ole system or he othe
il il not best for you then to have 1t now reg an
initedi Let the west take what belongs to them an
IMPOSE upon The west, now that you have the power
,bc conditions OF bringing the trade to Rlchmon l. Z
! Norfolk and to Underwater Wait another decade 0
two at the utmost, and what is the issuel "hie 10
The next ten twenty years this Pledmontese policy
binding up these apparently sointcd works the mrs
Thing YOU know to figure | used the other day
the State has the continent small poX Yes what els
han small pox would it tie to this State, before h
asst has crossed the mountains with large works Tor nj
these little works which running together and to b
completed for without they turn to our own cities OF h
ast, they must 90 to Baltimore inevitably The west
say in few years will have the power in spite OF al
your arstocratic prctensions for property They vii
not only have the population but the wealth over You
Ia it not then the policy of Richmond and of Tidewa
ter now to escape from the bondage of the Lord Lieu
tenant OF Piedmont and to put themselves not under
the pupilage of the west, but to put the west upon
terms aud some such have indicated and laid
upon the table ths morning to be prntedt Bind the
west before you give them the power to do all they CAL
or Your kanawha canal. call upon the president Of
that canal company and the president of this Convention
to mid me at least in that work. and as far q,
possible water line connection between the james
river and the Ohio river Give the west the power and
bind the legislature by constitutional provision,
provision to do all that can be done for that
canal and connect its western terminus with the water
of the Ohio to do all That be done for your central
railroad and bring this trade here to do all that be
done for tho southwestern railroad and bring this trade
here Bind as many bonds you can upon your west
arm brethren to induce the trade to come through
every aperture in the west bring it through every
ran in the mountains and send out upon the james
river and then divide it through every portion of the
sast to which it may be and ought to be carried will
insist in this Convention that shall have n connec.
ton when that Central railroad is completed, between
the Central railroad and York river shall insist upon
F,hc connections that belong to Alexandria shall en-
ag H.