Richmond daily times. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1853, 1851-04-21
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1t is one of the strange Authorizations OF Mr.,
Wise, that is the interest of the Underwater dis
trict and especially the Underwater cities, to combine
with the West to break down the influence OF the
Piedmont district, by establishing the white basis
That we may not missiate his idea, we shall cite
the language of his letter of the 26th March, ad-
dressed to the editor OF the Norfolk Argus, and
published in that paper. Advocating the estab-
and Rio, Mr.. Wise says:
"But will she do any thing I doubt it, in my day.
She is by her delegation, in Convention assembled,
aiding r edmond and Petersburg to retain the Pied
mon,ese policy to force past her oon port up
S,canneck rirerS and uniting with Eastern upcounry
to keep back the West from Hampton Roads. II she
asks for anything OF the all that OF 1t
is to show little basin battle between her and Ports
mouth forever and CERTAIN and fata and the West re-
members her opposition to ats enterprise, and thus she
is doomed to reman-a Currituck camp of fishermen !
Now take that stone to your craw and digest It.
would have you Liverpool. What are you2 Not a
good market for tar, pitch and urpenne. wish could
make myself hateful by abusing and shamng and scorn-
ing you into the respectabity even of a city Can
nothing you? If so, call meeting and invite
your citizens to instruct their delegates here to sustain
the basis of the Wesree, equal and universal surage
free equal and universal representation That will cure
the age-a genius in mint julep until then. Take that
you green gizzard slohs and suggards"
Norfolk, the reader sees, is appealed to, to in
struct her delegates "to sustain the basis of the
West" instead of "aiding Richmond and Peters,
burg to retain the Piedmontese policyto force COM
merce past her own port up Swan-neck rivers, and
uniting aoith Eastern up-country TO keep back the
West from Hampton Roads,"
1t is asufficient,a answer to this singular sugges-
ton, that Richmond and Piedmont have concurred
in promoting connection of the canal with tide
water, and that by this means, Norfolk will have
every advantage from the central improvement. to
which her position entities her. The Legislature
has actually given her the Seaboard and Roanoke
railroad has secured its connection with the
Roanoke river, and, to favour her interests alone,
has made liberal appropriation to connect the
Raleigh and CASTOR railroad with the upper valley
of the same river at Gainesville. By the recent
confession of one of her delegates in the Conven-
ton (Mr. Taylor Norfolk has no reason to COM
plain of Richmondor of any policy which Rich
mond may have promoted in the Legislature.
But still more conclusive demonstration of
the fallacy of Mr.. Wse's theory was made by Mr..
Stanard, in his able speech on Friday last, by
showing what direction the improvement system
of the State is likely to take if the white basis be
established, as Mr.. Wise proposes and the power
Of controlling the appropriations be thereby
transferred beyond the Blue Ridge.
Already large ortion of the North West trades
with Baltimore, over the Baltimore and Ohio rail-
road. That work is soon to be completed to
Wheeling, and will drain all the counties in that
direction By law passed last winter, branch
Of this railroad is to be constructed to Parkers-
burg, and will be the artery of the remainder of
the North Western counties. The Winchester
and Potomac railroad, connecting with the same
Baltimore and Ohio railroad at Harper's Ferry :,
now bears the produce of the lower Valley towards
Baltimore. More than this, an appropriation was
made last winter for the construction of railroad
passing over Manassas Gap to Harrisonburg, and
one point of it will be within eighteen miles of
Winchester. From Harrisonburg it is to be contin-
ued to Stanton, and from there the Central road
is to be constructed to Covington. Nothing will
be necessary but to fill up the gap of eighteen
miles next to Winchester, and Baltimore will
have continuous railroad to Covngton, and
thence ultimately to the Ohio. Butths is not all.
A scheme is now ON foot to construct railroad
fir ON Staunton to Salem on The Virginia and
Tennessee Railroad and if that be carried out, the
,ohoze Of Western Virginia will be directly tributa-
ry by means of railroads. to the city of Baltimore.
Having strongly presented these important facts,
Mr.. Stanard asked if it could be the interest of
he Underwater cities, or the counties which would
be benefited by their prosperity, to give up the right
full majority of the East. and permit the West to ap-
ply the resources of the State to building up these
various connections with Baltimore? The areu-
ment is unanswerable, and needs only to be stated
to carry conviction to every mind. 1t addresses it.
self with as much force to Richmond, Petersburg
and Alexandra, as to Norfolk And when it is
considered that Eastern Virginia, with its great
preponderance of slave property, will have to pay
three-fourths of the cost of all these Baltimore
improvements, it is manifest that the country, no
less than the towns, is vitality interested in retain
ing the principle of the combined representation of
property and persons.
CUBA.
The developments which have teen made with
n short time past, leave no room to doubt that
1.-THE country is about to be again disgraced by
new expedition against Cuba, made up of citi-