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

interest. Yes have proclaimed the sentiment mere
will do everything mandatory that is just 10 ioI :
commerce where it is the interest OF any portion Oh u
state TO come to our ports, but where 1t VIII
unjust TO force any portion Of the State to come to
cn;a market let them 60 where nature invites them
20 and thew shall have my MD to go there
Wbeelngs trade is with Baltimore, and shall DC per
mitted bv all the power and all the influence can exer
to 70 there Ii it be the interest OF fauqGiei u,
North vasv to trade with Alexandra ana Win DAT
moro viii exert no power to prevent them from IN
exercise Of nocv which shall promote their interest
Tb L;ahost IF NIL tyranny would be to exert the pow
er either conventional or Legislative 10 re'e' te ue
vcopnept of any interest III the STATE ACCORDING 10 th
fair constitution of natures laws governing .eI
ests. But say at the same time, while yielding 10 eF
arv norion If the commonwealth the right to go where
ever their interest leads them to go, denying The RICH
to prevent any portion of the state from iollo"is IL
own true interest, will lay the west under terms
will Weld what is Just to them ana VIII clait "hHt
Just to us We will give you tiie power ou' you sh'i
not exert thai mower to in lure your eastern broth
rem nv ottemntinp to construct works leading the com
raerce of the State away from the State Will under
take without consulting with one OF Them to rouch thai
these gentlemen will gladly accept the terms not rs
burthcn nnon them hut will regard it rs boon to then
ma w Il ms to Won Do you suppose, would ask the
Gentleman from Fauouer that these western gentlemen
have rarorded the past system his " lord lieutenant
system Of the Piedmontese policy as any doom to them
DO YOU suppose they have felt pleased With the ac
that while YOU are appropriatlng the public money t
your Orange and Manassas Gap to your Louisa railroads
ucr.in Piedmont thew have been allowed to stand like
roor folks Mt froc with hats under their arms thank
l for small fayors and allowed to take the crumbs Of
your SYSTEM merely the mud turnPikes you have given
:heml No these mud turnpikes may be very benef
cia but these gentlemen nave enlarged schemes. iheE
have liberal policy to be subserved, they want larger
works to he constructed and Underwater combined with
pe,mont never will construct them, because Tide wa,er
is nreterately opposed to them Piedmont united with
he west never will construct Them because her policy
has been 4ne that hns endeayored to force the foreign
commerce pp the swanneckcd rivers to the head OF
Underwater and one that prevents works from crossing
the mountains Not one solitary work in seventy-odd
years has this mixed basis constructed You have dug
your canal. in the State without drain at either end
What might not this kanawha canal have been madeto
Richmond had proper and liberal system been pursued
That this canal may be completed hesitate not TO say
and have the very best authority for saying So for
some of the most enlightened Typographical engineers in
the United States scon the idea that 1t cannot be COM
pIced making an unbrosen water line connection from
the James river to the Ohio river II THIS mao been
done what would not Richmond have been now! Had
there been /, liberal system OF internal improvements
that would have completed this canal to the Ohio river
and ,nnectcd the CITY of Richmond and the cities of Pc
t.rsh re and Norfolk with the great west venture TO
u5 I re would not be standing now with thlrty-two
thousand inhabitants, but would have been Guy Ike
ALBANY Mt least of fifty or sixty thousand inhabitants.
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He got up the Other day and thought was about 10 de
mo,lstrate to us that Piedmont had occasion which
he specified saved Tide water from some extravaganza
Yes he reminded the gentleman IRON Logan ana Boone
that there scheme proposed believe the Roanoke
and Buchanan branch to the Tennessee railroad ana the
gentleman had an Orange road believe That nc want
J ell to get through himself.
Well the friends of the Buchanan and Roanoke rail
ROAD being opposed to his work, understood HIM, he
determined to kill their scheme in order to bring them
to terms But when he first presented the case and u
til the gentleman from Logan and Boone brought IN the
Journal here, what phase did he put upon it Why, he
showed that he had prepared an amendment which he
could not offer himself but which he put into the
hands Of the gentleman from Northampton, (Alr Yer,
by,) who was blindy and Unfortunately opposed
every desert ption of internal improvements VINO Of
fercd it. and it was voted into ryder, defeating the
appropriation for the scheme of his o.ponenu And be
asks what would have become Underwater but for thel
opposition to internal improvements and but for uniting
their power with Piedmont to prevent this scheme
But behold when the gentleman from Logan ana Boone
brings 10 tho Journal what does it show: That Tide
water saved anythingl Did he get Dr. VERIFY to fathe
his amendment for the purpose of defeating one wors
that was to connect with Baltimore No. But he go
him to father his ndment in der eventually to car
~ two works which would be taking trade to Baltimore
and Alexandria taking it from Richmond And this i
r addressed rs m argument the city of Richmond
What would have become Of the city of Richmond he
saws if he had not got the gentleman from Northanp
ton to father amendment which prevented the adop
ton passage of act authorizing the construction
oil work that would have taken trade away from the
ctr of Richmond! And yet the gentleman from Logan
and Boone proves cunclusvey that the only object
the gentleman from Fauquier in getting the gentleman
from Northampton to father his amendncnt was not Il
defeat one work which would take trade from the city
OF Richmond but to carry works. He put the gen
mans opponents upon in order to carry his OWL
+, schemes What theu docs the gentlemen say: VIII,
lie SAYS that he wanted show that but for Piedmont
the west would have gone down the Valley to batI
aore and yet when the Journal was brought H. ana II
shown that he opened two WAYS for the west to gr
down the Valley to Alexandria and Baltimore, what
avs ,c then lie SAYS that is not Inconsistency, foi
thu; lie is for all works of internal Improvement wheth
er they go down the Valley TO Baltimore or not Il.
brings in instance in the first place to show that but
70; the care of the Lord Lieutenant OF Piedmont Tide
water would have lost the battle; Laughter. and
then when convicted in fact of adding double loss t,
Tiewater lie boasts oh that is according to MY pol
lev intended it all it is exactly what have ever
been after" would say to the gentleman from Fau'
quer that whenever lie attempts to lecture the gentle
man from Logan and Boone again. he ought to dUg-ear
the Journal and be more guarded in his statement OF
facts He ought to hazard these statements with
the magazine of the journal here ready to be burst upon
him. aud To show him that he is the last guardian tina:
ought ever to have been selected for Underwater What
a beautiful spectacle have arragned Dr. VERIFY at
home several times upon this point, and am now for
titled in nv position by this fact that has out
in this debate, and hope his people will heed it.
have told his people again and again. that Dr. Ycrby
and these other gentlemen who opposed ndscrni-
natey to works OF internal improvement instead of de-
having hinerins preventing by their opposition these
wild and wasteful appropriations arc but mere pawns
on the chess-board cats-paws used by the mon
KEYS to draw the chesnus out of the fire. Much
Laughter The gentleman from Fauquier unwttlngly
am sure and boasts that he himself prepared an
amendment and got DR.. VERIFY from Nortlmmpton-a
gentleman altogether opposed TO every description Of
works of internal improvemeut-to father the amend
ment not to kill branch work it seems but to scotch
it. in order to carry two works. neither of which
would have passed but for the indscrmnate opposi-
ton of eastern to all works ask my friend from
Lancaster and Northumberland if poor old Underwater,
in the language Of the gentleman from Fauquier Is so
fabulous rs continue this alliance any longer
Will YOU be made the cats paw of Piedmont any longer
Admit that the west woulG plumber you even more
deeply than Piedmont has plundered you, ask my
friends of the southside, from the Isle of Wight and
Southampton. consider the matter. Admit that the
west would plumber you, their plundering would be
mercy compared with that of Piedmont. You did not
prevent appropriations and the worst appropriations
that could possibly have been made for the State APP
preparations to works dsonted that yield profit to
the State and if that NIL could endure them but
thev are works that carry the very ife-blood of the
| State out of tho Commonwealth to feed and pamper
tho commerce of your rival-the State Of MARYLAND