Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1851-10-09


GIancing over various accounts OF the
great Railroad fesiivalin Boston, our eyes
fell upon the following statement
"A writer in the Boston Courier say. there wa,
appropriate illustration AID exhibition In ,,,
rsilfvud procession ON the 18th instant which
seems to have escaped entirely the notice at the
numervus reporters that occasion, Nearly alI
the various articles. banners and cn,,cIli -hscnts
were noticed ~ the reports, aud some WERE very
fully described with hisl,-wrnurI,s cueenium. The
rsgesnf >" qae.tsor srs not "profu.cly decorated
viili flags and cvergrrcn. star. and s,r;pcsr u
was mol drawn b, -four grey hor-es each carving
hng, There was artificial fo-e ties of gold
and silver ribbons attract attention. 1t was q
p'hIn express wagon, with ten barrels Of asur, a
tan t.cive feet long, snrmouutrd with plain glib
age aud white and but banner, beating the io
lowing inscription: ''Nesicra Virginia fIolr Via
Ohio river, Grent Lakes. Ogdcusburg and YER
InoDt railroads. fis barrel. from one nill--con-
signed to Lyman Reed & Co.., Boston. Distance
transported 1000 miles time IL trans .'ortaton Il
dayr; freight per barrel 81 .0j from the Ohio river
to Boston.
Follow ing the banner was ..Bosion irsck'' con-
tanning the nssal load Of twenty barrels Of the
same article, drawn by two horses, with whit.
banner attached having inscribed it 'Bnc-
h.nnns Extra Flour from Weil-burg, Western yr-
gnis."
Tie day efM;s great .jrb7ce, -four 'cus
transported on Tie James Rirer and Ia
narha Canal one hundred and to,7y-sir
Diics, at a cost Lfrcign and toll included J
offtiy CENTS per barrel. Read this Vir-
ginians and ponder 1t well. 1t tells the
whole story; 1t reveals the true reason,
why you are the commercial vassals Of
your Northern fcllow-citizcns. The pro-
ducts of your labor and capital are taxed
so that they pay no profit on their use.
II is more than ridiculous to pirate
about Virginia-Virginia wealth-Vir-
GINA rcsourccs-Virginia intelligence.
and worse than all. more ridiculous than
all, Virginia chvalry-whie the great
body Of the people ofthc Valley of james
River quietly, tamely, stupidity submit TO
system Of taxation, imposed by an In
ternal Improvement corporation. more
onerous than even the 1.-THE If oldcn
times, which Bri ish bayonets cannot now
cxtor from enslavcd, degraded Ireland
We say you are taxed more than a ten,h
of the grain products of your farms. Here
Is proof of the assertion. Flour which
cannot be sold in Richmond to-day for
more than $500 per barrel, pays SO cts.
per barrel transportation aud so it is Of
many other things that you export and
import. You have no adequate profit
from your industry. That is slavery.
There is one feature belonging to the
buithcnsome taxes, imposed by The James
River and kanawha Company. which in
our view is most extraordinary they
are imposed by body Of men, not only
irresponsible to the taxpayers. but who
have no interest in Common with them
who pay no part Of the burthens they
impose. We alluie to the Proxies Of
the State in the James River and Kama
VIVA Company. Who are they! Oscar
ii. CrutchfelI. of Spottsylvania; Albert
&. Pendcton, of Giles; Harold Smythe.
of Wythe-all gentlemen of good rcpuie:
but what do they or thcpcople of Spottsyl-
vania, Giles or Wythc send to market by
The James River Canal Nothing did,
or ever will, or ever can come on the
James River Canal, from Spottsylvania
Giles has no exports except fat cattle and
hogsthat carry themselves 10 the slaugh.
ter houses Of Baltimore and Washington
City. Wythc exports lead, it is true; all
else goes on the hoof to the District of Co.
lumbia and places North of it. 1t may be
said, the agricultural products of Gle,
and Wythe will come by the Virginia
and Tennessee Railroad to Lynchbury.
Very wclI:-when this state of things
comes about, we will not object TO the
gentlemen from Wythe and Giles as the
representatives, in the Board of State
Proxies for the James River and Kama
wha Company, of those who are interes-
ted in the operations of the Canal. But
we do protest against the injustice, done
The toll-payers on The James River and
kanawha Canal, by the appointment of
persons to levy these taxes, who have no
interest. in common with those Oh whom
they levy them.
1f any statement or argument were
necessary to prove to the people of this
country, that taxes should never be i'm
posed by irresponsible agents, it was Civ
en- in our last article on this subject. We
there showed, from the records of the
James River and kanawha, and the Ia
riff of Tolls for the Eric, Canal, that the
aggregate excess oftolls paid by the Jas.
River people, over what is charged on the
Erie Canal, on leaf tobacco, manufacture
cd tobacco, wheat. -four, tobacco stems,
salt, bar iron, merchandise, groceries, ba-
con, castings, pig iron, and articles class
ed as manufactures, was one hundred and
0rty-tro Morsdp,i. sjr hundred and Mirty
SIR dollars and fo1y three cents THIS sum
is more Than one fourth IF tie entire
,tares paid into The Treasury ofhe Com
mon wcaifs, for the year 1850. Now,we
demand TO know. if there is a man in the
State who believes. that if Oscar Ii.
Crutch6eld. Albert G.. Pendleton, and
Harold Smythe, lived respectively in
buckingham. Rockbridge and Allegheny
counties, they would dare to impose the
one half of these taxes upon the people
who now pay them. They are all exper-
fenced in the Political world, and have in
their day and generation had occasion to
know something of the reception, which
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