Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1851-11-24
from town, but ifhere, I do not doubt, woulc
unite with me in this statement.
Very respectfully,
Your friend and serv'i,
JAS. NJ. LANGHORNE.



Lynchburg and Tennessee
Railroad Bill.
We have before US the Journal of the
House Of Delegates, for the session Of
lsl7-'s and find recorded upon page
342, the following proceedings:
IAN engrossed bill to incorporate the
Lynchburg and Tennessee Railroad Com
pany, which was under consideration when
the House adjourned on yesterday, was
taken up and the question being put upon
its passage, was determined in the mega
tive"
Among the noes is Johnson, Of Harri-
son and Doddridge. the same JosEru
JOHNSON, who is now the candidate Of the
Democratic party, for the office Of Cover
nor Of the State.
Upon the motion for reconsideration,
which was made and carried, at later
period OF the session, the name of Johnson
does not appear.
Subsequently, bill granting a charter
but denying an appropriation of money
was passed, but as the ayes and noes are
not given we cannot tell how Col. Johnson
voted.
We need not call to mind the interest
manifested by the people ofthis section of
the State, in the success ofthis great work.
We need not bring up afresh the long con-
tinued and mastery efforts Of its iIriends,to
bring it into favorable consideration with
the Legislature, the array of facts and ar
guments that were presented before that
body, the immense subscription that the
Common Council were authorized to make
in its behalf, the universal JOY when at the
succeeding session, the laundering cannon
"gave token" Of success. These facts are
all fresh in the minds Of the people. The
common feeling in Lynchburg was, that it
was a struggle for life or death with the
town.
iHteiiSSHt it'll S'Siy ""StS "ho "uN
locked into it,saw thatit was scheme OF the
highest interest to the State; even to the
whole country. Never did a public enter
prize possess more claims to public aid;
never were claims more fully and ably pre-.
sented. The Governor in his message, the
leading presses of the State, the ablcs'
speakers in the Legislature, private citizens
at all times and in all places, warmly urg
ed the many inducements to Legislative
aid that the scheme presented, and yet 10
sEpH JOHNSON, who is now brought for.
ward as man capable of overlooking the
affairs of the whole State, and suited tc
promote all its interests, had either moi
the industry to investigate the merits o.
this enterprise, or not the capacity to com
prehend them, or not the public spirit and
patriotism TO promote them. Ono of these
reasons must have induced Col. johnson
to vote against the bill, and the existcnc,
of either renders him unfit to be the Gov.
ernor of Virginia. in this age of progress
and improvement.
More than this: we have not the Journal
Of the late Convention before US, but VIC
have the fact from unques,ionablc authori
ty. that when the proposition was mad,
in that body, to except the Virginia and
Tennessee Railroad, with other leading
lines of improvement, from the provision.
Of the new Constitution, believed hy many
to be so stringent as to render it nearly il
not altogether impossible TO obtain future
assistance from the State, Col. johnson
voted against it, thereby exhibiting de-
termined and continued opposition.
We beg the people interested in the
construction Of this great work 10 remcm-
Der, that the means now in hand. or at
talnable from priva subscription, are
wholly inadequate to its completion. We
beg them to remember how difficult it
would be, under our new Constitution, TO
obtain farther assistance from the State
Treasury. If the Governor We're opposed
to 1t, or even indifferent towards it. We
beg them to weigh. if they can weigh, <he
vast moment to us and to Virginia, Of the
uninterrupted progress and speedy com
pletion ofthis line Of Improvement. Think
of the grinding tax we have impose On
ourselves, in the confidence that the work
would 60 on to the Tennessee line as rap
idly as possible, and thus relieve us by its
own revenues. Think also, of the incalcu-
liable advantages Of branch to the Ohio,
In favor Of which Mr.. Summers has taken
so decided ground. Think of all these
things, coming home to your business and
your pockets-the prosperity of the town,
ofthe country and the ION
ovation of the State, and weigh them with
the wretched alternative of party success.
We appeal to sensible and practical men of
all parties to say whether there is not bet
ter reason to believe that this work will go
on without impeachment with George w.
Summers at the head of affairs than Joseph
Johnson,and is it not of more interest 10 all
that it should SO go on, than that party
should succeed, in contest not wagcd on
party grounds or for party purposes?
"
Mr.. Lc2ke in Sisena n dOaia
Those who heard the discussion in
dis place, between Messrs. Leake and
Campbell. will recollect that it turned
almost entirely upon the question Of Sc
cession-Mr. Leake asserting the right