The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1851-02-06
Railroads,


| (Ky) Post Boy, in another column of our paper,
deserves the serious consideration Of the people of
New Orleans. 1t is powerful appeal to the inter-
est of the people of Kentucky, and will be kept
before them, in various shapes, until it may be too
late for US to avert the evil If the figures of routes
are practically correct, of which we have our
doubts, there is imminent danger Of our losing,
not only the trade of the richest portion of Ken
lucky, but that of the most prolific quarters of the
West. Virginia has been completely awakened
from her ethargy, by the loss of both her political
and commercial power and in the face of her
commanding maritime position, great agricultural
resources, unrvalled water power for manufacture
ing purposes, and peculiarly happy contguity to the
Mississippi and its available tributaries, will no
longer repose in quiet under the calling reflection
of their uselessness. She has gone to work in
earnest not only measure, at its true value, her
own intrinsic but dormant strength, but that Of
other States, in all their bearings and is making
Preparations to enter the lists with the most potent
Of them for the proudest ascendancy. What she
may have wanted, a short time since, in proper
ambition to that end, has been impaired to her by
Kentucky and other portions of the great West, in
their acquiescence of her advantages, and their de-
termination to cooperate with her in their fullest
development. Under the circumstances, what does
it behoove us to do Fold our arms and laugh at
their opposition as artificial and impractcable in
struggle with stream which is universally &C
knowledged the Father of Waters, and embarked
by country that has no equal in fertility and pro-
gress? Or is it our bounden duty to do all in our
power to assist that great stream in accomplishing
our high destinies, by every artificial auxiliary
promising success, and thus, as far as in us lies
counteract the efforts being made to reduce us to
the tiny dimensions Of commercial emporium
resting solely for support on one channel Of com
munication and that uncertain, dangerous, ant
| enormously eTpenstpe?
Our course is plain one, and will admit OF nj
variation, and of very little more delay 1t is tt
harmoniez and act with our neighbor States to Sc
cure, by railroad, the immense trade which natur
ally belongs to u.s. but which must be diverted iron
us by longer disregard Of our true interest. W.
must traverse with the iron horse, every portion
| the West that wants market, and, under al
economical tariff of freight, ETC., must deprive tn
embryo and alnfedged markets Of Virginia from
realizing a 1.-THE of what they so fondly expect
But should we still persist in our wonted inditer
ence, we shall not only lose the immense trad
which is daily growing into magnitude with tn
unparalleled developments Of the West, but sha
be cut off from that we already have; for with
dminution of our commerce will our banking cap
tai diminish, until at length shall be entirely
the mercy of the Atlantic Seaboard. To accom-
plish our destruction, rather to con6ne with
as narrow bounds as possible, our location is re
viled as unfit by natural causes, for the receptio
and preservation of flour, pork, grain, and numeI
GUS other products and certificates said to be fror
respectable authosties, arrayed to substantial
: the charges. Such charges will grow in propo
ton to our Indifference and the only mode of strar
9 Cling them is, in an indomitable determination
II mend oar rays. We have already transgresse
the bounds prescribed for this article, and mus
u in conclusion, urgently call the attention of o,
readers to the views of the Kentucky editor aboun
ing, as they do, with startling developments, ar
ehequered as they are it strikes u.s. with untenab
to assumptions. They must, however, have their il
auence, and we must be warned in time of Il
is probable consequences.