Richmond daily Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1842-1861, 1853-08-09
FoR ras wHio.
To the People Of the Nsrihsra Nesk-sa the sasssi Of
Internal lmpreyementS

Internal Improvements
Reared amonst you, intimately acquitted with your
eountryrts history its and its wants and uni
ted with you feel that no, presumP
tons In undertaking to address you the subject Of your
Affairs
Your Country settled almost early In the
Union, and considered the garden of America
you have peoped much the State aud indeed great
west Is full oyour children Looking abroad to the
try that has been settled the forests have been eed
aud the wealth that has been accumulated by the dyscc
dants Of the settlers of the Northern Neck no peo-
pie can exhibit evidences of greater industry and energy
than YOU AZ the time Of the Revolution there were IN
Virgins few inhabitants west of the Blue ridge-up To
that time, aud even long since youhave large por-
ton oil the taxes that constructed the improvements for
tue west nay more you have had pay the Ordinary
penses OF their government for the taxes paid into the
treasury by many counties the west have always been
inadequate Tor That purpose After centuries spent in
building up the fortunes Of other people il is time look
at hun for those children of YOURS who all you
gin to taunt you with your poverty For two centuries
you have only known government as instrument
withdrew your wealth to give il to others that taxed you
70 appropriate elsewhere Indeed Towns and Banks and
Factories situated elsewhere have been actively enga-
SEQ IN depicting YOU as government itself Agriculture
makes money commerce robs her. and accumustes it,
hoVA history anu you will find exception this
marA fh@necia, Carthage Judea Athens Venice Hul.
ahu and England will TO you as few OF the ma
ny evidences OF this fact You making great improve
nents IN farming, Que with governments aud trade com
olhed against you the profits Of those Improvements will
accrue TO the benefit of Others Hitherto you have on
posed the system of internal improvements because yo
needed none yourself a"d thought il unjust that Won
should be made TO pay for improvements for 9th
rrs But your opposition has been unavaling
the system mas become the fixed policy, and ia
voritc pursuit OF the civilized world No one il so
visionary or so sangune as to expect cease Longer
opposition Is worse than useless it is the strongest smu
IAh' ad encouragement to the system TOR by refusing
your snare OF Tue appropriations you offer premium To
other sections to continue the system because YOUR oh
stinAcy gives them all the appropriations whilst YOU nav
halt the tax An Improvement in the West that will
no dividends may be good undertaking. because Won
ana others like you pay for it, and poor section ia
the has the money expended amongst them that CON
struct II. But your opposition does NOT only encourao
the system 1t lends to log rolling aud wisteiul expendi-
ture on useless works To command majority for good
works, their friends have vote for useless ONES Tbs
your fault, for If you would the good works this
log rolling would cease and YOU might vote down the bad
works.
Il Is somewhat remark able that various and c,sv i'm,
provemcnssre being constructed on the line of the
"hoe Atlantic coast OF the Unon except in the region
between the Potomac and James Rivers which far the
most fertile anu productive portion of the Eastern tide
water section. A. consequences OF this our lanJs a.,
not rise in price aud population is DESERVING Us and
thus Is occurring too just at the time when farming is ran
few years. 80 "
The Western part of the State with tenth of our non
raj advantages Is rapidly increasing in wealth and popu
ation In all America, except with us the nIusrious
and adventurous stranger is daily welcomed and parrns
live and die with their children and their chirets CHI
dren around them With the ties OF friendship Kindred
anu alcctloh are continually severed. flrmnr /, our
only pursuit. the only avenue to fortune Our be-, Young
men quit US to seek employment aud fortune where the
pursuits OF men varied and the paths To success
in life more numerous
Nos Patrja fnes, i'lcia fpgWiD,us ara
Love OF courtyard OF home are forbidden f,,, viii
US Tor they but rend the heart at parting Diversity en-
poymentS and this ruinous emigration will cease We will
NOT ohy make money but accumulate wealth and capital
food roads certainly occasion towns and villages to crow IN
along them and al their tcrmni Whilst constructing they
give employment 10 Industry and furnish market for what
UnSsleible before When built they annhil,ta ii.
lance and give to the country the advantages of town
churches, and schools, and daily mails and nrwsnapers
and banks aud all the mechanic arise and oursh-
We make At home what before had to buy from abroad
and the profits OF labor alorn our own country Win
thousand Improvements instead Of rearing marble palaces
elsewhere. Experience not theory, proves all this Look
a, Georgia, slave State, with an exhausted soil and SEQ
shat roads have doEc for her.
But you have tworyers with steamboats, plying on them
twice week, and DO not rolis. Catching steam.
boat Is fine fun, doubt for patient man from the Cr
est in calm and clear wc'tlcr But when the boat does
nos come in time when you have wait the shore IN
rliu or board The boat Ia storm with delicate wi,.
aud parcel OF crying children It's rather provoking then
II the boat grounds before get town. and when YOU
get there YOU have % trutse mile through mgl 20 the
nearest tavern, II eEhlu-ts patience and makes
waiting three days in town AFTER his business is completed
Tor steamboat day, is not agreeable In tile winter the
boats cease TO run but then this il only three months out
1t twelve, aud you can pie sanity hiburHac home or
iucks fish, and oysters waiting for the Grr'd rice ers
FauOut % let YOU out You have many natural adj
yautsge you suppose. TIE Potomac is stormy ocean
lIslins your shores without ferry wharton IT, Il
nuisance, and population shuns bleak and oisterous
shore The Rapplhlnuock eucoscs YOU on the other sid,
and thus you Imprisoned, with occasional chance
If escape, 10y means OF steamboats, irregular in their hour
ofarrival.
Now, you have paid millions for improvements else
where and the Legislature it you ask H. will no; hesitate
subscribe hrecihs any road roads ,ou NAV po
pose. You are the best JIl:s Of what improve
'neHts vii! most promote your Interest," vet we will
venture 10 su-gls; some that We think cnuld
e'siy hc obtained AMI would pave the way for
other and very great Improvement 4 plank road
from Milford Depot in Caroline by Port Royal 20 West.
uorelaud G. House, would boz just forty miles long aud
would cost than 100000 Forty thousand dol
rs with the States subscr ton would complete the work
The Cy uf Richmond wouil Ice benefited bv this .o,d
,rd her citizens, aud probably her corporation would tk
stock The Richmond and Fredericksburg Rail Roti
would get much travel by it, means aud its sinrktol
ders would take stock in the Plank Road Milford. Boar.
Green Port Royal, Oak Grove and Wesmorlind C. H.
would each be more or less benefited and their either
might be expected to subscribe literally Wesm,rrlr1
D u. and Port Royal would be to find the value m
property belonging to their citizens en- HANGED in price
far beyond the cost o.! the whole work TIE arners l,r
the line 7i the road might pay for it- construction aud
make 4'ht hy Che enchaugc price Of their lands Every
mlu n FIVE counties IN the northern neck o,Id drriy,
advantage from the facilities il would afford H,r travel
trade ami equal Advantages woUI accrue to large pnpu.
ll,iuu the Caroline side ~ tine river; wen or eight
cour- that have never gotten from the State TO-
works of any kind need this road II would cost alouf
half what the branch road Wargcntnn from the AI.1nu
iri1 and GoslDn-se road cost aud that road forms L,
ANAL part Of what the State has done fJf Fiuqucr-
FluguCr a noble example for initiate liz a few
yelrz past her people have subscribed hundred thou
and dollars 20 vOrir Of Improvement Seven courti..
win fail N subscribe forty thousand dollars with such
tl example before them.-Lsu!- u fauuuer long the
roads and about WarrcutOu, have iu many instance.
doubled iu price, aud IN 40 have been much or.
BANGED in value. We suggest tss Improvement ms one
tuuug-. many others that might with prof, and
advantage be constructed 10 tile saor re.iou We
nope other -uggeci and stluc'cd The travel
on this road would Doe enough make it, stock vaua.
without reigh- Tie increase Of travel occa.ioucd b,
cool rDals always exceeds o." lutic 1aDns Of the mos,
-luguinc Tho e'rht 0fgrsu, fs .ulmerchludlc would
boz large and u.ur p " increase ir IN year to year L
and -ulro IT csr,s tolls on fD1y we'll Tlaycl,ta r t.
mail coach would ptss BOO gc hours from 81 ford - West
mp.eiiud CourtlHusc. The Of the Gav from Balls.
more. 20 Richmond would rcln' Wcs,m1rc1uI CguriOu.s
atri1ht f. would aocOmT1jHi" persons 100 pfup,r
ton ID she oust Of tie rod tlIu 4ry other in the State
Tor would Doe cine oniy outlet iu vin'cr 70 the whole
lower N1rh.fu Neck and lnr business men 90 the sum
mcr fir they afford wait three DAYS for
boat % carry .I.u from homo bring them back -
We have 700 good opinion Of the good sense orour
readers di'c r''cr the many good rrlIl direct
and indirect of . road. so Improvement ever was pro
.t.. O.. Itrs