Semi-weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1852-1853, 1853-02-12

. IHE RICHMOND AND DANVILLE AND THE NoRTI
I CAROLINA RAIL ROAD. We publish in another col
Umn, letter dated Richmond, jan 25th 1853 from
MI Nathaniel j. Palmer, to the Raleigh Standard
for the purpose of calling the attention of our read
ers 70 the views and movements Of the interest in ia
Vor OF connection between the North Carolina Raj
Road and the Richmond and Danville Road On
citizens, and indeed, all who feel either interest il
the North Carolina Road State work, or in the
prosperity OF our present through route, aware
OF IRE effect which this connection would have we
therefore, refrain from any remark merely again call
ing attention TO the NATTER and recommending it TO
the consideration Of the public.
Wilmington 10 rnnL.
W. p. TunstalI, President of the Richmond and
Danville Road, is out in the last Richmond En-
quirer with quite sharp reply to Mr.. Palmer
Mr.. Tunsta ridicules the idea of the branch road
to Milton, and contends that the connexion between
the two Roads should take place at DanrilIe. lie
concludes follows % l have this moment read
letter from gentleman in North Carolina. who.
not even aware of Mr.. Palmer's mission or pres
ence in Richmond, writes me {" that North Carolina
will and must have connection direct with our
Road at Danville, and that very so NJ
But for the passage of the Central Railroad bill
IN l84S-49, charter would have been granted
to the Danville Road, and the latter would have
been, by this time, well nigh completed The State
would thus have been cut in tsco and large por-
ton OF It's produce and travel would have poured
into South Carolina and Virginia The feeling ex-
isting between Eastern and Western North Carolina
would have been increased in warmth, and we
should have become tributary for an age, perhaps,
to these two States. Yet at that time, so strong
was the wish Of many of our intelligent and enter
prising citizens in the interior to get to market
that even this result would have been risked and
nearly all the members West of this
place came to the Assembly in l646-49, the ad-
vocates of the Richmond and Danville scheme.
The Central Road bill was, however, brought for
ward-these members, or the greater portion of
them, gave up the Richmond and Danvle scheme
and went for the State Road, and the charter for
the latter was secured, is we'll remembered by the
patriotic casting-vote of the Senator from Caswel
"a County then in favor of and deeply interested
IN the Danville route. This closed the door. as it
was thought, against this route; but the idea has
never been abandoned. 1t will be pressed at the !
next session of the Assembly, and would have been
1t the last but for the certainty that it would fail
The true policy of North Carona-no matter
what effect it may have upon particular localities
is to build Rodds for herself and not for her
lister States-to aid her own market towns and
lot those of South Carolina and Virginia. IF ex-
enslons OF her present Roads must be made, let
hem be to Beaufort in the East and to the Ten
lessee line, West; at any rate, let our people
prefer what we have, and long trial of yhat aOe
'aUe, to any connexion which shall add to the ex-
sting drain upon our resources for the benefit of
ther States.