Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1853-05-24
messrs. BOYD and Daniel.


The citizens of Petersburg. Of both parties
are supporting Mr. Daniel on purely sections
grounds. They support him because he wa
against The Railroad from Lyncbburg to Char
loitsyile and they oppose Boyd because be vo
ted for that road. Il this just, and should we
allow Col. Boyd to suffer by such an issue p
IL any man in the State has consistently pur-
sued liberal. enlightened and unsectional pol.
lev on the subject of Internal improvements
Col. Boyd has. He has been the unwavering
friend Of The Virginia & Tennessee Rail Road
the James River Canal, the South Side Rail
Rosd, the Richmond & Danville Rail Road
and the Petersburg & Norfolk Rail Road-all
the works in which this district is interested.
He and others regarded the Lynchburg and
Charlottesville road as link in the great Ma
lticnal Highway. the air line from New York
10 New Orleans, which public opinion must
eventually force through. He knew that with
on, this link ii would be vain to hope to direct
through Virginia that great stream of travel
which now passes Atlanta in Georgia, goes TO
Charleston and crowds the New York line of
Steamers This brings through Virginia a
new and enriching tide of wealth--a current
which now leaves the land at Charleston and
never touches il again until tho port Of New
York is reached. Without this link, what
would he the hope of drawing. through Virgi-
ria. the streaming mass OF travel from Louisville.
which ascends the Ohio to Wheeling and mum
bers, as may be seen by the late papers, some
500 to $50 per day
Is il because Col Boyd voted for this road,
so imperiously demanded by all the country
South and West of Lynchburg, a road too
which will bring TO Lynchburg, some of the
finest manufacturing tobacco in the SIate-is
it because he could not be deaf to such call
that he is to be ostracised by our Petersburg
friends And is Mr. Daniels opposition to
that road cause why Wings should vote for
a man who stands pledged before the world to
make the Board of Public Works a Party
Machine
But even in view of the great demand for
such a road. Col. Boyd was not disposed TO dis
regard the interests of our own eastern mar
keis He and the fr ends of the Virginia IL
Tennessee Railroad generally voted for the
Lynchburg and Charlottesville road with the
firm conviction that, while it would take off
some travel, it would leave the freight to fol-
low the natural laws Of trade and seek the
markets of Richmond Petersburg and Norfolk.
They believed that, if this connection were res
fused. one from Salem to Baltimore would be
the inevitable consequence This last they
thought would be death blow to Virginia
commerce, because, even agricultural freghts
could not follow that line to Baltimore the
immense capital and population of that city
would enable them TO send their merchandise,
over this line to the Southwest The,
thought thatin supporting the Lynchburg ant
Charlottesville road they We're Inhcting on GU
friends of Petersburg lesser, to secure then
againsta far greater eoH
We deprecate sectional issues. but they hav,
been raised on,us,and the action of the citizen:
Of Petersburg would lead to the natural and
inevitable conclusion. that they would regarc
Daniel as the exclusive Representative of Pc
tersburg,in the future Board of Public Works
We only ask ofthose not interested in Peters
burg, to the exclusion of every other part O
the state.to support Col. Boyd, because, Will,
his chief interest is the same with that O
Lynchburg and the Va. q Tenn. Railroad
his whole public course has proved that he i
not sectional.
The New York Courier says "This ha
been month of calamity. Within three o