The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1853-03-29
THE PANHANDLE.

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I, v.s stated some time since, N 'ne i"'s,
burs papers. that the citizens OF bfo'se aa'
u.ncock desig ned holding meeting 10 'aSe
;n,o consideration the propriety OF pe'i!ion'hs
for annexation TO Pennsylvania. 10 o'o ,''''eN
these people, the very extreme portion q 0u'
.-.n,,,onwearb took more pride in the name
of yirrinian than any Others. Inc uea',"v"'
they have already received at the hah"s " '"o
.o.;s,o,,re and the rod still held up over
g, hos produced this alienation oil ieeIihg'
and we'll il might.
81. orseven wears age, Wheeling succeeded
:, re,,;ny foreign corporation through the
territory of Virginia, thereby inn'c''As upon
VIRGINIA the most deadly injury II ever re-
cs;vsa. About the same time, or probably the
.oss;on after, the people Of Brooke and Han
co.k asked the right of way from the Penn
svlvania line across the territory of Virginia,
fouly six milss,) and il was rejected. Sabse-
onenay, Wheeling went with road across the
territory of Virginia 1.-THE Legislature granting
10 her the right il had denied TO Brooke and
Hancock 10 Hemp6eld, uniting there with
foreign corporation. Brooke and Hancock
still continued to importune the Legislature,
and Wheeling, in order to get rid of its i'm
portunities, proposed law rendering il penal
for man, on his own land, to make n railroad
in three miles of the Pennsylvania line. The
Senate kicked this bill out, with all the con-
tempt it deserved. A bill to allow road 10
be built across the Pan Handle TO connect
with the road running from Pittsburg west
to the Pennsylvania line, &c, was then pro
posed and rejected, after the most astonishing
arguments ever heard in the Legislature. ltwas
represented as an unheard Of enormi,y 10 bring
q foreign corporation into Virgins, as though
two had not already been brough, in, by the
very interest making this suggestion. But the
principal argument was free-soism-the free
soil town of Pttsburg, &c. The bill-one of
the most reasonable it is possible to conceive
was rejected ough this influence, mainly on
account of The foreign corporation and free
soism. Mark the sequel
Immediately after bill is brought in fist TO
give railroad company, from the Western
Reserve, Giddi- gs' country, the power to bridge
the Ohio, to come Into Virginia, and to run
parallel to the Ohio river, for fifty miles to
Wheeling. To the building of this Abolition
railroad, upon which Giddings and his men
might slip off just as many negroes as they
might think proper. the State is TO contribute
rwo.thirds. Mr.. Edgington, and other persons
in Brooke and Hancock, having shown dis
position TO make a road on their own land, this
bill cuts up this right of u freeman by the
roots. 1t says that any one who shall make
such road within three miles of the Pennsyl-
vania line, shall be severely punished. Punish
a man for making road on his own land -
The people of Brooke and Hancock wish to
make road-they apply for charter-it is
refused thcm-another party comes in after
them and wishes not only TO make road, but
u render it impossible for them to do so mere
after! Is that sort of Legislation which sets
out with the deliberate design to destroy
mans right of ownership in his property lie.
climate Iffollowed out, may not the tight
of property itself be completely nullifed p
If build my house in a reasonable manner,
shall another man build his in such a way that
mine shall be an annoyance, and then call on
me to pull it down? What right has the
Legislature, in general, to lay restrictions upon
the exercise of MAPS control over his pro-
per,yl
Everybody in Richmond who has any brains
at all, believes that the Orange and Alexandria
road must be injurious to its prospects. Sup
pose Richmond, before the passage of that
bill, had gotten another passed, rendering it
penal TO cross the Central railroad
Laws of this kind are, in our opinion, clear
1y null and void. 1t is not wonderful that the
citizens of the Pan Handle, seeing the deter
animation of the Legislature TO Cypress them,
should desire TO be free from their oprressors.
Such bill as that we have alluded TO, is
direct insult TO the Legislature.