Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1854-06-30
DAILY IlRGINIAN.
FRIDAY MORNING. -. JUNE 30. 1854.
The Orange and Alexandra Railroad

there should be anv difficulty about procuring a
subscription of fifty thousand dollars to the
stock of this company. I'VE entertain no doubt
but that this difficulty originates entirely in
the fact. that our citizens have not given them
selves time. 70 consider what interest they have
in the construction of this great work We will
therefore throw ont few suggestions on the
subject with the hope of attracting to II more
of the serious reflection ofonr townsmen
The Orange and Alexandra road is the COM
petng liae with the Valley road, from Salem to
stanton, for the South Western trade and trav-
Ell. The projectors of this latter road seek to
deprive Us of all the advantages we have con
templated from aoonnection with South Western
Virginia and East Tennessee, to say nothing ct
the m ghty current of trade and travel that will be
conducted Eastwardly from the Southwestern
states by the Virginia and Tennessee Road. II
is useless nay worse than useless, It is childish
for this community to expect any favor because
of the efforts they have made aud the sacrifices
they have encountered TO build the Virginia aud
Tennessee road. These will not BE- considered as
worthy Of a moments reflection. Whenever an inn
preston exists that public convenience, evenwill
be promoted BY forgetting aud disearding Them.
a strong and influential party already exist who
loudly demandedlurng all the past winier,that
this Valley connection should receive legislative
.countenance. Do ne not know that the entire
country from Roanoke 60 Rockingham is elamo
rous for this Valley conn ction. my every eoun-
ty interested in the Manassas Gap road,nnd the
Baltimore Branch. the Winchester and Ilarper's
Ferry road This is not all the Central rail
road interest, with but few exceptions. unite in
this to Us most injurious project and last, though
not least, the city Of Richmond is willing nay
eager to enhict upon us this siab;although in doing
so She incurs the risk Of throwing the south
Western trade within the attraction of Baltimore
Whist prevented the contamination Of this mis-
chierops scheme. las; winter Nothing bat the
lovality Il the Southwestern counties They
rensen,bercd with ell becoming gratitude. what
Lynehburg bad done to gre them the benefit Of
railway communication sith market. and they /
would Dot accept The boom Of a highway 10 Balti-
more whieb Wa % often presented to them in
closing eolsrs during the winter.
This i the true aspect Of the question, 50 far /
as 1. i 10 be affected by future legislation. We
would ak. in YieH Il these facts il il WISE in |
Lynehburg 20 continue 10 trcspass on the |
friendly relations which now, aud sc trust ever
WILL exist between her and her faithful allies in
Little Tennessee We say it Is not: bnt That
true wisdom dictates that We should repay the
loyalty of our friends 10y generous effort to
give them line Of communication with the Fed
eral Capital and all places north Of it, equal in
all respects TO the Valley connection II line of
INSTRUMENTATION with this great feature in
its favour, TINT whilst it opens line of travel O.
qually as short to Washington city, it Cannot be-
come a conduit for the trade Of Nirginia to any
other than to Virginia cities.
This is an unvarnshed statement Of matters of
fact, and the appeal to the people of Lynchburg
TO subscribe, to the extension of the Orange and
Alexandria road from Charlottesville to Lynch
burg,is nothing moie nor less ihan the PROFOUND
ing of this question: Is il better to give $50
900 10 rid ourselves of the probability that the
Valley railway will ever be built, or by with
holding that sum 10 assure the construction Of
that to us destructive highway.
This is the matter in issue and it is in this
pect that our citizens should view it, whenever
they give il consideration.
But apart from this view. the Orange and Al
exandria railroad is important to us, as a means
of communication with "A most productive and
wealthy section of country. Ii opens TO us AN
extensive region, in which tobacco, the great
staple of our prosperity, is largely cultivated
We find by the census of 1850, that Amherst,
Albemare, Nielsen. Orange and Gre, ne produced
5.3I3,705 pounds of this agricultural staple; that
the wheat product of the same counties was
697. l32 bushels, aud that their population WAS
IS IL e I
burg that should have railway through such
a region as this. Is il not particularly inn
portant, al - time, when our great rivals
in the tobacco trade are stretching ont
their arms into Prince Edward Charlotte,
Halifax. and Pittsyyanial It's useless to elab-
crate this view. tneeds it not before this com
munty. They who run may read the plain les
son of common sense which the above facts
teach. We will only ask one other question :;
Is there manufacturer of tobacco in Lynch
burg who would not willingly give his fair and
just proportion of contribution of fifty thous-
and dollars TO have opened to Lynchburg region
of country producing five million pounds Of as
good tobacco is produced in the world We
feel assured this question must be answered af-
Tentatively, and if so, the fifty thousand dollars
required to secure the construction of the Or
ange and Alexandria road canpotb be refused.
But there is still another view: Win the stock
pay dvidendo of six per cent We hold the af-
frmetiye of this proposition, and pledge ourselves
to demonstrate it as clearly any such PROPOSE
tion can be demonstrated, soon as we can OBJ
tain some data, which we hope to have in our pos
session in a few days.
NORTH RIVER lMPBoyEMEET.Th Lexington