Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1855-04-14
Letter fem Col Boale

From the lplcpcn lent E,ru'l ,an'
MEssRs. HUTCHINSON x Wrrzrl:-
Genticmn:-W Will you do me the favor to pub.
fish in your paper the following corrections of
statements made by the editor of the "Parkers-
burg News" in relation 10 observations of mine.
made at Pnrkersburg recently.
do not intend, upon this occasion, to notice
the vulgar personal abuse heaped upon me in Soy
eral OF the late publications of that press nor
would now contradict msstntements Of material
facts made by linn, but lint those msstatemenis
will be eagerly published where he is unknown,
and might he taken to be true
In speaking the causes which had retarded
the progress Of Virginia. the editor ofthe News"
makes me say "rhe great, prime cause thereof,
was the existence in our midst oil the institution
of slavery This is positively ana bald,y false
| took no such position-no such expression es
cnped my lips. | said but htlc on the subject Of
the probable causes Of the deterioration of the
wealth and population of Virginia, when compar-
ed 10 the progress OF some of the other States of
the Union. What did say in effect and in in
tent, although do not pretend to give the exact
anguage) was this: That Virginia IN the clyal.
rous and adventurous spirit of her early history
had possessed herself much finer and more de-
sirahe tracts of contiguous country than that
which now constitute her limits. lmeaning Ken
lucky, Ohio, and other portions of the Nerthwes.
tern Territory,) To which many of her people had
emlgrated carving Win them their wealth. / hat
in the process of time the production Of the ,alu
able staples of southern commerce had led OF
large portions OF her population and wealth in that
direction.
As u second ease mentioned her had system
of agriculture, (meaning principally her tobacco
culture) which had left her lands in barren and
wasted condition, and thereby inducing her peo-
pie TO look for Il more easy mode of acquiring
competence in other countries.
And, thirdly: The early neglect of an efficient
system of Internal Improvement. by which the
products industry could have been more chcap
ly transported To markets, where the enhanced
prices would have indemni6ed and rewarded In
Dor
These were the only reasons given on this ton.
&c III that address, and not Ms much elnbnratcd
then as now, but defines the position then taken
accurately. The only remedies that | suggeste,
Tor the correction o. those evils within the powe,
of the Legislature was
FIRST; 10 undertake and carry out 10 comnla
ton such system of Internal Improvements -.
was commensurate to the wants, aud consistnn
with the means of the State
And secondly: As after the productive nowor
OF the soil, labor constituted the ,rreot s,nrc
from which we derived not only the satisfactio
/ of our wants but from which also e,nenntod -
| the comforts, conveniences and elepanc;es -, ,;
| ilized life, it, Labor was worthy of | arisIot;v
aid and patronage particularly in n slaverholIin,
| State, where the two races grown mn tngo,bor
the same family their disparity of condi,;nn nm
employment had thrown some degree of discrrd
it upon those efforts ofindustry and self dcnen
| dence, qualities so necessary TO infnse into III