Kanawha Valley star. [volume] (Charleston, Va. [W. Va.]) 1856-1861, 1856-11-25

j cal faith Of Yifginians, and though ths
University Of Virgins has Of late yearl
done much 70 unite and bind and tic bel
young men together in one commor
bond yet there 10 marked diversity j,
the feeling. IN the interest. in the social
and business life Of different sections o.
the STATE. Need we refer to Underwater
and Trans Allegheny 10 point OUT such
diversity? What forsooth do tho PEG.
pie Of Tide Water, generally considered,
know about the people Of sale.
ghany And, piee versa. What do the
people Of Trans-Alleghany know about
the interests. about the social life and the
business life Of Cis- Allegheny r Wha,
do the people living in Kanawha Valley
know about the people living on Chesa-
peake Bay? Comparatively nothing.-
And why is this 1t is simply because
Virginia has SO few Centres Of Thos9As
and Of Trade. She has no great City.
70 which merchants from every county
in tho State might 60 and purchase goods.
She has no largo City. where her snplus
population could go and find employ
ment in the varied pursuits and avoca-
tons OF. life. and there acquire wealth
and return to rural life. She has no great
Railroads leading from one extreme end
Of the State, through its very heart, to
the other end. She has no great thorough
fares of any kind either water line. =
Macadamized Road or Railroad. She
has no canal whereby the waters Of the
Ohio River and the Chesapeake Bay are
connected. She has no great Central
Railroad. whereby the trade and travel
of the Mississippi Valley and Great
West can find it's way through Virginia
to some Underwater city. And until
Virginia does create great Centres OF
thought and Of trade-until she does unite
with iron bands Trans Allegheny and
Cts Alleghany--un ,il she does unite
Eastern and Weste rn Virginia by Rail.
road and otherwise until she does COM
plete her chief and leading Railroad TO-
wit the Corington and Ohio Railroad,
there will and must b. diversity Of sen
timant. of feeling and Of interests be-
tween Eastern and Western Virginia.
Trade follows the course Of rivers,
and our sympathies 4 feelings follow our
trade. And, as the Allegheny Mountains
separate and divide the waters Of Va, 30
they separate and divide our trade. our
sympathies and our interests. But We,
Of Trans Allegheny, do not desire to be
virginians merely in name; We wish in
every respect to be part and parcel Of
this glorious old Commonwealth we
wish to be thoroughly identified with all
the true interests Of the STATE; we wish
to be thorough Virgiuians in our feelings,
in our wants, in our wishes, in our man
ners, in our habits, in our thoughts and
in our sympathics. We wish to be iden-
tilted with tho great heart Of Virgins.
to-wit: with the Valley and Eastern
Virginia. We long for the day when
the mountain barriers viii no longer Oh.
struct the trade and intercourse Of Trans
Allegheny with Eastern Virginia. We
ardently hope the day is net distant
when q great Central Railroad will unite
the now separated trade and travel d
Eastern and Western Virginia. We sin.
cerely hope that new era is dawning
upon the Internal Improvement policy d
the State, and that in few years al
sections Of the Old Dominion will be SC
united and connected by Railroads as. !.
produce homogeniety Of feeling ant
interest Throughout. the entire State.