The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1857-05-11


kept 81 home moro Than million and half on 90 600
square miles, aud sent than any other old State 70
sse ns cs ~ h Tune when ma
population from the old 10 the new States Immigration
IRON Rarope supplied the demand Of che manufacturing
Missouri Kentucky Tennessee, Arkan sas Louisiana MIS-
sissipp Alabama, Florida Georgia. Tex IS aud besdcs
these planting States. Virginia has contributed 70 Oil up
California, KAnsas and Nebraska She has emigranls
and their descendants In these States and Territories equal
10 the number she has retained home And this has
given her moral influence equal to, II exceeding the
power Of railroads canals and denser population IL she
sho has built empires free States 70 her
maternity TO sustain her policy and feel her
and ties Of political anity she has produced the popu
have fructhed and multiplied so as TO strengthen her
stakes In the confeeracy OF Sates If she has not
~ o. sae mas ms ana thus . no. gong behind
for she has furnished New York her full proportion Of
material to make up the audit Of great American mart
Of imports, per In all ase u.s. then, she has not
gone backwards, stood still in the OF cire and
nation with thirteen federal representatives only,
pared with Ohio Pennsylvania Now York. each having
nearly double her number in Congress II she does not
WELD stocks on change, she does have the power OF
r rate State in the cabinet of government and in the
And during ali this nc from rst TO last she has not
has been suppcsed neglected her physical improve
mcnts. Her undertakings of grand works were among
the very earliest and gave birth nrs con ;cp
tious greatest enterprises which since been
executed and realized by applied science IN country
BY turning your eve to "a New Chapter in tho Early
Life of Washington Ia Connection with the Narrative Hi
tory Of the Potomac Company, by John Fkel,' pub
lsbed by H. Appleton Co., New York. 1856, YOU will
see that was the Virginia mind which anticipated every
idea OF Dewitt Clinton that it - the forecast OF wash
ingon which opened up to view the most extensive con-
tnental connections Of North America reaching, indeed
across the continent in space to California and down the
tide or time 10 the very ideas Of improvements this
present day and hour And under the influence Wash
ngon the State and private contributors expended nearly
n
OF that developemen OF internal trade which now exciting
universal wonder tits greater wonder still that any mind
should so early have comprchended the and practca
biy OF policy unding and though the rst effort
was failure, tor want at tine time Of trained civil Cng
necrs yet the conception there then the art of
manipulation, and the spirit OF enterprise and deyelope
ment sent forth from the Virginia oracle at Mount
Vernon That spirit has not ceased 10 brood
rtory and our destiny After projecting the great Chcsa
pcake and Ohio canal, resulting from the Potomac Com
pany Virginia organized and put into progress the great
james River and Kanawha Company, and has executed
200 miles Of its canal expense OF millions;
the Dismal swamp canal-t~enty three miles-at u cost
of 81 l2OoO And her railroads are numerous and extern
Norfolk has penetrated North Carolina by eighty miles
costing 81 SEQ COO and has another road Petersburg
eighty miles at probable cost Of 81 100000 Petersburg
has connected herself with North Cardinals great South
route by sixty three miles OF 81 600 600 with
Richmond by twenty two miles, cost or 81 900, and
cost Of 81 600 Richmond has penetrated n. R,poke
valley 70 Danyic, las miles, Ut cost Of 81 0O COO has
reached tho Tennessee limo by the Southwestern road 204
miles at cost Of co., has touched the Potomac by
her Fredericksburg road, seventy SIX miles at cost OF
0C0 has nearly completed her Ccnral road by $50
miles, Of 81 $50 COO hiss her York River road in
progress, thirty eight miles, probable OF 81 00O
0c0 and has thirty -four miles OF road Ia operation 10 her
coal mines, at a cost OF something less than a
million Alexandria has her Orange road complete
TO vile, eighty eight miles ut cos OF - 0O0
and crossing the Central Is reaching south to Lynch
burg eighty miles, at probable cost or 81 600 600
has her Manassas penetrating the valley to HAr
risonburg, 139 miles at Cost Of three and half millions
complete between the Ohio and the aspseo ms IN
ALL at cost Of twenty three millions: and Parkcrsbury
has her branch OF the complete TO the forks of the
Potomac los miles, at a cost of four and half millions
These, besides innumerSbe smaller railroads aud
pixies and improvements OF gable streams costing the
state other than individuals, tho aggregate, about
Sc COO are in addition to the great works now 10 pro-
state account the Blne Ridge and the Covingtou
and Ohio roads, 2l7 miles, at probable cost Of sixteen
millions.
Thus, you what a variety and extent of works vir
gnia has begun and ia gong with and What
she has already expended upon enterprises OF the greatest
magnitude notwithstanding that she IL reproached with
being aggard the exertion develope resources
making in the aggregate 23 miles Of canal and $50 miles
oil railroad al grand total expenditure Of seventy
millions OF dollars
The Of delay In beginning aud completing her
works distractions or extraordinary character
territorial conformation only segregated her
mites, but detached her plans Of public provemen
separate and independent and competing schemes They
wanted unity, entirety aud concentration
Again: Cast your eye upon the map OF her mountain
ranges and you that from the point where she
touches the steps OF the Blue Ridge with her great
her roads 10 the point where she
them with the Ohio waters She must pass over or
through backbone Of from TO two hundred miles OF
mountans running in parallel ridges northeast south
west across her entire hints Tunnel after tunnel short
intervals arrests her progress and makes each work
o. patient labor and time. she has N summit
level nearly feet for breath to west
which other people the continent than yir.
has been very defective system OF land
Laws, preventing dense settlement OF population, by the
conii ION of tles which involved the Western people In
litigation and them from our locations TO other States
settled under the land ordinances OF the United States by
regular surveys, entries and restries We have bad
land systou-our OF location left private
selection The state has issued patents without proper
OF titles thus surveys, entries and
come confused and uncertain, and litigation has depopu
a,ed the very western territory which most needed
tiers to dcvcope our newer, larger and richer regions OF
the Commonwealth. This cause trust, will be removed
for the future by our next General Assembly
Another obstruction in tho past up to 1851 was the
anomalous condition in which divided territory had
mountains divided our people into three sections with
parent diversity aud opposition Of interests. The
oaStHn slope, with every facility TO market, had
the power of representation; the new, rugged
western mountains and valleys, without access 10
Market cxccp, the hoofs of fat cattle had the majority
OF population and felt the necessity taxation for devoopc
Thus the power of tho divided against
the necessity Of the state The necessity side
Of the mountain and the on the other Tho
struggle 10 cqualize the representation according 10 the
number OF citizens and voters cngcndered strife and
tonal antagonsm. The east then fet necessity To be
taxed for road and canals and had the majority OF repre-
scntatvcs withhold appropriations public works; the
Obliged To get to market, and demanded repre-
scfiRon arSOrcing number sovereign
order the legislative power Of taxation 10 deveope
the irsnsmontanc section u connect the east and west,
" bOmogcueiy Of Interest TO The state and ~ begin
the of Improvement and progress The east, With
equal sagscity and generosity yielded the contest, and
cquazed representative seeing that the west It's back
country OF production and it, only of commerce,
and that II hc east would benefit 10 trade than
the west in agriculture, wisely consented to the great
problem OF uniting The power TO TIE necessity Of the state,
and thus new impetus to Internal developement AT
first this impue strong and npulsve aud overaced
Approprialons TO the amount Of some twelve millions in
'51 '52 aud 80 RAISED the amount of public debt rather
rapidly, and there reaction credit But the
checks aud bslasccs provided in the cons,u
ton 81 1851 TO restrain tho exrvagancc OF appropra
tons, and 10 guard the sacredness of public credit
by thu 27th section no debt be created without
majority ~ the members 90 cash hoa.e the General
Assembly. BY the 18th section, tho General Assembly
pledge the faith Of the state bind in any form
the debts obligations " company corporation
BY the 18th section SMILING fund u imperatv cly proyii
for the old debt and debt IN future be In
CURED without In Ike sOvding tbs means b.
deem In thirty -four years ana tho General Assembly "
prohibited from approprang the sinking fund except IN
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