Kanawha Valley star. [volume] (Charleston, Va. [W. Va.]) 1856-1861, 1857-08-04
lTlIs GoyfBgiom aad Ohio Railroad- Il,
Influence On the Power md Political
independence OF tht SOuth.

4 great nation, in whose history some
great city did not stand a prominent and md
controlling neueleuso Of power.
Thebes; then Alexandria, in Eggpti
Ninlnseya then Babylon, in Asia, Judea,
III II Palestine; Carthage, IN Africa; Athens,
ID Greece i Rome, in Italy Paris ~
France; Moscow. then st. Petersburg
ia, Russia; London, in England, and %
OH, are but evidences Of the proposition.
mi great eiity must and inevitably VIII VII
grow out Of commercial Capitalization.
So soon as Won scentralise commerce on
II point ct for navigation bay--a har-
boz, just 50 0 you lay the foundation aalati y
far " great city, and the ]suPerstrti ct ufe
will rise as certainly as brick can lgHba
made Of Garth. This cenhalizatioa 81
commerce is sometimes natural, some
times. artificial where the conjunction is
river and sea it is natural, and if the ID
habitants are not controlled and po{liti-
cally cnslayed. by sectional or foreign
powers, the great city and the great peo-
pic will make their appearance IN all the
majesty OF. commercial, naval, military
ami physical power, in all its ramificat
tiohs. Artificial Capitalization of com.
merrce is from canals. Improvements o.
rivers, railroads, and, frequently, pofiti:
cal oppression. A nation may from va.
rionuls causes, concentrate upon itself .
power WHICH is artificial to it. .zItt viii
then naturally seek TO retain that power,
and war, aggression, and oppression will
be the means employed. And % q sec
tioa in a c~onfederacy of States may con
ceenltratea upon itself q power not natural
70 II, and political oppression will 81 ita
means Of retaining the power, This is
tho ease 0 as between England and
ireland it was once the case As between
England and America ; it is now the ease
as between the North and the South
How long the South is to remain crarlnlp-
ed, fettered, paraliscd by theicommercial
and political oppression Of the North;
how long the South, which has in itself
all the resources and eyerysource Of po-
litical physical, moral power. is to re-
main 4 mere tributaryto Northern greed,
oppression and insult, depends on the
completion Of her railroads and canals !;
on tlle Capitalization Of her trade and com
mneffce and most Of all, on the compile
ton OF thatroad and canal which will
reach back into the bosom Of the-great
Southern and Western commercial move
mept, whose magnitude and capacity is
beyond human calculation. Wherever
It centres, wherever 1t pours itself out,
there will be the great commercial depot,
and hence Tie great city and central pow
eref this continent. The Covington and
ROhio Railroad and Canal win be the
great stream along which il will pour ii
self as sure a 5 profit and loss control
trade and tho capes of Virginia will BE-
its central outlet to the universe beyond.
Suppesethe construction Of these works
should cost $4,000 600, would they not
build up a city Of such magnitude as To
pay Of the debt without feeling the bur
den? Would they not pay d! handsome
dividend to the State oil the outlay r.?
Would they not open up the coal fields
and mining and manufacturing resources
Of the whole line, and particularly. the
f@caanel, splint and b;tuminoas coal and
iron deposits Of the Great Kanawha and
its tributaries Elk and Coal rivers,
the richest and most inexhaustible known
to geological explorations.
Butagain: It is quite apparent that
steamships ara about to supereede sail
vessels in ocean carriage. Complate this
road. and mammoth steamers will meet
il att the capes Of Virginia, simply BEL
cause they could do 50 with greater pro-
fit ID navigation, We are really aston
ished that any man or any mind in Vir-
giuia should be so narrow, contracted,
and stuliified as to count the costsof two
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works which win make Of Virginia the
commercial emporium Of this continent,
and give to her Me great eiaty. which,
marks the great people44-an emporium 81
power. wealth and exchanges centre Of
thought, and a centre Of civilization
disseminating the South Of is depen-
denee On the North = transferring the
capital and wealth Of the North back to
the South from which it has been plum
dered and thus giving to the South the
poMerat any day TO break The bonds of i
union which promises to be to her, il II
has not been from tho beginning, a leach
byday. an incubus BY night. And again:
The great Northwest would thus have
us commercial dependence transferred
from ~yankeedom. which Expresses and
dorrupss ii, 10 die soutli and ideas.
thoughts, morals, sympalhies, follow the
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