Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1857-07-28

in the South, or in the South without losing
! ground in the North
There will he u reconstruction Of parties, North
/ and South in very short time, from the absolute
necessities of the times Aud we have little
doubt the opening scene the drama will be ex-
hibited during the next session Of Congress. The
! admissio of Kansas, Minnesota and Oregon
| States, will produce fresh complications of par
ties, from which it is difficult to clearly at
this time how we will emerge. But, that there
will be Il new cut, n new shuttle, aud II new deal
all around tho board. no one. at oil obseryant of
passing events, can fail TO perceive.
The Hon. VIM. Ballard Preston, after IA SO
ourn of day or two in this city, left yesterday
en- route for New York, whence no will take
/ passage in the Atlantic, which sails for Europe
on Saturday next, After landing at Liverpool,
he will proceed 10 London, and thence to tho
Continent in pursuance of the object Of his mis-
sion Mr.. +. goes out well equipped and tho
roughly furnished with an array of evidence
that cannot fail To secure the attention of Euro.
pcan capitalists and commercial men, to the i'm.
portance of direct trade with tho South. lie is
any effort to divert commerce. even partially.
from its old tracks, but has high hopes of tho
ultimate success OF the project Whether he
will succeed in inducing the owners OF the Great
Eastern 10 send her to tho waters Of Virginia, is
immateria the success of tho scheme is not
based upon such contingency. That she will
visit the port of Norfolk is possible, but from all
TINT we have been able to gather, conclude
that she is destined FOR the Australian trade
1t is understood that she will be launched pre-
vous to the completion of her interior work,
which will progress during her voyages, so that
it il matter of but little consequence whether
her first ,rp-which may be regarded moth.
ing more than trial of her quaties-be made
to Portland or the waters of tho Chesapeake. II
has come to light recently that there was, at n
cerian period, II crisis in the pecunnry affairs of
the Company constructing the Great Eastern.
when the owners of the Great Western Trunk
Line Railroad, connecting Montreal aud Port
land advanced to the Great Eastern Company
f60000 sterling, upon condition that the first
trip of the vessel should be made TO Portland,a and
it is in iulillmen, of this contract that Portland
is TO be the first point OF hen destination Doubt
less the railroad Company in question hope to
secure her permanently for their trale. in which,
to we minated recently, they are likely to be
disappointed.
III any and every point of Wow, regard tho
mission of Mr.. Preston prrgnan, with grent
results. II Is the first practical effort ever nnde
| 10 enlist capitalists abroad in the interests of
/ Southern commerce. and we deem the projectors
of this scheme singuarly fortunate in their Sc
| lection of an agent, whose high character great
energy mud ability, united with the most courtly
manners will command for him and his mission
the attention they deserve.
II the Convention soon to meet ut Knoxville,
will elect to be n commercial. rather than a po.
tical convention; will eschew discussion upon
Free Trade, or the propriety of re. opening the
African Slave Trade. and kindred distractions,
aud confne itself to its legitimate business-a
consideration of the best means of promoting
the commercial interests and independence of
the South in a word. If it shall respond hearth
ly to the movement inaugurated at Bristol and
with view Of sustaining Mr.. Preston fully in
the noble cause in which he has so generously
embarked, take no action that will seem to in
dictate to the world abroad that we arc divided
amongst OurseNes, anu thereby einSaraSS, rather
than aid, the mission of Mr.. Preston, it will be
entitled to the gratitude of the whole South. -
! We are not seotionalists, aud have no sympathy
with sectionalism ina political sense, but wish
to see the South take the commercial position
which she should long since have assumed, and
which her independent existence now impels her
to take. Never was higher destiny thrust
upon any people. Rich beyond comparison in
all the commodities that enter into commerce. we
| have but to stretch forth our hand to attract 10
our ports the sails that now Wilton every sea-
Virginia has within herself, in her fine agricultu
raj regions, and her immense mineral resources
the means of peopling "a world above and a
world below" and binding indissolubly to her
self the principal commercial nations of the
globe. In his recent address before the literary
societies of the Virginia Military Institute, Mr.
ii unter affirmed truly "that the commercial
community, over the world, is daily tending to q
unity of interest and feeling, is obvious enough
and that this must operate to bring men more anc
more into one common brotherhood is also mani
fest" Be ii SO, and let us remember that while
we are increasing our own strength and impor.
lance, thereby augmen,iDg the chances for the
perpetuiy of the Union, we are also LAYING ,
foundation for the acquisition of untold wealth.
Norfolk Il Peier~barx Il. IL
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