Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1858-08-24

Cum6oe1And 0op 8o0roa6.
Having pah,isksd - aseaaeasin issor Of Bris
tsl aSthe ssrmiaas & he Csns<rland Gap Rail
rood, We feel boasd TO give way to the rejoinder
setting Firth the clains Of Abingdon. Accord
] iagly. 10 cspy from Ne Abingaea Firginien the
following. which d thsnaterial portion of an ar
tisls In reply 70 90 which We A.vs already pub.
lishsd from ths Bsissol Nsps. Thus we give both
sidss Of he Question. and We leave the. reader to
sDfm his own conclssion:
From the Abingdon virsinsa.
No ono prstssas 70 doubt thai the road would
b. 500 ten OIL twelve miles shoreer il the inter
sscsisn uspe 4 Bristol than At Abingdon, but we
eootQn6. shak Il this b . oosrcct argument for
DriStot then L would b just - plausible and
propsr for kusselviils. in Tennessee to claim the
tsrniaua, - net ten or . doscn miles only would
/. Be- saysd. bat some forty or 6fty. Both Bristol
and Russsllville are 10 Tsnaeesee-the former on
~ line and TIE other sone distascc from it--and
he osly difference woald be. that in the Que case
The read would hug the State line from one end To
The esAsr, sometimes in one State and sometimes
in ~ other, while in the other case it would DO
altogether in Tennessee.
Now, re do not suppose that the people of Vir
einia are willing 10 b taxed to make an improve
nsuE that would rebound mach to the prosper
ity q neigAberiag State ss to their own-in
other words, that they would not be willing to d.
vide the benefits whils they exclusively bear the
sxpsnses-and for this reason would prefer m
elusive Virginia work. even If it should cost two
or three hundred thousand more
We heretofore attempted to relate the circum-
stances under which the charter was granted.
showiag thstgood faith. exclusive of other weighty
considerations, Fequissd that Abingdon should he
Of dilhsulty that The bill Vas log-rolled through
The Legislature. aaa then only BY q majority Of
one. Coils. I. D. Dunn and VIM. King were at
that time delegates from this county and to their
strenuous And restless lAbors and plcadings, are
We indebted for the passage Of the bill. The great
di6culty OF the minds Of members was, that thu
could not think Of appropristing the funds Of VIZ
gsntlsman who was present informs Us that he
sayQ6- Damn with . map spread out before him
endeaSoring % convince those urging the forego
ing objection, that the road would not only be
tireiy in Virginia, bat that 1t would leave scope
several miles in width between tho work and tho
State line. One member. from a county in tho
Piedmont Division Of the State, remarked, well,
Col Dunn. I'll risk tho displeasure Of my consit-
uents and vote for your bill, with your assurance
thSt the road will DO located several miles from
the Tennessee line" He voted for the bill, and by
his vote the bill was carried. We did not obtain
these facts from Col. Dunn. but we'll are we sat,
listed II their truth. that we submit them without
the lear Of contradiction.
Good faith, then, We maintain demands that the
intersection should 10 at or Abingdon and to
make Bristol the point would be pal pablo viola
ton Of faith.
But there are reasons standing out against the
dollars and cents argument Of our Bristol coteInp-
orsry, that ought 70 have some weight We al
lude 70 the part the people of Abingdon have Ia
ken, no, only in this, but in other great improve
ments-the aid they have rendered. thcpr'yaticns
they have undergone, and the sacrifices they have
made. But for them the Va. 4 Tenn. road would
not have been here to-day--aud if no road then
no Bristol. They made the road. and the road
made Bristol. Abingdon, too, is the principal
mart for al this country the centre Of very large
producing territory, and the point at which the
various peads converge, which constitute tho feed
ers to railways. Bristol, on the contrary, IL not
only partially in Tennessee, but it is not mart If
eny considerable extent Of country, has no public
means Of conveyance in any direction diverging
from the railroad, has claims for any aid it has
offered internal improvements, and above all, in
view of the pledges male in the Legislature that
Abingdon or vicinity would be tho starting point,
has no claims to the Cumberland Gap road.