Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1859-05-21

Jpespesition from the Company was 10 procure a
lsan a half million 10 enable them 10 complete
HE Road. Col. Flood found that there were some
loan. and that IT would be quite as easy to induce
the State to increase her subscription to this ex-
tent. Accordingly. he took the liberty of chang
ling the character Of the Bill from loan to an in
crease Of capital stock. and got Mr. johnson OF
Bedford to offer the same as a substitute for his
Bill. By this means he saved to the Company
the sum Of $50, 900 per annum. the amount they
would have paid to the State as the interest upon
q loan Of half million. When We remember
that this city owns about one-twelfth Of the stock
II will be readily perceived that the saving to
US in taxes is about twenty-five hundred dollars
per annum. which tax would have hung upon us
until the dividends Of the Company should have
enabled them to pay it out Of their profits. Such
was the obligation under which the city was laid
10 Col Flood for his active cxcrtions and success
lin this matter. that n member Of the legislature
congratulated him upon his good fortune. and
upon the assurance that this act would make him
Senator while no lived.
Can the people of Lynchburg forget their bene
factorf We hope not.
Much has been said about Mr.. Lynchs proper
|ty interest here Ms argument in his favor. Col
Floods children have property here also, and he
is through them directly interested in the pros
perity of Lynchburg; nor is the argument-so
much vaunted-thnt Mr.. Lynch's local idcntifca-
ton with this city will enable him to secure our
North Carolina Railroad charter, worthy Of ono
moments consideration. This charter would have
been secured Mt the last session. had the delegates
from tho counties interested favored it.
To return to Mr.. Lynch. and with regard to his
agency in getting up the Agricultural Society
We have no disposition to disparage his efforts in
this behalf, and will give him all due credit for
what no has done We arc certainly under obi
cations to him for the accommodation rendered to
our citizens by placing his land ut their disposal,
whether it was useful to him or not. In truth. we
dislike parnding mems private business matters
before the public, and should have made no nllu-
sion to Mr.. Lynchs property interest. if our
neghbor of the Repubiican, in his zeal for his ia
voriic. had not dragged them into view, and based
his claims to public favor upon his enterprise and
Iliberality as n public man. We shall be happy
to be relieved of such II task in future. We have
shall be gratifed after the election to tender him
our bes, wishes for his happiness in that retire
ment to which the people mean to consgn him.
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In the discussion between Mr.. Wiley and Mr..
Garland the other night, an alluson was made by
Mr.. Wiley to the fact that Nirginin--onco the
foremost State of the Union in population, wealth,
commerce, md political power-now occupies
ffth-rnc position in the Coniederacy, and has
lost much of the influence which sl,c formerly ex-
ercsed in the public councils. All this had oc-
CURED while tho State was under Democratic rule.
Aud Mr. Wiley, very properly, held the Demo-
cratic pnrty responsible for tho result, arising.
it did from legislative neglect to institute those
measures Of internal development which have
made other States 20 much more powerful, with
not one. fourth the natural advantages Of Old \ir-
ginia.
Mr. Garland, in reply attempted to shield his
party from acknowledging that the Democracy
were equally as much in favor OF Internal I'M
provements as the Opposition. Perhaps. at this
day, they are. But, in the earlier stages Of the
cause it is well known that the Democratic party,
if not hostile to Internal improvements in Nir
ginia. certainly exhibited no extraordinary zeal
in their behalf. 1t only after the earnest
and intelligent efforts of n few patriotic citizens
had aroused the popular mind to nm appreciation
of the benefits which would result frcm easy arti
fetal intercommunication between the different
sections of the State, that there was any yielding
on the part of those who opposed Internal In
provements us well Ivy tho State as tho Federal
Govornmcnt.
Now, who were the pioneers of tho Internal
Improvement policy Of Virginia? Joseph {. Cab
ell, to whose laborious services we are indebted
for the Canal, was Wing Joseph Scgar-,hc
man who had the boldness, many years ago, to
advocate Internal improvements in portion of
Virginia bitterly hostile to his views-was. and
is. Wing. Whitmell p. Tunstall, by whose
llercuean efforts tho Danvlle Road was made to
outlivc the prejudces of it's friends and become u
splendid success, was n Wing. Edwin Robinson
is u Wing of the genuine dye. Tho chief Exeeu-
tive officer of the Central Read--who has been its
President from the beginning-and who has sue
ccedcd in pushing it almost to navigabe waters
on the West of the mountains--we mean Col. Ed
mund Fontaine-is Wing Vincent Witcher OF
Pittsylvania, +. b. Deane of Lynchburg, Lewis
Mckenzie of Alexandria, and other gentlemen
all over the State distinguished for their services
in the cause. are Wings. DIR. Mallory of Norfolk
and VIM NJ. Burwell Of Bedford rere Wings at
the crisis of the battle between the Int -nnl I'm
|provement men and anti-Internal Improvement
men-though We arc sorry to say that these two
gentlemen have now, politically, strayed away
from the true iold and are. like lost sheep subject
at any moment to be eaten up by the Democratic
wolves who arc going about seeking whom they
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