The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1860-01-16

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MONDAY MORNING. .......J JAN. 10. fseo.
~ Unten anA sar 1psernal improvements.
soAs sclthe thence Of which this paper has
oman discoursed, 10 the ina hence that the COM
plesicu OF our improvements connecting the
Chesapeake and OHIO, by way Of the James
River and Kanawha Valleys, would exert for
the ppesefvasion Of the Union, and, further
more. their inestimabse value to Virginia, a. q
means OF protection and strength in case Of
hostile invasion, or Of the dismemberment of
thu Union. All the arguments that have been
uttered IN their behalf. strong and potent as
they were, were feeble, compared to the strik-
inx manifestation OF their utility aud the
eminent necessity for them, brought 10 the
public mind by JonN Browns war, and by
our enorts ~ d,rect trade and the encourage.
meat Of home Industry. The water line TO the
Ohio, or the Covington Road to the Big Sandy,
would add immensely to the accumulated
products here to give freights to the direct
lioe, enabling our merchants to send away
our vessels always fuli-freighted, and giving
an impulse to our foreign commerce which
nothing else can. Thus sustained and fed
from the interior and great West, there would
not only be no trouble in getting up direct
liHes but our citizens would embark In them
with alacrity, as they would, beyond oil doubt,
prove successful and profitable.
The recent inroad by Northern emissaries
to excite servile instruction, and the wide
spread sympathy Of Northern people with
their objects, impresses npon us the necessity
Of preparing not only for defence, but for COM
mercial independence. No people so assailed,
who are wise, will fail to set in operation the
measures Of policy necessary for the promo
ton Of these objects. Yet Virginia finds that
her people are separated by such barriers to
commercial intercourse between the East ard
the West and Northwest, that ii is exceedingly
din1cult to frame any measure that advances
the common object without imposing incon-
venicnce upon eome portion of the people
The Northwest is bounded by free territory
and the great Kanawha Valley is Of necessity
compelled to trade down the Ohio river to Gin
cinnati 1t is easy 10 see how, with our great
works reaching the Ohio, these dfiic ulties could
be obviated nay, it is easy to see how the Vir-
GINA foreign commerce could be thrown into
the Northwest, and through the intercourse
between our commercial communities and
those of that part of the world establish
stronger sympathies there with us, and form
new and powerful ties, which, if they did not
preserve the Union, would unite in amity and
friendship Virginia and that Northwestern
Confederacy which will certainly grow GU, of
the ruins Of this Union.
The Legislature of Virginia can do nothing
more wise than to make liberal appropriations
to this grand object. The strongest minds of
that body should go to work upon it as the
best means of preserving the Union and pro-
teciing ourselves in any emergency which
may happen. Twenty-Five years ago Mr.. Sc
GAR, Of Elizabeth City, Chen from Northamp-
ton,) made strong appeal to the Legislature
upon this very ground in behalf of our in ternal
mprOvements--and yet twenty two years are
passed away and we are but little in advance Of
the position we then occupied. In this speech
Mr.. S. elaborated the idea that facilities Of
intercommunication assimilate the moral and
political afhnities of communities the great
connecting link Of Commerce to them being
what consanguinity is to the various members
of single family. In this view, he said, the
statesmen who projected the Erie Canal urged
that it would tend to strengthen the Union
And Mr. s. proceeded to address the same argu-
melt with energy and force to the Virginia Lee
gislature. He declared that at The time he
spoke, "if there was one idea more prevalent
glorious Union is destined, ere long, to de-
struction;" and he added, SIN this state of
public feeling, it becomes our solemn duty to
provide all the safeguards we can against a
catastrophe so revolving to every patriot, phi
lanthropist and freeman" He declared that
Patriotism was too frail a dependence for the
preservation Of this sacred Union. Ambition,
avarice. passion, thousand circumstances
affect it. Mr.. S. asserted that INTEREST was
a basis for the Union, which nothing could
shake "Mutual dependence, reciprocity Of
exchange frequent communication, We're the
pillars to sustain the temple of American
Freedom After dwelling somewhat upon
this view Of the subject, he thus concluded
showing how clearly he foresaw the advan-
tagre Of the connection Of the Chesapeake and
the Ohio in crisis like the present:
II tell gentlemen that the opening of one
line Of commu nication between the James
River and the valley of the Ohio will do more
to check the progress of abolition in the free
States of the West, than all the appeals which
eloquence can make and all the arguments
that ingenuity can urge. And, if ever, in any
i'll. fated hour, the Union must perish-which |
Con, in his goodness, long, long shall |
even then be benefited by having connected |
ourselves with our sisters of the West In |
THE NEW ORGANIZATION OF EMPIRE THEY MAY |
UNITE WITH US TO BUILD Up ANOTHER FABRIC |
OF UNION"
Lynching of Northern Abolitionists in the |
South.