Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-01-29

its way west of the Alleghanies2 Where
are our colleges and seminarics created
and endowed by legislative munifcencc Z
We are indebted to individual and de-
nominationnl enterprise for all the institn-
tions of learning among us, and these ure
only of the second and third class grade.
And with one single exception-thnt of
Bethany College-thc sons of Western
Virginia must be sent to the colleges of
thefree Statcs-OhioRndP PennsylYnuia-to
complete their education. Why SO much
favor shown to the East, while the sons of
the West are thrown wholly on their own
resources! Is not this unequal, unjust
and pNrtiOl2
Again, WhGt has the Eastern part of this
STATE done TO deUeiope the U1xt TeSouTces of
the Vest 6g lrGy Of internal improvements J
lis said by the historian, "West Of the
Alleghcnies, large part of the country
n'Hst i0TeVer continue in nPrimitive forest. It
is generally mountainous and broken, in.
terspersed with fertile r0keys, and occn-
sionally presenting rich 6Odies efsIinsestoRe
lana" which every one knows is the best
land for growing wheat in the world.
Acting upon this misrepresentation as
an arion, our Legislature has overlooked
US. and has appropriated the revenues from
the We't to 0uiId up the Easti while,
without aid, without encouragement from
the General Government, the West has
been left to depend on its own energies
and innate strength. In 1881, mtbe fund
for internal improvement" amounted to
one million fire huRdrsd thousand dollars,
with an annual revenue of 100000. Ont
of the annual income, the Stnte contribute
ed, in MD of valuable improvements, t,ro-
ltJfths of the capital stock Thee pdlu0bIe
improvements, par excellencc, have been
confined chiefly to James River; and now,
after fifty years have pissed away, and
millions upon millions hive been expenl-
ed upon that same James River-it is
about to pass from us forever, into tho
hands of n French company, and be under
the control of foreign capitalists. 1.-THE
VirGtntanS,are saidto be privileged to haze
bad roads. Surprising snch a privilege to
exist, they have certainly GVGiied them.
selves of 1t, lnrgely.' Aud why2 Because
all the revenues of the State which ought
to have been appropriated to the construc-
tton OF roads, &C., through the State at
large, have been applied to james River
and other local improvements, cast of the
mountains. And when any appropriation
has been made for the benefit OF the West,
it has been made in the spirit of-.tWe are
your lords and masters kneel down and
receive the tRvors We are pleased to be-
stow'-than through any sense of justice
or rightful claim we had upon their boun-
/ tyi and it has cost the West almost the
value of the Improvement to pay the ex-
Penses and hire oflObby members and log
1 rollers. ..z.s7
1t IS not saying too much, therefore, to
assert that Eastern Virginia has no true
R'0teTnal and SyRpqthehc feeling for tue
west; that our monies may he appropriated
as she pieases and ass she dIrseis, so home
Is bu1t Hp whether her western subjects
are benefited by the investment or not;
! if they areitis deeideHtGl, and moi through
design; it they are not, il makes no difSr-
enee; that if Western Virginia has grown
to her present proportions, outnumbering
the east in her white population, with a
minority, both in the House OF Delegdtes
] aud in the Senate, il is not thrnnph fsrrnr.