Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-04-04
WEST VIRGINIA MERCHANTS'
EXCURSION TO RICHMOND.

A proposition from the Chesapeake &
Ohio Railroad Company, the Richmond
& Petersburg and the Petersburg &
Weldon Railroad Companies, having
been made TO the Commercial Club, OF
Richmond, Virginia, to provide excur-
sion trains to convey merchants OF Nir-
ginia, West Virginia and North Caro-
lima In Richmand, the Club has made
arrangements for sending out tickets of
invitation 10 the merchants of different
localities, and have also decided to have
the West Virginia excursion party first
on the list. Tickets will. Therefore, be
issued to West Virginia merchants for
an excursion train TO leave Huntington
for Richmond on the 18th inst.
We have no doubt that many of our
merchants will take advantage Of this
opportunity for a very pleasant trip
and more especially for fostering COM
mercial relations between the two States
Since the separation from the old State
there has been almost a total absence
Of any intercourse, social, commercial,
or of other character, with the mother
State.
We regard the geographical obstacles
"a the explanation for this estrangement,
but now that railroads have sprung up
and are being projected, to give more
easy and direct access between the two
states, there is no reason why parent
and child should not again resume, at
least, the courtesies OF occasional visits.
Commenting upon the relations be-
tween the two States, the Dispatch ex-
presses, Enthusiastically, a feeling Of
attachment for the territory Of West
Virginia, which is rcciprocated very
generally by our people. After refer
ring to the separation. 1t Says;
The Blue Rilgc j. no barrier between
them; M barrier tu their indISSuluble
union. The Richmond and Allegheny
ruad traces the route wherein the liga
ment that binds them indlsOlubly
lies. That route is through the
Balcony falls, - that cut down
10 the Blue Rid.r % the water
line-the way from Richmond To Char,
lesion, Kanawha, and the Ohio river.
And the operations of that grand rail
wav will make the two STATES one in IN
terest, in pol tics, All in Snc Al feeling.
For Virginia, East and West, and for
society in It's grIndest aud lOveliest
phases, il will be well that this railroad
shall be bull, a; an early day. IL should
have been built forty years since. Its
construction then would have avoideda
hundred Ills that have raCked both
States 10 the bottom OF their hearts Its
construction now will bring back the
States 10 their natural sympathy and
that cOnCpnial harmony which cannot
fail TO iavoy the hest intercSas and the
most advantageous development Of the
resources and dignity OF bath.
Morally We have never hern willing
to recognize the lines Of division which
have been dotted down upOn the map
No, never. Virginia j. Virginia still
We love il ALL The Panhandle, which
has always resemhlcd the steeple upon
the state v and solemn house at worship
which Virginia reSembled, has been
ever % Us rs dear as any other part Of
theeminent domain, and when il ceases
20 be so regarded 10y Nirgiuians We de-
sire 20 be liberated TO become a citizen
Of that Other land from whose bourne
We shall never return 10 this.
let US cherish, wherever we may be
within her former boundaries, our love
for dear old Virginia God bless her.