RESOLVED, That the Committee on Post-Offices and Post-Roads be directed to consider the expediency of providing for an air-line railroad between Washington and New York, which shall carry the mails of the United States, and be free from all local impediments.
This resolution was objected to, and so was postponed; but its immediate object was accomplished. The existing roads were stimulated, and the attention of the country was called to the idea of better communication between the two capitals of politics and commerce. A French paper spoke of the proposed road as “atmospheric.”
The resolution was renewed at the next session of Congress, December 5, 1862, when it was agreed to.
ABOLITION AND PROHIBITION OF SLAVERY IN WEST VIRGINIA.
Remarks in the Senate, on the Bill for the Admission of West Virginia As a State, June 26, July 1 and 14, 1862.
The facts essential to the comprehension of this case appear in the debate.