Richmond daily times. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1853, 1850-12-06
DANVILLE RAILROAD.

cents.
DANVILLE RAILROAD.
We insert to-day communication from "a
Stakeholder of Charlotte" favourng change O
the location OF the Danvllc railroad, so as to cause
the route to pass through the Northern part of tina
county. The reasons urged are, that the Northern
route would better accommodate majority of the
Charlotte and Pittsylvania Stockholders anc
would furnish nearer point of connection with
Lynchburg acknowledging fully the force Of
these considerations, we must say that, in our
judgment they are entirely outweighed by those
which have governed the Directors in selectino
the present route. We hope to be able, in day
or two, to lay before our readers, some important
facts bearing upon this subject, which have been
ascertained by the surveys and computations of
the Company's engineers, and which must con-
vince every one who looks to the general interests
of the Company and the State, that a change Of
the route cannot be adopted without DESTROYING al
most all hope of the success of this great enter
PRISE. AT present, we feel at liberty to say that
the road will cost S500,000 more if located on the
Northern, than if located on the Southern route
The new route, which the engineers have recently
surveyed, would carry the road only some seven
miles nearer Lynchburg than it would be on the
present rou te and would materially increase the
whole dista nee from Lynchburg to Richmond
With the add tional sum of 100000, which the
road by the Northern route would cost, the aohole
line from The common point of the taoo routes to
Lynchburg can be graded. No reasonable man
then ought to think of changing the route in order
to facilitate the Lynchburg connection We wish
particularly to press this view on the Richmond
Stockholders, in order that, in giving their proxies
for the approaching meeting, they may have an
eye to the subject. We are fully convinced that
to change the route is efiectualy to abandon all
hope of making railroad to Danville and to sink
the money which has been embarked in the
scheme. And we express this opinion, with an
actual preference for the more Northern line. if
its advantages were equal to those of the present
one.
Gen. Foote, in one of his late popular addresses
in Mississippi, charged Mr.. Ellwood Fisher, of the
Southern Press, with having once been an Abo-
litonist. The imputaton was Indignantly re-
PEELED in that paper. 1t appears, however, that
the charge was repeated by an Aberdeen (Miss.)
paper, with curious specification, being nothing
less than the following extract from lecture said
to have been published by Mr. Fisher in 1915:
whilst however, ! do not concur with Jefferson or
the early Quakers, as to the means by which slavery
can be abolished, whilst do not think it can be done
by the act OF the master, or by law, MUCH oP
POSED IT, the OF it, any of them or AS
THE MOST ENTHUSIASTIC ABoIIToNIsT OF THE PRESENT
DAY"
We have not seen the authenticity of this quo
tation denied in the Southern Press although il
has attracted no little attention. The only COM
mentary we have to make upon it is, that, if the
sentiment it utters was really avowed by Mr..
Fisher only five years ago, it ill becomes him to
be advising the shareholders of the South that
the Union must be dissolved if they wish to pro-
tect what he now considers their most valuable in
sttution Their experience and convictions are
of rather older date than HIS and they are perhaps
fully as capable as he of understanding their own
interests. Least of all things, doesi it behove him
to attempt to brand true Southern men as "submis-
sonists," because forsooth their views do not COR
respond with those which he has so recently es-
poused.
If the language above cited has been erroneous
ly imputed to Mr.. Fisher, we shall be happy to
make the proper correction.