The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1852-04-02

faithful delegates she ever had in the Legisla.
ture, mir. C. L. Mosby,I because he moved a
reconsideration Of the vote by which the Dam
vile ra ilroad bill was rejected! He made the
motion but made severe speech against the
road. Yet that was not enough TO appease
the excited feelings Of bis constituency. we
fear they have not yet forgiven the ac'-ahd
that all the speeches and votes they ever got
from the President Of the DaDville Road, and
its friends, in favor Of their Improvements, are
considered but poor requital OF the mere aci
of courtesy performed in the motion TO recon-
slider by their delegate
One would think these indications ofhosiili-
" were quite enough; butlhey have not salts
fed the opponents OF the Danyille Road. They
have since employed every ar,ifce to induce
North Carolina 10 refuse to this road the priv
lege of connecting with her road. On one &C.
casion bill, auIhorising such a connection,
passed the North Carolina Senate, and was re-
Jecied by one or two votes in The lower house.
The opposition of Petersburg, and of Norfolk,
was felt on that occ asion-and more than once
have editorial articles, beseeching the Legisla-
ture OF North Carolina not TO allow the Dam
vile Road TO connect with their roads, been
produced in Raleigh. Petersburg, with the
gift from the State of the City Point Road, and
the transfer to her OF 1923, 900 OF per cent.
stock for stock in an unbuilt road Nor
folk, who is the beneficiary of gift of the
State stock in the Seaboard Road And, now,
,ba 4 4 G
its more Eastern allies. We say this is illbe-
ral-unjust to an improvement deserving to
rank among the first in the State. The very
Jealousy towards it, misguided as il isl if other
facts were wanting, proves the sterling charac-
ter OF the enterprise. But, the facts are easily
obtained. The counties, Immediately on the
line OF this road, contain population of 224,-
OUO, and pay about one sirth of the revenue of
the State! The tobacco made by them, and
those ofNorth Carolina, contiguous, inspected
of the State. Either Pitlsylvania, or Halifax,
make more tobacco than Bedford, Botetourt,
Roanoke, Rockbridge and Montgomery COM
6tned. The country trayersed by the road is
one of the most populous and wealthy in the
State. tits, nearly every inch of it, arrable
and susceptible ofcultivation. 1t crosses the
Dan and Staunton, at navigable points-the
combined valley of whose rivers, is over one
hundred miles wide. 1t pierces country
which is u part of the great Champaign ter
race, East of the Blue Ridge, which, for its
productiveneSs-the variety and value of its
productons-its heathiness, and the indepen-
dence Of its population makes it one of the
noblest sections of country TO be found any
where. Yet this has been called the land of
| desolation, and the road which strikes through
such a territory, extending TO the Southern
States, is considered very valuable estate
road" having no claims to be regarded as
national route
We refer TO these things in no bad spirit !;
and trust the day is not distant when they may
he pointed at as showing the strange conduct,
in times bygone, of men who will have become
more liberal-more wise in their views of pub
lie policy.