The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1852-05-11

money Merchants and traoes" ,e 80
$50, a.., more sense than this. II a cred"of
en- ,oraelv indebted TO them-if they DeieVe
=. honest. industrious, sagacious, and
| .fhus;ness babits-if they see prospect OF
his ,;s;ug once more to his feet-they 90 not
,r..k him down at once. BY dong 30, they
-, oe, perhaps, ten cents in the dollar, and
III, console themselves with the old proverb
already quoted. But they are not, generally,
con,en,ed with less than the whole sum-
They. therefore, not only allow him to go on.
but in many instances, even advance him mo-
ney, to continue his business. Ifhe be such
man as we have described, they reap their re-
ward, and this we hold to be true economy, IN
the enlightened acceptation of the term.
1t has grieved us sorely, 10 hear revived III
these latter days, the cry which was raiseo
when Virginia first began to feel her way IN
the march of improvement. Enlightened rep.
resentatives of enlightened constituencies tell
us, that the country from which they come
will not be benefited by particular improve
ment, aud therefore they vote against 1t. 1t
would be easy TO show, that whatever adds to
the wealth of q State, adds to the wealth Of
every portion of it, even to its remoteskeorner.
But for this we have not space at present. We
will only observe, that this argument, if pur-
sued 10 its legitimate consequences, would
have forbidden all improvement, in every part
of the world. In New York, for instance, the
inhabitants of Lawrence or Franklin might
have voted the Erie Canal failure, because it
did not run through their country. But we
suspect, very shrewdly, that they have long
since found out that il has been beneficial to
them as we'll as to those who live on the 1.-The,
though OF in the same degrees. AS for those
who live within reach of the improvements al
ready begun, we have heard more than one of
them say that they already save, annually, in
the simple article of transportation, to say
nothing of The increased value of their lands,
more than they are likely to lose from any
addition to their taxes, even though those
taxes should be raised one hundred per
cent. When gentlemen refer to the increase
Of taxes as oppressive, they should re-
member, that when the State shall have been
once in possession of the revenue which can
not fail to accrue from the successful prosecu-
ton of the various enterprises already begun,
it will be in her power, as it will be her inter-
est and her duty, to reduce the taxes to the
lowest possible point.
We will close by saying that we are opposed
to appropriations forany new work, until those
| which have been commenced shall have been
entirely completed. And we would again call
| Ill 60 tbot ,bara
they are, iflegislatve aid be not afforded them.
| If the present Legislature should not be will
ing to grant the full sum necessary for their
completion, at least let them appropriate
enough to keep them in progress until the
meeting of the next. For Heavens sake, let
them spare the State the disgrace of stopping
short in a career which has attracted the atten-
ton of the whole country, and of losing all it
has already expended.