Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1852-01-15

Non-IntercOurse with the North.
The Richmond Va. Examiner ofthe 9th inst.
wlnes in the most pi,eous tones over the fact that
the people and corporations Of that great State,
are ia the habit Of purchasing their locomotive
engines, railroad cars, &C. in the fec States.
1t says:
There Is sabject connected wiki the rail-
roads OF the State, requiring public attention.
They employ large number of subordinates
from Northern States, who exert their influence
systematically, concertedly, and continually. in
inducing these companies 10 purchase everything
ceanectei with their works that may be had from
distance, OF their cousins, unces, aud grand
fathers at the North. Lynchburg establish
ment offers them contract for cast-iIon wheels
Warranted as good as can be purchased anywhere
else, at a cost 1--we per cent. less than is paid for
The Northern article. 1t is unhesilatinely re-
tosfd because they hare aIscays been in the
tG6lt ci procuring these articles from certain
firm IN Philadelphia" A Richmond establish
nsent offers to deliver their depots, at North
efn prices, passengers and freight cars as neatly
handsomely and substantially made as can be
purchased from any factory the Union. This
offer, too, Is promptly declined, because these
companies ''get all their cars at Hobokcn, New
Jersey" At the Central Depot In this CITY NAV
switches, upon which, deeply engraved in iron
letters, are the names of the makers in's oRcEs
TER, MASS" the kennel Of Northern Adolf
tonlsm. Such is the case along the whole route
of the great Virginia Central Railroad The
like IS true of the Danville Railroad. whose
President is so eceenirically eloquent upon The
subject of Virginia enterprise and Virginia pro-
gress Our railroad companies forget their zeal
Tor virginia at the moment their bills of appro-
prlaton become laws Their Presidents at once
fly off upon Northern tours, after Northern Of
Ulcers and Northern everything else that might be
had, Of better qualities, in Virginia.
Is this policy Ito be pursued perpetualIy?-
Will the Legislature allow it TO be pursued with
impunily' Is there no remedy for the abuses
Cannot these companies be compelled to purchase
their articles where they may be had cheapest,
even fit be in so unpromising State as Virgi-
mia? Is there to be ne end to this Northern tri-
butte? Are oar eyes to be continually insulted-
our pride perpetually nortifed with The labels,
t'Jelsey City, Worcester, Mass, . Springfield
and philadelphia, p wherever we travel in the
Siate?''
The wheie of the above TRADE is simply ridcu-
sous, for the reason that all its premises are false.
Ii i.ynchburg establishments could make car
wheels that would be considered safe, at cost
OF per cent. less than they could be made at the
North, or if Richmond car-buiIders could deliver
n Virginia, at Northern prices, passenger and
freight cars as neatly, handsomely and spbstan-
tally made as can be purchased from any factory
an the Union, there is no question but they
would receive all the orders from the yarioLs
Rail Road corporations in the Old Dominion,
for self-inerest, the ever controlling principle in
the management Of such concerns, wonld always
prompt them to make the investment where mon
ey could be saved other things being equal The
real fact in the case is, that enterprise is dead in
old Virginia. for there, labor is considered deg
radiation There, is nothing to tempt man to
try his inventive powers and cali out his eneIgles
and all this talk about <berer cars. engines, sc,
OF Virginia manufacture. is the merest humbug in
the world. If Virginia could do the work as well
and as cheap as it is done at the North, we opine
1hat the editor Of the Examiner woad not have
occasion to invoke the intervention of the Legis-
lature, tocompeI the citizens Of that State to buy
at home; but this they cannot do, and they ought
not to expect to do it, SO long as they live upon
theiruits of the unrequited toll ofiheir fellow men,
and render labor disreputable through the degra-
datlon which their laws ard customs impose up
on the men OF tell. Whea label is free, as we
trust it one day will be 4n Virginia, then the ed
i.or Of the Examiner, or those who may succeed
him in the conduct of his ably managed Journal,
will not have 10 ask the question as he now
doesin such agony Of spirit. why should Wor-
cester be built up at the expense of Richmond
and Philadelphia at the expense OF Lynehbnrg?s'