The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1854-09-25
THE DAILY DISPATCH
11ONDAY MORNING. sEPTEMaER Is. 1854.

sBla RtcRMoxD.'-The constant assaults
pf which .Big Richmond Is the target, are
AMONG the many animsting evidences Of her
growing importance and prosperity. As they
caanot be ascribed to any provocation. given
By her press and people, who are in the m
variable habit Of treating other commun
ties with the greatest courtesy ana respee.
We can only refer them to that principie y
nature Thy no means confined to Aa",an Ne,
ture,) which makes the possessor Of Dig
bone an unpopular individual among otntf
.niuaIs. II is the objectionable crime OF
Richmond that she is situated at the head OF
tidevater, and at the eastern terminus OF
the James River and Kanawha Canal
which could not well have had any other
eastern terminus, with q decent regard
to the fitness Of things. She is also the
capital of the State, and with the S'ale
pride common to people Of every Common
wealth, the legislators of Virginia nave -
former years looked with favor upon 'ne
metropolitan city. allowing it that share IN
the benefits Of internal Improvements 10
which it was entitled by its geographical po-
sition. The people of Richmond have CRATE,
fully received these benefits and proved that
they were worthy of them by paying one
eleventh of the taxes of the State, and by
subscribing, in their corporate and ndiviou
NJ capacity, millions of dollars for Internal
improvements. The result of their enter
prise and industry has been the building up
of city, which, in numbers, character ana
wealth is creditto Virginia. The head and
front of our offending "hath this extent no
more"
Judging from the incessant onsiaughts up
on Richmond, upon the Central Junto, upon
"Shockoe Hill" upon the Central hoao' upon
the Danville Road, upon the big ditch upon
the Snobs, upon St. Paul's Church, upon
Shockoe Creek, upon james River, one would
suppose that there must be living here race
of people of the most greedy, selfish, savage
and inhuman character, whose instant exter-
mination is demanded by the best interests
ofsociety. Nevertheless we belisys nsnkSnd
here are pretty much the same as mSnfinu m
other parts of Virginia and the civliized
world. They have eyes, ears, noses legs
heads, and, astounding as it may SEEM hearts
like other men. A Virginian isnone the less
q Virginian for living in Richmond. Nay
we will venture step farther, and audaclous-
" assert that the Virginians OF Richmond are
quite as good, honest, industrious, ana pup
lie spirited, and quite as free from selfishness
and desire to pull other communities down
that they may build themselves upon the RUNS
thereof, as the people of any other town OF
this Commonwealth. Shockoe Hill is also
very worthy and well behaved hill, james
River a very decent and well intentioned
river, and the Central Railroad very merl-
torious railroad, "Sam Patch" to the contra
ry notwithstanding. We do not refer to the
original "Sam Patch" but to Virginia imI-
tator, who, not warned by the melancholy
fate of his illustrious predecessor, has just
made an ambitious leap from the summit OF
the Allegheny, and lighted on the top OF his
head in the Norfolk Beacon, where he has
expired in blaze of glory.
1t is bad policy in an individual or town
to begin the work of building itself up by pull
ling others down. 1t is a virtual confession
that the assailants have no merits oftheir own
upon which to stand, and cannot endure the
test of fair competition. Richmond has COM
mittedno offence of this kind. While paying
larger share of the public burthen, and con
tributing to internal improvements greater
amount of private subscriptions than any
other city in the State, she has aided by her
votes and influence all the other leading inn
provaments of the State. Scarcely arailroad
in the East, scarcely turnpike in the West,
which she has not supported. The Lynch
burg and Tennessee road, which is to make
a city of Lynchburg, she voted for, and was
taxed for, and has paid hundred thousand
dollars subscription for, besides. The South
Side Railroad, which is to contribute SO large
ly to the prosperity of Petersburg; the Nor
folk and Petersburg railroad, which Norfolk
halls as her salvation; the Tdewater Con-
nexion; and the Railroads which are confer.
ring SO much benefit upon Alexandria, have
each and all received the support of Rich
mond. She has been taxed for their benefit,
and she has voluntarily assumed that tax, by
voting for the improvements which rendered
Unnecessary, and from which she could re-
ceive no earthly good. Yet it is this city, as
generous as enterprising, which it is the fash
ion of late to assail and denounce as grasping
and selfsh-which it is the effort of some to
run down, and if possible, to obliterate from
the map of Virginia; whose very misfortunes,
such as an occasional visit of the cholera,
(now entirely disappeared,l are used against
her, by those W no forget that the cholera has
visited ever city of Virginia, and the yellow
fever has in former years visited Norfolk,
and that, even this summer, cases were
brought to its waters by foreign vessel
But no one thence argues that Norfolk
ought to be avoided-certainly we do not
But if French vessel, or any other vessel
had come up the James River last summer
and landed dozen yellow fever subjects in
Manchester hospital, would Richmond ever
have heard the last of itl All we ask is the
same justice and fair play which are accord.
ed to our sister cities. sos
Thepeople of Richmond arein no wise NOV
cd from their composure by the manifestations