The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1854-05-13
THE NEW RIVER LINE

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sAruRDAY noRNINo, NAT y, lss..
THE NEW RIVER LINE.
The whole burthen Of the articles in the
Richmond UiA;g, to which We have referred,
s the New River line while the James River
Canal. the Covineton and Ohio Railroad, and
lhe CITY q. Rinhmsnd, are ~ completely ig-.
nored ~ if there were no such things in Vir.
ginia.
The WAig. in reply to our reference to its
Of articles, the whole drift of
which is to deprive Richmond Of all partici-
patton in the Western trade, while it declares
ID desire to see Richmond prosper, says it
doesn't believe that that desire s'should pre-
clude It from an intelligent advocacy of the
interests Of the State at large" In that opin-
ion we fully concur with the Richmond 'thtg.
When the interests Of Richmond are found
in direct antagonism to the interests Of the
State. we can blame ne man for yielding the
former to the latter But IL is precisely be-
cause we believe that the interests OF Rich
mond and Of the State are identical, that we
oppose. as alike ruinous to both, the scheme
Of the Lynchburg virginian writer, copied by
the Richmond Wing. The New River route,
to which that writer is SO ardently devoted,
can never secure to Virginia the trade of the
West, for the simple and obvious reasons
that it must compete in the summer with the
uninterrupted water communication from the
Ohio, by canal, lake and river, to the North
esn ports, and In winter with the river trans
portation to N. Orleans, to say nothing of the
competition Of the Baltimore and Ohio Rail,
road, and the Philadelphia and Ohio Railroads
At all times. The only mode by which Vir.
ginia can fairly compete with her great rivals
Of the North. is not by single Railroad, an
Improvement which never has competed and
never can compete with water transportation,
but by q aniOn Of railroad and c0sal, and
that road is to be preferred 'ehtch ~zH go
along the line of the canal, arhich wiH prore a
feeder to ii, and demonstrate the necessity Of
its ultimate ertenSfOn to the ono. y.
II is therefore that we advocate the Gov
ington and Ohio Railroad, and advocate it as
q great State work, believing that its impor-
lance to Norfolk, which, if she is ever to be
come great commercial mart, must be made
30 by the James River and kanawha Canal,
is thousand times greater than the scheme
proposed by the Lynchburg writer in the
Richmond Wing Viewed as grand auxil-
larry 10 the prosperity of the James River Ca
nal, and its final extension to the Ohio, the
"a Covington and Ohio Railroad must commend
itself to the people of Norfolk as well IS OF
% Richmond, and to the State at large. 1t
would be very easy to demonstrate its supe
riority in other respects to the scheme of the
Lynchburg writer, but we win simply con
tent ourselves at present with the remark
that it is thirty miles nearer from Lynchburg
to the Ohio. by Haynes Farm, than by New
River. The Coyington and Ohio Railroad
will also secure to Virginia vast tide of
travel to the Virginia Springs, and thus an
nually lead to an expenditure Of millions of
dollars within her borders. which she would
otherwise not receive.
1t is true that the Wing does not endorse
these New River articles, and says it has not
read them all, nor any of them carefully. 1t
also offers to make room for the communica
tions of any gentlemen who may feel inclined
to reply to them. We trust that some cham
pion will step forward andgive an anti
dote to q scheme, which, if successful, would
be injurious not only to Richmond. whose
tradsit would cripple if not destroy, but to
Norfolk and to the State at large.
VIZ xr:sb - 1s.x:,oxI,, -. 49, -.
have no objection to the New River improve
ment per Sc, but simply to its substitution for
the Covington and Ohio Railroad, and the
James River Canal. A policy which con-
templates the prosecution of all these works
will give vitality and strength to all, without
the substitution of the New River for the Co
vington railroad and canal, will injure both
these last improvements, without securing
any compromising benefits from the first.
. THE ABOLITIONIST ANNIVERSARY.
The American Anti Slavery Society" held
its twentieth anniversary at the Rev. Mr..
Chapin's Church, Broadway on Wednesday
last. Garrison presided Wendell Philips,
Abby Kelly, Garrison, Quincy, Jackson, Rev.
Mr.. Foss, Of New Hampshire, Purvis, a free
negro, and others, made speeches. The prin-
cipd objects of their attack, besides slavery
and shareholders, wasthe American Union and
the Church. As specimen of their treason
and blasphemy, wemake the following extract
from the speech of one of the orators, Henry
C.Wright: e# lf'. sst & z-n.i -
'The founders ofthe government mt committed a yjt.l
error In giving the same rights to liberty and slavery
n' country %r denies God Or if believes God do
most accursed of demons. According to the commnn
acceptstion Of the term, Jesus Christ knew nothins
about Christianity: And If Jesus came to New Yori
NO Christian would recognise him, and no puI nil
SSeia receive him. Now, eau follower of Jesus 20
where ms d aster would not be admttedl The ns,os
nes me ~ Ihs.tsas God ha. become bulwark Of de-
have been prsctsed under it. Ne mans risbts can IN
sssSsnsned by references to Bbe a law, or con-
manon. don't care that tsnapping his fnser,I Sor
nv saen book or constitution when the question of
o. slavery ITO be considered. The only thna
importance 10, that the mass of the peonle vsnars,
VIII mi. We should endeavor to do swsS