The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1854-06-10
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For several months, Messrs EditcrG have mott
ced that most uncompromisDg warfare has bees
waging within our city against the Richmend Ere
dericksburg and Potomac Railroad Company. apt
oeng ignorant OF any action the part of eithel
the Council or the citizens generally (nofwith
standing appeals ofthe most nfamnatory characte,
have been made TO both. and the peace OF the CITY
threatened0 altering the status of that COMPANY OF
diminishing the rights and privileges which for more
than twenty years they have been permitted qui
ety TO ENJOY, must ask YOU, or some one of your
better posted readers to inform and MANY Others
VINO, IKE myself are in the dark upon this subject
why, just at this time, when an active competition
Is starting for dverting the travel TO the Orange
and Alexandria Railroad, it should be deemed ne.
cessary to emharrass the operations of this old COM
pany by special instructions the police to report
now, as violations of the ordinances of the CITY.
wnat they have been allowed to do heretofore and
WA wnst every other railroad company similarly situ-
ated. may do with impunifyi As Citizen and pro.
perty holder do not object TO A fair comne,jt;nn
oetween this railroad and the Central provided the
interests OF this city not endangered: but hone
tnat no influence will be brought to bear upon our
officers whereby the ordinances shall ha ar,;aIl,,
executed Property holders and tenants living in.
mediatey In front the Depot on Broad streef and
who must be most annoyed by the onerationa nf the
Company, have not only not complained of the an.
noyance, but have nearly without exception signed
petitlon with about four hundred other SIGMA.
lures to the Council, protesting against anv action
by that body to diminish the privileges heretofore
enjoyed by that Company. Our citizens generally
understand pretty well some OF the motives now iT,
operation for carrying the business done by this
railroad beyond the limits of the CITY. and thew
snow that comports with the true poiicv of eyery
city to have the products brought to 1t from abroad
deVered as near to the central or business part Of
tne city as possible, and hence when meeting OF
cltlzens was called to take steps for the repoovsf
OF the railroad from Broad street. onlv some sixty
or eighty persons could be induced to attend II -
iney understand in some measure the many selfish
interests at work to remove the Depot or other wise
embarrass and injure this Company and can fuIIv
appreciate the hostility Of certain individuas in The
employment and pay ofrival companies but az the
city OF Richmond has no interest to be promoted
hy giving comfort and support" to the Orapue and
alexandra railroad, (Which is destined to intiict
q, most grievous injury upon her by taking away all
the dement's for which she has paid in the virginia
and Tennessee Railroad, as well az LARGE norton
OF those which she has purchased in the Central
and IN the James River and kanawha Canal they
are al loss TO understand how or why the city
should be made party to this strife and one of
these Companies prosecuted at the will of persons
interested to injure it, or of lordly gentlemen.
whose delicate senses are annoyed by the noisy
hammer OF the honest artiZan. When Mrs Poti
phar complained to her lege lord that they were
getting down town." "that there were actually
shops In the next street, Mr.. Potphar like good
CITIZEN and philosopher, did attempt to remove
the encroachments on his "palatal residence" as
nusances but quietly yielded to the manifest desti
ny and determined to build higher up town. But
with most of those who seek the removal of the
railroad, the nuisance of which they complain has
not encroached on them, but they on it, They have
cometo the railroad, instead of the railroad coming
to them
But this ia a subject, Messrs Editors, which
should not be viewed in a one-sded manner, and
the war which is now wa2ing against this railroad
company, to deprive them of the rights and privi
leges granted to them by the Legislature and the
Council threatens not only the rights of every other
railroad within the city, and of every laborer OF
mechanic whose shop may, to please certain fan
cies be objected to as nuisance. Military pa
rades will thus be prohibited and fire engines ex
cuded, because they do not exactly harmonise with
the tears OF such persons as most inconsisenty ane
ed city.
Unless. therefore, there is some ordinance of tn,
Council adopted specially to restrictthis Compnny
(Which cannot believe,) do not understand why
the vigilance OF the police is now more necessary
near the corner of seventh and Broad streets than
at the intersection of Union and Broad, where the
Central Railroad crosses, and where the danger il
much greater. must therefore beg you, Messrs
Editors to enlighten upon this subject and
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