The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1854-10-07
rHE DAILY DISPATCH
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NORFOLK CosvEsrlos.--The South Side
Democrat, in an article on this convention. ex.
presses the hope that the Covfngton and OHIO
Railroad win be emphatically endorsed. with
fee feet gauge and none other. Hregards the
New River route as discordant element,
but, would say to its friends, build the road
you have already three-fifths appropria'
tion.--go to work and rouse among those who
expect from it such brilliant future, anoth-
or fifth, &C., "and leave Petersburg and Nor
folk to elaborate the other, and in our the De-
mocrst's) opinion. much more important
route"
Although not included in this arrangement,
we trust Richmond may be permitted. - hav
ing some slight interestin this Commonwealth,
and being called on to bear the principal bur
then of the taxation that may be imposed for
the route which is to be elaborated at Nor
folk, to have some voice in that operation
We therefore again invoke. our citizens to
assemble and appoint delegates to the Nor
folk Convention. They should choose, as
other towns and counties have done, their
best men. their ablest and most practiced de-
b tiers, to represent Richmond in that assem-
blage. We fully agree with the South Side
Democrat, that "if an enlightened and liberal
spirit is manifested in the deliberations of the
Norfolk Convention, If the whole State Is
sought to be benefited, then will it be hap
by day for the Old Dominion. But, if diff
ferent spirit manifests itself, if sectional pre-
JUDGE and local ACKNOWLEDGEMENT at the ex-
pense of the public good is sought to be fsist-
ed upon it, then it would be better for the
State that it had never BEEN"
The AGRICULTURAL FAIR.-As far as we
are able tolearn, there will be larger assem-
blage of persons drawn together by the ap-
preaching Agricultural Fair than were mere
upon the like occasion last year. The rail-
roads have penetrated further thsn they had
gone last year, and we have the additions!
stimulus this year of free transportation from
Alexandria for the members Of the Agricul
tural Society and articles to be exhibited
From the West, from the Valley, aud from
both the North and South side of James Riv-
CT there will be large number of visitors.
1t becomes our duty to see that this vast
concourse of people shall be comfortably and
well provided for, and in order that this shall
be done, it behoves our citizens to begin at
once to make preparation. There is time
enough: but there is certainly no time to be
lost They ought to take the subject at once
under consideration, and make such arrange
ments as the occasion calls for. They should
be well planned and actively carried out, so
that there shall be no occasion for complaint
and no confusion. We invite the attention
of our citizens to this matter, and trust it will
be promptly considered.
The NORTHERN PEoPLE.-That a MAORI
ty of the people of the North look with dis
appreciation upon the aggressive schemes of
abolitiOnism, we cannot for moment doubt.
A great mistake is often made by Southern
prints in failing to discriminate between the
true men and the traitors in the free States.
We fully believe that if the people of the
free States could all be assembled in one
place, and the question of interference with
slavery in the South be submitted to them
ninety-nine out of every hundred would be
found opposed to such interference. Still
farther, if the politicians would leave the peo-
pie to themselves, the great majority of them
would regard Wilmot Provisoes and Nebras-
ka bills with supreme Indifference. But the
politicians have made hobby of anti.slave
ry, and the abolitionists enoisy and active,
while the conservative portion of the com
munity are quiet and Winding their own bu.
siness. But the time has come when this in
difference will be as fatal to the public secu
rity as hostile and aggressive spirit The
good and patriotic men of the North must
arouse, and give the cause of the Constitution
an active support, or the abolitionists will
triumph, and the whole country be made to
suffer the penalty of their madness
TRICK OF THE FREE SOILERs.-Under this
head the New York Herald denounces, as a
free soil trick, letter from Illinois recently
published in Southern journal, in which a
strong prospect of the introduction of slavery
Aalo AnAAoio ID ACiu out, anu SOutileEucrS are
warmly urged to migrate thither with view
to effect such a reform in the constitution of
the State. The object of the letter. remarks
the Herald, would not be as transparent as it
is had it not contained a pithy sentence cal
ling upon Southern men to .let Kansas and
Nebraska CO." This explains the whole
The free soil emigrants find the Southern men
pouring in too rapidly for their purposes,
and hence the "tub to the whale" in the
shape of the invitation to reform Illinois.
EXTENSION OF THE SoUTHsIDE RAILROAD
TO CONTROVERSIAL an internal improve
ment meeting held in Lexington, Va, on the
I'd inst, for the purpose of appointing dele
gates to the Norfolk Convention, the follow.
ing resolutions were adopted:
Resolved. That In the opinion of this rneefins the
general interests of tho comm opwealrh imperously
dsmand--frs. tho construction Of the CoyinRson and
Ohio aaiiroad On State account second. the exten.
sion Of the Southsde Railroad by the valley Of the
James River and its trhu aries 70 the Eastern ter
minus Of the Coyington and Ohio Railroad: and
third. the extension Of the Manassas Gan Raroa1 10
connest with the Virginia and Tennessee Railroad n
or near Salem, In aocordauce with the views of the
ooavoneioA holden In this place In November 1858
Resolved, That our Delegates to the Norfolk cor.
vention BE- and they arc hereby instructed 70 pro-