The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1854-11-08
THE DAILY DISPATCH


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WEDNESDAY MOANING, NOVEMBER Q. 1874.
Tar NORFOLK CoSvESrioN.-This is the
day OF the assembling of the Norfolk Con.
WESTON. We trust its deliberations and &C.
ton may be guided by broad and compre-
hensive patriotism, and thus prove fraught
with benefits to the State at large. If mark.
ed by sectional spirit, and if made the
means of assaifng one city or section. in
steadof elevating all, it can be productive
of no good results, nor indeed Of results of
any kind, save fresh heart.burnings and dis
cord among those who should be united as
one man, in endeavoring to build up all the
interests, and with them, the prosperity of
the whole Commonwealth No moral weight
will accompany the recommendations of any
Convention which does not recognise as the
great end of its policy the general welfare,
or which is governed in its action by any
other consideration than the public good.
We trust that the Norfolk Convention will
pursue course calculated to render efficient
aid to the cause of Internal improvements in
Virginia, and not to throw new obstacles in
its progress. There need be no rivalry be-
tween the various cities and sections of Vir-
ginia. There is room enough for US all, and
the prosperity Of one is the prosperity OF the
other. At one time common lethargy and
stagnation characterized them all; but when
the fog passed away, it passed away from all
at the same moment, and all emerged togeth-
er from the darkness into life and sunshine.
Richmond, Petersburg, Norfolk, Lynchburg'
Alexandra, each and all sre fiourishlng; ano'
so long as they have fair field and honora-
BILE competition, each and all will continue
to flourish. But the moment that an at
tempt is made to exclude either of these CT
ties from 8 fair participation in the dement's
of the public works of Virginia, that attempt
will react fearfully upon those who make H.
and the love of fair play, which is instructive
in the Virginia breast, win rise in behalf OF
any community which it is thus sought to os-
tracise and crush.
We attribute no such purpose to the Nor
folk Convention. If there are any two towns
in the United States which have common in
terests, they are Norfolk and Richmond. In
the greatest public work of Virginia, we
might almost say of the United States, the
James River and Kanawha Canal, the pros
perity of Norfolk and the prosperity of Rich
mond are both identified. Let us hope, then,
that they will labor together in earnest and
harmonious efforts for the common good.
WORTHY THE CONSIDERATIONS OF NORTH II.
ERN MEN.-The Boston Traveller, complain
ing of the depression of the shipping interest
says: "The great avenues for the employ,
ment of vessels are now closed, and there is
nothing left for large ships but Southern
freights Vessels are now sailing in large
numbers from New York and Boston for
New Orleans, Mobile, &c, and the prospects
are that freight at these ports will rule at q
low rate the coming season. 1t is in the
f.ce, SAYS the Charleston News, "of such
statements as these, showing the dependence
of the shipping interests of the eastward on
the freights earned by carrying the great sta.
ne of the South, that mobs are raised and
rots got up to divest the southerner of his
property in slaves. The acknowledgment
that without cotton freights for eastern ships
they would be without employment, appears
in singular contrast with political combina-
tions formed to destroy the constitutional
securities of the South. There is nothing
left for large ships but southern .treights,
exclaim the organs of anti slavery; yet the
labor which raises the produce supplying
these freights is stigmatized as a curse, ant
the owner a despot. Mr.. Sumner makes ha
rangues at political meetings against the ex
tension of slavery, and, but for slavery ship
wrights at Marblehead would starve, and ship
owners become bankrupt. At almost the very
instant that declarations are poured forth
against the sinfulness of slavery at Faneuil
Hall, Boston prints are deploring the losses
Of eastern navigation from the fact the sea-
son has not set in for Massachusetts ships to
visit southern ports, to retrieve those losses
in transporting the produce which is exclu-
sively raised by this sinful labor. There are
many forms Ofinconsistency, and those which
are not grossly selfish may admit of pallia
ton; but not that which borrows from spu
rious philanthropy the means of ministeriDg
to gain by appealing to the low passions Of
fanaticism. The New England States as
section, should be the last in the confederacy
to barter, for profit, place, and power, the
rights of the South
PLAIN TALK.-The Church Review, a very
able and learned Episcopal periodical, pub
lished in New Haven, Connecticut, cannot
certainly be accused of lattering the people
of its section. Noticing work called Far
mingdale. by Caroline Thomas, the Review
says: 1.-The stolid ignorance, tbs contracted
meanness, the cold-hearted, calculating sci.
fishness, the want of moral and mental Gull
ture which characterize large class of Yam.