The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1854-08-31
I.ATFsTlMAH. NEWS.
speeisi Correspondence Of the Dispatch ~
White Sulphur Springs Convention

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WRITE SULPHUR srarYcs.,
August q, 1854
Yesterday gave you the main particulars in the
proceedings Of the last day of the Convention. and
| now send you a more detailed notice Of them
The first thing In the morning wee motion by
DR. PArRIcK, requesting Mr.. sesar to furnish the
Secretary with coRS Of his speech for publication,
which was anauia ~ adopted.
Mr. McCoMAs of Cabe. then offered series OF
resolutions which he accompanied with speech,
in which he declared that the South side of Jsmes
River had been treated justly and that that Sec
ton OF Virgins being friendly to the Covington and
Ohio Railroad, the Convention owed it in justice to
Itself as well as to the people of the South
sie TO be more liberal towards them than II had
been In Offering his resolutions, he declared |, to
ba his object to obtain from the Convention an ex-
preston OF feeling calculated than any thing
i,hsd ye, done, to cenciiiste the South side
These resolutions were four in number, as fol.
lows:
Ist Resoired, That we depiore all unfriendly ri
airy between the Central Railroad aud the Virginia
and Tennessee Railroad in relation their respec.
tive contemplated connections with the Ohio river
2ad. That as friends OF the Coviagton and Ohio
Railroad, regard the friends of the Virginia and
Tennessee Railroad and the friends of the Virginia
Centrai Railroad as alike our natural allies and
.aoporters and look with equal hope 10 the speedy
completion of the two great schemes for connecting
the Valley Of the Mississippi with the Atlantc-as
well that the South as on the North side of James
River.
3rd That the best interests Of the Central Rail-
rvad the Virginia and Tennessee Railroad, the Nor.
folk and Petersburg Railroad, and the Sou,hside
Railroad require that The Coyington and Ohio Rail
road and the proposed connection with the Virai
MIA aud Tennessee Railroad should be completed at
the earliest practicable moment; and that to effect
this purpose, every effort should be made by the
friends of all the interests concerned, in spirit OF
concilia,ion compromise any differences of opiu.
ion or conflicts of interest that may be supposed to
rxisf, and that We friends Of the Covibgton and
Ohio Railroad, are prepared in such spirit to use
our best endeavors in the Legislature and elsewhere
TO effect such compromise on terms fair, honorable
and beneficial to all concerned.
ith. That for the purpose of harmoniziup the
opinion aud acton of the friends OF the va.
rious schemes OF Internal Improvement in the
State we cordially approve of the Convention pro.
posed to be holden at Norfolk IN November next.
and recommend to all the cities and counties of he
State the propriety OF sending delegates to that
Convention. where all can be heard and the inter
ests of all consulted.
Hr. McCoMAs advocated his resolution at copsid.
cradle length. his main argument was that as the
South side was represented in the Convention To a
very limited extent the matters at issue between
the North side and South side should be referred to
another Convention where all would be represent.
ed. he assumed that no good could come of this
Convention because all sides were not represented
and employed language in his remarks which Ia.
viewed censure OF the friends of the Coyngton and
Ohio Railroad for the absence of the representa-.
tves from the South wess and South side
Mr. JOHNSON of Richmond replied to Mr. McCo
mas contending that the Convention, in the reso
lutions it had adopted, had expressed the kndest
and most liberal feeling towards all the improve.
ments of the State They could not go further with
out placing some of those improvements more pro.
minent than the Covington and Ohio Railroad and
he imagined that could not be expected of them
NJ I,hr v,at h,nrxy ,a&,~ Al
ton could do than they had already done to meet
the original call for the Convention as set forth in
the resolutions of kanawha. except to advise the
call OF an Extra Session, which he believed the
Convention were nearly unanimously of opinion
they should not do. The views of kanawha on this
point had not been responded to by other counties
and !! would be highly injudicious for the Conven
ton to recommend an Extra Session IL wonld he
against the public sentiment, and it would bring
odium upon the Covington and Ohio Railroad by
making that bear the burthen of SO unpopular re.
commentator. IL would stand in the attitude of
espouslng measure odious Ia the general estima.
tion, while they would be unsided by any other in.
ternal improvement, and bitterly opposed by the
antilnternaiim party. He was sure this
Convention would do such thing.
With regard to the absence of the South and
Southwest Mr. commended that it was not the fault
of the Convention. The erms of the Invitation to
the Convention included the friends of the Curing
ION end OHIO Railroad, wherever they were, asd
the staying away was certainly proof of friend
ship to the road 1t friends of tributaries and
branches OF this great scheme remained away-re.
fused to take part in this Conventional was their
.faHh. With regard to approving the Norfolk Con.
vention and advising our friends to go there. Mr..
johnson preferred to leave that matter to the peo.
pie OF the counties especially those mainly in.
etrumenfai in getting up that Convention had volun.
tariy absented themselves from this Besides there
had been no division here upon any measure pro.
posed-this Convention had been harmonious and
united in what it had done, and Mr.. j. saw nothing
to refer to any future Convention.
Mr. Warn the Senator from, ooop D;st,;ot m,
tnued the debate He portrayed the difficulties of
obtaining large appropriations for the Covington
ana Ohio Railroad, and contended that 1t was in.
portant that the vote of the South Side should be
couciliated, or that vote would be bestowed upon
schemes in different sections of the State by way of
compensation for going against the Covineton and
ONO haiiroad MT W. seemed to have vivid idea
OF some horrible lOgrolling that would be carried
on d9d,nstthe Coyington and Ohio; but either for
got that the friends OF that improvement would be
in the same arena and not without power, or re.
garded them too vrtuous to employ it as he sup
posed the South Side would; conclusion certainly
not complimentary to the South Side people whom
ne expressed such desire to conciliate Mr. w q
ideas about the difficulties in the way of the Coving
ION hoad were peculiar. He avowed his warm
friendship for the improvement while maqnifying
It's difficulties to such degree that we're thew real
every one would despair of its success He exhi
pited decidedly Responding temper; one we are
Inclined to attribute to that bad health he complain
ed of and which he offered as an excusefor his linn
tied reading rather than to any insuperable obsta
eles tn the way of the great work
nthe course of Mr. Wards speech, he alluded
as had Mr. McComas, to what took place In COM
mittee OF twenty-one, stating that very able report
(of Mr.. Engineer Fisk) was presented to that COM
mittee. and that il contained some unpalatable
truths and was therefore not reported by the com
mittee to the Convention. The portions OF the re.
port objected to by some members OF the commit.
fee II ls understood, were highly favorable to the
canal-presentingt the immense advantages of canal
transportation as an argument 10 favor of compile