Richmond daily Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1842-1861, 1854-07-04
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poraton proper the other part and the Richmond and
Fredereksourg Railroad Company Of the third par but
principles involved Ia which the people of the
whole State directly interested.
Tho consistency OF the pursued by the citizens
aud the corporation, really matter OF anusemept-
Let any project for Railroad be introduced and all are
alive to the importance Of the undertaking Let Il be
gested that the terminus Is to be in Petersburg
Manchester, and every strained every excr-
ton made to induce those who have tho
the undertaking bring to the City Of Richmond
meetings called, addresses made subscriptions taken
and immense corporation debts incurred to insure the
petion of the work Let the question be submitted to
the people, aud the popular viii be three ono In its
favor notwithstanding tho hydra headed Of taxa.
ton s invoked frighten the md aud alarm tho eco
nomical Let DO inmaed that there Is remote pro-
liability that the depot OF the road will DO located on
Church Ill., in the Valley ard every citizen Of Shockoe
Hill from Screamcrsvle and ufiletown Eba and Ore.
will be in state Of mental agony bordering csnipons
ond spasms IT, the contrary, II be supposed that IA
possible that Shockoe Hill will be the favored spo the
Creek nation, including Buchersourg, Church Ill., Rock
e and every suburban appendagc with the Yaoos and
Choctaws, will be up with meataxes and tonahawks to
mpsle and scalp the daring who will perpetrate the
gran outrage Rather than the road should 20 to r.
ersburg, the corporation would subscribe fhs the
stock and make present the Company OF site
for depot IN the very centre of the city, and the General
Assembly would be proudly rated asses they did not
cier the Capitol Square itself iuduccment bring
| the road here.
Rather than permit be ccatcd on Broad street. as
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would be subscribed and lot after lot would be rendered
any other locality by every body else bring near
their own doors, and every man would consider himself
fortunate who could be instrumental in having
| ed near his neishborhood.
Foreign capitalists would be invoked to subscribe aud
every Involvement would be held convince them OF
the great profit that must inevitably flow from the con-
emplated work. Tho very genius Of liberty would pre-.
ce at every meeting, aud friendly smiles and greetings
would welcome the company and all its connections Now
let the stock be taken let the route bs located aud
| selected, that he
genius OF liberty will be dethroned and every impeachment
and obstacle thrown in the path OF the Company which
is possible for ingenuity to devise. First the corporation
commences byimposipg conditions that never limited
dreamed of before the depot estabished-the
Company il prohibited from ng into the street to get
TO Its depot unless consents 10 pave third Of the
eutre street through which is to pass and not only
that but Is required to construct its railroad and lay
down its rails and platforms aud tracks the Engineer
the city in his wisdom shall direct The next step is TO
regulate the speed Of the Companys engines The drivers
OF wagons and carts prohibited by ordinance from
going faster than walk, aud horses walk fast mules
c used, aud ii mules walk quicker than 9TH
be substituted il being detcrmu alton
OF the City Fathers instead Of teaching aboers go ahead
the Yankees DO TO make them slower than snaS
and move at the rate of the sloh But gentlemen in their
Carriages and fast young in their buggies and
dems with their northern trotters aud PAGERS may whir
along the most crowded horoughflcs swift their
rotters and PAGERS carry themi it's all right and
they occasionally child female and they
should be told, "why you a child" the fellow
would be considered perfectly amable il he responded
81 shouldn't wonder; there so many of them' The
Company is limited TO snaiIs gilop and then If they
load unload in the street, they be fined 0nc OF
the great inducements for building railroads and canal
is the wonderful amount Of produce they bring the
great OF trade. They the arteries aud veins
carrying tue life blood from and to the heart. We are
told before the construction Of the work. that instead OF
wagon here and there bringing few of produce
aud deposng their loads in grown up with grass
in which cattle Craze and sheep browse thou
sands upon thousands of thoroughres so crowded
that people wedgcd between vehicles such that
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aud such specaces believed elsewhere to be evidence
OF prosperity and the signs Of wealth, which attract the
stranger TO and induce him take up his abode
aud add population additional wealth and aid in
developing the resources OF this mighty empire. Else.
where il is considered great blessing that railroads
should bring TO the cities in which they located pro-
duce vastly more that can be contained in their own
depots aud that they should induce the creation of ware
houses Of immense dimensions for miles along the
line near their terminus and il expected that the bur-
den should be all these warehouses LOADING
and unloading throus hout the entire day. and it ia conss
dered ect Of pride and graduation that the stress
are filed with these evidences of thrift and unmistakabe
vviGcaon But our city fathers with eyes possessing
immensely msGnEing powers able obstruction
uncomfortable IN the widest street in the city, street one
hundred aud tweay feet WIDE in which there are not ten
wagons to be seen in day. in which, unless when tie
arrive il would be wonder twenty carriag,s
in day, in which about drays carts could ransl
the whole business of week. and in which there are mo-
five hundred passing in twelve hours and hos
rihed and thrown Into hts when ratoa daengne
ut intervals OF twelve hours, brings into the civ ten
fifteen twenty burden barely loaded aud wonder
u to be told nj six in the morning aud three in the
ng have been known 10 bring in passenger cars and
at in the morning and eight night carry out
sometimes one sometimes two and and then three
passenger each time. What they would do il they
were suddenly upset from their cule chairs in their
snoring Council room, and by magic transferred to
Chicago that village of yesterday, but that real city OF
to-day Sith lis fourteen Railroads bringing thousands OF
burden cars aud hundreds Of passenger per day.
more than brains divine, but Imagination lead
US 10 conf ecurc that each would either stanI stock
still with hands in his pockets, aud mouth wide OMEN or
would make straight streak for parts unknown. The
nezt thing ia, for the police OF the city be KEEP. ike
monkeys il Soc-oanut trees amusing Themselves N,je
with watches in thei. Eauds ascertaiDg the precise
time that is required TO mE.e W train and
The number oil seconds Necessary 10 unload n
burden Cor, and 10 wn, in greasy memorandum
book the number of minutes the passenger car re-
ms gu the track after the last passenger stepped Off IT,
PLATFORM that the said number OF seconds aud minutes
may be duly reported the Lord Mayor on the succeed
dg morn, and that the farce may be enacted osummou-
ing The officers OF the Company and hunnreds OF witnesses
10 prove dsproYc aforesaid memoranda and that
the police report OF the morning papers may TEEN with
H. +. +. IL Il Go. fined Tor keeping cars across 7th
street X +. X, K. Co fined for keeping burden car
minutes and seconds be- ond time uulo,ded. r. &
T. H. X. Company fined for running engine two inches
anu an eighth OF an inch farther than four miles per hour
asceranei by stop chronomeier better than Srew sbury
CLOCK held Ia the hands OF police officer, who 10 hs
day has timed Flying Chiiers, least Goharna or
Kiveuue. The next step Is for meeting Of citizens To be-
called to adopt resolutions that Riltoads arc nusance
ihat every man has natural right to nui.afce
that It ~ his bounden duty do So ri.k of mobs
RIOTS dis urbng the peace M every hazard and to the
last remty aud II he does It, he il a traitor 10
the city, and his unborn pUserity But OFT of tender
mercy, christian charity and great forbelraucc they fer
ther resolve that they will abstain from abatfg such
nuisnces but will appeal trumpet gued to the Coun
eli TO force the railroad and ts uncomfortable evils and ~
gaVated ills beyond .hc ci;y connes-the said Counci
having The fear OF the popular before their eyes
aud the popular lash Suspended their backs with the
hazard OF having themselves a6atei az nuisance for
non compliance with the aforesaid resolutions Now as
we siid these are matters in which we should not have
nteriered II all works u Internal might not
be harassed and treated IN the manner and every
other city, town aud village in the State through which
such works may chance pass may with equal pro,
prey act in like aud burden the transportation
oil the produce of the country with impostons aud annoy.
anccs really uncomfortable.
II as soon as Railroad or Canal Company have ercc
ted AZ great cost dcpots and engine shops with lchin
cry OF the most costly kind to make repair their con
ructions aud engines, they liable be elected orc
bly, TO please the whms caprice interest Of those who
Tor any reason may he disposed to mcddlc in the matter
ana are compelled 10 10 locality outside the
corporate limits; and il they again undergo
the expense Of recons,rucng all their works the corpo