Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1854-07-25
To fbe Editors OF The TirPinidn

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To the Editors OF The Tifginidn;
GENTLEMEN IL have neither the nclinatior
nor the intention of entering into any controyerr
sy with - Citizen of Richmond" but his late,
communication to your journal demands few
words from me in reply, which | shall endeavor
To render as little prox and rhetorical as possible
Dscarding then all preliminary fonrishes, vii
proceed at once to notice such points in your cor
respondents article as deem worthy OF consld :
Grafton.
In regard To the first on the list of disnterusto
arts which Richmond has perform, d for the bene D.,
fit of her sisters. | would respectfully enquire o.
IN Citizen of Richmond" whether hebeleyes thu
best speech in behalf of the South Side Rail Roao
would have been made by Richmond Represen.
tatve, if the Danyie Rail Road had not inter-
seeted the South Side road, and thus fattered the
Richmond community with the expectation that
there would be irnnsference at the junction, o.
the greater portion of the produce which should
be brought down the South Side Rond from the
West And when Richmond discovered that
she had reeoned without her host, did she not u
hope do not errl give you polite intlmat'on or
your consequence in her eye, in the shape OF
doputation of her citizens to meeting of the
Stockholders OF the Virginia u Tennessee Kali
Road which was held in your city, with the ovowed
object of procuring an extension of the Virginia
and Tennessee Rail Road to Richmond as if your
own city were unworthy terminus ot that
great work And was not bill reported in the
Legislature at its last session under the auspices
of her own Delegate, Mr.. Anderson. having for
its object the extension of the Virginia * Tenn.
Rail Road To Richmond or, in case this project
failed, the authorizing of an independent compa-
ny to construct nail Road between Richmond
and Lynchburgl In regard 10 this measure, l
must be permitted To say that consider u the
most odlous, unjust snpertiuous, aud unpatrouc
/ IL. an I'm hYn nd
limits of the Commonwealth; aud, il carried out,
it could not fail to sully her honor, and involve
her Golfers in bankruptcy. Wonderful eNh'hl-
ton of affection ON the part ct Richmond towards
Lynchburg, Petersburg. and Norfolk Exemplary
patriotism
The subscription of 100000 by Richmond
to the Tennessee Railroad was doubtless mado
from interested motives. She believed the Canal
and the Danyille Railroad would secure her the
trade. The reason Petersburg did not subscribe
the fact that she could not d0ord 10 do item
gagged MS she With her own gigantic under
taking of the Sonth Side Railroad, which will in
yoye an expenditure of some S3,OOO,OOo-to say
nothing of other works radlating from her rs u
centre To different parts OF the country. As Tor
! the Norfolk and Petersburg Road, thore was no
reason why Richmond should be either partlou
larly partial or particularly hostile to it; and her
voting for il, thereiore argues nothing. But tho
charity of Richmond spurrs to be confined to the
limits of the Stato-it embraces in its genial folds
the interests of neighbouring Commonwealth
Richmond actually votedtor the appropriation ot
5000, 900 To the Clarkesville and Ridgeway Rail
road, the greater portion OF which hes III North
Carolina, whena shorter road would have con-
nected Gainesville with the Danville Railroad
| Who knows but that she calculated on this very
connection in due time hereafter. when til pre-
sent arrangement will be all tie better. | pre-"
sumo she subscribed immense sums 100 towards
the original construction of the Raleigh and Gas.
| ton Road, and but Il short while ago put Peters r
burg to the blush by the alacrity with which she
reached forth helping hand to lift the Pickering,
expiring flame of that road from the socket Her
benevolenee towards n. Carolina is further oX~
emplifed in a secret project which she cherishes
of extending the Danville Railroad to Green's
boro thus nhioting deadly injury ON the grea
Central improvement of that State, which will alb
sorb millions in its construction. The charge
that Petersburg has never subscribed to any
thing that would benefit Richmond | cannot but
deem gratuitous for | am quite certain that her
citizens have subscribed literally to the Rich
mond and Petersburg Railroad, from which Rich
mond has reaped vast advantages; and also to the
afore mentioned Raleigh and CASTOR Road, from
which she receives large quantities OF tobacco
1t is true that Petersburg did oppose the Dan
vile Railroad. terminating where it does and i'll
her inimical attitude towards il, she was covered
by that strongest of all laws-the law of self
preservation. As toyour correspondents query
about our choice of terminus under certain sup
posed circumstances, can Only reply that,f the
Road was obliged to be built | would surely pre-
fer Petersburg as a terminus to Richmond (which
is not the best market in the state J though
should have objection to seeing road built
from Danville to Lynchburg along with one to
Petersburg. Would not Richmond consider it
highly impertinent in Petersburg to demand an
air line railroad to Charlottesville Further
more, in regard to this Danvie Railroad,I well
remember the eomplaeent vaccinations which
have heard her citizens indulge in about the ruiz
nous effects that road would entail on our COM
meroe I; but "a citizen of Richmond" would have
me to believe that these cherished anticpations
were rooted in the bandest of all sympathies--
the most heaven born of all charities.
deem your own editorial remarks upon the
Covington and Ohio Road amply sufficient to meet
this point, and | shall pass it over without furth
or discussion. As to ~ petty contentious be-
! tween Norfolk and Petersburg, trust they have
passed away forever, and,a an evidence of good
will on our part towards that city, can bring
forward the course of our representatives in the
Legislature in reference to the Norfolk ami Pc
tersburg railroad--a road certainly not designed
by its projectors to benefit Petersburg to any
great extent. About the contemplated railroad
from Appomattox county TO the Dan and Banis-
ter rivers, confess | know nothing | have a
slight recollection of some such project being in
trodnoed into the Legislature at its last session:
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