The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1856-09-09
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In Mia late speech 81 the Alum Spf'nss, ~,
WIZ. aa,d: .svirsinia was laid out ~ MAN,
"a ~ .uch grand scale, that q took time % =.
49,. h.r rssosreea Her pressnt works o. !.
800, ,,nprovemsnt were but dwarfsn p'onso,s
:, .,..der. nob,sr works 70 follow. sns "s.'s
49, every rsyai State faster than they na'e -
a. q The last fifty years He proceeoea y -.
IA. hi, views were not Utopian- ne "
v,rriniau who did not believe 1t. IL can W N>
II shall be DONE"
TIL. l.nru.ee has about II the ring 81 inc 'lue
-, ~ the snirit of the speaker pervsoed INC
.s.a 80 virginia, the thing would not only
ts 49,, :, vonIa be done SOON This long An
.,'.-s.ss .,,,,sn,um would gladden. the eyes OF
.S-r..,a. NJ men OF middle age who, having
-, \, nr;me of their life to the cause OF inter
p, ,,,rrovements, would feel rewarded Tor al
.h.,, ,.hors II their evening of existence could De
.b..red by the advent star Of Virginias redemp-
,,on II Is glorious to believe that at some future
d.v This GOOD old State will stand first In power
and prosperity among the States Of America oui
=. confess to q selfshness that would enjoy that
s,ectacle vastly mere II we could behold itthrough
our own eyes than the eyes of posterity. We dont
like the idea of finishing our own existence "ni's'
the public works Of Virginia are in an unnn'sne.
condition; whilst the Covington Railroad Is no'
constructed, nor even the noble Central completed
nor the great James River and Ohio Canal pusned
to It's termination. If spirits are permitted 10 re-
visit the earth. the old internal Improvements
party of Virginia will be bound to watch at Gov
ineton for the first excursion train from Richmond
to the Ohio. We'll"wait for the wagon and all take
q ride" until which happy event occurs, we snail
haunt the antiinternal improvement party tillthey
can end no rest for their souls.
But cannot the noble triumph OF Virginia be
achieved in the present day and generationf Is 1t
not possible that the Covington Railroad and Canal
at least should be completed in ten yearsf Ten
yearsi Why, that amount of time now is equsi
to q century in former ages. In ten years West
ern wilderness becomes q f1ourishing city, ana =
few thinly populated settlements mighty State
In ten years New York, Pennsylvania, maryland,
will have ten or dozen more railroads to the
West than they have now. If, all that time, we
stand still. trade will become 80 accustomed 70
other channels that we may be unable to change
its course With railroads running all about rs,
North. South, East and West, we shall be left like
a rocky island, in the midst of streams that re-
fresh and ferize every part of the world but our
selves.
Governor Wise has truly said that Virginia was
'Iaid out by Natures God on such grand scale
that It took time to develope her resources" Alas,
it takes too much time! If Natures God had not
laid out the people Of Virginia on as grand scale
as their State, we should cease to wonder at the
slowness of their operations. But they have en-
ergies capable of surrounding all the difficulties
of their situation, yet they will not concentrate
those energies the development OF the resources
of their State. A race of men which has produced
Washington, a Jefferson. a Henry, Marshall,
Mason, q Madison, a Scott, Taylor, cannot be
lacking In either the intellect or the energy neces'
sary to overcome all the obstacles which retard
her material progress. The grand error has been
that her sons have given their talents and powers
70 federal concerns instead of finding the true and
noble theatre of ambition and of effort in the do
nestle affairs of their own State And what has
been the resultG The Union has become strong
and Virginia weak. What might she be now if
Washingtons plan Of connecting the waters oil
the Ohio and the James by continuous water
line had been promptly carried out, and if the
great men of Virginia, instead of going to Con.
gress and endeavoring to promote the strength OF
the South by a wordy warfare, had devoted
their time and energies to the development OF
the resources of the Statef Why, the glorious
Future pictured by Gov Wise, and which is to
occur fifty years hence, when it will come too late
for the salvation of Southern society, would be
the grand and protecting PRESENT Virginia
would now be the frst of American States. The
James River Canal would be the avenue of as
vast an amount of trade as the Erie Canal; Virgil
mia would have as many railroads to the Ohio, as
New York to the West; Richmond, Petersburg,
Norfolk, Fredericksburg, Alexandra and Lynch
burg would all be large cities; the James river,
York river, and the harbor of Norfolk, would be
filed with the shipping of the world The State
would now have a population of three millions.
In short, Virginia, instead of New York, would at
this moment be the Empire State of the American
Union And what would have been the result
upon that slavery question which now threatens
to shake the Union to its foundations2 The result
would have been an infinitely more perfect and
inyiolabe guarantee of the security of Southern
situations than any constitutional compact which
ever have obtained, or ever could obtain from the
North. With superior wealth, power and popula-
ton on our side, who believes that abolitionism
could ever have dared to menace the institu
tions of the South2 1t is our weakness that in.
vites aggression. 1t is because Southern states.
men have mistaken their true field Of action, that
Virginia lags behind her sisters in prosperity, and
the whole South, whose shield and bulwark she
should be- 10 left exposed to insult and humiliation
Popularity of Louis Napoleon.
The New York Tribune, which occasionally
takes all the governments of the world in hand,
predicts the speedy downfall of Louis Napoleon.
The intelligent Paris correspondent of the N. Y.
Journal of Commerce, who has lived many years
in Paris, and is probably more thoroughly con.
versant with French affairs and the French char.
acter than any man in Europe, exp resses very
different opinion. He AYERS that the Legitimate,
Orieanists, Republicans, Socialists-severally or
togesher-are too weak to threaten seriouslv tho