The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1859-02-17

muuasgay Maav 49,. FEBRUARY u. lsss.
xx.~,,y- .,a rfarksvfite Read
Once More.
n. ,s,r, !, rroneg to offer serse brief COM
..,.r,. an ,ne nsn,,auaic .tion If - Tax fassf.
TIA chi aees 10 the Keysyiiie extension that tue
~ansa 20 t~ertvens miles, aow haats OF tie
81. v.l,.s Railroad. ia fear feet eight and
- ,r,ua ,,st at the Daaville Is fse feet. thus
s..., . change Of baa. It 10 sufficient 10
-. ;n re,,y. that nothing Is easier than to widen
N. .au-e ef this ehort distance. work which
.aa he acoofnpl ished 10 two or three days at the
f.rthe., and by the hands now engaged on the
road Nv this simple AID economical process, The
whole of the rolling stock Of the Danslo Rail
rosd can be made available 10 the rev In"
rtaven.cas, thus avoiding another large source Of
expense. "A Tax Payer contrasts the distance
between Richmond aud RidgTay, gu the i.a'oigh
and CASTOR Railroad, (which is the point of juoc'
zion OF that road With the Roanoke Valley Rail
road, aaa by way of the DanvilIe Railroad, Keys
WILLIE and Clatksvillc, 10 tho same point. liz
makes the distance nine miles shorter, by way Of
Petersburg. than by way Of Kessvisie, &s The
aparisoa ray be correct. We we're satisfied thai
there was Dot much difference. But what Of that
gyKeysyiiie, we have the hope Of commanding
n part of the trade OF North Carolina; by Peters,
burg, none. The distractions to cur commerce. By
that route are almost iosurmoantabe. What With
delay, and commissions for two transhipmsnts
our merchants al most entirely cut of from Gil
opportunity to trade with the people OF the mid
die and Eastern part Of that State. II is
easier for them TO so 10 Baltuor, than te
come to Richmond, and TO the former city they
DO go. We do not exaggarate the facts. Let
CIR citizens ask our merchants. But ace hare Il
strong srtsnce Of ri,s, The anrty oppressed BY TIE
1xeple Of Roanoke Iai,v. far The construction Of his
road 10 . ksySctHt. Thay declare their desire to
trade with this city. If the Petersburg route had
not the obstacles we speak Of WHIT ARE THEY MS
asTisFIEp WITH IT =? They. we'll as We, consider
that the route By Petersburg is, in fact, prac.i
cal communication between them ard MS. And
yet ono of crr own citizens tells us that that ID
route with which We ought TO be satisfied! We
ask for bread, and he offers us st0ae-we ask for
szs'., and he kindly tenders serpent
"Tax Payer" Gays
p,es Il no, display too much of grasping ard
morcpoiiziug spirit in Richmond, TO step in and
attempt TO wrest from enterprisipg neightor,
Little Petersburg, the trade for which she the
frst to move, and 70 which shs is So legitimateIy
entitled
Is there another town in the United sta tea.
whose citizens feel such sympathy with ri sal
city? Little Petersburg, le2itimateiy entitled to
that trade. Lagitimately. How legisimateiy
Does tha. portion Of the earth belong to Peters,
burg Mas she monopoly Of the fruits .. the
coil In that q1arterg Or has she invested vast
auoun, In the Roanoke Valley Railroad that eu .
titles her to the .radei Not Que dollar Not even
.Mexicsn quarter. Not one solitary dime And
yet i: 10 legftirnately hes trade Now, ii there
/, any Legitimacy about it, it belong. to Norfolk
= Al in tjatr ODD
yet Petersburg has no scruples in taking this po.
session of Norfolk to her legitimate embrace We
have no fault to find with Petersburg; We admire
its energy, its public spirit and above all its IN
~ Of action, but talk about graspng other peo-
pies ,egitimatos Who got the State to build the
South Side Railroad to IynchbGrg and pat down
the rates 30 that the James River Canal was mr.
bic 10 pay itd interest and came before the legs
istnre for relief Who drew of to City Point our
"iesitimste" trade, 20: only from the Canal hus
from the Virginia and Tennessee Railroad, in Tiliel
Richmond had put hundred thousand dollars I
chE1ond has made no cutlery on that subject
she does net get up ahy 6esp0tic moropoi2tng
doctrine of 'lesit.macy, but, whenever she at
terap.s to sustain and strengthen herself, out
cry lie raised about q grasping spirit, aud ahou,
little Petersburg being iegitimately entitled to q
trade fox q nch she has never expended red cont
Richmond has rot single straight road ia any
direction, except the Dsayiiie Railroad; and ia the
construction Of that road she was rehtmautIy op-
uosed by the former dis:iu Iuisbed Petersburg re-
preventative, our old friend syme, who seems &c
have carried his hostility to Richmond TO Raieig b
and there assisted to defeat the Danyilie connec
ton. Richmond wanted q straight road TO the vi,
cinia and Tenprssee Railroad, in which che has
hundred thousand Gollars. bnt this too was ra
fused, TIE late ameuted Tunstali urged tha To-
cislatu,e to make a branch road from Keysvi,o :,
ClsrksviIie. This too was refused. aai instead -
u they made load from, GAINESVILLE to Ridpu.
~, the R.,Aigh and CASTOR Railroad which 49,
the State $3.50 oG0, to $4,000 Of private
tion--a road to uaite With nud build nm >,
improvements of another State at y;ra;,;
expense, and which does not yield virginia ono .a1;
tsry dollar. Yet. we are monopolsts blood
suckers, and despoilers OF other peoples egitulat.
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