The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1859-04-09
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poHncn o. '. ~, s.e,has of itself psraisked
tao" sa"." e.aar secticns, having greater
the sse.s ,..,.,.. and accomplished as much
os'a ...,rst,on of New York supremacy as
-" - ssaeted BIZ her own exertsons. NO one
%. ausstiou the admirable location OF New ork
a,m,ercisl city no one can be tnsens'nie 70
~. aav.atsees and beauties OF its glorioas Day,
~nIv esua,led in ioveliness by the bay OF Naples,
var shut his eyes to the two bright and grand
r,ver,. the Hudson and the East that clasp their
silver arms around the qceenly neck OF the Empire
CITY. Bat oil the natural advantages OF New io's
we're OF no avail ill the Erie Canal was completed.
vp 60 that time abe Was hehind Phisde'pn" au"
Boz GA. aud would never have overtSken 'nem "
tais day, but for the successful genius VI .""'
crsa, man, De Witt Clintoa. Why should e,ner
c,,.. with vsa.ter natural advantages, despair OF
New York, when they esq bring to the"
.,a the same system Of internsl improvements
~h,,h .,,na has male her natural resources
.x.i.h,e' VIA. would be thought OF an indi-
,,ao., IN snv kind Of business, who should rs
.,v. 81, .ha very ouisst Of his career, that MS |
.,,,...spl neiyhbor c ,uld never bs eq1slied IN |
,o; s,r,u ne by himself aud should, therefore, se
down aud fold bis hsads in ioglorieus despair aau
10th Tha. 10 lust what mcst OF .hs cities sonth
81 New York are dciog at this time. LooA a. NOR
,o,t and Portsmouth, the commercial centre Oh
ausriea- with the Atlantic pouring 10 WIDE
A ,od At their wharyes, broad enough aud dee p
enough 10 foa. the fsets Of Chrlstendom' HOOK NJ
Richmond, With one hand upon the James anu th.
other upoa the York, aud then consult map o.
the United States, aad see how shese et''e'
preseut the straishtest, mos direct anu oete'
raj outlet TO tue sea for the HhmlsGo'e He"-
xurea of the Mississippi valley, aad what must
he the slug sishuess and irresolu,ion which cen
per,nit such q Phrase as, "Cau't rival New YORK.
"a p.isy sts nerves aud divert 1t from brave pur-
uose and a m suiisst destiny: ESeu the New YORK
Internal Improvement meu admit that their cry
4. not impreguab,e. They confess that contibo'
ors water line to the OHIO would be the aios' iof
rnidabls rival tn 1t New York eau encounssr. ihey
even acknowledge that the railroads oil fennsy l.
vspia aud Maryland are beginning TO anect tue
trade of New York. Ia long aad aoiy ~f''eo
c,mmunie alton, published simultaneously Ia the
New Y,rk Tribune and 1fsssseS. tue writer says -
"Nsv York, hitherto the undisputed com mere's'
smporium ofour continent, has learned from the ex"
perimeut Of the recent st. Nicholas compact 'nas
ns, r,..td suprens 1ey is ma: bey5ai the reach Of
h,r sovtteva rivrls. PtilddoptiI ard Bthias7re.
Notvitbssandins her msguii cent harbor, her I'M
,rau.e xea,th her enterprise and thrift tdctS hars
eyosrcied he exisence Of clements Of competition
,,,i.h h.,e erected ,te,c tendencies Of trade, and
.,,;.h o,vnterbo,rnce, % a formidable crfsnt' her
.,..r,,.d car1eta1ss. Since the opening OF the
psa,.xlrauia and Baltimore and Ohio railways,
al, IN, Jus. FIX a sensible dirtrSon o. her trdot
=, ,sss. e,ties With the increased facilities
.W,,aaa hv these new lines OF comm 1nication.
and the couseausut reduction OF the rates OF
tracsportatiou, they have been enaoied 10 ooo''
yaand A larger share OF the western business Una
At auy former period In proportion as taey nA''
,.;naj New York has lost, and. an1eSs oec's're
M zsurss be taken 20 everoome the sne2@at~y ne
.-,,ond,roncs orer her ri-1ls rM rapidly dimirish
Nv ,h,, diversion of trade aud It's Iuences the
xsv York Central Railway, the New YORK auu
Eris. and their westward connections, have ike
,,,ss been aft c led. There Ia an intimate commu-
n,,v of interest bs thsse roads anu the CITY q
New York, with respect to the western business
Whatever affects her prosperity scts directly upon
them"
chants, property holders and all ch'Ssos Oh NeN
yo,t 20 rally 70 the preservation of her CONNER
40, rnrsmacr threatened as it is by the railroads
~ ph;isds,phia aud Baltimore, neither of viii ch
h.. advantages TO be spoken Of in the same gener-
.,,on With the great highways to the Atlantic
vh,cb Virginia will present when the CoVington
aud Ohio railroad aud the James River aud ma .
navhaCanal are completed. II raiirosa as iat
North a. PHILADELPHIA the Baltimore anu oh'e
With lite heavy grades, anc at neither Atlantic
terminus harbor worth the name OF MAJOR, al
present "elsments Of competition which a'srn
Nav York for its boasted supremacy, what may w
not expect of the Covington Railroad striking IN
Ohio farther down than the most southern OF tn
railroads which are now touched by New York
and the Canai, still farther down, with
capacity for conveying heavy heights equal
that of sixteen railroads, canal which, IN IN
mineral aud coal region of Virginia alone, VIII mo
articles of transportation as valuable as the pro
auc,. of gold mine, canal presenting the shorses
route from the Northern lakes to the sea, whicl
4. omen winter as vel, as summer, and which unite
a. vaters with the most magnificent rivers, har
hor and roadstead on the continent There ough
IN bs cities ON the James, the York and the Eliza
hath. a. large as Boston, New York and Phade
Dbf. ard there would be five had that PATH "hlct
il az essential to the enterprises OF ths lie as II
salvation Ia the next; aud the WORKS with "hlch '"
must work out our temporaias we'll as eiernai pros
perity To sit down with folded hands, aud assu me
the permanent commercial supremacy ofNew fors
il to be recreant to the high trust aud rich inher
lance with which the God OF Nature has endow e.
10, to be unworthy of the spirit and traditions
our ancestry, aud false and cruel to those VIZ
come .fter MS. If the VirginiaDs Of &c bad al
which they had more reason to do, than We hay
the upaiterabie commercial superiority OF Ne
York, We should be the slaves today that men de
serve TO be who have no dependence in themselves
No faith in their future, and who would rather be
vell.fed yassss, than take the chances OF strikin
bold blow for liberty and Independence. An en
tsrprisiue man has been we'll deflned as one wh
10 sudscious In his plans and vigorous in their ex
ecutiou, aud who acts upon possibilities as II tbeJ
were probabilities. In such plan as the Jane,
River Canal, projected by the genius OF Washing
ton, and Illuminated by the experience which De
Witt Clinteu's grand success sheds upon it, Vir'
gtuia has not only possibilities, not cnty probable
titles, bot oertanties to act upon, aud yet she
has hitherto treated these certa;ntiss as II they
we're impossibilites; there has been neither bold
Hess 10 her conceptions nor v!gor 10 her action
the mountain has been 10 labor, and there has
come orsh brood Of petty, housing, local
schemes, on which as mach energy has been ex-
haustsd as would have given birth to progeny OF
visuts When we think of those curious and
beautiful works of Col which hidden 10 forests
or gleamf Ar down Ia the dark caverns of the seq
..shs a,wers that blush unseen" "the gems of
pursst ray" that pave the floors Of the ocean, We
may wonder that ssch treasures should be lavish
ed apparently with no useful object; but then
humility suggasts that II does not become In.
tsllectaai animaicu's. 70 cri.icise the rays of
the Iohaite Sun In whose light they dance their
sphemsrsl dance, and In whom they live and move
sad have their being. Bot when we see grand
prediction Of the Greater, evidently designed
fer the use aud advantage of the human race, uegr
Iectsd aud forsskep when We see noble rivers'
which ought TO bear rich argosies to the main.
rolling 10 solitary grandeur through mountains of
minerals and ds='y msads; when we see har,
bors. that ought TO mirror the Gags OF every ma
tion aud be vocal with the songs Of mariners OF
avery racs uuruol Il save By the tempest aud % De-