The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1860-09-11
lairI1monb Qispatth.
. ytud,cntter Of Virginia Policy.


-, 20 ,hs,, ayiuce short-sighte dness
=, t.,.,,aroe what should be the object OF
50 hut the happiness Of its peopie4 III
,-r,,cta ba. susceeeed IN this ohlect, we hoio
,,a'.hs is a model Common til, and need
not envy porulous and wealthy communities
O. ,,,,nlat ton aud wealth do not produce the
Greatest happiness 10 the greatest nnmeer
hut. on The contrary, are The source OF rhueh
ph,sieal and social misery. Ii Is the Wise
,,l,cy of Virginia 10 avoid The causes OF ihese
evils.
The rrohlem which has always encountered
y.Ictula legislators at The thrs2h''u Va
phiIaspphical and statesmahhhe '"'
hen The difficulty OF preventing ''' -
nom bs.romiug gross and eoTFuie"' NC.
has been ID manifest tehGenNS ia "'' " ~
,,.,horic condition which always a"aSehs
.,,,to,,pae Of one's friends. Providence
,,., bar iot lu Tie centre OF mighty empire
.,,,ued her with territories larger than her
,al.. peuau ated her fertile fields with grand
M beautiful rivers, and formed in her coasts
hsrbyrs OF wonderful depth and capacity
.ared her magnificent mountains with the
richest mineral treasures, and blessed her
". h every variety Of climate, from the soft
IlaI!Aa air Of her lowlands. 10 the bracing
Alp,ue 5reezes that sway the mountain oaks
on her Blue Ridge and Aileghanies. Besides
All ms, race OF giants was raised up IN her
early history, the IKE OF whom the world
never saw before, aud who, in peace and WAT,
were alike sagacious, powerful and triumph
81, Al a single glance of GEORGE WASH
INsroN's iar-seeing eye, the glorious destiny
that NIrgiGia might accomplish by union OF
tie waters Of the James and the OHIO was at
once disc used aud the hand that bad achieved
American Independence laid The cornerstone
OF a work which, if executed with vigor
equal 10 the gre ndeur OF the conception, would
have made virginia, long ago, the foremost
sac OF the nIan. But GEORGE WASHING
roH passed away, and Virginia was saved
from the perilOus enlnence OF greatness and
wealth on which she might have been placed.
a race q public men arose, who uuderstood
her wants and interests far better than the
salrs and soldiers OF 70. They saw the squa-
lid dpstItation, the misery and crime OF those
pypul JUS hIVrs OF humanity which THOMAS
JIFFsRsON had admitted were "sores upon the
b.Gy poltie" aud they determn med that no
rr,h .Ncrescences should blotch her rich COM
pIexIon, or disliguTe her majestic form.
The success OF their labors, considering the
difficulties they had TO encounter, is almost
Incredible by laying enormous taxes upon
mere hants aud by enactments rendering IL
more prot table for Virginia capitalists TO en-
ploy their money any where else Than in Viz
g.la they have succeeded in driving out OF
the .ale the money aud the neil who might
have led her i.to temptation. BY keeping care
fuily IN The rear CT ali the great enterprises OF
the age. they have relieved the State OF its re
duudaut 10 puIation, and sent forth a stream of
el1.sIauon winch has built up half a dozen
States III other parts Of the continent When
the IallI Dad mania extended 10 Virginia, her
Regulators wisely perceived that IL would
never do TO resist the Introduction Of such an
oD.Ious pubs convenience; but, with unex-
aInul.d adroitness they built twice as many
ruaIs as we're necessary, all OF them conflict
ing with one another, and none of them nm
isn-d except such rs connect our agricultural
districts with Northern cities They thereby
prevent The possibility Of our railroads build
Ing up a large city in Virginia There Is not
y finished railroad IN Virginia which the cities
NJ rth Of US would not have been glad TO con-
struc; al their Wn expense. This mas-
trrIy stroke Oi policy, and, eq ualiy brilliant
ard efficient, The luyaTIabe legislative
Nsstym HheL a cIty, like Richmond, Tor exam
PIE, III svIte all that coul1 be done ~ keep it
down. began ~ manifest propensity To be-
slty, 10 get up combinations OF nall dozen
lIu,e towns against 1t, who, If they could not
attain It's propUrtlons, would do their best to
reduce ii 10 tnelr own dlminutiye dimensions.
BY perseverance IN such II regimen, and the aid
OF tuese country doctors, with their rusty
Ianvets, the apoplecuc symptoms were soon
made TO disappear, and the latest beilwether
IA Iue nOck reduced TO size that his leanest
rival might contemplate without dying of
ioa.uusy Bat the obs lacie most IN the way of
our sagacious legislators has always been the
LANES River and kanawha Canal, and there
lJIe IL has been The especial hate and detesta-
lion Of all Just aud sagacious law -giyers. IL
was seen that this canal had the prestige OF
MAeHIAGTuN's immortal name, and that a
canal, without half its advantages, had
made New York the Empire State Of the
Union. Before the completion of that Ca
mai, the city of New York was q virtuous
aud exemplary city, living in dignified
urement on the banks OF the Hudson
The chips IN its harbor were about the size OF
those Al our Richmond docks; the value Of
property probably not as great; the streets
were quiet bot day and night the High Con-
stable, JACOB HAYS, could put down by his
personal presence The worst riot on the island,
aud The high Sheriff, NJ. NJ. NOAH, could let
all the inmates ont Of the Debtors Prison in
yellow fever times, thereby mourning himself
the responsibility OF their debts, without be-
ing considered great fool and madman.-
There lever WIGS more quiet, homes we'll
behaved city than New York, with its seventy
fNe thousand well fed and unambitious pop
ula;iou, before the days of the canal. And
now, behold the change! million of people
IN the town and suburbs, TWO hundred mil
lions worth of properly, commerce that
daTkeus every wave, one or two hundred thou
sGAd paupers, and rogues and rascals enough
10 rob and sack every city in Chris endon Is
Il wonderful that, in the light OF such pre-
cedent, the Virginia Legislature should collar
aud KICK and Delabor this iasidous and ma
LguanL james River Canal upon every posi-
bleopportuhlty and every imaginable pretext
that 1t should make the big ditch a spittoon,
Ia Which 10 discharge every winter its legis-
lauve bile that 1t should shudder 10 hear
OF every new ton OF freight IL WAS concentrat-
lug In this luxurious capital, and rejoice In
fTeshets aud breaks, even IL they arrested for A
few months only its Ferllous activity! Can
we ever be grateful enough that they have
thus far succeeded III bringing il to a halt In
the mountains, after journey nearly Us long
rs that VI the children OF Israel in the wilder
Less, IL which IL has been COM PEELED from time
u lime 10 stop ia The desert, as penance fer
It's lBAumerable sins The coHseq uences of
tAie admirable policy are obvious. Ins tead OF
gr-ss and corrupt New York, the CITY OF
NVfloIk mas small and healthy population
OF Ten thousand, VINO ali 90 TO bed reeuIaylv
when tie Pennsyivania fires the nine o,clooL
gun ana get up every morning at sunrisa
No one there knows any thing Of want ovs
teIs. SOFT crabs aud sweet potatoe. ahonnd
the occasional echo OF boatswai,;s x,h,..,