Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1865-1869, 1866-01-06

uha 20 place herself on an eluality with New YORK
and Baltimore As great centre OF transportation.
Ncrlect this chance. and u Is gone forever, future
enterprises OF the kind will be forced 10 contend with
lonc-established lines, and the current OF trade,
flowing into other ports VIII not easily be diverted
into our own. Lines established nor 10 Charleston
savannah New Orleans would be worth millions
more 70 Philadelphia than lines 10 every southern
port would be next year. All the South i open
now 10 competition and Philadelphia, il she would
not he dStanced must star, in the beginning oil The
race
The same journal tells US that this matter Is
regarded as of such vital moment that sixty
committees have been appointed to 90 among
the capitalists and business men Of that city to
get subscriptions for the establishment OF these
steam lines. In one month twenty of these
committees have raised four hundred thousand
dollars. The remaining forty have not vet re-
ported. The Press thinks there can be no
doubt that. with proper excrtionS, these COM
nittees can raise two hundred thousand dol
.,r, more in thirty days, and If necessary the
sum can be made million. The same paper
SAYS. with imposing emphasis Every interest
s.. I'm the city i, directly Interested in this great
s.. scheme, tor all will profit by its success. II
Philadelphia would sell largely 10 customers
abroad, she must be able To send quickly.
Cd. At present merchants will not buy goods
here because they must be shipped from New
IS York"
Amer all, it seems, we are not 50 poor that
there are none To do us reverence. We are
skill IN, po>,es,or, of the golden fleece, and
NOT one. but many JAsoNs are planning and
lifting out arsoulutic expeditions. Is cotton
still King, and has not the sccptre departed
from Judah and the Iaw-gjyer from between
her feet, Are. We asleep aud dreaming vain
bur pleasant drcamS-or are We wide awake,
with the merchant and manufacturing princes
Of the great city of Philadelphia before MS,
,oniuring us to trade with them The thing
T., actually true, strange as it may appear.
Fanlticism is hard To cure, and trades people
ire usually not apt To take the distemper.-
BUT the trade, people of Philadelphia caught
it in its worst form. Up to this time, their ha
.rrd for the Southerners has been heartierthan
that OF the iuhabitant, of the godly city of
Boston. To humble us to cripple us, to crush
Ms out, seemed To be the supreme desire of the
people of Pennsylvania That ,hcobmical old
blood tub" TuADDErs STEVENS, is Pennsyl-
vania's favorite son. His detestable doctrines
mad numerous advocates in the city OF Phila-
lelphia.
Selfiutcrest is sovereign cure for tanat
cism. Its operation has been unusually active
and thorough in this instance. Philadelphia
was willing to Kill the goose thatlad the golden
eggs it, by 50 doing, it could keep its rivals,
Baltimore and New York, from profting by
them. Finding that it cannot kill the goose, it
is now endeayoring TO caiole it to lay its eggs
in the dowuy nest it has constructed.
The necessity must indeed be urgent that
wriugs from the reluctant lips Of the merchants
Of Philadelphia the humiliating confession that
their city, that SO prosecuted the South, is de
pendent for its prosperity upon the Southern
trade. The discovery, We fear, comes too late.
While they have been deviSing yindictiye
measures orcoudscatiou. degradation and pun
ishment for the South, New York aud Balti-
more have placed themselves in comniunica-
tion with our people, and taken measures to
secure their trade. sympathy is not often
co-partuer with trade. Men usually buy where
they can get the best commodities on the most
favorable terms, and sell where they can sell
10 the best advantage. With this rule TO gov
rrn, we doubt if the Quaker City can compete
with it's rivals New York and Baltimore, for
the Southern trade IT, for once in coi,r@ crcial
history. the course OF trade shall be influenced
bv sympathy, Philadelphia has teebler claims
upon the Soutb than Boston. In our desola-
zion and woe, the only words We have received
from the city OF Penn and Miss ANNA DIcEIS-
,oN have been words of reviliug, insult and
cruelty. while from Baltimore, New York and
Boston, even, we have received words Of COM
fort and acts of bcncyoleuce. From these
cities have come tho money that is being ex-
pended in rebuilding our destroyed houses, in
rc-e,tablishing our merchants in business, and
in enabling az farmers to resume their agri-
cultural Iabor, IRON Baltimore came the
seed wheat, the farming imrteG.ouls and the
advances OF money that have started taru.ing
operation, in the whole Rappahannock region.
10 New York are our merchants and business
men indebted for the accommodations, credits
md capital bv which they have been placed
IN their feet. With all her big sins, New York
has COSMOPOLITAN charity, and priuccly, com
icrcial, political slI individual libcrality, in
which she >taudS il striklB4 contrast to prim,