The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1866-11-19
ypAY. .....,NovEMBER 10, 1866.


Nc publish below letter from MT.
ans in reply to an invitation from citi-
~, If Buckingham to be present at the
,ocuc at Buckingham Courthouse on
rr<day last, on the occasion Of meeting
.idcr the best means Of promoting the
80 Of the airline railroad from Rich
~ 70 Lvnchburg. The earncstness and
, Il Mr.. Lyons in behalf Of the i'm
yemen, will be gratifying TO its friends.
cx,mpIe is a good one. Let all the
.->r,,aI advocates of this vital enter
vial to Richmond and the State
. Mr., LYONS and our former esteemed
,r,uau Mr.. Wyndham Robertson, give
work the benefit of their arguments
influence and let them give us their
IS, raorts TO carry the great enterprise
aca 20 completion, and success is GER
d, Nr. LyonS's letter is as follows:
RICHMOND, November IL, 1866.
u.>~s. William II. Perkins, and Others,
committee, &c.
,rnt'cmcn,-l have the honor to acknow-
q. she invitation to attend barbecue at
..asLam Courthouse on the 18th in
.. 80 he given by the friends Of "the
-. railroad, " which you have been so
. Is 10 send me. II il were in my power
.ecp, ii, | would do so with great plea
/ barbecue at Buckingham Court
>r'' sounds like old times. There is
citing appctising in these words to one
, rrCullccts what these barbccues in
4 tines" were. But there is more than
10 them. They carry me back to those
"y days Of Virginia long past, never to
~u fear, when Randolph and Giles,
sa, Bouldin, and Archer met at them,
.stvgc the sovereign people," as we
lt them, discussed with the ability Of
r~mcu, and the truth and candor of
gina gentlemen, the great questions Of
day. But these are not the only emo
IS which prompt me TO desire to attend
= BARBECUE. Its prime object, "the
inc railroad" is, or should be, a work
great interest to all Virginians, and
..A..y to those whose welfare is bound
a.thtEa, Of the great valley of the James,
..u>r it is link ON that line, over
,a no, the trade Of our Valley merely,
IL the great West, North, and South,
Do transported TO the ocean /; by which
mia will he enabled to establish di-
foreign trade and do her exporting
importing. Such consummation
w NirgiHiau must earnestly desire, no
.'.r in what part Of the State he may
.uatrd, just as every citizen of the
e. Of New York is Interested in the
>rrri,y and growth Of her noble and pa
r metropolis.
,.l the airline road extended from
u.burg TO CovingtOn in the west, and
~ Richmond 10 Newport News in the
h.. the Cuyiugton and Ohio road will in
y Ic huilt, aud the whole being the
lest line 10 the sea, and otherwise the
t favorable, will seek it; and, aided by
.ual and the Central railroad, untold
a.n viii be poured through Virginia,
'ar Zip, Of the world will come to our
.g,. INTO the finest harbor in the world,
..,.Nc and bear them away, and bring
E The opulcut returns; and Richmond,
..a, Alexandria, Petersburg, and
,Ud8rg will all become cities, and not
rn as villages. IL / feel and write
Ely upon this subject, you will pardon
tccaH>c it has been darling thought
M. greater part of my life, as, with your
g., / will show.
10 the hope of promoting it, went into
Legislature in the year 1916, and after
q labor, with the aid of MANY sagacious
.a-, and especially of my enlightened
TACTICAL friend Francis B. Dcane, of
nlburg, obtained a charter, the best
, ggantcd, fora railroad tot the Ohio river.
cyiag what We were doing and appre-
Ing, the people of Cincinnati sent de-
alton 10 us to say: "Organize your
luy in Virginia, and we will furnish
m.ury TO build the road, and will pour
20 il an amount of trade and travel the
~ which Virginia never saw" 1t re-
ed but 81 600, 900 to secure the charter.
rahurg promptly took one-half of it,
,'nt some of her ableSt men here to
lde our people to take the otherh half;
unhappily misled by the peculiar
Is of the exclusive water-line, aided
iolltical tricksters who did not care
a&y like, who inconsistently denounced
road as impraeticable and chimerical
o~ breath, and in another as the enemy
y canal, to which it would he fatal, the
l.c Of Richmond refused to subscribe,
The road fell And what a fall was il
,uot Buckingham andshe sisters in the
~ Of the James; to all Virginia in
= Who can now venture TO say what
sllc Of our towns and the wealth of our
pie would be if the sage counsels of the
mics Of railroad connection with the
o lad not prevailedi Fooled in this
It, hut still believing that the destiny
Richmond certainly, and Of Virginia
.Nlly, 10 great extent, depended
- obtaining access TO the sea by
.r means than tugbOats and lighters, or
'UncrS drawing nine feet of water or
and satisfied that when such access
obtained, the western line would be
i, ! originated tie York River railroad,
"Fmiaate at Yorktown or Ethan and
B" 81 the wealthicst ship-owners of
" York came TO my house, and said,
IT TIC charter, and New York will
III tie road and put on line of
mcr> in connection with it." But it
K t"" OF three years TO satisfy the ex-
use Natcr-line men that the railroad
al Lot dry up the river below Rich
'u and when the charter was granted,
Toad was carried up the river instead
Town, aud the New York merchants re-
ri 10 touch il. In fact, while we were
'I0g, they had established the steam
"llh New York, which gave them
''poIy which they were unwilling to
render. q
,4cnnati has again stretched forth her
H. and is building the Newport News
'oad, which will be the shore-end of
great line, of which the airline will be
TX and Richmond seems to be at last
'"s 10 her real condition, and calls, in
4'eg, for "the airline" Press on
- g,ntiemcn, the airline. Virginia
"A all her industrial raenuraac Daaca