The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1867-09-28
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NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. rs, 1867.
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Thcre are two classes Of alarmists at this
,,me amongst us: Those who desire to break
down a line of road which they apprehend
will be injurious to some interest they sus-
tain, and those who are opposed to contribu-
ting the means to build 4 road that is intended
for the welfare of the community, themselves
included.
Both these classes are quite active in propa-
eating fears and woful apprehensions. The
burthen Of their doleful prophecies Is "Bal-
timore Baltimore, :" and GARRETT! GAR
~RErr!" That stout and round faced, well-to-
do.in-the-world Mr.. GARRETT they try to
mctamorphose into a very monster, that de-
yours men, and whose Unsuitable appetite can
not be appeased by the swallowing OF the
whole population Of u State. He is TO become
the terror of the nursery, and at the bare
mention Of the name Of GARRETT all the lit
tie curly-heads and bright eyes will disappear
beneath the sheets, and all be still rs death
Now, Baltimore is n very enterprising city,
and Mr.. GARRETT is 4 very proper sort of rail
road man. But we do not see that Baltimore
is to have everything in the way of trade in
the vast country that lies between the lati-
tudes sc degrees 80 minutes and 80 degrees 80
minutes, from the Atlantic to the Mississippi.
We do believe there is some chance for n small
share Of the vast trade OF the area above de-
scribed for the benefit Of some other town than
Baltimore. We admit the sagacity and enter
prise of the renowned Mr.. GARRETT; but
nc is not endowed with superhuman power,
nor has he all the money in the world at his
command. No community nor no man ever
yet had the world in 4 sling, and there has not
vet been the day in this country, nor never
will be, when an Industrious, spirited, perse-
yering, and intelligent population, in town or
city. could be entirely Frustrated and ruined
by q monopoly Of all the trade by some other
community. Strife and competition has been
going on for fifty years between all the great
cities of the Atlantic States, and those ont the
slave Statcs-and those whose trade has been
drawn from the free States-have all grown
with unexdmpled rapidity.
Baltimore had Philadelphia rs her great
adversary, and this city of PENN has been
used as much by the m in Balti.
more rs Baltimore has by the alarmists in
Richmond TO paralyze the enterprises of the
hopeful and energetic. Even now Philadel-
phia is looking to the extension OF her con-
~nections so rs to tap the line leading down the
valley to the Baltimore and Ohio railroad.
The Philadelphia lines, too, enter the compe-
tition with the Baltimore line away out in
Ohio, and offer TO trade and travel a more di-
rect line than the Baltimore and Ohio rail
road, not only TO the city of Philadelphia, so
much larger than Baltimore, but to New
York, the great settling point OF the CONT
nent. Arguing from the timidity and fears OF
those who cry mp Baltimore" and GAR
RETT" TO us, what chance in the contest should
we suppose Baltimore wonld have with the
powerful city of Philadelphia for the Ohio
trade?
Philadelphia again had her monster to
"fright the souls of" Observation-Disclosures,
New York and yet Philadelphia has borne
the brunt of her great losses in maritime COM
merce, and has grown with miraculous ra-
pidity.
This mode of spreading alarm is therefore
not new, but has been common amongst the
cities of this country and the result has In
every instance shown the folly of the alarm
lists and their eXtravagant apprehensions.
The great trade of the Middle and Ohio States
is not to be m%onopolized. 1t is impossible.
Any city in communication with that source
of trade, the Mississippi Valley, which is i'm
measurable and inexhaustible, must grow and
flourish if there is any life, any spirit of en-
terprise whatever, in the people.
Let gentlemen dismiss their fears and If
they desire really to do their city and their
fellow citizens Il service, hold up in their true
characters the bold enterprises, the brave
competitions and grand successes of the noble
American cities to which we have alluded, To
excite our emulation, inspire our hopes, and
stimulate our energies. They will help every
body and themselves too in that way and i'll
stead of being dreaded rs croakers and pro
phets of evil they will become useful men, and
entitle themselves TO the gratitude of their
countrymen.