The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1867-10-16
ON. Trade Communications.

j is 4 matter Of vital importance TO Rich
| mond that our communications with the int
| rior should be relieved OF the odious and OPP
prc<sive Instructions which now operate SC
disastrous!y TO our trade. Our city was giver
nm 10 war 1t was destroyed by fire at tho
! close of it. To rebuild it and regain the trade
| which our pros tration had driven elsewhere
| we have rxcrtcd ourselves with an energy
| which has cXtortcd admiration and APP
plause from every stranger. But we fine
| ourselves the victims of series Of pre-
medtated schcmes--schemes concocted ant
carried out by corporations 10 whose very ex
istence Richmond is m immense contribu
| tor--sChcmeS which, II not frustrated, vii
| end in our utter ruin.
Possibly, in these times, when there is so ittl'
honor in commerce-whcn the trade and occu
| patton of large communities are 10 be whipped
| OF and reduced To nothing by corpora II
| scAcmlng and rapacity-it is well that tht
| strategy hostile 10 us has been set in SO deeply
and 50 undisguiScdly rs 10 attract the atten
ton OF all of our people. Had the game bcel
| conducted with more caution, we might b,
| hopelesly- ruined before we could take mca
sureS for our own protection. But the eager
ness OF the strateGists caused them to over
step the bounds Of prudence, and the conse
quence is Il thoroughly aroused community
| II is :, blessing Now, let us not rest, but &c
on 10 redress our grievances and right ouI
wrongs. We have the power. Only le, u,
confer together find out the locality and III,
nature OF the outrage, and cDnpR the 0lpHcd-
| tioa arm. rtu,iy. We can do H.
| VIII ii be believed that goods shipped from
| this city have been in transitu air lcss&s, when
| three days should have eulccd 10 take them
| from the point of shipment 10 their deStina.
ton? 1t is a statement difficult 10 credit.
Yet il i true What city can retain its trade
which suffers from that sort OF outrage?
Meantime, goods from New York, Phiadel-
phia, Baltimore, have sped by on the wings
of the wind and been delivered and sold I.
This is the sort Of Justice that is mcted ont to
i city whose mis.ortunes are the topic Of SYM
PATTY and interest the world over. Narrated,
they are richer than novels and plays. Yet
when il comes TO the matter Of trade and I'M
feeling commerce, one would think that her
>orrows and Affections gave immunity 10 out
rage and oppression, and her ndomitable en-
crgy Was only an exhibition TO be admired
but never 10 be aided. Indeed, it would seem
that the great world of trade riotcd in plea.
sure OF such rare indication Of human enter
prise, and deemed it 4 service To mankind to
throw Us many obstacles in its way us posi-
BILE, in order to increase the brilliancy Of the
example
Let lis demand that there shall be no diScri-
limitations against us. Let us see that Virgil
MIA railroads shall permit the charges for
transportation to follow the freights wherever
such charges follow frcights from New York
and Philadelphia and Baltimore. Let us de-
mnnd that Richmond freigh.s shall have the
same dispatch that is given 10 freight from
any other city i'll the Union upon the same
fail"aSs. This we have 4 right TO demand,
'u no railroad can reject our demand if it
a"d's by the law. We say that any Virginia
runway 'l;tt refuses 10 this city this equality
ana lairhess Is Il traitor 10 its obligations To
me STATE and IA outlaw. 1t is guilty of daily
offence against its charter and against all
moral Obligations. 1t is 4 criminal, and
should be 50 aeld i'll the public estimation.
- deserves 10 have its corporate existence for
ieited, and its managers merit the public scorn
through their lives
This is plain language, and true What,
shali II go on in this way, that the welfare and
growth OF this State shall be INSTRUCTED and
us power and Importance in the Union
o"i'rlcd by the corporations to which it gave
NE ana being! The growth Of the cities Of