The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1867-09-14
43itllmond nlspatrtr.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. IA, 1867.
What Can be Done.


look back and see what we have omitted
to do; because it is thus that men of hope
and energy see what they may do, and
apply themselves to its accomplishment.
We lack ways Of communication with the
inexhaustibe sources Of production in the
great West as the means Of maintaining
here manufactures and commerce. We
have lost time by directing our exertions
TO other objects. It is now our duty TO
endeavor to repair losses by concentrating
all our forces upon that purpose which
was plainly the true one Of the past gene
ration. II is not too late. Harmony and
combination, guided by energy and spirit,
will achieve all that has been neglected,
and thus I've will say postponed, not lost.
1t is no eXtravagant picture to the
minds eye that covers the hills Of Rich
mond with compact buildings and fills up
the open land on the south of james river
with an animated city. 1t is but neces-
sary that we should, by direct lines, estab-
lish communication with the West and
Southwest, in orderto accumulate here an
immense population, engaged in commerce
and manufactures, whose wants and ne
cessitics will cover all the country now
commanded by the view from the capitol
with buildings and q dense and active
population. Philadelphia, the second city
in the United States, is seated upon the
shores of the Delaware long way from
the sea-as far as Richmond is from the
Chesapeake. There is no water power for
her in the Delaware, as there Is for Rich
mond in the James. She has lost the
chief part of her foreign commerce--all
her China and European foreign trade
being taken from her by New York. Yet
PHILADELPHIA most wonderfully continues
to grow and swell out her boundaries as
RAPIDLY as New York. How is this? 1t
is done by her manufacturing industry.
Throughout the business part Of that tiou-
rishing town are small manufactures OF
almost everything that enters into the use
and consumption Of man. She supplies even
New York with vast amount of fabrics
-.h;oh ,ro sold Inv wholesale stores Of that
city. No population in the Union is more
oo;;ro,v .nr,c.d in qrodyct;ye enterprises
than that of Philadelphia. We say pro-
ductive; for they convert the raw mate
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