The native Virginian. [volume] (Orange Court House, Va.) 1867-187?, 1869-09-03
DISCRIMINATION AGAINST RICHMOND.

We learn that on Monday las. at Or
ange cour: there was great complaint
expressed by the farmers OF that coun-
ty against the management OF the Or
ange, Alexandria, and Manassas rail-
road Many of them say they are auX-
ious 20 send their wheat to Richmond
for sale, in fact that some OF them have
entered into engagements in this city
requiring them to do so by the LIST or
| September, and that it is OF the last inn
portanee for them to keep these en-
gagements. In order to send their |
| wheat to Richmond they have to use |
| only nine miles of the Orange, AleXan- !
| dria, and Manassas railroad and the re-
mainder of the way it goes over the
Chesapeake and Ohio railroad. Now
they altege that the authorities of the
Orange, Alexandria, and Manassas rail-
road, in order TO compel them to send
their wheat to Baltimore, and thereby
use eighty miles OF that road instead OF
only nine have adopted the plan of sys-
Dramatically nbstrueting shipments TO
Richmond, by interposing difficulties
and delays and otherwise discriminate
ing in the charges for transportation
over the nine miles OF their road neces-
, sary to be used.
We have been requested to call pub
: lie attention to these alleged abuses,
S and would most earnestly suggest TO
|, the management of the road in question
that the cause of these complaints be at
once removed. and &c.
We have often alluded to this dis
elimination. But the fault is less with
: the o. A. & NJ. road than with the
u Chesapeake and Ohio road and the
. Richmond merchants themselves. Like
y every other corporation in the world
y the o. A. & NJ. road is selfish and will
to the full extent of its ability, so ad
y Just its tariff as to compel freight t.
~ traverse as many miles as possible o
> its line. In this respect, it is no wors'
70 and no better than any other railway.
y The remedy for this discrimination
ID which, If all we hear be true, is mos
a. unjust, Is entirely in the hands of tn
III Richmond merchants. They know per
fectly well that the Chesapeake an
u Ohio road, by means of its Gordonsvill
y. and Charlottesville stem, holds absolut
) control of the Orange road. Let tn
CT Board of Trade and the Richmon
ne press do their duty, and the ChesapeaR
'es and Ohio road will be compelled
hd bring its power to bear on The Orane
w. road and force it into terms. The VOL
ID may be done in single day, II the pc
'r- pie of Richmond are resolute and d
termined.
of Very many farmers in Orange al
b. Culpeper are anxious to trade WI
ew Richmond, because, first, it IL the be
wheat market in the country; secon
er- it is the capital iof their State; an
tie third, they have the utmost confiden
c., in the Richm ond merchaLts-a con
tso dence based upon warm personal rel
tives and many pleasant dealings
past years when there were no discril
ped nations and every Virgnian was Fl
ot. to trade with any Virginia city he mig
me select and especially with the beau
d. full State Capital. For ourselves, '
repeat what we have so often said, til
.. our warmest sympathies are with Ric
mond, and we only wish that all V
ginians could be made TO feel and kn'
that it is their bounden duty to &
- Richmond preference over any city o.
-, side and many inside of the limits OF
Commonwealth.