The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1870-09-07

line S0utnSlQe party, loohlhS !
rests of Petersburg and Norfolk, n the
people Of Richmond, vainly anticipating,
through an exclusive and prohibitory poll
CIV. a rapid development of that city, are
both bent upon accomplishing their schemes
even at the expense Of some OF the most Ter
tile portions OF their State, n are actually
willing to compel the Valley country TO re-
main without means of modern communl-
cation. provided they can drain the rest OF
the State by a network of railroads having
their termini on the James rlver.-BGH1-
more Gazette.
We clip the above paragraph from nm edl-
torial in the Gazette complaining about the
rejection in Augusta of the county sub
scription to the Valley railroad. The charge
made against this city is unjust. Richmond
has had not the least influence over the
subject, nor has she attempted to exert any.
She has little power to make roads, and she
has been entirely unable to control the d.
rection of any. She has been here IN VIZ
ginia a point of attack. 1t has been a favo-
rite strategy with minor interests to combine
against her and triumph by the prrjudices
excited against her upon ~unfoundcd as
sumptions. She has not been able to pro-
tect herself, and this day, railroad wise, she
is in q cul de s~dc-having no straight outlet
westwardly to carry on q WIN
the great producing centres of the West
and Southwest.
So the Gazette is firing of its prejudices
at Richmond upon imaginary accusations.
1t charges her with schemes she has had no.
thing to do with, and with ambitious pur-
poses which it complacently assures her are
~"vain." Both the resentment and the
taunt OF the Gazette are ungraceful and
gratuitous. This city is not narrow-minded
nor illiberal. Even the far-reaching schemes
of Baltimore, which take in every part OF
the State, have not excited any great COM
motion among u people, nor any effort to
counteract them save in the legitimate way
of extending and Strengthening our own
lines of intercourse with eur own people
and with the citizens Of adjoining States
IN enterprise, we suppose, the Gazette will
permit us to continue without reproach,
The great city of Baltimore might allow
this quiet pursuit to the city which suffered
most in all that community for which Bal
timoreans have protested and shown suct
great sympathy.
The Gazette is employed in rather a era
tuitous labor id undertaking the defence o
part of our people from the alleged injus
tice done them by thier fellow-citizens
The people that paper undertakes to deteu'
are about as able to take care Of themselye
rs any that live even in Baltimore, wher
they are mighty smart. They have eotte
about all that the State can give them in til
Valley. Virginia no longer builds railroad
but she has granted charters up and dow
the Valley until we suppose NO more al
wanted. Will not that do? AS to sui
scriptions, that is altogether a matter wit
the people of the Valley, and nobody in tn
part of the State could exert the slighte
control over them either for or against SUI
scriptions.
This was proved in our own case. A
gusta refused to subscribe to the Ches
peake and Ohio railroad, and assured
s. that was as strongly commended to h
favor, on practical grounds-not to inclut
u patriotism-as the subscription to the VI
ley railroad.
Therefore the interference of the Gazet
In this particular is neither called for |
propriety nor on account of the infictic
of any injustice upon the sturdy, solven
and sagacious people of the Valley, wi
we recognize as amongst the most valuab
and deseryedly prosperous of u fello'
citizens,