The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1871-04-12
Greiiiiia State 5oiirmal.
HOW no BRING CAPITAL TO vIR-
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natural resources of Virginia and invite
our fellow-citizens to develop them as
Pennsylvania and Maryland have done
we are everywhere met with the reply
Yes, we have great wealth of mines
water-powers and forests, but we have
no capital with which to improve them
And why is Virginia destitute Of capital
We answer this question confidently, but
with sadness and pity, rather than to up.
braid or denounce.
1t is because mere fraction Of her peo.
pie, who control public sentiment, have
fostered bitterness and sectionalism, and
keep alive spirit Of hatred and disloyalty
which drives away capital, enterprise, and
the. healthful industrial forces which are
working out such grand results in st.
Louis, Chicago, aud all the cities Of the
| West. To crafty their insane malice and
spite they crush out every young germ Of
industry and invention, push back every
advance of enterprise, and repress all am
bition and aspiration among the people.
Because Of them, every laborer has to
pinch himself and his children, and every
tradesman loses half his profit. The
widow and orphan of its own brave SOL
diers, who died fighting for cause which
they believed just, find their little pittance
less by half, that fools and madmen may
rave about carpet-baggers, and denounce
the government, to whose magnapimity
they owe their very lives, as despotism.
Yet these enemies Of public prosperity and
order, shed crocodile tears and Indulge in
periodical fits of mourning at the ruin
which they have wrought
There are one hundred men in Rich
mond who can change all this. They can
confer upon this city boon which will
entitle them to the lasting gratitude of her
people. Let them have done with this
foolish, bootless and childish talk of birth
place, State pride, and political affiliation.
Let them in good faith accept the modern
civilization aud the results of the war, and
welcome enterprise and capital, good men
and good women, from all quarters of the
globe. Let them have done with blind
denuncaton of classes, and treat every
man az ia merits eeserve onen;ng their
churches societies and bnsiness pa,ronaoe
to all witbont distinction If nolitica, Or
re,;c;ous on;n;on
Then rho sontb will recover its LOST
nrestioe and com mnete with tho West and
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nrisino mucb ability rare merit and real
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Tbo sense Of this slavery and deorada-
t;on rests like a leaden nightmare mon all
Thousands secretly wish to throw off the
bated woke and he freq Rpt the mora,
courage is lacking. Men of the Richmond
Press, YOU will honor your own manhood,
and your calling. by throwing eff this
baleful influence. For the sake of the
poor who are crushed, of the laborng
masses who seek better rewards and wider
fields OF profitable employment, for capi-
tai and trade bereft of their lust returns
we ask YOU to papder no longer to the
"madness of the hour" Tell this people
what uou knon to he trpe That thew
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