The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1871-02-28

: 1t may yet need the aid of these powerfu
{. radicals, scalawags, negroes and carpet
0 baggers. Smother your rage.
/, Most of these people learned to read th
Wing during the great consolidation wal
and they applied to this last contest th
. principles it then laid down and inculca
ted, and although their leader repudate(
his own doctrines it was not to be expect
ed he should be able to undeceive all hi
disciples and dupes. You taught them toe
well. Even your denunciations of the
Fredericksburg company, and its slow
coaches, and your early advocacy of the
Pennsylvania Central were not lost upon
them. What you told them was right
they have done, and now you abuse them
for merely carrying out your instructions
The Dispatch says that it is useless to
contend longer for old things under the
new dispensation of this century. It says
we must accept tho changes which have
been brought about, without inquiring into
| their cause. The effects are enough for us
to know and act upon. The era of great
men, it admits, has passed away, and the
era of great events has begun in this coun-
try, when men no longer control, but are
controlled. A Clay, Crittenden, or a
Webster, is not now needed, as he would
not now be listened .to--which is a fact.
We no longer worship heroes, for we have
all become heroes.
Wealth is everything now-the "be all
and the end ALL" 1t is the only source of
power. The most powerful eloquence and
most brilliant learning without it are
voted bore and now or never is the
day when men must set themselves to
work to put money in their purses. They
must put it there or go to the wall. Fare
well to the pristine simplicity of Cato, the
days of CrGsus are comel And not onlywith
individuals but with States is this the case.
A poor. broken down State or country, is
held in as little consideration as broken
down merchant or banker, driven from his |
place at the exchange or seat at the board. !
States, like Virginia, which shave seen
better days" will not meet with any more
favor in tho society of States and nations,
than ragged and dilapidated people who
hang around the street corners, boring all
they button hole with tales of their trou-
bles, bossting Of 'what they have been,"
and complaining of what they are now.
and how the war has brought them to it
find in tho general scarcity Of wealth and
fashion.
1t will not do for Virginia to remain in this
condition of elegant beggary, although
the old fogies who "have seen better days"
would like to keep her in the same fallen
condition they are in,themselves.
If they have not the energy to rise, why
let the State at least rise. The decks of
the ship are too heavily laden with this
lead weight, and unless tidal wave come
from the North and sweep it off into the
grave of the sea, that the vessel may be
'elieved, righted and buoyed up, all will go
Town together. Virginia needs money
md she must make it. She must go to
work. She must toll and spin. Her
youth must be put in charge, and the
yrannies of the past, who have seen their
pest days, must content themselves for the
est of their lives in the old armchair,
lrietly smoking their pipes, and grum-
bling over the past in the chimney corner.
The Dispatch's leader seems TO show
ratification at the prospect before us, that
We are to be placed in speedy communica-
ion with other parts of the Union, and no
onger left in an isolated postion--in a
,entre around which everything floats at
listance,lke the tabled maelstrom, bat into
which nothing enters and is heard Of again
t says in the course of splendid general
lrticle, the shadow Of which is cast above:
While the government, IL it is wise, will di-
ect its attention to this middle latitude for
hese reasons, the nation, in its new phase, can
'nly achieve its greatest power and renown by
quality amongst the States, not only politi-
ALLY, but commercially-i. e.. as far as the
natural advantages of each make that practi
able. There Should, for instance, be no OBJ
truction, no delay in intercourse, social and
anywhere. The rapid mode of
now prevalent ought to be en-
Dyed by all the States, we repeat, with such
notifications as climate or country may re-
luire. There should be complete intercourse
~ rail and otherwise at reasonable fares; and
reights should have the option of taking any
quite unobstructed by odious Determinations.
1t is only by establishing, in this material
md money.getting age, thorough inter
among the States, and a lively
md permeating condition of mutual interests
between communities, that the solid strength
II the Union can be best promoted. Mutual
interests engender mutual sympathies, and
hen, again, contentment and thrift. OF course
government under which this benefcent state
# the public economy exists will command the
rood faith and devotion of the people.
Let communication by land DO as free
md unrestricted as it was formerly, and as
t is now by sea or river, and we shall no
onger have any of these railroad wars in
'ur Legislatures or in Congress. And
where there are grand trunk highways to
,e opened up through the different States
o facilitate commerce, let the government
AXE it in charge--as in former times
t gave us National Road, and the
branches to the tree can be supplied by
he people Why should not commerce
N the land be as unrestricted and free as
IN the wave?
The Enquirer in reply to the abuse that
las been showered upon the Pennsylvania
Central company and its friends since the
triumph Of the measure, has very able
md calm article, whose good temper is in
marked contrast with the passionate IT, !.
AIDES in the IHbig. In closing it says:
The Pennsylvania company seeks to break
Town no interests, for its own success depends
IN building up all it has met with bitter OPP
position, and after hard fought battle, In
which success has crowned its efforts, it has no
eart-burnings-"no enemies to punish )" but
t has sincere desire and an earnest purpose
o proue BY deed the sincerity of its declara-
ions, that the favOrs asked for, and now
granted, Will be followed by benefits to the
State and our people, both full and lasting. 1t
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