The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1872-04-08
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Westward Ho!--The c. & Q. n. -, :.
rI,un,;nyton correspondent informs - -
:, ~. co1nnIetion Of the subscription " vi,
o. ,'e .on ,1,n ro,d IN Ohio, which lle say'
will, give direct railway co'. .a.; and ch;,
,,.ocn Huntington aud CINCINNATI an" ~
~, s heen yery plain to all who have o.
.od the movements Of Dir. HUNTINGTON
,h.t he was bent upon direct lines OF eohfhu,
.;~,,;,, with the great cities OF the inkcs, o.
n. ohio, md the Mississippi. lie peF1eaeo
.ho MAN If union with Louisville ana 81.
Io,;a come months since. The Ohio ana
,aso connections have been pending with the
a . that they would be accomplished
We now have the statement that tue seneme
is contaminated. ~.
who, we consider what has been done by
tho Chesapeake mud Ohio Company we can
,o, too much admire the energy ana sasac'ts
,,,t, ,,b,ch its affairs have been managed. Ii
!. now one of the most independent compa-
MICS in the Union, with the most solid founda-
ton for prosperity and usefulness.
Had we attempted to prosecute this great
work with Virginia company We should pro-
hably have been on the way for twenty years
~ come. and when we reached the Ohio we
.hould have taken very long breath and
waited for the people west OF that point 10
,,.l. connections with us at their leisure.
The Chcsaeake and Ohio Company, how
ever. puts us to the Ohio in two years, ana
all the western connections arc so arranged
that thew will be completed about as soon as
We get to the Ohio.
And this company doing for us such great
things, and so immensely transcendins any
thing in the way of enterprise and achieve
mept of great works ever seen in Virginia.
was recently the object of much legislative
and newspaper inyective when it asked an
amendment to its charter to facilitate the
organization of its western connections.
The State had entered into contract with it
not to tax it until its income reached ten per
cent. upon its capital, and its application to
the Legislature WIS seized upon rs tit oc-
casion to break up this contract. Members
proposed that they should grant the appllc'-
ton upon condition that this company
might be taxed ut once.
1t was a poor exhibition for the State.
Such a pretext for breaking up contract
was unworthy of lawmakers. The boon
asked was small. while there was no propo-
sition to deduct from the benefits of the road
to the state. which formed the basis Of the
contract. On the contrary, the application
was indicative Of plans Of the company
vastly to increase those benefits. The State
had been struggling for forty years to get
some Improvement to the Ohio, and had run
up against wall she had no money, and In
despair offered her unfinished work to any
company that would put it through. She
offered conditions with view to invite some
body to do the great work for her. At last.
after vast deal Of advertising and drum
ming. the company was found, and it went
to work with an energy and pushed the road
with rapidity which astonishcd the people
of Virginia. They saw that what they
had worked for and prayed for and finally
desraired of was to be contaminated in n
few months. as it were. They saw that the
immense benefits of the project thus devoutly
hoped for would be Immediately conferred
upon Virginia, that her treasury was to be
enriched by the multiplication of her re-
sources, and that private enterprise was to
be stimulated and rewarded in manner I'M
exampled in the State.
And now the company which took the
work along with the contract. and which has
done so much more than was deemed pos
sible, comes to the Legislature to ask very
small favor in no wise affecting the contract,
and gentlemen say if we grant it, YOU must
give up the conditions by which YOU were
induced to undertake the work which the
State was unable to finish. This displayed
not only the want of sense of justice, but a
want of appreciation of the great labors of
the company and the great benefits they were
about to confer upon Virginia that was not at
all creditabc to those who made or sup
ported the proposition. One would suppose
that these gentlemen had been living out Of
Virginia, and were not aware of what had
occurred. We hope they will soon be better
Informed and more justly inclined.
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Proposed New Water Line.