The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1873-04-21
The " Southside.

Nv rc-crs.,nrc recently TO consider no" LUG Lat '.
.n1 A. ,be Chcsapcakc ard Ohio 5a'lroS"
,,,,a he transferred to the Atlantic .h'ssis-
,,,i ,,d Ohio railroad, thus divertinS from
,;rhuord the benefits OF ROAD 10 WHICH
size had made n corporate suoscitp1'oa VI
,.,r 500 oo9. lust as the Atlantic, MiSsisslp-
,,,.,j Ohio railroad had been turned aside
Cram Richmond to 20 where il has never
5,o, ANYTHING to build up Virginia COM
n..r,c. and never will. The gentlemen who
,,~,,.,-cd to do this act Of generosity con-
(,,.,ra That they had not thought of backing
their pro!Icr with any money. We spoke OF tue
proceeding as " sclfcomplacent' ana "coo'.
This has greatly irritaled the Petersburg
5qa,~, which denounces the Dispatch as Tue
,.nnn> Of the sou,hSide," and talks to this
,,,,cr with q vehement passion that has moi
been cxcc!icd since Dir. JOHNSON eNasperated
aycnerablc lady Of Bilinsssate by calling her
-, Substantive. We are surprised ut Such an
excessive Se,t.acitation by the editor of that
,..-.r. and. as DcGBERRY said, he is not the
lnaa we took him for.
I'D il never occur to the strateSs's who
seek to divide people and array them i'll hos
tic lines upon ScorT or MALONE, ana
..I:uck,ails" or moi Bucktails," that, pro-
baby. there are soEe people VINO oe-
sire not to fight on either OF the lines.
and care personally for neither one nor
the other OF the leaders: Did it never
oct.lr 10 them that there were Others who
thought they might climy consider the
ilaproy cmcht policy OF this state without
wearing the collar of any railroad king
Above all, did they who thus desire to form
parties by compelling people to take sides,
naycr think that there was danger of drtc-
7.g more from their man than they could
win over 10 him? II is worthy OF their con-
sid"raton.
Bit We are proclaimed by the Inder to lie
lie bitter enemy Of the Southsidc,' and
the p"orlc Oh thar SIDE of the james river
are Informed by that high authority that we
have wrongcd and in>ulted them. Those
rcop!c sec the Dispatch, and we have no fear
tia; we are not fully understood by them.
Ca this point the l,dcr is wroth; but we
understand this thunder is not meant for us.
|: is for others nearer home. A stake i
driven for them 10 plough to, and If we arc
NO; mistaken there is Il little hat hung upon
il That "SoutiISiders " are expected to bow
- ai.cr the manner of GEsSLER's thrals.
Wnsl, tlcv GIN Go so or not but if we know
anllliils about them there is very great
multitude Of them that will neither plough
10 The little stake nor bow to the cap.
Aaa what is the Southside that we are the
enemy Of: The Mldcr makes it everybody
sou.it Of James river. We beg his pardon.
II i onr a very few peop'e-it is only those
,vao nj, lls.a name that de ,cribesa pat Of the
>,uc. They have wre>ted it from its useful
alllel,unablc objects, and devoted it to the
,i>r< of pnrti>auship. 1t is ridden like a
>lol, II hore-cluelIy, frantically, and horse
Or rider must fail.
l. j. bad for the country when sectional
names arr used thus. 1t Dcgets bad feeling
and cross purposes to the disturbance OF the
lal..c peace and the public prosperity. But
the people Of the country bearing the name
are rot implicated in this misuse Of it. They
are worthy and quiet people, indisposed to
personal or sectional rrti>anry. They are
c:uf supporters, and we and they are mutually
freddy.
Eat VIVA: is the geographical limits ofthal
sou;h.ir which binds itself TO the South
-d~ railroad partisan>hip? II must be en-
,eyt!ll4iy ci!cum>cribcd. 1t is not all Of the
S,ot,tl-dc country, for that is Sub-divided
i:ito sections by the Petersburg and Weldon
railroad. the DInvile railroad, and the Viz
..inla Midland and Great Southern line, pas
su1 ~ Lynch5ulg to Danyie. BY these
iYayy!>tng lines we may safely assume that
Brunswick, Greensyillc, Dinwidde, Neck
l,ililrg, Chesterfield, Pow hataD, Holloway,
LuncuhUr-, Charlotte, Campbell, Halifax,
pitt,.ly.nia, Henry, and Patrick are all de-
tachcd from What we call the Soutli>idc Rail-
read party. How much i, left TO it Why
Cumberland (louhtGuD, Prince Edward,
BtxEinshan (douhtfuD, and AppomattoX,
hrt"een LyurhDurS and Petersburg; and
Prince George, Surry, southampton,
Isle OF Wight, Nan>emond, Norfolk,
ana IIiHCC-S -iiilc, between Ietcr>-
bar ;nd Norfolk city, with 1--WE be-
i.,>r; more or less OF discomfort in all. This
j. nc tate Of Things east of Lynchburg.
We, o: that city there is now 10 COMPETE
tor 10 the Atlantic, Mississippi aua Ohio,
;na WE cannot speak Of any active party in
orpo>!'on; bat we can say that there was Il
powerful party opposed to the uniting OF
The Virginia and Tennessee railroad with the
wcak-backed roads between Lynchburs and
tbs sea, and this party is not dead. The
.\i!uniic, Mississippi aud Ohio will he soon
tapped ut Salem, and this will probably make
some change in things; hut this is not peril
ncnt 10 the immediate question. We cannot
m,kc ANY great geographical party out OF
this southside Railroad party, and it is not
half 20 terrible as the Inder wonld have the
world believe. The mos, teroclous and con-
Understanding dogs generally guard empty
hUl.c>.
We acknowledge no leader in the question
of internal Improvement. We follow our
own ideas of what the policy Of Virginia
should be, aud favor or oppose the policy Of
amy railroad nan just lis VIC consider that it
j good or bad
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