The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1873-02-20

Is DELEGATE from Pulaski, and chairman of
the House Committee Of Reads and Inter-
nal Navigation, and who is also 0 director
in the Atlantic, mississippi, and Ohio Ball
road Company. Mr. Chairman, how could
I dare to ask, Whose servant is Ing r.
Yet there would be as much color for my
inquiry ss there was for Judge Guilds as
sertion.
Tn support OF the broad proposition that
our line Of railroad is not fit for the trans
portation of freights, Judge Guild calculates
that instead of dollar and twelve cents
per bale, that we get now for carrying cot
ion over our road, we would, if the all rail
connection is established, as we desire, get
only ffty-six cents per bale. / am author
lied to assure you, Mr.. Chairman, and the
Committee, and the Senate, and the produ-
GERS of cotton everywhere, that for toll OF
fifty-six cents per bale from Weldon to Pc
tersburg, We will
LEAF TO THE BUSINESS
of carrying every bale of cotton that allthe
SCOTS, and all the Robinsons, end all the
Bridcers can concentrate OF Weldon, and
will become, by doing all the work for that
money, the richest men in Virginia. We
think zoe can do 1t for less, for Mr.. Robin
son has now m agent in Carolina offering
drawback of fifty cents bale upon every
bale of cotton that may be sent by ilis
road through Portsmouth.
Mr.. Daniel: Mr.. Robinson will do any
thing that Mr.. Ragland will do.
MIR. Lyon: think Robinson is little
ahead to-day, but Ragland will see him,
and go him better.
Mr.. Chairman, have only q few minutes
lett before IL o'clock, and rather than pro-
long this controversy, will omit great
deal that I wished to say, and will wind
up my remarks.
Mr.. Chairman, attended the other day,
the celebration Of the completion OF the
continuous and consolidated railroad con-
Meeting the Ohio and the James, and the
arrival of the first through train-which,
however, has not yet come. The Jublia-
ton was joyful nevertheless.
Then and there | looked forth into the
future for
ANOTHER CELEBRATION,
which will mark the consummation of the
same hopes, and the application Of the
same principles upon our line from We'll
don 10 W ashington. 1t is neither modest
nor graceful for us, Mr.. Chairman, to Haunt
the deeds of our people, nor manly to re-
late our sufferings; as applicants for sym
pathy or charity. But the communities
along our line from the Roanoke to the
Potomac, have record Of things done
and suffered which entities them TO JU: =
TIcE, to all the rights and privileges, to Ill
the franchises held 10y other people; to
every license 10 pursue the path OF COM
mercial interest aud duty. Justice may be
deferred and delayed but it will not ulu-
mately be denied. The end we seek
MUST COME SOONER OR LATER.
Let us, Mr. Chairman, make it sooner.
When it docs come VIC will have n ccle
bration too We propose to plant bat
terry of artillery upon every attle.heId
upon the line of our railroad, and to coll
meet each position by temporary wires,
| with the man lines now stretching across
the country, aud through them with a
Geographic battery on the roof OF this
capitol From the Crater, where Malone s
brigade replaced with human breasts the
torn cmbankment, to the Mansion House,
where the first jackson fell martyr to
his household gods, in front Of the altar
within his home, we wish to hear Peters
burg speak to Alexandria with a contnu-
GUS voice We want you, Mr.. Chairman,
you Senator from Norfolk City-you Wal
ter Heron Taylor-to occupy Headquarters
on this capitol, and there with your own gal
land hand upon the telegraphic key, give
us the word rs you used to do aforctime,
that we may greet successful progress with
ROYAL SALUTE.
When you give the command " Fire! y
the Simultaneous Hastings of our guns,
kissing each other in globes of light, shall
enwreath with battle glory the path which
our soldiers trod and made immortal by
deeds of unsurpassed courage and forti-
tule. And their reverberating echoes will
lingcr and softly die away about the spot
where Lees right arm fell crippled by his
side, and the place where the spirit of the
Stonewall hero passed over the river to his
rest under the shade of the trees.