The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1873-01-11

SAD will be the fate of the Old Dominion when
her trusted servants shall lend their aid to the
sappers of her best rights, who would fitch
from Virginia the little all she has left, and
transfer it to the pockets of alien spoilers OF her
heritage. Wing.
The above woeful jeremiad is walled into
the legislative ear in view of the passage Of
general railroad law in Virginia. Such
law has added hundreds Of millions in
value to the real estate of Ohio and Illinois,
and has put down thousands of miles Of
substantial railway, SO that cheap trans
portation is brought to almost every mans
door, while grinding and grasping
monopoly has been obliged to fly their
borders and seek for special
immunity and favor in other states; and,
hence, this jeremiad of the Wing. To
build a railroad from Washington to Rich
mond, and hence to Petersburg and Well
don, or to still further points South, and
thereby establish healthful competition in
railroad traffic as in all other branches of
business, is to stitch from Virginia the
little all she has left" and to transfer her
most splendid heritage NOW degenerated
into little railroad ring monopoly to ''the
pockets of alien spoilers" What theme
for jeremiad, and how admirably is it
sung by the Whigi Poor old Virginia
threatened with the curse of railroads and
cheap transportation, and with an army of
sappers and miners who would cover her
all over with network of iron rails, so
that,her fate would be worse than that of
LAGOON in the tolls of the serpent! All
this is to come from general railroad law.
And, then, there is Ragland and Scott
two names so entirely confused in the
brain of our contemporary that it can't
distinguish one from t'other--who are bent
on making the fate of the Old Dominion
worse than that of Sodom and Gomorrha,
if the " trusted servants of the State Nhe
little railroad ring monopoly do not tram
pie the " sacred heritage out of them, or
trample them out of the sacred heritage
or both, as the case may require!
Scott, we know, is an awful bugbear in
Virginia-another Giant Grim in the path
of our true Christian gentleman of the old
Virginia school-but Reuben Ragland, one
of Virginia's most courteous and affable
gentlemen, who never did anything more
terrible than to dispense a generous hospi-
tality to political friend and foe alike-that
hs should assume such Gargantuan proper
tons as to brighten all the old grannies il
the State, male and female, out of thei
wits, and into doleful jeremiads, is wha
passes our poor guessing qualities to accoun
for. We have rarely met the gentleman
Of late, but W hen we last saw him his fac,
was as mild and benevolent in its expires
sion as ever, and we are sure that if he il
another Catiline, plotting against the lib
critics of this seven-hilled city" Of ours
he is the mldest hammered conspirator tina
ever sought to fitch the 6 sacred heritage
of people, to say nothing about littl'
railroad monopoly rings.
We are no champion of Mr.. Ragland'i
bill, simply for the reason that we believe
the ends which he seeks would be equally
well subseryed by general railroad
law; but the idea that he is seeking
[. TO seal the fate Of the Old Do
minion," and turn her over, sacred