The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1874-06-19
What Right.

What Right.
General Malone has no road leading to
Richmond. He tried to get one. and be was
resisted and defeated by Richmond people,
Wing.
This assertion is the very opposite of the
facts. The Southern Security Company, to
utilize their southern railroad property,
wished to establish an al-rail freight line
from the Gulf uia Wilmington, Weldon, and
Richmond to New York. They offered to
buy the States interest in the Richmond and
Petersburg railroad in prosecuting their pur-
pose. The moment it was announced Gene
raj MALONE entered the arena and bid for
the State stock in opposition to that Southern
Security Company. He pretended TO do so
in order to get the right of way from Pc
tersburg to Richmond.
Well, to CRAFTY bin. the bill diSposing of
the States stock in the road to the Southern
Security Company was amended so as to
give him the right to build a fiye-foot-gaugc
read alongside of the Richmond and Peters
burg road upon terms so liberal that Il sur
vey established the fact that track could be
actually so built for less money than the
control Of The Richmond and Petersburg
road cost the Southern Secwity Company.
Besides, General MALONE had already a CHAR
ter By which he was allowed to build road
from Petersburg to Richmond.
With what force, then, can the Richmond
Wing say that the privilege of coming to
Richmond was denied to General MALONE?
The very reverse is the truth. General Ma
HOSE has the right to come to Richmond Tor
absolutely less money than it cost the South
ern Security Company to buy tue control of
the Richmordand Petersburg Railroad.
The truth Is, the people Of Richmond
desired to have perpendicular ail-rat1
freight line from the Gulf to New York,
passing through Richmond. 1t was hoped
that the Fredericksburg road would enter
irEo the arrangement. Therefore they Us.
sisted the Southern Security Company in It's
plan. That company owed the Weldon
aud Wilmington and other southern roads,
or controlling interest ia them.
What did General MALONE want with the
Petersburg and Richmond road: That was
the general question. One would think that
the Southern Security Company gaze him all
he should want. Oh, no. lie wanted en-
cluSire possession Of that road-not for him
self, everybody thought. Oh, no! But he
wanted 1t tor another, as everybody sus-
pecled and the money he proposed to ray,
was it his CWn? 1t vas the money Of ALL
other, everybody believed. The southern
SECURITY Company offered him Il way at a
less cost than they were forced 70 ny y Foam fs
OUT the Southern Security Company. He has
Lac right to come to Richmond now under
two acts of the General Assembly; but he
has never used bis right under either. Does
not that prove the correctness Of evcrybody's
suspicious:
Now, then, his organ, the Richmond Wing,
SAWS he was refused the liberty to come TO
Richmond. We positively deny the asser-
ton.
But what is it made for, felloW-citizans of
Richmond: TO sustain the outrage Of de.
uying TO you those express facilities which
every citizen in the United States out OF
Virginia enjoys without limit.
The premise being false the deduction is
equally so. General MALONE has no right to
deny to you the facilities of the express,
now the medium of the transaction, we
think we may say, of q traffic equalling one
fifth in value of tue trade of this country.
Suppose, for argument, that the LegiSla-
| turc and few citizens had positively shut
of General MALONE from "getting to Rich
| mond." Would that give him the right to
deny to Richmond express facilities? If
that was a sin, are all the people Of Rich
mond involved in it2
| General MALONE has no right to deny this
city an express; he has no right for the fol-
lowing reasons: The people of Richmond
paid more towards the construction of the
road he controls beyond Lynchburg than
any community east of the Blue Ridge
save Lynchburg. They gave to it a
hundred thousand dollars, for which
they are still annually assessed and pay
taxes. Then the people of Richmond, at
the time of the building Of the road, paid
one dollar for every twelve that others paid
into the public treasury, out of which was
paid more than two-thirds of the entire
cost of the roads now consolidated under
General MALONE. Above all, the people of
Richmond are part Of that public of which
| the great General MALONE is a mere servant,
and towards which his honor, his political and
moral obligations, and the charter of bis com.
pany bind him to be fair, impartial, and just.
AS he fulfils these obligations is he worthy
of appreciation and applause. AS he for.
teits them is he censurable-is he an un-
worthy and guilty public servant.
"What right has Richmond to ask any ex-
press facilities of General MAuoNE?" Quotha.
What say you!
The Dispatch says it "likes good joke"
How did it relish that one about its being
{. 10 organ oF ho no Not