The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1875-02-05
The Southern. Pacific Railway.

The Southern PSsHlilc Sdu"s'S'
We had supposed that the engrossment Oh
Congress With the desperate game OF vi.
Radical party to maze GRANT "necessl's
would render it impossible for the body 70
give time enough to the subject OF puo"e
improvements 70 mature any measure WILD
regard to thcei. But as We observe 'no'
,bcre Is a vigorous attack made upon the
son,bcrn rscitic failread scheme we suspect |
that that hss prospect ahead that alarms lis
opponents.
R,sf,,tnIpg the facts of our indifference
towards it many oss,cr light than that of the
national interest, ASA that Mr.. SceTr Of Penn
svlyania. who seeeas to stand for it, we know
not either personally sc through any other
channel, We agtan apow our warm friend 4
ship for the rosa ana our'carnest hope that
it may lie built at an earlySaay.'
This Southern Pacific road is '!slpoftaRt
for the natiou, and especially for the Soueh.
The great ratIsc trade, and the immense
travel that lysssprung up betwccnthe EAST
and the West ef the Union and PROMISES to
increase an!rst without limit make it IN
dispeusal,r that the nation should not be
forced to Y6sy upon the Nortaern-or what
is called '"Central Zine, wseh its towering
elevations, its hundred and 6fty miles; Of snow
sheds, and its crest pcrils Of winu7and frost.
This nd.iou cans,ot contcBt Itself TO trust al
together to thatfne " hen it las:s route CON-
paratishly lcve,--a route on w1rcn preFaHs
the wear ro1lu6 a gentle temperature, and
upou which tkere are 10 peri!s OF storm aTr,
frost. That s:ne is in the southern dis'sion
of The Union and while a read built upon
il would establish 4 just equality between sse
two treat sslions it would be incomnaraHy
more beneficial to the nation than the MONTH
ern railwsr-it world be 20 much raorca fti'
cient andycrviceabse.
We observe that the MEASURE to souiti the
southern line is opposed with gtcaezeal in
New.Ye.k. This is net surprising. New
York has been Impressed by the acsiHty oil
Baltimore that she'msy be injured; that her
tradc"r,ay be dlmjq;shed and although
liberia! city in the matter Of Prrty politics,
shewnid prctsr not to see tia Pseitc trade
thrown on line so fnr south as tine TeXas
line. That would BE cnoughno create in that
city on aversion to this ross:; but there is
Yet more potent reason. lt'is that the
stock gamblers ard lDoncTshaYers have too
much at stake iu'.l1e obligations onthe North.
ern Pacific iire to permit them ito favor the
introduction 'oG this new enterprise into the
market. :: Its great advantages over the
northern route, they app-chend, would seri-
ousIy sffect the bonds Of fbat northern line.
Satisfied that there viii be enough for both
of these lines, We see no justification for this
fear and active opposition from New York
specuators but all Know how such fears
act upon saen, and the 'cncrgr and rancor
with which they display themselves.
No moGe of attack Is left '.intricd. The
favoritc strategy ameng these people is to
make TON SCOTT" the road, and the road
"TOM ScorT," and the merits Of the grand
Improvement are to 20 for soothing as long
as "Teu ScoTT's" name is connected
with il. AS good spd as.honorable as any
other railroad king anywhere, he is abused
and denounced with aYim and recklessness
that are wonderful, although had any other
railroad king the reputation of bringing the
project forward it would be no less violently
opposed.
Even in the South the scheme meets with
opposition-more from personal consdera-
tons than anything else. - Ton SCoTl y is
the spectre that frightens some people and
leads them to speak Of the scheme as objec-
tiopable. 1t is for gentlemen to settle the
matter in their own judgments as to how
far they should allow personal prejudice TO
govern them in opposing project which we
believe promises more coed to the South
than any other railroad project ever brought
10 the attention Of the country.
1t is arbitrarily denouneeltaas scheme for
q" Tow scoTT's" benefit. 1t bat just that
any ono whose energy and tact. could achieve
so great a work should be we'll compensated
for doing so much good to the, nation; but
that the road once baelt from the Pacific to
the east side of the MiSsissippi.ooEld be ap-
propriated. 20 the peculiar ,use of small
community, or, what il worse, an individual,
we have no idea. The work * too immense
and the business on it Of too graat:msgaitude
to permit Of any such thing. Certainly if
law is of any use the previsioM,of Lhe-har-
ter Of the proposed railway are too literal
and fair to all &c allow anything Of thekiud.
A brief article from correspondent in
our paper this morning throws Euch. light
on the great project.