The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1875-09-20
Observation-Disclosures

ACOlouefv t5enLonS' zAA1@'
I'm Tie lste Colonel BEsTos's great speech,
ID Isle, oasihe railway TO the Pacific be
made interesting reference 70 Virgins. we
COPY below an extract trom,the speech, H.
Guiding what be had to say about Virginia !:
aLet It's initiate, though at an humble and
lowly distance, the wisdom and beneVolence
of Providence 10 the formation OF its great
rivers. They run In The centre OF the va,,ey,
and the two sides find their accommodation
In the lateral streams which brinSail toRetner
In the middle. So should we 40 py our
great road and its lateral roads. To require
It I'd he on one side OF the Union would pc
like wishing the Mississippi to be on one sac
| of its yaIley--to be at the foot OF the Al'e-
ph,niea or Of the Rocky mountains
and although the people at the bise
~ these mountains respectively, eacn ior
i,se,f might wish that God had placed tne
rather of Floods on their side of the valley.
70, His wisdom and goodness placed IL
where Il would suit the greatest ndmpeI,
and il was in the middle of the valley: 80
LOT il be with this great rosd-in the mlooie
of the Union !. And let every state OF Tue
Union reach it by branch. Their lines OF
commenced roads point to the course OF tne
central road from St. Louis to the Atiantlc
coast. The projected linetrom Charlestou
through western North Carolina, eastern
Tennessee, and Kentucky, LOOKS 10 LIZ
cinnat. The line commenced from hlch'
mopd to the mouth OF the Guyandoue
is TO find It's course in the same par
.l,eIs Colonel Benton said be
had jus. received a communication lrom WI
liam Kinney, ESQ. of Staunton, giving n ,
the gratifying information OF FlrSlnias no
crafty to this road. He was Struck WIN
two considerations presenter IN taVoF ol con
timing the road to the Ohio, and thus 10
connect the Atlantic ocean with tnat river.
One was that an iron road from the Pacific,
hearing the commerce Of Asia, might pass
near the mouth of the Guy andotte, and so put
Virginia in communication with that grand
line. The other was that this road compile
ted the great idea of Washington would be ac'
com rIished: the ocean which bathed her east.
prn and the river which washed the western
shores of bis beloved Virginia would be
united. The two waters would be in com'
mupication. This was his fond aud patriotic
conception fifty years ago. Let us consider
ourselves now rs aiding to accomplish the
work Of the Father of his Country.
"The railway from the Pacific through
the centre Of the Union, through ONO ana
other central States. will be an argument IN
favor of completing the line which will con-
meet Richmond aud the Ohio, will connect
the whole southern seaboard with the Ohio
for the railroad is already completed which
trarerses lower Virginia and North Carolina,
and connrc.s all South with all North.
eve have it in our power 10 AID IN me
contamination Of Washington's plan, and
on scale tIan5c"uding all his own thoughts,
and I'll the lights Of the age in which be
lived: putting his natal Virginia in commu-
nlca:ion not only with the Ohio river and
,hc vslley Of the Mississippi, but in commu.
nication with the Pacific ocean and Asia"
The war defeated Colonel BESroN'S pro-
iect of a Central Pacific line by the location
of the present road upon route too far
North. And now the truly southern line is
rendered absolutely necessary, and Virginia's
chances for share OF the business of that
line when built are greater than would have
been her chances with the central line pro-
posed in 1S49. We have the route by At
lsnta, and hat by Chattanooga: and still that
bv the Ohio and kapawha, which will surely
have a chance to intercept and take some
thing from the general current of Pacific