The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1876-02-16
The Greatest of all Works.

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Daring the latter part of autumn, through
the winter, and along In the incipient stage
of spring there are repeated announcements
of Interruptions from the weather upon thu
transcontinental Union Pacific railway. They
are Interruptions prolonged, Uncomfortable
and perious-iejurions TO trade and peril
Gus to life. Trains have been snowed-uI
where there was no suecor TO be bad, ant
where fer the want Of wood psssenger.car'
had to be burned as fuel to keep the passen
gers from freezing.
1t is manifest that route so exposed &c
Interruptions to trade and hardship to traFei'
lers cannot answer the wants OF this grea'
nation. No people know this better thar
the owners of this frost.beleagured line. a
railroad by the easy grades and along tht
nerennial latitude of the southern route
would be ever in operation, ever safe, evcl
impelcd by the most favorable conditions to
the satisfaction of all the vast multitude con
cerIed in transcontinental commerce, and to
the great promotion Of the prosperity and
power OF this nation.
We may state again here that no body OIL
men are more profoundly convinced OF this
fact than the gentlemen interested in pro
prietars relation In the Union Pacific line
the gentlemen who waxed fat on the Govern
meat aid and through the edit-Mooiller,
and who are now drawing millions out OIL
the Treasury upon Government obligations,
unsuardedly or cerrupty entered into. The
knowledge these people have OF the lm'
mense advantage Of the southern line over
theirs impels them to exert themselves 10
get possession OF this southern line 10 aVolo
the danger of competition from II. Iney
would control the southern line, and thus
hold complete power over the vast trans
continental transportation Of the nation, ana
exercise the right Of imposing the most
oppressive tariffs upon the people. Every
man can loresee the immense national wrong
that would follow. 1t would be establishing
a national tyranny, and committing great
Outrage upon liberty ITSELF
The Union Pacific is a great road, and can.
not fail 10 secure steady stream OF wealth
to a company that has fed more fully upon
Government treasure than ever did body
of men who ever had corporate existence.
That company should be content with this
if not. the nation should-ss matter OF
public safety and Tight-Withhold from
it any additional power whatever. The ma
ton cannot allow so great corporation 10
grow any more powerful. Public safety
demands not only that it should be checked
in its might. but that it shall have COMPETE
ton, as absolutely necessary to protect alike
the rights and interests of the people.
In looking upon the two great routes we
behold remarkable contrast. One pene.
trates the latitude of Whirlwind and frosts,
and the other that of sunshine and genial
tempera,ures. The Northern route is marked
for its wealth and vigor, and the Southern for
its wealth also, and by its climatic impulses
and uoden temptations. 1t is in respect OF
the bright promises opened by the Southern
Pacific route to all Of the people of the URion
that we feel especially stimulated to desire
its early completion.
The Southern Pacific route is first and
foremost to be valued as the shield of the
nation against the greed and expressions OF
the most alarmingly powerful corporation
ever chartered in this Republic. Against the
rapacity OF that corporation will the COMPETE
ton of the Southern Pacific railway protect
the people.
To the Government the road will give the
prompt and efficient means of establishing
Its authority and maintaining order upon its
southern boundary. This service alone will
more than compensate for all the aid the
Government is called upon to extend to the
enterprise.
When the proposition for the annexation
of Texas led to q debate In Congress which
hardly had its equal for ability and zeal, Mr.
IsaERsoLL, of Pennsylvania, espoused the
scheme with especial earnestness on the
ground that Texas would be the means OF
the "easy death of slavery" His view
were philosophically presented and attracted
no little attention. So far as all the condl-
tons of the country, Typographical and ply
steal, are concerned, they are the same to-day
that they were then, and JUS. as naturally
suited to the African now rs then.
1t is generally conceded that at least in the
temperate zone society cannot happily exist
with mixture of races, and in respect to the
good of humanity any event that may help 10
disentange complications of race should
be regarded hesven.descenaed blessing.
There can be no labor so we'll suited to The
work upon the Pacific railroad as that OF the
African. The negroes could be rallied upon
the line 10 thousands, and it is not IN the
nature of the African to travel northwarC
from such q land as the valley of the Rie
Grande, where he will be surrounded BY
temperatures and conditions, and feed on
food suited TO his constitution and genia
with his sensibilities. Here, then, we have
opened the way to the paradise Of the Afri
can, and as his numbers diminish the prepa
ration is made for an immigration which il
desired and needed, and which will bring
with it both thrift and power for our nov
PROSTATE land.
For the whole country the Pacific railwa,
will open a new land of promise. The
rolling prairie lands of Texas afford fielt
for industry and production unexcelled
while in the mines of the Rio Grande Valley
there are sources of wealth richer than Cali.
fornia. We have thus presented to us theatre
for our national enterprise larger and brighter
than any yet invaded, and we have tho hope