The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1876-02-28
Confessedly AL They Want.

Confessedly AL They Want.
An anti-ToM.ScorT writer, in communi.
cation to Saturdays Enquirer, tkus acknowl-
edges that the Texas Pacific railway affords
to the South every facility which the Rich
1nond Whig and all the southern ASSISTANTS
OF the President Of the Texas Pacific rail-
way have been demanding. BE says:
<Let us examine, then, the relstions OF these
States to the so-cslled Southern Pacific scheme
OF Mr.. Scott. Texas gets all she wants In
any continger cy; hence, she can endorse win
impunity any and every proposition. Lou
isiaua approves because branch lines run 10
Shreveport and New Orleans; Mississippi
because Vicksburg has the promise o! q
connection Arkansas, because her border ID
touched at Texarksna, aud an immediate
connection had with her own State lines;
Missouri cordially endorses because st. Louis
il made the terminus of another trunk line
by diversion of this Southern Pacific from
its southern route across western and north
ern territory. Tennessee approves, because
q branch is promised Memphis, and fulfil.
ment assured to credulous board Of trade
by the appointment OF an Ex-Governor as
vice-president. But where is the tub to the
Virginia whale!"
Here is every connection that has been de-
manded. Not one Is omitted. 1t is true
that the writer, in bis zeal to east slur upon
our sister southern States, thus explains their
motives, forgetting that his explanation is
fatal to the objections against the road urged
by the small body of partisans Of which he
is member. 1t is a confession altogether
inadverteut; but while attributing to those
southern States selfish considerations the
writer confesses that he and his colleagues
would also approve the Texas Pacific if it
only threw tub to the Virginia " whale"
Who is this "whsle," and what does he
want:
But lie: US not forget that this writer con-
fesses tina. all the connections that have been
demanded have been conceded. That should
end the clamors of those persons who are
continually proclaiming with eminent ab.
surdity that the Texas Pacific is a northern
rail:oaG-1 declaration 80 utterly defiant Of
geography and all fact that it is wonderful
that any body should have the assurance to
mike il.
Now, what says the Texas and Pacific bill
about connections with its m.in line
Toe eighth section of the bill provides that
"All roads now or hereafter. constructed
under authority granted by the United
States, or by any State traversed by the lines
Of said roads. to iDtersect at any point with
said lines or railway, shall hare the right TO
90 so, and no discrimination against any
/ connecting road or roads shall be made in
anu manner; but Oh all business exchanged
with another road at such points Of connec-
ton or junction the same rates per mile for
passengers and per ton per mile for freight
Shall be charged as shall be charged on SINH
Lar business passing such junction on its own
line or any other route"
Now, the opposition having confessed to
all the connections that have been asked, and
having herea complete protection against dis
criminatious and against the denial of facili.
ties of connection, what in the name of fair
ness and practical sense do they want more |!
Richmond and Virginia will have connec-
tions at New Orleans, Vicksburg, and Mem.
phis. And let us not forget that We have
also the great connection with both the
southern and northern line Of railway by
our through routes to st. Louis, and to Chi
cago, etc. They are SO near completion that
we cannot believe that more than two years
will see them unfinished.
All, but then the "Virginia whale" what
will he DO about it? We believe that but
for the miserable personalities that have been
lugged into this discussion the opposition in
this State would not be in numbers worth
considering.