The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1879-01-11


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I ! JANT')lK i ISIS. q 3 3
], living gpogJames riyer;ia athisdfneeftainty.
Bi asltlsm9s Isbaye spaken, and flushed
i'K1ilfoS6 ampary iiaY f sbsesk q few
moments M otksr iiiifefests fffit f5 me are
fnIuct Mufi Htrinsieailf flmpo postant thaR the
affairs OF OILS company .YTs iaG biBp,i< !:
RelyfnRHpaR assaPanees-fbat were hon-,
estly giveJ ggatienen. upon my recommen-1
/ qatton, amde considerable, Investments on
fiJanes fvf." My. nieafS did fi3f permit ME
ITO aoial fban In iany great dsgfses afid Yet q
amInor6diax5olls than II TItlad been abe TO-
progai mysaistbb bVI nleqrial Renture with,
them. ypuld not be understapd asspPak.
ling ,f9T, item alone, .bpt only; as through
ffheff necessity learn the general needs OF
the raliesI In fny speech before yo1 Iasci
| winter aaling tbe passage OF The Richmond
and Al!edfany; biil,ly you will hear me witt
fnessthatf said nj that Bill would bur q bet.
ter pfbiet aud delay by enc hours time the
Erehefiefapeople pyou ought not to pass it;
but ifltyno did pass 1t you ought TO leave in
1it eyefs franchise and power that would
maker its success probable. You. reported
it tthoit; dissent. and passed it with sans
gle auaendment and aiainelel negative vote.
You ips led noN other bill. From then,un-
i'll now E:haye lnhered without rest TO make
ported; d;oand I wtl Ray; that / should have
baband,ned the effort months agoiifEthe im-
pliedsrespphsiblhtyi iofg this trust had not
nith fp p9B shaken: ! J. belieyeib moi :.
+ THEsE -5si Al DESTINY THAT NOTHING c&S -.
Es,!tlc r.G;,yrd LONG DELAY, j, p.,,erper ut :
ya1sl ,h1t Hia brig power and wealth to this ~
.l,irhe. Richmond and AtiegbaHy Railroad
Company cam afford to waitf1 Fhe cities OF
u Isi&i.uiouu3Tx Txru1 foss- Acknowledgements
Perhaps the State. developing in other di-
rections. can wait the twenty years that has
been suggested rs period in which these
franchises would become valuable, But
there are men who cannot wait. There are
men who this year will be driven from their
ancestral homes unless relief comes. They
have held on to the last, and failure will fol-
low, and precipitate failure A newIy-dis-
covered and enormous wealth, which is just
becoming real to large numbers Of men, will
only hasten their disaster. Have ever pee
pie been so bitterly disappointed? Iwoud
not recur to the Interests of the State. The
Integral mistake was not strange. and should
not be uukindly named; but to repeat ii, or
to continue it, would be cruelty. It is
enough TO mention the startling fact that IL
a ruilroad hQd in 1880 been built by the
State ON the line OF this canal, and had made
record OF dividends proportionate to the
Virginia Central, the difference in cost and
profit and loss would pay every dollar OF the
State debt. ,.. .a..-,t @
There are few higher duties of State than
its obligationto its citizens to give them the
best access to markets. Individuals cannot
build roads or bridge rivers, and it is j
serious thing to say that this man or COM
munity perIshed because they were shut
out from the world. 1t is sometimes a
grave thing to grant relief; it is always a
grave thing to withhold it.
THE DREAMS OF VIRGINIA
| have been long subjects Of ridicule or re-
gret. From The first she has seemed con
scious OF a power she could not prove, aud o.
a,wealth that was never uttained. The early
success OF her agriculture and the later tri
umphs Of her craftsmanship have not salts
fed her wants. A man born to greatnes!
wastes bis strength in vain and often lud;'
crous mistakes; yet, impelled by 4 con
sciousuess he can neither explain nor un
derstand, he rises from every fall until hi
hour of triumph. t
A destiny has overshadowed this Com
monwealth from the beginning, a greatness
was in store for her, but not Of the kind sb'
sought. The foundations Of her strength
were beneath the hills. and the gateway o
her success was through walls Of iron. Out
run in the progress OF the past, the very dis
coverieS and inventions OF her rivals have
made swift and sure the way Of her victory
A law that cannot be changed bas declaret
that the furnaces Of this continent may no
be neur the coal, but shalt be- near the ore
peculiar ore can only meet the demands o
TRADE, and that ore is not in Great Britain
I is not found In all America below the par
allel OF Lake Superior until you reach th
Ilne that passes through this Stare, and
r. HERE IT LIES PURE AND UNLIMITED,
There it has been thrown UP in immense ant
regular folds, and here those folds are cut a
IA low level by mighty adit into which tn
mines car he drained and cleared by sravita
1t:on; here an arm, o. the sea RI aches inlan
one hundred miles, here ieyel way extend
two hundred miles towards the coal-feld
and the grain-fe!ds OF continent, and be"
I It is possible that in one hundred and fort
miles one hundred and forty furnaces ma
be built, each with its own supply OF or
and limestone; here can: be produced an
pl8cad upon the sea the cheapest steel tn
world can produce and upon the great riv
I ers the cheapest iron in America. In thos
\ mountains vii yet be, wrought, the ,iro
I bonds for rtrlbnte-paying peoples, and, wit
a bower that shall not be questioned, with
IbarTes that shall bring, a sheaf to ever
home. Virginia shall assert her right t an
ut may not be i; the power OF this Legs
1Iaturs, to hasten or defer that day but
/ Would be.a proud. thing il you could throy
wide the doors, sapd let the day break. j
would be q sad thing Il, you were to eXten
4 the hight for a. year or generation.
In answer 10 -questionssef Senator, tu
1tksrson;, Mr. Parsons said that, more tina
rtIloUbie the 1Dinimum amount OF stock rt
u iuflired Iy law has been subscribed and pni
I'm! and that this comrany has no connectio
with the chesapeake and Ohio railroad
Several other questions in regard to th
;. company were answered. ..," -.
. On motion or Mr.! Robinson OF Ports
4 mouth, the committees meetings in Join
4 session we're Ordered to be discontinued
aIEach !committeeIwif meet in its own, ..roor
n Ihareafter.! !a+' nGai ''.' ..3't -" .'.',.'
RI 4 CHURCH ISoC1ABL Es-Two HAPPY EVENTS
| TN ,,,o, btv onpioh1a ar the Monument;