The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1879-07-08
Virginia and the carolinas.

Virginia and the Carolinas. S. s
An interesting event occurred at Hender-
in Henderson county, n !. Con the
4th Of July interesting TO Virginia as well
as the State Ia which it happened, and the
fact that 1t is soshould be anything but
matter undressing to our fellow-citizens
OF the North State. s. s. s 81.
That event was the celebration OF the open.
Ing Of the Spar,anburg, S. G.. and Ashe: |
vile, n. c., railway to a point weston the.
Blue Ridge. Besides the general fact that
it is an Important extension OF railroad COM
mun,catiou to people OF North Carolina, Il is
the ffst laying Of rails by the State TO a
point west OF the Blue Ridge. Il was an
event OF great significance: very great Tor
NORTH Carolina, and Virginia participates
in the advantage to considerable extent.
The railway opened TO Henderson will
soon be extended to Asheyille, upon the
French; Broad. There the Spartanburg
road joins the Western railway, which 10
to extend along the French Broad Uid the
Warm Springs, in what was formerly Bun
.nbe, and 10. Paint Rock, In Tennessee,
where it intersects the East Tennessee and
Virginia railway. -..t 81
Commercial- and businessmen under
stand the. effects-their inclination IL not
their extent-oi this railway extension. A
letter In another part OF our paper gives
some account OF this celebration.
The point which is tapped by the North
Carolina railway is endowed with resources
and productiyeness that sounds almost fab
ulous in the narration. 1t Is but simple,
practical estimate to assume that the Caro-
linas and Virginia combined will in time
draw by the railway aforesaid through this
gap OF the French Broad an immense trans
portation. North Carolina Will receive it
in her very lap, and for distribution she
has the North Carolina Central, the Western
North Carolina, the Danville, and other
roads that run caStwardly. Virginia will
derive her participation through the Dan
Vile road and Atlanta Airline, while
South Carolina has the SparlanhuTs road
and the Columbia and other lines, which
will afford her tine advantages for commu-
Dcstion through the entcrprising works OF
Nor:h Carolina.
Virginia occupies the position that constl-
tuses her friend and auxiliary OF her
southern sisters in promoting the growth
ana prosperity OF the commerce that Is Pc
GUITAR to them ALL And Mr.. YEoMASs, the
Attorney. General OF South Carolina. was
no. in error on the 4th in passing bis CEN
sures upon the three States for neglcctnS
their rue interests when they were fac'lila.
ting The works which tended to the enlarge
ment OF the control Of northern competl-
tors FOR southern trade. He spoke the
truth-not that we suppose he is governed
bvany narrow sentiment, and would lmpro-
perIy trarnmel and restrict commerce, which
should always be free; but that he not more
than we would not see, il we could prevent
il. our own States causelessly pursue policy
which steadily tended 10 the restriction OF our
own commerce with our neighhors while we
extended facilities and opened the gates to
those whose plain object is to dwarf our
own trade and extend theirs.
The instances are numerous and pcrcept-
ible to all businessmen. That better sue
cess will be secured to all OF our neighbour
ing southern States by mutual understand
ing and cooperation in many things In
which we are now divided we arc perfectly
,alisnvu.
It is proper in considering the inter-
ests Of the Middle States, including the up
per line OF Cotton States, that Tenn essee
should be united with the Carolinas and
yirginia-not that these should be sep
arated from the Gull States, but there are
lines of intercourse immediately affecting
these four which do not directly have the
same impression upon others. Tennessee
should, it seems to US, have consolidated
more energy and enterprise upon some
eastern line which would have opened her
rich Valley of the Cumberland eaStwardly
towards the middle way to the Attain
tic. There is a popularity in her. pro-
auctions and her social economy that would
have made her direct intercourse with the
Carolinas and Virginia more thrifty and
agreeable. At present she finds her east.
ward way by the outer rim OF the great
Tennessee ridge, which tends to the confu.
sion OF her commerce rather than its con-
centration. Virginia, too, has pursued a
policy that nas the like effect. With her
great artery OF the James to guide and con-
troll her transportation, all ner acts have
tended to block il and throw all things out
side for the benefit Of Others, while she has
denied herself almost everything. The day,
we trust, is not remote when many Of her
wrongs will be righted, and she will enter
upon her highway to independence and for.
tune by the building OF the Richmond and
Allegheny railway along the water-line OF
JapeS river.
We hail the opening Of the way through
North Carolina to Tennessee as the light
breaking upon better day for the States
which immediately interest us all. We de.
sire that they shall strengthen themselves
BY cooperation, and thus that we shall see
the middle division OF the Union, which is,
after all, its most important division,
brought forward to the front, so that it SHALL
not drop behind any other division in Its
power and importance in representing the
independence and grandeur Of the Union.
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Texas.
Mr.. Z. V. SaALLEY writes from Texas to
the,New York Tribune: - ~ 80
=. Herpresent population is generally es-
f;n,o,ad, hv her own neoDta aE D 00{1 0f)0 hut