Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Wiroa-Week-8 Title A name given to the resource This Week in Reconstruction, February 22-28, 1871 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Megan Wiora Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource February 22-28, 1871 Description An account of the resource The battle of state pride and sovereignty, something that Virginia has felt robbed of since rejoining the Union, resurfaced this week, for the Pennsylvania Central Railroad Company is attempting to control railroad lines in Virginia and other regions in the South. Even though most Virginians view Reconstruction as finished, this railroad war that shows power struggles between the North and the South post-unification. The Pennsylvania company wants to control the road between Richmond and Washington, which would create great profits for the Virginia company in Richmond if they had control over it. The disagreement was taken to court, where The Fredericksburg, Richmond and Potomac Company was given rights to build the rail from Alexandria to Richmond. Although this was a victorious motion for Virginia, it created further resentment against the North and further feelings of feeling controlled. Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Transcription Any written text transcribed from a sound It has been urged that the Pennsylvania system of roads has made that State great, populous, powerful, and wealthy. I admit it. But it is said that the same system will make Virginia great, populous, powerful, and wealthy. That I deny. As a Pennsylvania system of railway secured prosperity for her, so a Virginia system Is necessary to secure prosperity to Virginia. But the passage of this bill is a departure from all our past policy in regard to a Virginia system of roads, and is the first great step "towards making all our roads mere tributaries to the wealth and greatness of Philadelphia. And when this scheme is accomplished, and the Pennsylvania Central has made the southern roads its tributaries, the prodigious trade that shall roll in sealed cars across the territory of Virginia will no more benefit her than the splendid steamship freighted with the gold of California benefits the ocean whose waters it cleaves. no more than the great caravans of the East, laden with the precious productions of the tropics, benefit the barren desert, whose sand affords a mere pathway for the camel's foot. ... THE INTERESTS THAT ARE THREATENED. Such are some of the great Interests that are threatened with destruction by the bill under consideration, and in these interests all Virginia is interested. I feel that I speak for the city of Petersburg, whose hope of manufactures or shipping will be forever blasted if this bill is passed. I speak for Richmond, at the base of whose hills the waters ot the James will continue forever to How in idle and useless beauty. I speak for the city of Norfolk, whose teet will lie washed in vain by the waves of the deep sea. I speak for that system of Southside roads known as the Consolidated Line, upon whose fortune Virginia has staked so heavy an interest, who will find, if this bill is passed, that the fields of the South to which it looked for its success have already been appropriated by the Pennsylvania Central railroad and its tributaries and dedicated forever to the use of Philadelphia. In the name of our whole beloved Commonwealth I protest against the passage of this bill. URL http://virginiachronicle.com/cgi-bin/virginia?a=d&d=DD18710222&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN------- Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1871-02-22 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context WioraMegan-18710222-WillthePennsylvaniaPolicyImproveVirginia.pdf Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Richmond Daily Dispatch Title A name given to the resource Will the Pennsylvania Policy Improve Virginia?