| From the Richmond Daily Dispatch |
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| January 29, 1862 |
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| Supplies of Railroad equipments |
| The Southern States had gotten
into the habit of relying on the North for almost everything necessary
for keeping up our railroads, as they did about nearly all their
wants, and consequently some temporary inconvenience is felt since we
have determined to separate from them. We are glad to learn, however,
that a movement is now agitated to make us permanently independent of
them as to all the important railroad equipments. We have seen a
circular from Colonel Fontaine, chairman of a committee appointed for
the purpose, calling a general meeting of the railroads of the
Confederacy in this city on the 15th of February, to take into
consideration the establishment of rolling mills in different
sections, for making rails, boiler
plates, and other things required for our roads. These are articles
which only need a little enterprise to manufacture here as
successfully as they are made anywhere, and we trust there will be a
full meeting, and that they will resolve to make the South independent
not only of the North, but of the whole world. |
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