Alexandria daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1803-1808, 1803-11-21

and inevitable eject must oc 70 esioSi -.
.oonnanv. to obstruct and confuse the exc
e,t;an Of the work, and if there be persons
60 under the dominion of their passions,
that they had rather see IT wholly iruStrat !,
ed unless they are accommodated, such
OUGHT not, can net, be the sentiments OF
xanelrians. Whatever then the pow
er Of altering the route now liked may be,
for what good purposes tothe company, to
the town, or to the country, ought It TO Dc
done? 1t has been demonstrated that the
route by the Courthouse is the nearest and
best for the company, for the town, and
for the country, add accords with the m
tent and positive directions Of the statute
The inhabitants Of Centerville, tor whom
SO much sympathy IS expressed, Will be
furnished with a nearer and betterroad by
the Courthouse, then the one now II use.
I It IS indeed urged that there will not be
money enough 70 finish the road, unless It
be made two miles and ahalf farther than IS
necessary, and that the whole capital OF
10000 dollars, will not. carry the road be-
vond the Courthouse where 7ve are 10 be
set d9e0a. What then? is it Better to be
set downs IN the hills Of Accotink or Popes
head, on our way to .entervll!s THERE'S
no such defect OF means; the legislature
has provided by law, that the capital may
be encreased for finishing the road and
the new subscribers are not to be alarmed
on this account, but the means may be re-
sonably expected TO complete the road IN
the strait route.
Lastly, this writer informs the pubic
that if the Stockholders fail to choose at
their next election, men, who Will establish
the road by Centerville, which he calls the
means Of doing themselves justice, they
may be furnished with those means by sub
sequent measures; what these subsequent
measures are to b, are not precisely de-
scribed If as is intilnated he means that
application may be made to the Legislature
Of Virginia, for redress nothing can be
expected from thence, that is not dictated
BY good sense, and sound equity, and that
application will refer to two objects.
1st. That the Board of Directors may in
no case have the power Of filing up tempo
rarv vacancies.
Cd. That the road from Alexandra may
be circditous by Centerville, and so extend
ed afterwards as to draw away the country
people from Fredericksburg, & Richmond,
and not strait to the Ford of Little River.
As to the first object, the answer of the
Legislature may be prophesied to be this,
/" our statute is very wei as it now is y re-
peal your own bye law which you can do at
any time, and there will be no cause to
complain on this head.
As to the second point the answer may
be anticipated to be, that it was the inten-
ton Of the Legislature to furnish a good
road from Alexandria, to the Western
country, conveniently placed by nature for
trading to il, and not to intercept the trade
Of fredericksburg and Richmond, by any
particular partialities in favor Of Alexan-
dIia; and the subscribers to the road lead
ing to the Ford Of Little River, having
subscribed in the faith that the Legislature
would not attempt to divert it Southerlf
by making it eircuitous; good faith TO these
individuals who are Stockholders require
that, even if the power is possessed it
should not be exercisedhy the Legislature,
Of making the road a.crookcd round about
way, instead Of the shortest practicable one,
and moreover the intent, and letter o. the
statute has been fulfilled by the Board OF
Directors, BY the route which they have
established.
This is the answer which equity, and
crohfi eancA l}iotota F-or, tho occa,,i,I,, cf