New-York daily tribune., 1842-10-27
The Erie Railroad. &c.

The Erie Railroad, &c.
The Albany Argus, in a faggy sort of dialogue
intensed TO show that the State Works of New
York will never pay their cost, gives US the fol-
lowing
Dens--I suppose you count upon the Erie Railroad
Whie-No NOT FOR REVENUE. You know well enough
use that for ,lecroneering purposes.
Such, friends Of the Erie Railroad is the wa,
your great work is treated BY the L9co-Foco State
organ. While the Massachusetts Western Rail
road in paying over s5OO,OO per annum, the Al
6any Argus coolly asserts that the Erie Railroad
would produce no Revenue at oil, and is OILY used
(" for electioncering purposes If that Road
does not pay $1,OOOO0o the first year it shall be
opened throughout and met 81, no0, 600 within five
wears, then all analogous experience is false ane
delusive.
But says Dem in this same article:
aThere is one other question wish TO ask. Is not tn,
toll paid the Eiie Canal tax and much more onerou
pioperty lhave beard much said about tolls, il the,
fell into The State Treasury like the Iraetes bu
it uwayS appeared to me that they were produced 10y
labor and paid by class able to bear them and thai
the true policy for US hard-baaded men who labor wouo
he to have the State get out OF debt ano nave he os OF
aour, pork, beet, and salt reduced"
Let us test the soundness of this tax PROPOSE.
tion Jonathan Holdfast lives in Allcgany County,
and every odd year down to see his father ii
Old Connecticut. Before there were any Rail
roads it took him FIVE days to reach New-York b!
STAGE at cost Of $50. But the Erie Railroad Is
built; and now he runs down in twenty-tour hoar-
direct, or two days sunshine if he chooses to take
it easy-no rackng Of bones Mor dislocating OF
shoulders--no pryng out the stage from quagmires
no mud, no dust, no dissppointments and the
cost is So to SO at most. Why, Holdiast,
says er-Comptroller Flagg, meeting him in New
York, I" do MT you see that the internal Wing pol
icy has tared you eight dollars tor your passage
"Why, no." says Jonathan, feeling the balance o
his usual $50 in his pocket, " it do nj exactly
strike ME in that light Just so OF the consumer
of -four, pork, beef and salt. The true way It
secure reduction Of the cost of transportation u
by enlarging the Canal that a two-horsc boa
can carry 20 tons where she carries %. Thei
boat can pay more toll per ton than now, ye
carry at half the present price
~ The Morning Post laboys zealcusly to maxi
out charge of partisanship against Mr. Colby 5
Address. To this end it says
sIts charge upon the Democratic party, in the mcol
ol every Whig den,ag0gue aud upon the pen OF ever,
Wing scrbber ,ha, seeks 10 onent hostility between th'
rich and tbs poor rs eSeI n Ven man @ q m e
the accusation as true and as generally admitted.
The error of the Posts statement is here: Mr.
Colby spoke against demagogue attempts TO ARA,
the Poor agains. the Rich, Labor against Capital
aud showed their folly and wickedneSs but h
didno. charge them upon aay party. The Pos
puts the cap on the head of its own purity, anc
then cries out The Wing libeler what doe. b,
attack as for '-Srs if you are not guilty, yo,
are untouched He spoke only of the guilty with
out naming them.
But is ',he charge utterly false and untour d
ed :" Is the Posts appropriation to its owl
party of Mr.. Celby's censurc unwerraoted' Lei
any read the Address and Resolutions is.
sued from Tammany by a I" Democratic Mechan
les and Worsingmen's Meeting only one ltd,
week ago, and see how undoubtingiy i, assumes an
irreconcilable hostility between the interests o
Wealth and Labor, asserting lha, Capital il
friendly to the Protective policy and urgin.
tkat as a promiaeat reason tcky Labor shogsa D.
hostile ioit! So outrageous WAS this Slarunisr
that even the Morniag Post was constrained Il
enter a gentle but decided protest. le, this wa
no new dcctrlne-it haa oeea pfescaeo time an'
again from that same Iamn,apy Hall, and form
(alas for erring humanity , u most posen, srsr
r,ea, with a large proportion oi It's disciples. W
cite the Post, then, as an unwilling and therefor
nnimpeachabe Witness in support OF MIR. Colby
POSITIONS even according 10 It's Own apPl'eauoh
them.