The northern galaxy. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1844-1848, 1845-08-06
THE GAME THEY HAVE PLAYED

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THE GAME THEY HAVE PLAYED.
For a few months since the Centrals and
| Fitchburghers have played a desperate game,
one disgraceful to themselves. and equally
treacherous TO Boston and Western Vermont.
| The Concord and Lebanon routes for the
Central, and the Cheshire and F%itchburgh
for the Rutland, are the natural avenues to
Boston, and had no attempt been made to pre-
vent an order of things which nature had fix
ed. and the whole world approved, nc ele-
meuts of strife would have been excited be-
tween the rival routes. Blu: stimulated by a
g~rasping a~varice, the Centrals wish to prevent
the construction of the Rutland road, and the
Fitchburghers to monopolize the whole bus
mess of Vermont by proceeding to the mouth
of White River. This ~virtuous union of pur-
pose produced the unholy alliance between
them. In consideration of abandoning the
Rutland road by ~Fitchburgh, she is promised
by the Ccntrals The whole business of Yer
mont which she expectst thus to be enabled to
command. The very first inklings of this
plot TO undermine the Rutland road were
perceived in the attempts of the Watchmau
to disparage it by the grossest misrepreseEta-
tons and most disgusting sophistries repeated
dd nedusedm in Vermont and Boston even
DOWN TO the present moment. While the peo-
pie of Western Vermont were confidently re-
lying upon the superior merit of their route,
and the oft repeated professions o fthe Fitch
burgh Board that this was decidedly their
road, the Agents of the Central Route were
peering about Boston, not for the single and
laudable purpose of building their own road,
but with a design of connecting a guilt-begot-
ten scheme of building it, and at the same
time preventing the building Of the Rutland.
From its conception this selfish plan has been
carried on with a degree of craftiness. in-
trigue aud deception which can scarcely find
a parallel in the maneuvreings Of the mosta-
droit political managers Of the day.
The Central wireworkers are now playing
their last card in attempting to discredit the
AliilOD VI SlOCh ulC las uctu ldkGu Ou tt4c
Rutland road. Now we are willing to COM
pare stock with our neighbors. 1t is unnec-
essary to inform the people in this region
what is the amount and character of their
stock. We expect, with exceptions scarcely
worth mentioning that every dollar of the stock
taken on the Rutland road is taken by able
and bonafde subscribers, and wholly uncon-
ditional. But it seems as if folly itself had
taken possession of the managers of the Cen
trail road in procuring subscriptions. We are
credibly informed that but one hundred thou
sand dollais in Montpelier has been legally
taken. a sum just sufficient to organize the
company, agreeably TO the charter, by the
payment of FIVE dollars on a share. The rest
is a mere promise to subscribe, and mostly
qualified with conditions in relation to the
location of the road, or other circumstance
TO suit the views OF the subscriber. In Bos-
ton the condition is chiefly for a connection
of the Central with the F%itchburgh and
Cheshire roads. In Burlington and on the
White River this condition is discarded and
denounced, and the Concord road has be-
come the chief ~favoiite. or is to be let in upon
equal footing. Up and down the Connect
cut and the branches Of W hite River the Cen
trail subscription is in the same inexlricable
confusion. Now we would ask these Cen
trail gentlemen whether they ever expect TO
build their road with such stock as they have
got! Since it is now rendered certain that
the Concord and Lebanon road will be built,
and you cannot m~onopolize at the mouth Of
White River, will the Boston subscribers a
gree to 60 thirty miles out of the way to that
point, rather than proceed direct to Burling-
ton on the Rutland route which everybody
knows will command a thribIe proportion of
freight to the Central! Thus with half an
eye it may be seen that never we're poor feI-
lows in a worse dilemma than our neighbors
about their stock. As it is now taken, their
road car never be built. We should not be
astonished if the Developments Of a few
weeks should slow them up in a desperate
condition. The course oftrick &deception like
that of true love never runs smooth. The Gil
bert survey will blow FELTON, sky high. The false
which has hitherto been cast round
the Rutland road will soon be Gispelled. The