Wheeling times and advertiser. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1839-1849, 1845-08-09
Frors the Marion Pioneer.
BALTIMORE AND OHIO RAILROAD.
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Frors the Marion Pioneer. |
BALTIMORE AND OHIO RAILROAD.
Hoe IL iras done!
Mr.. EnrToR:-The subject Of the termina-
tion Of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad has cx-
citedgreat interest In Northwestern Virginia
indeed ! may say throughout the State. No
county. sir, has a more abiding interest i'm the
termination of that work than the county of
Marion-even the county in which it termin-
aics ON the Ohio not excepted. This can b.
proven BY our location, and the natural resour-
ccs OF our county that will be developed by the
road passing through it. Then it becomes US
to examine into our interest, and the means
that have been taken to defeat them. The
law OF last winter granting the right of
way to the Company To construct their road to
wheeling. we believe, was all the Company
ought to have expected. But flushed, perhaps
o1y their success in tampering with the state of
Maryland, they were encouraged To
on Virginia. Immediately upon the passage
OF that law, the great men of Harrison. Lewis,
ana wood thought that, upon another trial,
they could do better-that they had lobby
members yet behind, whose influence would
be omnipotent in the nextlegislature. So the
Company advised them to regard the late law
as a nudity, and act as if no action had been
taken on the subject. Hence the great Clarks-
burg Convention, represented BY counties hav-
ing, perhaps four or five Delegates i'm the leg
%islature. There the great work was done. Per-
haps never since the DAYS of Shakspeare was
the character of Jack Fallstalf, in bras and
buster more fully represented than i'm that Con-
vehtion-about one-third of Congressional
District menacing the Old Dominion! And.
sir, had you been there to have seen the gene.
rails, the colonies the majors, the captains and
the captains, you would have thought that all
the paraphrcnalia Ofan army was there but sol.
diers. The mountains lalored, a mouse was
the product-and To-! the thing died of impot-
ency. No echo of joy responded back upon
! Iheir Don spirit from distant portions of the
State. So monstrous was the thing. possess-
ing the head of the lizard, BODY of the snap.
ping turtle, and tail of the serpent, that its pro.
pagators refused to breath vitality i'm all its
parts, and thus II was strangled i'm its swad-
hngs., 1.-The resolutions of thanks that were
passed at the Clarksburg meeting are withheld
from publications. Truly the orderly citizens
OF every part Of the State had abinaanr reason
to shun the thing.
Seeing their failure i'm this, i'm order 10 init.
midate and gull the great body of the North
west, they advised the Company to hole n
meeting at an early day i'm July, and reject the
@oe cav oi 'irginia; then supposing they could
approach us with the double assurance of snc.
cess In our cooperation with them. To rende,
what they deemed certainty doubly sure. the
consulting committee of the Clarksburgh Con
vention through their President, (ifI am NOT
mistaken In its o~fficers,) earnestly requested
the company at Its late meeting TO reject the
late law OF Virginia, assuring them that. if they
would reject it, the whole Northwest would in
the next legislature present an undivided front
with the exception of, perhaps, one or two
counties, and that the next legislature would
give mem such a charter and privilege as they
wanted. Mr.. Latrobe, their principal engi-
neer, wrote them a letter to the same effect
assuring the company that if they would ONLY
reject the late charter, Northwestern Virginia
would all go for the right of way-that ne had
ms assurances from the most respectable sour
ces.
Now sir, am informed from the most reli-
able sources that Judge Duncan and Mr.. Nc
Lane wrote letters which were read before The
meeting OF the Board of Directors, to the above
import: Perhaps P~eeltree road-district, and
'he inhabitants OF a few hundred thousand
acres OF wild land in these back counties. own.
ed by the coadjutors Of those extensive pledg.
o'e oi the North West NAV be obtained To pre-
Schtan undivided mont; but / assure them. as
one knowing, that when they get a few miles
from their own doors towards the centre and
neart OF Northwestern Virginia, they will find
the carrying out OF their exceeding cunning an
,uPhiii business. Certainly those gentlemen
nave strong claims upon us. They, a small
clique oil the Northwest after combining nv
misrepresentation and by every other means to
inlure and ruin our interests, and when thew
think they have succeeded, then 10 turn round
and confidently ask us to go heart and soul for
their interest to the destruction of our own. is
species OF eifrontery and ~impudence only to be
expected from those prepared to carry out the
reckless measures indicated i'm the Clarksburg
Railroad Convention of May last. Whence
did they receive their flattering hopes, upon
which TO predicate their assurances to the Bal
umore and Ohio Railroad Company that the
whole Northwest, with a small execution
would 90 next winter for a general right of way?
Did they get 1T from Tyler, MARSHALL, Ohio
Brook, Marion, Monongalia, or Preston? Ger
family not. Those gentlemen will find a posi-
i've opposition from the countries above nam
ed, to their quilting, trucking and deceitful man
COVERING, that they have not heretofore en-
countered; they will find a population embrac
ing two-thirds of N. w. Virginia speaking in
a language not TO be misunderstood. Let the
Company accept the charter Of last winter. II
is all they will ever get. Virginia has cherish
ed interests OF her own to support. They COM
menced prevaricating. Virginia has acted a
noble and m~agnanimous part towards the Com.
pahy and Baltimore, in giving to them IN,
night OF way, and money,-when, in truth,
maryland alone was to be the great beneficiary
party. Yours. &c.
A CITIZEN or MARION COUNTY.