New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1845-08-29


farmers and their produce thereupon transported to
Boston The direct personal interest industrial pc
cunary Intellectual and moral-of ninety nine hun
dredths OF the People Of Vermont requires the con
siruciion OF these Railroads
But how are they to be constructed ? for this i
work requiring both power and money. shall the
STATE itself build them. and thereby assess the eX
pen.c and risk fairly upon the whole People and
divide not only the benefits bu; the direct prohts
should anv accrue among thcm' We say yes pro
yided il cannot be done Otherwise, and the resulting
advantages shall promise to be fairly distributed
We would not lend the credit or resources Of the
state to partial work Of The kind, but to systen
Of Internal Improvement. extending It's benefits 10
every part Of the State. we would. Ia this way
only can the miser the churl the suspicious or the
tirnid person, be made to share the risks and bur
ihens Of an enterprise Of which he viii be ready
enough to divide the advantages, and which with
or without such readiness, he is sure to obtain
But no. says Loco Focoism. Government has
no business with making Railroads. See Mr.
Hurlbuts elemental proposition above But he
continues
Perhaps il is time the question were settled whether
the carving Of passengers by Railroad proper iunc
ion Of State II ii be- then submit that the state can
not delegate this proper function TO private Corpora
lion to be- exercised Tor private gain II II be not-as
rqDgot donbf u IL nOihen need hardly say that Their,
not the shadow of foundation for the grant 10 suct
Corporations of the night Of taking private property for
he construction OF Railroad without the consent oi
the II is pure tyranny. and am happy 70 mo
B regarded by portion Of the American people
Here we see not only that the State mus, not
build these Railroads according to the LocoFoco
theory, but it must not bestow any body who viii
whether an individual, voluntary association Of
personally liable partners. or q corporate body the
indispensable right of taking necessary land at an
impartial valuation in orderto construct the work
Let US consider the reasonabeness of this PROPOSE
ton. The State requires the Railroad. The indus
irv. comfort intelligence and wealth OF her people
will be greatly promoted by it. But she will not
incur the risk and expense of building it. The
enterprise is brought to dead halt. Here step for
ward thousand or ten thousand, of her citizens,
and say Grant US the necessary facilities and we
will undertake to get the road through w ha'
iacies2-Why, a charter enabling each individual
to risk just much of his property as be thinks ti
in the undertaking, and right TO take such lands
as we obliged TO pass over at what your com
missioncrs shall pronounce fair valuaiion.-Are
these unreasonable conditions
Suppose the State subservicnt to the narrow and
envous impulses of Loco ocoism las we trust Yer.
mont never can be- should refuse these powers.
and say Build the Railroad as you best can ii II
10 business of Government to facilitate such mer
go-,o- market operations Well the friends of In
provement cast down but not destroyed. go to work
They traverse the whole State, and, by persona
influence. importantly and appeals to the public
spirit of the citizens procure subscriptions sufficient
10 build one Railroad from the Connecticut to Lake
Champaign and commence operations. But IN the
irst mountain gorge they TO. they are brought
10 a dead stand. If some human hog did not own
it originally some heariless Spectator Tor Corpora
tons are not the only soulless persOnages has been
there before them. bought the tract for trle, and
says You can 90 through here for 500 O0O-not
penny less' Ia vain thoy xPostulate-remind him
hat the gorge is absolutely worthless for any bu
theirs offer 10 give him twenty times It's value, and
BUY the rocks and the hemlocks which are its sole
products as materials for the road He will hav,
his price, or the road cannot pass. Let him be paid
Or his pass avoided at great expense, and you have
only stimulated the avarice of the next man. and the
have given the track without charge at the outset
he other tenth will suffice to up the capital be
ore the work is half completed Nobody will sub
-cribe more the work is TO be case, the
company fails the private property OF every stock
holder is responsible for all It's debts the shrewo
nave foreseen the disaster aud stepped out and now
any Shvlock who has exacicd $4,000 for strip OF
and not worth fifty cents. and been paid four fifth.
oihis unriehteous demand may seize the homestead
Of dozen poor widows who have subscribed 800
each from their little savings TO help through the
grea, work which they all feel noble interest anu
pride in and turn them and their children pennies
into the street, And this is called Democracy and
respect for private rights
Mr. Hurlbut complacenty informs us that the
Constitution of Iora iorbids the taking Of privat,
property by corporations for the construction OF pub
lie works except by consent OF the owner, and tha
Ibis is the first constitutional provision of the kinc
which has been adopted in this country He orgei'
to add that the People of Iowa have twice rejected
that very Constitution, and will not be governed 10y
IT, They are great on Democracy. when diluted II
he form Of Mr. Augustus Cesar Dodge or of cand
iaies for the Legislature but Loco Focosm in tn,
concrete form Of a naked proposition, they cannon
swallow Just SO the still more intensely, malignant
lv Loco Foco State of New Hampshire has tried Tor
several years to uphold this identical LocoFoco
doctrine with regard to private property taken for
Railroads but even New Hampshire Loco-Focos
oullheaded and blind as il Is has had TO get of tn,
rack. or the locomotive would have right over
H. There are limitations, in the common sense Of
mankind to the wild vaearies OF Political Absirac
oRists
Let us consider a little farther the necessity o.
Corporations The State of Vermont greatly needs
one if not two Railroads She declines TO contract
A debt and build one as a State work but she great
IS desires that individuals should do II. But nobody
wants TO build Railroad in Vermont except iol
he sake of having il built and the advantages thus
-esuiing no, TO the stockholders but to the commu
aity. Here is poin, overlooked by Mr. Harlbu'
md his school, who unfairly represent the hope Of
profit from the work as the primary motive for it.
obstruction which il is not in one out OF ten
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