Wheeling times and advertiser. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1839-1849, 1845-07-24
BALTIMORE & ONO RAIL ROAD

bALTiMOEE & OHIO RAIL ROAD
y late Article on tins subject in the American
escaped our notice al the time.
When the news reached this that the stock
holders of this Company at their late meCInc
had declined 10 accept the Virginia law OF
last winter, we charged that this act of the
Company was not final OF conclusive. nor was
designed TO be so, bat only TO wcakcn anddis-
tract the friends and encourage and cmboldcn
the enemies in Virginia OF the act OF last scs-
sion. Now, we here again assert what we
san before and as the suhjectiS again up, we
VIII ask n.c American a question or two
Was not d letter read before the stockholders
at their late mesting from Judge Duncan OF
Ciarks5ar5, urging them to reject this law.
With strong assurances that il they would do
40, The people OF North Yves, Virginia, with
few exceptions. would unite next session in
demanding Of Virginia a law more agreeable
TO thc wishes oil the Company And further,
did not the report of Mr.. Engineer Latropc.
read on the sama occasion, urge the same thing
still more strong assurances that the rec
ton OF the present law at that meeting would
occasion the people Of Western Virginia, no,
excluding even Ohio county, to call upon the
State TO yield to the wishes Of the Comrany
III this particular?
But Tic American Sys chat in hcllins O..
the idea that the Company may acceo, the az.
before the 10th OF Mich next, VIC arc under q
dsluslon in which neither we or or reader,
ought Tor an instant to indulge" Now we
deeply regret this language; and, while we de-
piore that any Baltimore paper should thus
discourse lis readers, we throw back upoa its
authors the charge Of d fusion, AMI dcclar,
that, II the American means to say that III,
Company cannot yet accept the act notwiu
standing anything that has been done. il is it
sclt under = de.usion IN which neither il or its
readers ought for an instant 20 INDULGE iii
docsnot mean to jeoparliGe much greater in
tar:sts than arc possibly concerned in Virgin.
Ia.
But we are not done. This lancuag, Of the
American implies that the Editors have a f,-
fherly care for Virginia interests anda very
tender regarl lest we, in our deluaions, should
sacrifice them.
"hetheT such Intentions come we'll from
strangers who have separate and ia~dcpenGeni
Interests OF th-ir own 10 look after, we will.
not say but we say, that decisions on thi,
subject, among those who have appeared to
think and act for the good people OF Balti
more on this important question. will be ia
tai to much greater interestsin Baltimore than
any decisions here can possibly be 10 Virgi.
MIA mterestS-or even Wheeling interests.
lna word, a correct and fair understanding OF
this whole question is OF quite as much mo-
nient to the people Of Baltimore as 20 the
people Of Wheeling.
But 1t has been said in high quarters that
this Company is asking nothing more, and in.
tends asking nothing more az the hands Of
Virginia. If this is SO, why this sensitive
concern about onr decisions? II proves most
conclusively that the Company mean again.
directly or indirectly. TO press our Legisla-
ture, If possible, into a com ~pliance with It's
demands. And while on this subject of de
lusions we hope we will he parloned for say
ing a word moro. Virginia has given q right
OF way, with a named point on tic Ohio.
Now, as this is not satisfactory % the Com
pany, will lt-that no moro hopes or expccta-
lions may be raised that is not intended 20
grAtify-ana that all decisions NAV b. avoid d
and dispelled fcI the futuFe-say what ointit
wants on the Ohio.