Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1846-01-01
NUMBER 10.

and wants of the country wiH be sure ultimately to
cammand and obtain
Sih Resolved, That acting upon this principle
Of distribution Of Railroads, the Vermont and Mass
achusetts road should be located when il is char
tered, TO accommodate the business on Otter Riv-
err, through all coming time, while the Cheshire
will accommodate that upon the branches Of Mil
ler's River, and thus obviate the necessity Of RI
val road in some direction, which the business Of Of
ter River fciH be sure 10 command
9th Resolved, That while approve OF all
honorable efforts TO the ultimate completion
ofthe Vermont and Massachusetts road to the Con-
necticut River, we have seen with deep regret and
surprise certain resolutions published in the Green
held Gazette and Courier, purPortng TO have been
adopted at RAILROAD Convention Of Franklin
county" assembled at Greenfield, on the 29th of
October, declaring that the construction of the
Vermont and Massachusetts road through Winch
endon, is Of vast importance to the stockholders,
and to all those phO are to be benefited BIZ that
they will exert their influence in all fair and honor
able ways TO cause the Legislature TO locate their
road via Winchendon, acithOm such alteration,
they fear the road the side Of The Cheshire road ,eiH
Rerer be uih,-that Conmiiiee Of fifteen be an
pointed, 10 take such measures as they may deem
expedent, to aid in the location OF the Vermont
and Massachusetts Railroad through Winchen-
don" &c.
10th. Resolved. that the question of changing
the Vermont and Massachusetts road from the
chartered line through Baldwinyie, TO Winchen-
don is in its character local one and although it
has been once decided in favor of BaldwinyilIe by
most competent court, yet it remains an open
question, subject to an appeal to the Legislature,
(Which is already claimed by one Of the partiesl
and to pass through all the forms Of legal inyesti-
CATION, by trial before joint committee for the
presentation OF evidence, and then subject to the
action Of both branches Of that body and the Exec
uiive.
llth. Resolved, That as the only HipAuence"
which can be 'ezerfed' for the change Of location
Of this road, is upon the Legislature, before trial
therefore the proceedings Of the Franklin County
Convention are an unwarrantable interference with
the rights Of the conending parties by attempting,
in advance Of trial, without evidence, or the
means OF judging advisedly in the premises to fore
stall public opinion and influence the decision OF
popular tribunal, before whom the parties are 10 ap-
pear for trial and Judgment, and if carried out
would be subversye the free administration OF JUS
tce, and perversion Of its fountain.
18th. Resolved, That the practical effect of the
measures adopted by said Convention would be TO
head one Of the parties in advance Of the trial be-
fore the Legislature, and is prejudgng the case
against the decision Of the Commissioners-yirt
ally repudating, I0ithOEf knowledge, a decision
made NTH knowledge obtained upon full inyesti-
CATION, and before such reputation can be moral
ly justified they, in the right of party, should be-
come as competent TO Judge as the court
18Th Resolved, That the fear expressed by said
Convention that unless the Vermont and Massa-
chusetis road should be located "yia Winchendon,
1t will never be built this side of the Cheshire
Road" we believe is the result of an arbitrary ex-
ercise oil an executive power Of the Corporation by
the use of such threats, in order to coerce those
mostly interested in the success Of the road upon
the whole line, to concur with them in carrying
he r..1 al. IL -
italy declaring that unless portion Of the COM
munity will join in opposing another, BY robbing
them OF their rights they, in their turn, shall be
oppressed by being deprived ofthe road
18th. Resolved, That such an exercise of the
executive power Of Corporation, If INDUCED and
yielded to. has direct tendency 10 introduce into
our Legislature system Of bargaining and "loq-
rolling" at once dangerous 10 a wholesome leqis-
latIon and from the fact that Greenfield is con-
tested point as well as Winchendon, the signs of
an influence ezerted by this dispensing porer, are
frO 0miROus 10 be misunderstood
18th. Resolved, That the resolution declaring
that "the construction Of the Vermont and Massa-
chusetts road via Wnchendon, is to be Of vast i'm
portance to nearly all who are to be benefited BY
IT," has not the merit OF coming within the pale ofa
possible truth, and must have been made without a
knowledge Of facts a due regard for them, as the
Cheshire, by coming dorm, will accommodate all
that the Vermont and Massachusetts can BY going
np to Winchendon; therefore, by running 10 Win
chendon, and wide from Gardner, Templeton.
Phpsion and Hubbardston the principle of ac-
commodation 10 Northern Massachusetts is entire
ly lost to the community and il becomes ereIusipe-
y mooied question Of doubtful revenue to the
Corporation.
10TH Resolved, That knowing as we do. from
facts too obvious ROD TO be disputed the superior
merits and claims Of the Badwinvilie route over the
Wnchendon, for Vermont and Massachusetts
road, upon the principle Of conducting most 10 the
public good, and prospectively its equal mpon every
other, believe the indulgence Of private resent
ment and personal interest has been prominent
cause of the origin and continuance Of this contest
and IN its prosecution Misrepresentation and deeep-
tion hare been prdctised 10 most unmeasnred and
unserHpHiOus erteHt, To- defraud a people of their
rights, and the principle that great and important
public interest shall become subordinate 10 the
qualification Of private resentments and personal in
teresi, cannot be denounced in language too severe
and the precedent demands the inierposition of an
impartial and unprejudiced tribunal 10 Judge in the
premises; therefore, Notwithstanding the great dis
parity OF situation in contending with powerful
corporation, commanding BY iis influence an array
OF opposition ace not to recoil the
manifestation Of il from any quarter, but in humble
imitation Of spirit which has gone before us in
resisting oppression, aoe DiH shrink from no duty
required by the erigeaeies Of the contest.
9Th. Resolved, That the inhabitants of Tenn
pleton legal party in this contest, and the
people Of Franklin county not party, but a
constituted portion Of the Commonwealth, consti-
tuting, by delegation, part Of the Legislature
therefore, their relations to each other are eminent-
ly those Of a party and an umpire and while they
forbid such an interference from the one they de-
mand from the other an expression Of their sense