The voice of freedom. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1839-1848, 1846-01-08


| If you don't let your ciphering alone
the state will soon be too Shor! for either
our road or yours
Again, the Watchmun says that we
maintain I'D. That the excessive cost OIL
The Central, compared with the Rutland
road, will prevent it from competing with
the Rutland; he (meanng the writer
in the Voice of Freedem) grossly erra
on this point"
Now as made use of this excessive
cost OF the Central road" solely and ex'
clusively to exhibit the aggregate amount
of stock which the Central Company re-
quire in order to build it, and did mol say
a syllable about this matter of "compeli-
ton" in connection with it, and as the
gross error" is imputed to the assertion
which did mol make, and not to the cal
culalon of this excessive cost" | must
respectfully decline any controversy with
the Watchman on "Mis poiE'."
Again says he Watchman, "a h. That
more capital is now required to build the
| Central than the Rutland road untrue
again." It's certainly the shOrtest known
method of re(uliug a statement to say "Ua>
true again" but inasmuch as Standing
by itself, it amounts to just nothing at al,
being simply cifcumIocuion for The
more square-toed remark, "thals lie"
it has by common consent been repudialed
in all fair and honorable CONTROVERSIES
[ endeavored 10 Sh0W that the Central
Company will require more than sixteen
hundred thousand dollars additional sub
scri ption, TO build their road; and | did
it in fair and open manner, taking known
and indsputable facts on The basis Of the
calculation. Il admit, however, that |
took no account Of the reported subscrip~
ton of a somewhat notorious "Contracl
or" which is said 10 amount TO half a
million of dollars y l also said and !
repeat that this sum is much larger than
The balance required TO build the Rulland
Road. The statements ! still believe to
be rue, aud sub nit that the phrase,
"untrue again" does not disproce them.
Will the Watchman come up 10 The mark?
Again, TIE Walchman denies that 4" a
million ofthe Central stock has peculiar
condition affixed which will prevent its
being available" And how DO you sup
pose, MIR Editor, that Mr. WALTON susalns
this denial AS follows -" We regard
it" he says as perfectly idle Tor the wri-
ter n the Voice, or anybody else, to think
that the disaftcted party can throw any
material obstacles in the way of the Com
pany, if any one shall be disposed to do
so. Let The diso6ected repudiate their
stock. or let them sell it, if they choose
and the worst will be their own" And
this paragraph is found in the next col
umn 10 the official account Of the proceed
ings OF "a large meeting, filing the Free
Church" OF the disoftcted party"
which. according TO the uncommonly pious
resolutions OF "Col. Reed" represents
thine tenihs OF the stock taken on both
routes! !" And yet the Watthman main
ta;ns that the stock Of the disaiitcted'
will be "arailable" even if it should be
"repudia ed" or, in easier words, not paid!
Verify, these Central folks have strange
notions.
Blu. will the Waterman say that there
will not be a lille stock hat will be likely
TO be "repudioted'' if the Central road
should, by any unuckY mischance, hap
pen not 10 be built so as to connect with
the Firchburg2 Or is all "repudiaed"
stock jus! as available" as any other p?
Some very sagacious people, even in New
Hampshire, a,ill believe that the Central
road neuer wW connect with the Cheshire,
| Suppose it shouldn't? If ',hen, in that
case7 us Col. Reed says, snug Iiule for
tune Of rspudjated aralIabis sock in the
Central road ism, suddenly found, IN mar
ket or eIsewhere,L will prophecy no more
The Wachman, in a spirit of the n os
dsinteresed and ingenious benevoIence
believes itself TO have received "specin
call" to "warn the people Of Ru!lant
and Addison from rushing, in the fever 0
an unnatural excitement, into the hazard