Ypsilanti sentinel. [volume] (Ypsilanti, Washtenaw Co., Mich.) 1843-1900, 1846-03-04

permit them to stamper with the terms Of their char
teri Or that they will consent to bear an equal bur-
den Of their taxes! Or that their dignity must be ar
ragned in the Office of log cabin justice of the
peace for every poor mans COW or pig it may run
down their privileged road! mo! If these are to
be insisted on take care Of yourselves. You must
trust us, scfhout any Of these restrictions, or not at
all, is in effect the language of the Company through
their trumpeters of the press.
But the same veracious print does not shrink from
bold assertion, in the cause it has assumed. The
sale of the roads it broadly blurts out twill dimn-
sh the cost of transportation fifty per cent, thereby
increasing the value of property along the time one
half' and this too in the face of the words of the
charter itself (which establishes the present
rates of toll until January ls47 or the opening of
the road to Lake Michigan, after cents per mile
(about the present fare) for passengers, with some
contingency under which it may be increased, and
for fare the average charged three four pock-
ct railroads in Massachusetts-As though there were
the least similitude between these petty concerns
and an important link in the great commercial
cham uniting the West and the Atlantic Seaboard.
We have not yet seen the proposed bill itself and
shall be very much obliged to gentleman of the
Legislature for copy, but as far we have become
acquainted with its provision, through the debates IN
the Legislature, it contains nothing but what ."the
company" have directly proposed, nothing but that
leaves them perfectly irresponsible, nothing but
that secures them the fullest enjoyment of the mon
opoly thrown into their hands. All danger has been
regarded coming from the people to them; all grace
,x1f H.
have petltoned for sale of the public acorks. They
get sale of the Central Railroad They have as
ked to be relieved from taxation (mark our word)
they are placed in the way suffer increased taxa
ton. The South and North complain of injustice to
them and partaty to the Centre, and well are they
redressed by the Sale of the Centre that terror of
Democracy, soulless corporation; they are not to
blame, however since the Sale is voluntary.
THE FOREIGN NEws.-The news by the Cambria,
leaves doubt of the dlsgracefu bargar which has
been imputed to administration, for intermngling
the Oregon question, with the tariff, and making it
but the secondary consideration, the small change,
in the adjustment of the new systems of duties to
be simultaneously adopted at Washington and Lon
don. Else why the confident predictions, of the En-
glish papers, that the reduction of the Corn Laws
will be speedily followed by the settlement of the
Oregon question-''that the new policy will bind
America to US by the ties of amity, brotherhood and
interest, and that the miserable squabling about a
barren piece cfwaste' (OregonJ ''will give way to
more liberal civilized and comprehensive views
T. this is not Gin the bond" why is not the proposed
reduction as great of qualifications to Queen
Victoras Cousins, the Germans as to u.s. since they
by their proximity to her dominons are much more
likely to be benefited by it. Nay, Englands friend
the Pacha of Egypt, who owns all the corn of his
dominions, may feel this new bond "of unity much
stronger than we and many derive as much benefit
from it.
The bargain ITSELF then is plain to be seen not so,
however, its terms. Whether Oregon is to be d. |
vded the 40 degree with the right of Navigating
the Columbia conceded to Great Britain, the whole
question is to be left unsettled, for time to determine
the event. we cannot predict. Perhaps neither; for
there is another loop hole for the pusilanmity of
Great Britain to creep through. She may await the
notice of termination and retire suenly in obedience
to it, prefering, (such most humble christian ma
ton is she, y to yield her rights than to disturb the
peace of the world.
But what becomes OF "Natl0nal hOnOr!' Let
those who have ever seen this much talked of commod
ity tell. National honor is like many other things,
thing of straw and held out to divert the
multitude while the ambitious and the designing are
laying plans In our day the best place to look for
the national honor OF this country is in New York.
though there is considerable deposte of it in Bos
ton Philadelphia New Orleans sc 1t is made use
of as the base of Stocksand the Capital of commerce
and in the cant of trade national honor is sustained
when money is flowing into the Golfers of brokers
and merchants. In like manner the national honor
of England has stepped ashore, from the ''wooden
wallis of her navy and now shulks among the ware
houses of Liverpool, and the Banks of London
True it is 'smoney makes the mare CO." and Ovids
nothing to the changes which
are wrought by the magic power of gold.
EAGLE THEATRE.
Mr.. CAUL's Benefit comes oft night. Mr.. CAUL
will appear in his favorite characters "Carmelc, in
the "Bandt Chief" and "Unce SAM in the "Nabob
for an Hour" 1t is needless to say to those who
have him in these characters that there is fun
ahead. We trust that our citizens will turn out
and give him house worth calling "beneft.'
ADJoURNMENr.-The session of the Legislature
seems destined to stretch out to an nterminable |
length. The House most likely passed the Railroad