The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1851-03-19


and eandor | feel myself called upon
to earrect any improper Impression
which may have been made upon the
public mind BY the unwarranted con.
sfraetion put upon the proceedings Of
NE meeting in Graham. by some writer
IN the Southern Demscrat, in relation
to the location Of the Rail Road near
that town.
III the Democrats correspondent had
given the resolutions. in the columns Of
that paper. along with his exposition Of
them, instead of garbled statement
or. IL he had come out with an open and
unbiased account Of all the facts con-
nected with the whole transaction, IL
would have enlightened his readers
much better than his affected ignorance,
resorted to to give false view Of pub
lac opinion and cover his secret de.
signs.
The object Of the Democrats CORES
pendent is too plain to deceive any one
conveIsant with the history Of the case.
His purpose is TO avoid the real issue,
and present the action of the meeting
as sort of bill Of indictment against
Stockholders. directors. engineers and
all persons concerned in the road. IL
Is all Of piece with the game which
has been played from the beginning. to
throw the responsibility and all the
blame upon the President Of the road,
in order to divert public attention from
the actors in our own neighbrrhood.
II was unhesitatingly admitted in the
meeting that the Engineers were gen.
tlemen Of high character. and had no
motive to subserve bat the good Of the
State and the Road; but at the same
time il was broadly and unequivocally
intimated that the Director in Ala
nance county. Gen. Trolinger. had pri-
waite interests at Mt. Ararat Cotton
Factory. which were likely to influ-
ence his judgment in its location. IL
is pretty we'll ascertained that If the
Road 60 to Mt. Ararat il cannot come
to Graham. and If il come to Graham
il cannot go TO BIT. Ararat.
The people were alarmed for the
safety aud value Of their property.
They knew if the Road be located on
the ridge from Providence Church to
Ararat. with ravine intervening be-
tween il and Graham at half or three.
fourths Of a mile distant, that the town
must be destroyed and the business
transferred to the Road.
The people Of Alamance have conf
ded in the Directory and Engineers,
and they believe if Alamance we're pro-
perly represented, that the Road can,
and icouid come 10 their county fori,,
but they knew the danger Of trusting a
public work in the hands Of "a public
servant" whose interest prompts him to
serve himself rather than the public.
So far from the meeting being in
tended to impeach the integrity or abb
lity Of Engineers or Directory. it was
intended only To send up an applica-
tion in the nature Of petition TO the
part Of The Directory. to
bring the Road through the town as
FIRST laid on by the commissioners. and
not through enc corner of the mile and
a half square which. by mistake. was
erected into a great city by the last &C.
neral Assembly. The people Of Gra-
ham do not desire to be tantalized by
the whistling Of locomotive. on the
distant hills, to the tune Of "On the
road to Ararat."
Without any disposition to do injas-
tice to any one, Messrs. Editors, | am
compelled to see what was apparent to
every impartial observer. There has
been no interference in the operation
of locating the Road, except from one
and the same quarter. The people Of
Graham were content that the Road
should cross Haw River at Mt. Ararat
or any where else. They stood still
until the Engineers came along, as it
was understood. locating. They saw
about to be reduced to the
Of contemplate little ham
let. An attempt was made to avert the
calamity through the Southern Demo
crat. Its columns were closed against
it upon sroundless pretex,. A meet
ing was then got up, and preconcert-
ed and determined effort was made.
first to prevent and afterwards to de-
feat its action. And would YOU believe
it? Ararat was there. Notwithstand-
ing, some resolutions were passed. in
a regular way, and were published in
the Greensborough Patriot, (the Demo.
crat again following the first lead, and
refusing to publish.)
The columns of the Democrat we're
freely accorded to his reporter, (whose
name has been demanded and refused
who has thought proper. by putting in
to the mouths of individuals language
never uttered, and by suppressing a
part of what was said and done. to
make false impress. On the other
hand, he has bedaubed the Directors
and Engineers with heavy coating Of
fulsome flattery and cringing sycophan-
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