Semi-weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1852-1853, 1852-02-21
RAIL ROAD MEETING.

the North Carolina Rail Road Company represent
ing $500 of said stock) held at Newberne on
| Wednesday the 4th day of February, 1882 on mo
ton Of John Blackwell ESD, DR.. J. Graham Tull
was called to the Chair, and on motion of Aonzo T.
Jerkins Esq, Richard N. Taylor ESQ, appoint
ed Secretary.
The Chairman stated the object of the meeting to
be, to take into consideration change of the Route
and Eastern terminus of said Road, made at a recent
meeting of the Directors wherenpon,
On motion of DR.. John r. Justice, committee of
five persons. viz WIN. H. Washington, John Black
well, John R. Justice, Moses W. Jarvis and Edward
K Stanley were appointed by the Chair to draft reso
utions expressive of the of the meeting the
subject which had called them together, be report
ed 10 adjourned meeting on Friday at 8 O'CLOCK
+. NJ and on motion the chairman was added to the
said committee.
On Friday the 9th of February the meeting hav-
ing assembled according to adjournment, the Com
mree through their Chairman, VIM. H. Washing
ton, reported the following resolutions, viz:
| l. ResOfUed. That we conceive it to have been
clearly the object. and intention of the Legislature
granting the Charter for the North Carolina Rail Dad
| to connect the with the Neuse River as well as
the Wilmington and Raleigh Rail Road to establish
great Stale work for the benefit of the people of the
State at large and not to build up any particular town
or towns, give to the farmers of the country
choice of ket for their produce and furnish
monopoly to any particular people or place. And We
cannot but regard any unnecessary departure from
the provisions and intention of the said charter by
which preference is shown to particular section of
the Stale and large portion thereof denied partlc
violation OF the Charter; and act of gross in
Justice and wrong not only to the stockholders and
people in this section of the State, bat to all persons
who may have occasion to send their produce on said
| Road.
2. Resolved, That we. had supposed the route of
the said Road and the terminus thereof had been def
nitey settled only by the provisions OF the Char
ter itself, but also by actual survey and by solemn
vote of the Directory in full meeting assembled.
3. Resolved, That we have heard therefore with
surprise and regret, that at recent meeting of the
Directory in which views and interests were
neither represented regarded change was made
in the route of said Road and in the Eastern term
mus thereof, which consider important in Itself
and tending to the manifest wrong and injury OF this
section of the State And though We have not seen
the report of the Engineer the subject yet we are
compelled say that the assigned for said
change in recent letter of the President of the Com
pany, wholly unsatisfactory.
4. Resolced. That while members of large tax
paying community, good citizens OF the Sale anu
(under all the circumstances liberal subscribers to
this great improvement, not only willing but
sincerely DESTROYS of doing all in power for the
accomplishment OF noble enterprise in the true
spirit of the Charter, and in good faith all the
parties concerned yet we are determined to employ
all lawful means to resist violation of that instru-
men and to prevent gross lniractlons OF our rights
and an utter ruin of our interests.
| On motion of Samuel w. Chadwick, Esq. Sec
onded by Emmett Cuthbert, Esq. said resolutions
were unanimously adopted.
And on motion, it was
signed by the Chairman and Secretary, and be pub
shed in the New bernian, with request that other
newspapers in the State will copy, and also that copy
of the same be sent to each Director of the North
Carolina Rail Road. = -.>-r
On motion of Vim. P. Moore. Esq, the meeting
adjourned J. GRAHAM TULL, Chm'n.
RICHARD N. Taylor, Sec'y.
The Pacific is in, after long and boisterous pass
age, with several days later news from Europe. She
brings, however, intelligence of great interest
lmDOrtanCe: for consider the
which has been got up in England the subject of
a French invasion of that character-it being,
far as We Can discover, wholly without foundation.
The London Herald probably gives the true explana
ton of its org gin when it attributes it John Russell
and the lettering whig ministry, distract
the attention of Parliament and the nation from the
Predcament in which they have involved themselves.
There certainly is ostensibe pretext for war be-
tween the two nations. N threats ha We
been thrown out by either party and the time has
surely gone by when one civilized power will be
permitted in Europe to make upon another, open
y and avowedly for the purpose of conquest alone.
We are certainly grevously disappointed in the char
acter of the constitution which Louis Napoleon has
given France. He has undoubtedly taxed he en-
durance of the people Tho have trusted him to the
utmost. He may, and we fear he will, to
be tyrant at home but have no evidence that he
aspires the bloody laurels of foreign conquest
that he has any disposition to desoate without pro-
vocation the peaceful domains of his neighbors with
fire and sword.
The coniscation of portion of the property of the
house OF Orleans has created great sensation, and
brought down upon the President an amount of re-
proach which not altogether certain is well
deserved. 1t 10 have been for ages funda-
mental law of the realm that, upon the accession of
any individual TO the throne of France, his private
property became unalteraby part of the public do
main.
This law enforced in the of Henry "
against his efforts AT the first revolution,
the royal domain confscated and became the do
main of the nation. So when Napoleon was deposed,
his private property, the amount of several hundred
millions instead OF being permitted to go to his family,
appropriated the public use by the elder branch
of the Bourbons. hen they in their turn drv-
en- into exile similar disposition made of their
immense resources by Louis Philippe, who at the
same time endeavored to protect his private es-
against similar foreiture by transferring it to
his children.
1t is the property thus transferred that has been
confscated by the decree OF the President; and when
it is considered that this measure is in accordance
with established precedent-that it still leaves the
house of Orleans in possession of 1O0000,000 of
francs, and that the superfuous wealth which is alb
straced from it is devoted humane and benevolent
purposes-it would hardly seem 10 deserve the name
of an outrage, after all. One thing is certain, the
| President himself is not benefited by it; and what
is more in the decree pronouncng the con6scation,
he expressly renounces all his own claims upon the
immense estate of the Emperor, his uncle, which
shared the same fate. Washington Union.
Coop SIGN. The Board of Regents of the Uni
versity of Michigan have removed three professors
the ground that they not only publicly preached,
but otherwise openly advocated the doctrine called
the Higher Law "a doctrine which is unauthorz-