Washington telegraph., 1852-07-07
The WeetinS in kSOdcaI7.


We give place to-day, to the proceeding:
of the Railroad meeting recently held in
Bodcau Township, to which we referred in
our last.
1t appears, that this meeting was gotten
up by persons opposed to the views express
ed by the resolutions adopted by the meet
ing held in Carouse township, short time
since, at least, the preamble, which states
that the resolutions adopted in Carouse ''are
preiudicial to the interests" Of those who
participated in the meeting at Bodcau, would
warrant this inference. We cannot see by
what mode of reasoning they arrived at this
conclusion, for certainly nothing can be found
in the proceedings of the meeting at Carouse
that could by possibility prejudice the inter
ests Of the citizens of Bodcau Those who
participated in the Meeting at Bodcau, it
appears to us, have taken up an erroneous
impression of the bearing of some of the
resolutions adopted by the Carouse meeting,
particularly to the one which relates to
taxation. No one we presume, thought OF
levying an involuntary tax,-this under the
provisions of the constitution could not be
done. Their object was to sanction the pas
sage of law authorizing the people Of the
counties who may be disposed to impose up
on themselves tax for internal improve
ment purposes, to do so. 1t is not sought
to make it compulsory, but voluntary Of
fering whenever they may deem such a
course necessary, or believe it to be to their
interests to adopt it. The object of taxa
ton is to enable the counties to take such
an amount of stock as the people may be
disposed to subscribe for, in any of the pro-
posed routes,--'n0t contrary TO their
Wisles,'' but by their free, voluntary assent,
expressed through the ballot box.
Their first resolution, 'that they deem
the proposed route from Gaines Landing
to Fulton, the most PRACTICAL is all very
we'll 1t was their privilege to resolve that
a route to the moon was the most practical,
if they thought so, and would afford them
greater facilities than any other, but at the
same time, they should allow to others who
think differently, the same free expression
of opinion without charging an attempt to
injure or prejudice the interests of the good
people of Bodcau.
The second resolution of the series,
which expresses opposition to the repeal of
the, act distributing the proceeds of the $780,
600 acre fund among the counties, was
adopted, we are advised, not because the
meeting was opposed to repeal, but because
they feared, that if the act was repealed, an
attempt would be made to concentrate the
fund upon the Central road and the route
which they favor, would thereby lose that
portion, which under the present law, is dis
tributed among the counties most interested
in the construction of the Southern route,
and whose distributive share could be appro-
priated towards that object. This, like a
majority of the resolutions is based upon err
roneous premises. The advocates for repeal
even in the Northern portion of the Site,
propose fair division of the fund among
the several routes proposed, including the
Southern route, c,-under which arrangement
the route advocated by our Bodcau friends
would receive more aid than it possibly
could under the present law. If the act
was repealed, they would receive fair divi-
sion of the whole fund which is now distrib-
uted among all the counties of the State;
which could be realized at once by hypotheca-
ting the land, and without it, they can expect