The Democratic sentinel and Harrison County farmer. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1851-1852, 1852-11-24
& Mean Aftemnt

P0"piS u " hceiiha 70 icuacc lie Legislature
of that state TO eIaet Ihe same mtoa law
at It's session this winter.
After speakingofl Cleveland and Pitts
burgh Rail Road Company, and the act OF
the Legislature of Ohio granting a charter
to said Company. uebill proceeds as follows.
"said Railroad Company shall have author"
'lty 10 construct, maintIin and work, a.
"singlc or double track Raihoad, subject
ito the restrictions hereinafter contained
"frOm the Town of Wellsville in the State"
'of Ohio, or from any point on The Ohio
'River within one mile Of thattown, through
"the counties OF Hancock, Brooke and Ohio, y
''to depot to be established by said Rail''
'tROad company in the CITY of Wheeling"
"The said Cleveland and Pittsburgh raiP'
"roai company shall not construct the Rail-
'Road hereby authorized, or any branch
"Rairoad, or lateral work in ths state"
$50 as to appoach at any point thereof with"
''in three miles of the westeren boundary
"of the state of Pennsylvania, ,norshal they"
connect their main line, or any branch"
"Railroad, or lateral 40, k in this state with"
''any Railroad leading to or from the state"
"of Pennsylvania, or permit such connec-"
"tlon TO be made.
''If the city of Wheeling shall subscribe"
''not less than $50 900, to the capital stock"
"of the Cleveland aud Pittsburgh Railroad
company, then the provisions contained in
''the foregoing section, shall be deemed az
Contract between the said city of Wheeling"
"and the said Cleveland and Pittsburgh"
''Rnllroad company and shall not be altered
''or repealed without the consent Of both"
| "parties TO the contract.
"lf any Railroad branch orpart Of a rail :"
'road shall be constructed in the counties ,
''of Hancock Bro Ike or Ohio, without ex-"
"press authority previously granted for that
purpose by the general assembly of this"
Estate, every such act of construction, or"
commencement or attempt shall be az
"mlsdemeanor in any person so acting orr
"abetting therein; and every person so act"
"ing or abetting shall be punished as for az
"mlsd Imeanor, and every work so unlaw-"
"Gully constructed snail be forfeited 10 the
"State"
Now this is evidently intended, 10 pre-.
vent the continuation of the Steubenyiile
and Pittsburgh Railroad from SteubenviIc a.
cross about five or six miles Of the terri to-
ly of the state of Virginia, SO as to conncct
with the Pennsylvania Central Railroad at
Pittsburgh; and if the Bill becomes law il
will must certainly have that effect What
say our brethren Of the Press? Are the
interests of large portion of the Ueoplo of
two great stateS,-OhiO and PENNSYLVANIA,
TO be sacrificed to CRAFTY the petty spleen
of a few men in Wheeling! Having been
disappointed in their cherished desires,
that the. Baltimore ard Ohio Railroad
should connect with the Ohio River inmc.
d.ately at Wheeling, they would sacrifice
the interests of large portion of the Wes-
tern people, in order TO prevent a road be
ing made to Pittsburgh! Away with such
contemplate Observation-Disclosures Petty
malice! Il is unworthy the enlightend age
in which We live; and if the proposed ia
be enacted by the Legislature Of Virginia
it will be an eternal disgrace to their state
Have the people of Wheeling fo,got so soon
the great struggle through which they have
just passed in order to save their beautiful
wire-suspensiol bridge? Have YOU for
gotten how the influence Of the entiye Press
of Ohio was welded in yonr behalf in that
struggle? Have you forgotten how the p2o-
pie oil Ohio, through their Representatives in
Congress, aided you in saving your noble
Bridge Pa structure worthy to connect two
great stat and to span the beautiful River
that rolls between them--and could youharel
saved it without our aid? No you could not
We aided you then, not out of enmty to
PennsyNania-not 10 deprive her of the
benefit Of the right of her people to freely
navigate the Ohil, but because our people
regarded your Bridge like all great public
improvements, as facilitating commercial
intercourse, aiding the cause of human i'm
provemsnt and civilization, strengthening
the Bond of Union between the different
states Of our glorious eonlederacy and as
forming yet one more link, in the chain Of
friendship which binds our people together
as one Nation. AS part of a great Ma.
tional Highway your suspension Bridge is
of vast utility to your peopIe--a beauty and
a glory to your Citv--and notwithstanding
the complaints Of Pennsylvania, our people
could regard it as but a light obstruction of
ner right of fnayigation. 1s5. .ass .|ra4
And are the money bags=-the Banks and
Bankers of Wheeling to be cast into the
scale against us? Were it not that the use
of the Lea talionis, is the last resort of
State, the Democratic Legislatures of Ohio
and Pennsylvania would soon teach those
Wheeling money shavers, by prohibiting the
circulation of their paper in either State,
where there true interests lay. And we all
know that cent per centis the chief end of
Banker; and I'll at to. reach or find his little
soul We must search only within the narrow
bounds of an interesttabls! O. 4a.Ha..=aa
But what will the Old Dominion say to
this attempt to disgrace her in the eyes of
all her sisters of the North and South, ard of
all her children of the West? What must
we expect from the mother of that glorious
chief whose prowess, aided by her cheering
voice, sustained for seven years the cause Of
human freedom, and won world from the
oppressors grasp? Is not her soil sanctifed
by the dust Of her Washington, whose great
heart dear as it loved his own Virginia, had
vet room for a nation within itg Have the
heroes and sages whose wisdom has so long
swayed and guided this nation left no descen-
dants in the Old Dominionga Is she not the
sun around which the stars Of this constella-
ton have clustered. rejecting her light for
now mole than half century? And has the
mantle of her greatness so soon fallen from
her shoulders? Has she indeed so soon de
generated SO as to produce no more Of the