Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1852-07-23
Public Feeling at the West.

Sunbury & Erie Railroad Company was
held in Warren on the 10Th inst, when
the following important, straightforward,
and truthful resolutions (among others of
a similar character) were passed, unani-
mously:
=. That we deem any extension of
the Sunbury & Erie Road, unnecessary
and injudicious. 1t would add nearly 80
per cent. TO the expense of constructing,
and greatly de.ract from the value of the
stock, which, confined to Il road from Eric
TO Wllllamsport, or even to Sudbury, We
believe would yield better dividends than
any other Railroad of magnitude in the
country.
3. That, in our opinion, the attempt
to extend the Sunbury & Erie Road down
the Susquehanna from Sunbury at this
time, is obviously in conflict with the spi-
rit of the Act of Assembly granting the
privilege only on the happening of GER
tain contingency which has not happened,
and the rights Of the Susquehauna Com
pany.
4. That, regarding the resolution of
extension, in pursuance of which the
Board have been surveying and putting
under contract work below Sunbury, as
merely roid, for want of power in those
who passed it-yet We deem it due to our
selves as stockholders, to the County Of
Warren, (whose Commissioners are pre-
sent and concurring,) and to the interests
of the great enterprise itself, to say to
the Board of Managers, that we subscribed
for stock in the Sudbury 4 Erie Railroad
! Company under circumstances which in
duced Us to expect that it would only be
necessary to make the l40 miles from Erie
to Williamsport; such was the under.
standing given out by Pres't Miller and
the Managers, the Philadelphia Committee
and the Solicitors for Stock subscriptions,
generally. And we can not consent t.
recognize and give validity to the Act OF
extension by paying any instalment on
stock which may be called for, or other
wise, until the extension is abandoned and
distinctly disavowed by the Board OF
Managers, as the policy Of the Company.
holding ourselves always ready to pay
when it shall appear that the money is in
good faith to be applied to the object fol
which it was subscribed, without enlarge.
ment. Until the Board shall so ,lisavow
and abandon said extension, they can rea
lize nothing from County, or individual
subscriptions in this County. And We
believe the same sentiment prevails in Erie
Elk and Clinton, to an extent nearly, il
not entirely, unanimous.
6. That, in the opinion of this meet,
ing, the primary object of which the Com
pany over which Daniel l. Miller presides
was chartered, and which has been SO long
ana tenaciously cherished by its origina
projectors and friends, seems to be over.
looked and disregarded by him, in his new
born zeal for the proposed extension,
thereby giving to the branch precedence
over the trunk, and to projects secondary
and incidental, the energies aud attentions
that belong of right to the original enter
prise, whereby the confidence of large
proportion, We doubt not of large ma
jority, of the stockholders, in his useful,
ness and eff :iency in that position is great
ly impaired or entirely destroyed. We
therefore respectfully suggest to Mr.. Nil.
Ter and the Board of Managers the pro,
priety of a voluntary change in the execu,
tive department of the Company's orga-
nization, and that hereafter the will of at
least portion of the Managers and Stock
holders resident on the main line be as
certained and respected in the adoption of
important measures and changes Of pur-
pose.
Such is the language of the truest
friends Of the great Erie connection, every
whcre-Let BaItjmore amt CentraJ Penn
( yicaaia carry on the link 10 HIAiamporf,
/ AND PHILADELPHIA AND THE NORTH
WEST COMPLETE IT TO ERIE. There is
no money to squander on parallel lines