Eastern times., 1853-01-13
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Bath to Rnckland.

ing line to You on the subject of continua
ton of your Road, eastward, to Rockland.-
We have no time to recapitulate all the facts
we have advanced, through the columns of The
Lincoln Democrat, and, no doubt, ere this they
are well known to most Of your business men
as well as throughout The line. That they ar.
facts, is matter csyond question. With
much labor and care have all fhe official ia.
bles been inspected which bear upon the sub.
Ject; and If the whole has not been advanced,
il is owing to lack of time, entirely, and the
necessary leisure from business cares.
Not solitary thing have we found, that
does not urge this Road. A matter Of the
greatest consequence 10 Bath-the very breath
of life itself to Wiseasset and the eastern towns
of importance to Roeklnnd that cannot be es-
timated TOO high, we feel as though the lack OF
wealth and dssting giassed ability should not de-
ter as from the aitempt 10 wake up all, to a
free discussion Of the matter klossing all the
while that there viii be but ONE RESULT to such
| free discussion.
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have our figures dispssrst, our positions over
turned, and the fallacy Of our specuIations ex-
posed. 10 vain do we listen for the grave OBJ
jections, always so ready te start into life and
uproar, when any great work is advocated for
the public good All assent, and HEREIN there
is danger! General Apathy may take COM
mand Of the forces, and campaign of imbecil-
| tY follows as the legitimate result. Men of
great wealth or shining abilities are not alto
gether entitled to the respect Of the great bulk
of manknd and il is well it is so. The
| faithful servant who hides not his talent in the
ground, but uses Alright the gifts of Providence,
| however small, will ever meet with lust re-
ward. For lack Of better, we point you TO our
glove. Ifthe people noUe, the thing is done.
| When we look at the exact situation of Bath
as connected with the Roads already built, or
| in progress, we confess we are at fault entire
| ly, in discovering the great good to accrue to
the inhabitants thereon out Of the existing state
Of things. Are you not surrounded and cir
cumvented we'll nigh, with these iron bonds |
Will not Portland supply the great interior of
our State with the products of foreign COM
merce, almost TO yonr entire exclusions Are
not Richmond, Gardiner, Hallowell, and Au-
| gusta, for seven months in the year, nearly as
well provided with their freight on the Kenne-
bee, as though you had no road Is il in fact,
| anything more than branch, 10 facilitate your
own city travel, and that Of the immediate
| neighborhood1 Do any more people pass
| through Bath from the GREAT EAST, than were
wont 70 do SO, years ago! Do you sell goods
and merchandise Of all sorts to supply East
Lincoln, and keep up steady stream Of travel
Of buyers. to and from your city, as you NIGH
do with the extension 10 Rocklandi How
many dollars now go to Boston, for supplies,
which would most certainly stop in Bath rcith
their ot0ners. had you this Road, Is Popu-
lation Of FIFTY THOUSAND, and their neces-
! sary wholesale trade NOTHING 10 you, that YOU
should slumber and sleep over this knowledge
Is ii not .)plain % daylight THAI the ENTIRE
travel of the whole extended seaboard, all the
way TO ST. John and Halifax, toiu and positive
yMusT, pass through your very midst, if you
will but exert yourselves for this Roadi Do
you not know that a steamer from Rockland to
| Ellsworth, Machias, St. John, and Annapolis,
would give you, inStdntcr, the great travel q
| Was there ever more favorable terminus for
a paying Road, than at Rockland, who, with
ou;spread fingers would touch and take the en-
tire whole, east and south Of Bangor!
! We know that yon must be aware of all
| these thiRgs; and that your branch is Of nc
great consequence to Bath, as long as it re-
mains but branch. Make it the 6ock bone
friends, at once, and you will be on the base
| line of great results bye and bye. Put an end
TO the unnatural hankering after road from
Belfast TO WaterVille OF Augusta, by our east
ern brethren, by giving them better one, al
least ten miles shorter TO Portland; a road thai
goes phere the people ive, ,Uho do the IoeoD1O-
fice business Of the tChoIe country!
Will is pay Excuse us for replying, that
when you can find Road Of 1900 people tC
the mile that dOnt pay, then we will swallow
all our words, road, ferry boat and all, and
agree to be laughed at, in all time to come, for
"the man as made great noise about moth
ing, that ended in SMOKE" provided always,
that the said Road is not built OH preferred
stocks, bonds, mortgages and any quantity oi
tribulation and without the aid of science and
contract, banded together, 10 skin company
tUitho1 their knOVing il bat that it shall be
paid for, and not fleeced by understanding ope-
rators, in the erection of it.
The people should be asked if they want the
Road. If they say, NO, be it so; if they say
Eyes," (and we know they willy then those
subscribing for the stock should be protected il
so doing by the EXPRESS PRovlso; that no sub
scription shall be considered binding until a
least $7OO,000 are taken by bona fde men, wht
are able to pay what Ahey agree to; that the
Road shall not be commenced all over the line
with handful of Irish barrows, but finished uF
a joint at time, and set Immediately in mo
tion; that the work shall never be com
menced till everything is ready, and that wher
it is begun, it shall be pushed with a strong
steady, vigorous hand TO its final completion
Citizens of Bath Will you act, and begir
the good work with Rockland, or squat ant
lose il! JUNIOR.
Jan. 10Th, 1853.
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