New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1853-02-18

.Ndys-Messrs. Claiborne, Clark and Lugsn-
buhl-3.
The above resolutions granting the right of way
applied for by the NewOrleans, Jackson, and
Great Northern Railroad Company were conse-
quently adopted.
Mr.. Claiborne having voted no, was permit
to inscribe his motives upon the minutes, as
follows
| regret to be again placed in position in
which consider it my duty to register my OPP
position to an application made here in behalf
Of the NewOrleans and Jackson Railroad Com
pany; but as the adoption Of the proposition be-
fore this Board implies the approbation on the
part of the Common Council, Of the point select
ed by the company for its terminus or principal
depot, cannot give it my vote Hitherto my
objections in regard to this costly enterprise had
been confined to the manner proposed for car
rying it out, to-wit BY a special and excep-
tional tax or forced subscription to be levied
upon the free holders of the city Of NewOrleans
alone--a mode which / humbly deemed uncon-
stitutional in principle, as it is unjust, unequal
and tyrannical in practice. did not antici-
pate that should have occasion to record ano-
Their ground Of opposition, in the location Of the
terminus of their road, as adopted by this COM
pany, at the upper extremity Of the late Second
Municipality-so that work, stupendous in its
magnitude and possible consequences, to be car
ried out mainly by the millions to be paid out of
to result, in positive injury and damage to
large portion of that very property which bears
the burthen, by contributing with the other in
huences already at work, to remove more and
more from it the centre Of business, and the
sources Of commerce and wealth. Indeed so far
as the interests Of real estate are concerned, al
though the lower portions Of the city, already
too much oppressed with taxation, are more i'm
medately aggrieved, see none which the pro-
posed terminus Of the road can materially bene-
tlt but those Of the low grounds in the rear Of
the First District, the swamps of CarrolltOn,
perhaps, and the more distant regions which the
| road is to traverse, but which contribute little
or nothing to its execution-whist property at
the opposite extremity of the Parish Of Orleans
twenty miles distant, is to be heavily taxed for
it, in the form Of forced subscription
There can be no doubt that if the property
holders of the city had had voice in the fixa-
ton Of the depot, such would not have been its
location but the incongruity Of the proceedings
in this matter has exhibited the anomaly that
those who are to pay much the greater part Of
the costs have had no share whatever in the
| most important arrangements Of this company +,
| t0-wit: The election Of directors and principal
officers, and the selection Of the line of route
depots and stations.
If the enterprise was to be carried on at the
voluntary costs and risks of those alone who
have confidence in the line of road proposed, and
in the propriety and justice Of the site adopted
for its terminus, etc > should be far from presu.
ming to interfere with their arrangements but
as their plans are proposed to be realized BY
equal though forced contributions from every
part Of the city jurisdiction the only compensa-
| ton deem which could have been plausibly Of
tered Tor this system Of compulsion, that which
the planest dictates Of propriety and Justice re-
CURED, was that all should be made to partici.
pate ms equally as possible in whatever benefits
| might be deriyed-this could only have been eff
tected by bringing the terminus Of this great en-.
terprise as near as possible to the common centre
The objection made to a nearer approach to-
wards this centre, is the crossing of the new ca =
nal! cannot conceive. that n company which
has treated lightly the difficulty of crossing
the lake Maurepas, or the broad and deep stream
OF the pass Manchac, with the immense adioin-
ing region Of swamp and morass, that COM
pany which proceeds altogether upon such n gi-
ganuc scale, should stop at canal of a few feet
IN breadth, as ON insurmountable barrier. a
Rubicon not to be transgressed
protest against this measure, not only upon
| the grounds above mentioned, but because il will
he viewed by large portion of this city as hav-
ing been adopted under the influences of specu-
latou and sectionality, and because therefore
Of its tendency to disturb more and more the
spirit Of union, justice and harmony which
should prevail between the different parts of the
city
The following resolution, adopted by the
| Board Of Assistant Aldermen was read twice.
| the rules being suspended, and was coneurred
in by yeas and nays a. follows:
Ieas-Messrs Burke, Clark, Converse Gil
quel. Labatut. lugenbuhl and Sewell-S.
.NaBS-Messrs. Gasquet, Jones and Wosd-3
Be it resolved, That the Chair is hereby au-
thorized to appoint committee of FIVE members
to confer with a similar committee from the
Board Of Aldermen, for the purpose Of taking
the necessary measures to celebrate the ami
versary Of the Birth Of the Father of his coun-
try
The Chair appointed ON the above committee
Messrs. Jones, Gasquet. Wood, Giquel and
Burke
On motion, the Board adjourned to meet on
Tuesday, March |, at Is o'clock, p NJ
Chs. CLAIBORNE, Secretary.