Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1853-10-26

cour Galena. Why sir, Wisconsin he'll
ped make Galena, and to this day, help:
elothe and feed you. You are only ,hs
foot of Grant County, and you assai!
every effort made by the body Of which
you are member, to support its mem
bers. You talk and scott aid sweat a.
though Wisconsin was made for Galena
and not Galena for Wisconsin, VIVA
would you be only for Wisconsin I? In
stead of the city Of 5000 inhabitants
your few tomb-like walls, traversed BY
avenues as solemn as deserted NineYeh
would be thar, to tell of things thai
were in times OF yore-never to be Wis
ted only by ghosts of departed men,
Yet you whine and empty your cup OF
scorn upon every effort your long triee
friends make-even when they seem te
be on fair way to get railw ay cor.
respondsnce with yourselves and the
rest OF The world.
The people Of Wisconsin rejoic ed in
your triumph in your late contest with
the Central Company and you play The en-
envy to them, to Wisconsin as part OF
GaIena. Thus you exhibit, in sscarle,
letter." the character Of an assassin as
we'll as self-destructionist.
Dom! you see that whatever builds
up Wisconsin, adds to the fold Of Gale
ma? Don't you know that every prin-
ciple in the teachings Of physical Geog.
raphy denies that city can be built il
Grant County, at any point on her river
border? Andis not Galena already and
ever to be the main city to command the
trade of South Western Wisconsin P
with half an eye you can see all these
as we see them, and what more do you
want. jealousy, that internal demon
that plays the devil with SO many, has
been at work i'll your weak soul. You
fear that the Southern Wisconsin road
may be built, and city put up at SIM
pee, where nature never intended one
should exist. All the wealth and all
the railroads projected i'll Wisconsin
terminating at Sinipee, would not make
"a city there.
Your allnsion to "the smuggling OF
w. b. OGDEN and Gov Dewey into the
Board Of directors, "--an event that " e
regretted as much as you effect 10, for
We always regard the placement OF sly
manoeuverers at the head Of such work,
as fatal error. We do not believe
however that even Gov. De wEY intends
to damn the ROAD by approprlaling to him
self all the valuables, as the Jefer. ona :
an intimates he certainly has some
pure motiv es somewhere, ard We be-
lieve they are RICH. in and about that
railroad.
In the article above, the Jefsrsonian
has proven, with all the weight Of
feather at the top round of gravitation,
that the Southern Wisconsin Railroa !
will not be built, but in 2. different ed;-
tor'ai under :.ne head of "sinipee City,"
Ne closes as follows:
1--WE have no hostility TO the South
ern Wisconsin Railroad. The lire is
surveyed through district OF country
OF grert prosI ective wealth and of UNI
exampled fertility. We desire that it
may be built. That it will be, we do
not doubt. But, in the meantime, We
warn our readers in Wisconsin, who are
interested in the stock, that Galena is
The point where the terminus, and the
only terminus, should be; and that any
scheme which looks to its diversion to
Sinipee, or elsewhere, is a speculation
oil those who unworthily control it"
Here as before, he treats the managers
as unworthy, and the work as worth
less, unless Galena be fixed on as the
"terminus and the only terminus, amy
scheme fixing it elsewhere, sis specu-
lation of those WHO unworthily control
IT," Like the Chinaman's map with
China occupying all the earth, except a
few little fragments along the edge, the
Jefsrsonian fails to see anything out
side OF Galena. That favored spot oc-
cuples the front, rear and sides OF his
fairy globe Galena is the queen city,
and the Jefersonaaa is her prophet whom,
all things must obey, else they are un-
worthy