Hannibal journal. (Hannibal, Mo.) 1853-1853, 1853-04-23
From the Quincy Herald.


why was tho hoAu " AofouQolA AuAnOonedN
This question has been puzzler to the PEG.
pie Of Brown county, and may not perhaps be
as well understood as it should be by the oi.i-
zens OF Adams. We happen to be able to ex.
plain it, We have not cared to do il heretofore,
because we felt assured that the people Of this
city did not approve the abandonment, no matter
what might have been the motive or reason for
the adoption Of that course, Messrs. Rogers,
Bushnell & Bull had made arrangements in New
York for the money to build the read. A tele-
graphic dispatch wNS received by the capitalists
with whom this arrangement had been made,
announcing that the Hannibal charter had passed
the Senate through the influence Of Senator
Wood, and that il would undoubtedly pass the
House. They informed Messrs. Rogers & Co.,
that they now had prospect Of a better invest
ment, and would not furnish the means, as they
had agreed to, to build any other road in this
part Of Illinois, as long as there was prospect Of
the passage Of the Hannibal charter. They
argued that the road from Naples to Hannibal
would give them all the connections and all the
advantages they wanted, and that the distance
being but thirty-two miles, while the distance
from Quincy to Meredooia was about fifty-five
miles, It would cost them some two hundred
thousand dollars less 10 build the road from the
Illinois river to tho Mississippi at Hannibal than
from the Illinois to the Mississippi at Quincy.
These arguments were irresistible and unan-
swerable, in their minds, and Messrs. Rogers
& Co., were compelled to come home without
the means to build the road from Quincy to Mer.
edocia. Such had been the effect OF Senator
Woods vote and influence in favor Of tho Han.
nibal road. HO had by his support Of that road
given eastern capitalists good reason TO believe
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had thereby induced them TO deny tothe agents
OF Quincy the money with which TO build the
Quincy road,
Here was the reason why the road to Mere.
docia has beon abOS doned, and Il will account
for the fact that the work is not now going for.
ward upon il, The Directors have been forced
to abandon it, and for the simple reason that
they couldn't procure the money Of eastern can.
itOlsts necessary 10 build il, aud they couldn't
procure that money because Mr.. Woods votes
and influence in the Senate in favor Of the Han.
nibal road has led them 10 firmly believe they
will be able at an early day to get that charter
from the Illinois legislature. The Board Of
Directors are not responsible for the abandon.
ment Of the road from this city 10 Meredocia
and they are not responsible, because they have
done, hositatingly, what John Wood, by his
course in the Senate, has compelled them 10 do.
Our Friends in Brown county will now UNDER
stand this matter; and we regret to be COMPEL.
ed TO add, that they viii understand or ought to
understand that the people Of Quincy, BY their
votes on Monday last approved the course Of
Jehn Wood in it FROM beginning 10 end. The
people Of this city have said by their votes on
Monday last, that in oommpelling the board 10
abandon any further efforts at present TO con-
struct the railroad from this city 10 Meredooia
John Wood did perfectly right Such is the
Judgment Of our citizens, and from it our Eel.
low-citiEens and neigh6Ors in Brown county will
perceive and understand that they get no
road,