Washington telegraph., 1853-03-30
One Of Ssie Causes,

To settle TIE question IS to which or car DEL
gates to Washington City, is entitled to
the credit of procuring the passage of the
Cairo and Fulton Railroad Bill, or, wheth-
er or not. one Of our Senators was not op.
posed to its passage. The settlement Of
these questions, with some persons, appears
to be paramount to the adoption Of any pol.
icy that VIII tend to make the grant availa.
bic to the State, and the course pursued by
one of the journals at the Capital, if persist.
ed in much longer, will materially lessen the
value of tbs grant, if it does not render ii
altogether unavailable 1t will be matter
Of but little Importance to the people which
of the three is entitled to the credit of pro-
curing the grant, if the State derives nc
benefit from it, and that it will not, SO long
as this examination and e-crimmnation is
kept up between the friends of Mr.. JOHN
SON and Nr. BoRLAND, is very evident
The people will doubtless be able to discern
who is entitled to the paternity of the bill,
OF the credit Of procuring its passage, il
those who denounce others for their efforts
in the cause Of Internal Improvement, would
use the same exertion to make the grant
available to the State, by advocating the
adoption of such measures as are deem
ed essential to a speedy commencement
of the work, for which the donation was
made. 1t is waste of time, and prosti-
tuition of every feeling Of public veal, to dis
cuss this matter: one which involves the in
terests, not only of the present population OF
this State, but of many generations to come.
We heard of a polemic club that spent
many days and nights in settling the ques-
ton, whether the hen that laid the egg, or
the hen that Matched it, was the mother of
the chicken" and we think it as fit subject
| for discussion, as the one, as to which of our
delegates is the father Of this Railroad bill,
and it is about Of the same Importance when
determined.
We were led to these remarks from the
perusal of an article which appeared in the
"True Democrat Of the 22d inst, casting
unwarantable censure on the motives Of a
number Of public spirited gentlemen, from
other States. who attended the Railroad
Convention at Little Rock, in July last As
an evidence of the spirit of the article to
which we REFER we make the following ex-
tract:
Conventions, composed Of the trimmers
of all parties, assembled here in rapid sue
cesssion. Railroad resolutions were penned
and published-routes were marked out and
designated and systematic raiiroad at
tack, led on by Woodruff, of the Gazette, y
was commenced against the democratic par.
ty. Orators from Texas and Tennessee,
deadly enemies Of our party, were imported
and the whole battery Of their eloquence
turned against cur ranks
A majority of those political trimmers, the
batteries of whose eloquence were turned
against the ranks Of the democracy, as stated
by the 'True Democrat" were themselves.
dyed in the wool Democrats is, Southern
rights Democrats and consequently, were
not deadly enemies to that party Judge
Mills Of Texas, the President Of the conven-
tioh, and the only delegate from Texas who
addressed the convention, an enemy of the
democratic party. why the idea, to one who
knows the Judge, is highly amusing Ex-
Governor Quitman, of Miss, also addressed
the convention, and who ever before heard
him accused of being opposed to the demo-
cratic party, The political opinions of Mr..
Trezevant Of Tennessee, we do not know, nor
could We infer from his remarks what his
political views were. Buckner III. Payne
of La, whether whig Or democrat. has by
his energy and enterprise succeeded in plac-
ing the construction of the New Orleans and
Opelousas Railroad beyond the possibility
of doubt. These are some of the men that
the True Democrat" stigmatizes as polit-
ical 'trimmers,' and there were other dele
gates from Tennessee and Texas, that we
know were not wings, and if they were
deadly enemies of the Democratic party,
we failed to discover it in the published
proceedings Of the convention. We can see
no foundation for the charge of the "Demo-
crat, and must therefore regard it as the
offspring of the Editors imagination.
The language of the Democrat" to say
the least OF it, is unwarranted towards the
public spirited gentlemen, who, upon our
express invitation, came from other States,
travelling hundreds of miles, to aid us in