Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1853-03-22
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March II, 1S53.}~
SIR:-An editorial iofthe WheeIing.Times Of the
9Th inst copied into your paper of the 9th, in re-
aton TO the refusal by Virginia of the right of
TO the Pittsburgh and Steubenvile Railroad; it an
pears, has induced the inference with you that
there was CONTRACT between the city of Whee-
ling and our Company to prevent, if possible, the
grant referred TO. a sals-5 - .sss AZ. 5. j
You Say-t-It seems that a company chartered
by the Legislature of Ohio had entered into base,
secret conspiracy with a town in another State to
terminate their read at a point 10 suit that town,
upon the condition and for the consideration that
that Town will prevent the Legislature of Virginia
from granting the right of way through their terri
toy to another Company created by the same Leg
isIatLre of Ohio.' f1s7' ii7 ''--.'-'a'
ITegret being constrained to say that the City of
W heeling and the Central Ohio Railroad Company
nave notyet been able to harmonic their views so
lar as 10 enter into any kind Of contract much less
so extreme, measure ''conspirdcy,'
In all, our conferences and correspondence with
the Wheelng authorities, n regard to the terminus
OF our road single alluson to the
right ofoway luestionfor the Pittsburgh and Steu.
behville road; and am not aware that any act or
expression, upon the part of anyof the directors
stockholders or agents OF our company, has ever
peen used or.deslgned to prevent the grant desired
ny the FIlslu and Steubenville Company. In
deed, so little jealousy towards the Steubenvllle
lndlanaroad-the extension in Ohio of your inter
est-has been felt by our company that when, in
the autumn of 1851, the Steubenville and Indiana
company applied 10 the county of Muskingum for
subscription of 100000 too of the Directors T
Our Gofpdlly took The stump ADVOCACY of the sub
scI1phon; with The argument that, while it could
not inIure ths Central Road, it would benefit the
Immediate district ofco1ntry which it might traY-
erSe t-sLs 80
The Z iitor of the Times is mistaken in suppo-
sing that our road would have been built by the way
oiGoshpctoni had this right of way 10 your Stea.
bsnyiLe road been granted two years ago. No
such idea would have been entertained by our com
pamyc on acontngencys so mparitlvely unimpor-
tant.SGeogrnphicaly, and with n view 10 local res
uFEAsh h.-la bob.
able railway that can be obtained betw the Mus
Klngum ard The Ohio rivers. Every additional de
Vslapenent,haS only convinced us the more thor
oughly OF the propri-ty of our location. sCU =
As your editorial Of the 9Th is calculated to do
our company injustice, will you favor me by Civ.
ing this a;uc:e equal publicity.
..sas respectfully, a9, J, b. SULLIVAN,
.s--ll President.
sWe-give place to1he above with pleasure Our
editorial REMARKS referred 10 by Mr.. Sullivan were
based entirely on the statements made in the
Whee ling Time s; and we are pleased to find those
statements so emphatically denied by one of The
parties 1ugged into the controversy by the editor of
that paper:a.lAs The pfetenped facts on whic b;
Wheeling has sought tolustify her opposition TO the
right OF way Tor. the Steubenville road are thus
promptly and conc usiYely contradcted, we are
curious to see what new excuse will be resorted TO
In publishing the foregoing letter of Mr. Sulli
van 10 The Pittsburgh Gazette, it is proper TO re
mark that the statements contained in 1t are per-
fectly correct and we have found no one as yet
here who would seriously entertain any idea thai
any railroad had 'tyested right, either by i'm
pheatons or otherwise, TO our opposition to any
road and we,do not remember ever to have heard
such proposition mooted even until the article in
the Gazette appeared to which Mr.. Sullivan refers.
The city oil Wheeling makes no such pretensions,
nor does the Hempfeld or any other road /. They.
have no right to make such, and positively do not
We are opposed to the Steubenville and Pittsburgh
rightof way. because it will iRiurousy affect the
prosperity Of our city and our trade; because it is
opposed tothe true policy of Virginia and her in
terests, and then we are slightly opposed to it be
cause Pittsburgh asks it. We acknowledge no
vested rights, in any persons or corpora ion, 10
control our action upon this question. We are
authorized by member Of our Rail Road Com
miitee 10 state that in the conferences correspon-
dence, &C., of the Central Read with that c1m-
mrttee emo allusion ever was made to the Steuben-
vile Road'' The Gazette has shown heretofore
that the companies had no contract, &C., to that
effect aud that none such entertained by the
article in that paper. We do not think that those
companies have any right whatever, further than
TO exert whatever influence they may possess in
whatever manner may best conduce to their re-
spcctve interests. Our own interests aud those of
the State of Virginia constitute the bases of our op
position TO the Road.