Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1850-1854, 1853-05-13
KENOsHA AND ROCK RIVER ROAD.

The Beloit Journal thus responds to some re-
marks of ours week or two since, with regard to
the attitude of Bcloit towards our proposed Rail
Road:
A word as to Goodness" &c. We havenot
and the people of Beloit have not felt cold
towards the project of our Kenosha friends.
1t would be singular if we should. No one
would naturally feel cold towards body of
men who proposed to build railroad to their
town: at least no one with moderate degree
of selfshness: and we are as selfish as most
people, We only have not proposed to do
the same towards aiding in the construction
of that road which we have proposed to do
for the Racine road-But we could not, of
course, do the same thing for both, and as we
had entered into full arrangements with Ra-
cine before Kenosha even mtimated to us that
she desired to build road here, sr, we think,
before she even entertained the idea herself,
we leave it with our contemporary and Ke-
nosha friends to say whether we could, as
men Of honor and integrity, have pursued
any other course than that we have pursued.
We have constantly felt how liable our feel
ings were to be misinterpreted in that quar-
ter, but we have felt that it was better to be
suspected, or even charged, with GOODNESS to-
wards friends to whom we ought not to be
cold, than to be actually guilty of violation
of good faith and ofpositive contract with 9TH
erS.
We have said more than we intended to
upon this point but we considered it was no
more than was necessary to set lis right with
our Kenosha friends. We close by saying
that though we shall beg of 40 one to come
here, and shall not aOhine if no one does
come here, yet we do think it is for the true
interest of Kcnosha to connect at Burlington
with the Racine road, that it is for the inter-
est of the Racine road itself that she should
do so, and that such connection could, if
desired, easily be effected. But we press no
advice upon our friends, and urge them to no
particular course of action. Our interests
are one thing, and they must judge whether
theirs run counter with ours or not.
The Walworth Co. Journal at Dclavan, has the
folipwingi
We are occasionally asked about the Ke-
nosha road, whether it is to 90 to GAINESVILLE
or to Beloit, and can only say that according
to the late move 1t appears as If 1t were to
90 to GAINESVILLE. There seems to be an i'm
preston that the people here are opposed to
this road, or look upon it with unconcern.-
This is not so. The people here are anxious
for every road they can get, but they had en-
tered ito the project of the Racine Road, be-
fore the Kenosha road was even chartered,
and they of course were inclined to consum-
mate this arrangement before looking far
thcr.
Wherever depot is to be made there aid
can be procured, and whatever town the road
goes through will we think be willing to aid
it, but of course no aid would be expected
until it should be known where the road is to
be located. We repeat that the people of
Walworth county and of every village in the
county, are anxious for railroads, and are gen
orally willing to aid them, so that Kenosha
has only to go ahead with her arrangements
and settle her line of road to get aid from the
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