Hannibal journal. (Hannibal, Mo.) 1853-1853, 1853-03-18

understand and appreciate the value Of the
Road.
Below we commence the publication Of an
article from the Bloomington Macon co. Re-
publican. The editor says the Road comes
within eight miles Of running on a direct line
from Hannibal to St. Joseph, and suggests that
an indignation meeting be held at Bloomington.
because, as he thinks, the Board Of Directors
has acted in bad faith, in not allowing it to di-
verge sufficiently from straight line, to run
through the county seats Of all those counties
which subscribed stock
HANNIBAL AND 1T. JOSEPH RAILROAD
The location Of this Road and the strange and
unaccountable proceedings Of the secret conclave
which claims to have made that location has
thrown this community into perfect fermept.
Two gentlemen from Hannibal, and ]. N.
Brown, Of this place attended at meeting Of
the board Of directors, as had been given out,
each recommended by the Stockholders and cit
liens of this county and Hannibal respectively.
The Directors, from St. Joseph, as polite as they
are cunning, expressed themselves very glad
that these gentlemen had come thus recommend
ed, to fill the places of the three directors who
had sent in their designations, not being able to
attend, and that they were very anxious to have
a full board to share the responsibility Of the
location. After the meeting Of the St. Joseph
delegation and the member from Palmyra, and
one from Hannibal, vote was taken as to their
power to appoint, and decided afiirmatively {;
next, it was moved that they decide whether
they should fill those vacancies before or after
Al. L.. Ill NI,,N
they fill them after the road lDaS locatedW
Mr.. Brown desired to be permitted as a
Stakeholder, TO see and hear what they did, but
this waS denied him! And these pinks Of honor
and decency condescended to inform the peo-
pie, about the hotels and grog shops that they
had located, or indicdtei, the extreme Southern
line as the route for the road A line which
misses every county seat upon the whole route
clear through.
This refusal to permit the representation Of
the Stock represented by the three absent men,
bers of the board; and that too, after admitting
the authority to do it, which was never qu"s-
toned, and approving the recommendations
made by agreeing to appoint after location, is a
killing fact ; a fact damning in its character, one
which should and will, consign the perpetrators
to eternal nfamy and disgrace. No wonder
LllaL tnlS community IL III peIIecI Juror
We collect the facts Of this case from Mr..
Brown; who after being thus insulted; and see
ing the people of his county likewise insulted
and wlfully and corruptly wronged, refused IL
have anything to do with this would-be-caled
Board OF Directors.
The people of this State have placed them
selves in condition to be taxed to the amount
Of one million and half Of dollars for the con.
struction Of this road, and which they are sure
to have to pay if ever the road is built, and have
given to this company all the land granted to the
State by Congress, for Its construction given il
to them for no other consideration than the ben
eiical location and construction; and now wha
do they find? A manifest intention to locate
and construct it SO as to ruinously depricatC
one million of dollars worth of Property, belong
ing to individuals and to the counties, and al
this merely to subserve the imaginary ends o.
the cormorants, vultures, iobbers, spectators
Shylocks Of Hannibal and st. Joseph the ont
famous for Swindling the emigrunts, the othel
for docking the farmer in his pork, beef, hemI
and tobacco, and paying for them in rags.
10 be Continued.