The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1854-06-29
From the Daily Hillsborough Gazette.
The Great Railroad Meeting on
SnIMrAHY.


The largest Railroad meeting ever con.
'ened in Hillsborough, took place at the
Court House, on Saturday. The house
was densely crowded, every position, in
cluding the gallery, being occupied, and
as we are informed, many persons were
unable to gain admission. The ntensest
feeling and interest pervaded the entire
assembly, and Indignation flashed from
a thousand faces, as the wrongs inflicted
upon US, by reckless Directory, were
referred TO by the venerable TX Governor
TRIMBLE, Gen. J. ]. MCDowELL, and
others.
Eevery dea-every hint,-looking TO
proposition from the meeting to the Di.
rectorS of the Road, or to the Marietta
Company, for a compromise, was EN-.
phaticaIly and Indignantly rejected, we
might say spurned.
The resolutions, appointing a Com
mittee to seek a restoration Of our rights,
through the judicial tribunals otthe coun
TRY, and clothing said Committee with
ull authority to do all acts and things
necessary in the premises, passed without
diss ming voice.
From the unmistakeable demonstra,
tions of that vast enthusiastic, deter.
mined asSemblage, and from converse
tons, on that day, with more than one
hundred intelli ent, energetic citizens,
we feel warranted in saying that no com
promise can ever be made with the pres
ent Directory Of the Road, or with any
corporation or power upon earth, looking
to anything short of full and unreStained
restoration of all the origional rights and
franchises Of the Company, east aud
west; or; a tulI, 6iLding and sufficient
guarantee, for the immediate prosecution
and completion Of the work to Jackson,
leaving the franchises of the Company
east that point, untrammeledin the hands
of the stockholders cas-; OF flillSborough
We have no power 20 compromise with
any body, now; we shall be us an infant in
the grasp of lion, until the contract is
set aside, and the cords with which we
are bound are severed. That the con.
tract will be declared fraudulent, illegal
and nullity, we have had the assuran'
ces Of as able counsel as any in the State;
and every effort, in our judgment, should
be directed to the accomplishment Of that
object, and that alone. Any proposition
from US to compromise, until that is Sc.
cured, would be folly. and any PROPOSE.
ton from the other side, looking TO any.
thing short Of a completion of the Road
to the coal fields, and restoration of our
franchises east, would Le but an insult.
In truth, we are neither ready to ten.
der or receive propositions, We are in no
condition to negotiate; and in addition TO
this, we have no confidence in the hon.
esty or fidelity Of those who alone have
the power to submit propositions, and
Shall have none until they are restrained
| by the courts, and compelled to fulfil
their obligations, Some Of the Directors
form Cincinnati who are misrepresen.
ting the interests OF The stockholders and
friends OF the road here and eastward
came up to interfere with the people, and
were busiIy engaged in controversies in
the streets, with all who would give them
audience, but had not the manIineSs tc
face the indignant crowd assembled in
the Court House; and the man baser than
all ohers---the man to whom all had been
entrusted, and who had betrayed all -.
was engaged in insulting gentlemen in
the streets, who dared to defend them.
selves against his foul aspersons or to
intimate desire for the restoration oI
the just rights out of which they had been
de!rauded.
At the close Of the meeting, and after
nineteen twenIelhs of all who had been
present had retired, proposition was
made TO raise money to carry on the suit
against the Directors, and set aside the
contract and in few minutes. about one
thousand dollars were subscribed by the
small number then present.
As was Oplly said in the remarks Of Mr..
THOMPSON, the committee having the
matter in charge, is composed Of gentle.
men who seldom change their opinions
and never relax their energies and we
shall expect the friends of the road in
Pike, Jackson, and other counties through
which it passes, to hold meetings imme-
diately, and take efficient measures to
raise means 10 carry on the contest it
they concur with US in the propriety of q
resort to the courts for justice,