Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1850-1854, 1854-03-03
ANTH-LOAN MEETING.
OFFICIAL REPORT.

1t buttons Tavern i'll the Town OF Paris,
On the Dist day of February, 1854, accor-
ling toprevious notice Daniel Williams
was chosen Chairman, and IL. S. Thorpe
Secretary.
TWAS moved and carried that the Chair
appoint Committee Of seven to report
He appointed, as such Committee, F.
J. CurtiSs, F. Paddock, G. Pease, j. c.
Ii. Marsh, DR.. Adams and W.
Judson.
The Delegates sent to Madison were
then called ON to report, whichwas com
Piled with.
The Committee on Resolutions then
made the following Report, which was
adopted:
Whereas, The Kenosha and Beloit
Railroad Company has premeditatedly
and feloniously laid a scheme by which to
force from the taxpayers of kenoSha
County One Hundred Thousand Dollars
or more to be applied to its private use
in building said Road: And
Whereas, Through treachery, false rep
reservations, and bribery our Legislature
has been induced to pass an act to legaliZe
such force: Therefore
Resoired That we despise andcontem-
ptuously denounce the persons and means
that have been SO ANONYMOUSLY used i'll
procuring the Enactment Of law provi
ding for srch force. and believe that said
bill bears upon its face fraud. or so much
secrecy would not be enjoined upon it,
that those it proposes to rob can not
know of all its subtle provisions.
ReSOired, That we have full confidence
in our ability to manage, and Just sense
of our right to invest our hard earnings
as we may severally think best. and that
we are unitetly determined to protect
such rights.
ReSoired That we published to the
world, and especially to all capitalists and
dealers in Stocks and County Bonds. that
we hereby protest against the Kenosha
and Bcloit r. r. Company's using our
Credit for any purpose whatever, And
we hereby forewarn all persons, not to
purchase, trade, ornegotiate forany bonds,
purporting to be issued by kcnosha Coun-
ty. for we assure them the security for
their payment will be worthless, either
for principal or interest; for we will soon
or spend the entire amount in protecting
eur homesteadS. and families than suffer
ourselves to be robbed of one farthing
without our consent.
ReS0ired, That the right to property
should forever remain inviolate, and if a
private Corporation may create an inter
=
ty for its own ACKNOWLEDGEMENT under
pretence of benefitting us. pirate or a
robber may claim that his business is L.
ultimate.
Resoired, That we are not opposed to
any fair system of internal improvement,
carried forward by individual investment
and enterprise; but when we are to be
compelled to cucumber our homestcads
with possibility of sending our wives
and children shelterless upon the world.
we have as good cause for resistance as did
our Fathers Of Seyenty-SiX.
ReS0ired, That we will if we can and
we can if we will cttectually defeat this
scheme at the ballot box. and thus de-
monstrate afrcsh to the world the great
moral problem that "0pposition to ny
rants is duty to God.
ReSo}red, That in case we arc found in
the minority. we Will test the Constitu-
tionality Of the proposed Loan-Bill and
each and every one of us pledge ourselves
to contribute literally to dcfray the ex-
pense Of such proceeding as we are resolv-
ed never to Surrcnderone particleofground
undisputed, either to pay principal or III
tcrest, which may be attempted to be for
ced or wrung from our hands contrary
to our will.
ReSo'red, That we now and forever re-
pudIate all such loans and unconstitution-
al schemes. as undermining the fDunda-
ton Of all civil Liberty, and aiming ia
tai blow at all individual right to proper
ty. without which we Instantly become
as degraded as the mental slaves of the
autocrat OF Russia.
Resoired, That we tender our thanks
to our Representative, and to those who
recorded theirnames i'll opposition to loan
ing the credit Of kenoSha County to the
Kenosha and Bcloit Il. X. Company.
Resoired, That we fully believe that
whatever amount kenosha County NAV
he encountered with. ON account of the
kenosha & Beloit Rail Road, if in the fl
nal event it is decided to be collectabIe
and is collected, said County will never
receive one dime in return for whatever
it pays; and such has ever been the design
of said Company.
ReSolred, That we are opposed to loan
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County taking stock in the kcnosha and
Beloit Railroad Company, believing such
course to be ruinous to the County. and
destructive to the best interest ofthe far
mers, in involving us with a burthensome
debt for the furtherance of project
which when completed will pay us Meth
er principal nor interest.
ReSolrcd, That as the lbcralty and emo
bling principle of philanthropy prevalent
in our State prompted the enactment of
a liberal exemption which secures a home
to the poor and unfortunate we much
deprecate the consequence to result to
them should this plumber scheme of the
Kenosha and Belolt Railroad Company
succeed.
ReSotrcd, That the deception practiced
by said Railroad Company in obtaining
the right of way for said Road, and the
course pursued by the Press of the City
of kenosha in regard to the false repre-
sensations Of the connections ofsaid Road.
are, in our opinion disreputable and de
ceptiye.
Res0lred, That state of financial and
moral war exists in this County. by the
acts of the citizens of kenosha CITY. and
that we will defend ourselves against the
assaults of said City, even to the carrying
of said war into Africa.
1t was then moved and carried that a
Committee of three be appointed to in
quire into the expediency aud practicable
itr of establishing 4 nn,rsnannr nresS in