New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-02-16
sTocT.uoy,s LITTER TO THE SITE OF
rrmDrr AID Ar.RcY.

We RENEW the cousi erstion OF this remarkable Let
ter sDd that our readers may fully understand aud ap
preciae IT, love OF ruth displayed By its writer vii
beg them 10 recoIlect that b. the law purchased
bv hin and bis coDfederates from the Legislature
1922 it was provided that rosd should De made ths
eould compete in business with them without their
consent fir. had and obtained. That business be1c
TRANSFORMATION scross the STATE it vii readily be
that pending the existence Of this law. there could be
but one thoroughfare and that Whatever other roads
might be attempted, must as certainly terminate
IN the monopoly one a. would the streets of this City in
Broadway, had we law providing that all the other
| tLoroucbfares running north and south should be
/ per1panently closed Under such circumstances
/ no impro7enents could be made and the con-
/ sequence lie seen in the fact that throughout
tie whole range of the State lying south and east OF
| Amboy, there has been until quite recently, no.
e;en single mile of read although much of it is a
rich country that would furnish large amount Of local
traffic while the whole presents most admirable line
for facilitating the intercourse between this City and
the South For many years past the Legislature has
been annually besieged with applications from the
farmers of Burlington, Monmouth and other counties
OF West Jersey, for charter for road which they
were both able and willing TO make but at the door
of the Capitol stood the writer of this Letter and his
confeGerates ready to repel the applicants, the
! consequence of which has been that their earnes.
| and just demands have uniformly been rejected
| Nevertheless, he has the unblHshing assur ancc
to tell the Legislature that the protection, he is
pleased to style the power granted to him to ill his
"breeches pocket at the expense Of his iellOwctzens
has been uDusty and falsely held up to the people
an nsuperabe obstacle TO the construction OF rail-
roads in other sequesered portions of the State.
We beg our readers to recOlect that the who
wrote this sentence claims to pass in society as
4 gentleman and that-wonderful 20 say-he has even
sncied that be had some claim 10 occupy the post Of
Chief Magistrate fthe Union FOrtwenty years past
be has been accustomed to purchase legislation by aid
of oysters and champagne, and thus has he efectuay
prevented the improvement OF the commonwealth
wherever such Improvement might lessen his profits
And vet he now his ellOwczens that his mo-
nopoy has been falsely and unusy accused of being
the cause why many of them forced 70 trudge 70
market wagons, while the people Of tue new States
of Indiana and Illinois are nduging in the luxury of
railroad cars and are growing rich by reason of the
enormous increase in the value of land consequent
upon the increased facility of going to market. We
will leave to readers to find each for himself the
proper terms to be applied TO this mOnstrOus and
mpudent assertion now put forth by man who has
been officer of our navy and should be gentleman.
The following paragraph abounds in statements OF
peculiar kind, for which reas0n give it in full,
recommending it to the careful perusa Of all romance
readers as well as of all who desire TO comprehend
the sort of machinery by which the writer's State has
been degraded 10 its present low estimate throughout
the Union:
Now while this is certainly true in regard to all specu
lative schemes railroads designed be made through
New Jersey foreign account, for the benefit of indi
yidues and 70 deaud the State of her revenue Is not
tue AZ far as it respects any important local public i'm
proyemeu by railroad IN the State. This II obvious from
lie fact that charters have already been granted sufficient
10 cover almost the whole State with net work of ral
roads Inc difficulty has been in obtaining charters
fo such local roads hut in raising the money with which
construct them 1t is this difficulty alone which has
prevented the construction OF all the railroads required by
tue people OF Jersey between Sussex and Cape May
The joint companies however hitherto, far their
means and Just regard for the interests of their stock
holders Of whom the State is the largest in interest would
permit have been dspOs with the sanction Of the Legs
laure 10 encourage and assist the construction of rail
roads in the south western Counties to such extent that
would to be considered the established
policy of the State that they should give their aid
and every railroad projected for local accommodation
between tie Delaware and Raritsn Rivers: The conse
quence Of the recognition of this policy has been that the
friends Of several projected railroads are now awaiting
and soliciting the era0n and assistance of the joint
companies The companies have not repudated this view
Of their duties and responsibilities They have freely and
cordially responded TO these demands upon their public
spt and resources aud they willing still further to
contribute their aid the development of the of
the State and to satisfying the just expectations of the
people But toe Of the companies and prudent
regard for the interests Of their stockholders, viii not
permit them 10 further in the prosecution of this policy
without some additional legislation
What is here insinuated in regard to speculative
schemes for foreign account" is an untruth, as
the writer well knew. He knows, as well as We do,
that road has been projected with any view to de-
fraud the State of its reyenue-sone that could be
regarded as other than fair and honest required
for the accommodation and advantage of his fellow
citizens. He knows too, that there is not the
shadow Of truth in the assertion that the protection
purchased in 1882 by himself and bis confederates
has not prevented any important local public
Improvements" At the moment when this was
written the writer knew that he had been chief agent
in preventing the execution of highly important im-
proyements that would greatly have aided the public
reyeDue-rOads that had been sought by farmers
anxious TO obtain facilities for going to market
and willing to pay TO the State the same transit duty
paid By the Company on whose behalf this Letter has
low been written-and roads that would so greatly
lave reduced the cost OF passing through the State
that twice thrice, if not quadruple the men and
merchandise would have been carried with vast in
crease in both the transit duties and the value OF land
and yet We here find him unblshingly asserting
Tat his protection has not prevented such improve
ments
We are next as our readers told that charters
have already been secured sufficient, when the roads
stall be made to convert the State into network Of
railroads" VIII they they, believe that in this
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