New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-01-24
LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE,
ERIE AND THE WEST

To de Edtorof The " Tribune.
Ss In your article the other day the subec OF Raj
roads in Congress you were think improperly hard on
the West You hope Congress will give holland to make
Western Railways, until i is settled whether PennyVa
mia owns the power to control or monopoze western
business This the substance of your position though
write from memory You mean then that unless the vii
famous distractions opposed by the people Of Erie to free
transit are removed or hereafter prevented Of tie West
oueht not TO have any donations Of land from Congress
So read YOU and so many others in Washington under
stood you
BILE forthe vlaines and outrages of Erie We depore
and denounce them as much you Were II necessa-
~ and had they the power the Western people would set
tie the question at Erie ryquiek and you'd open railway
communications land thar too without any change OF
gauge across the county of Erie even TO DO 90 the Town
of Erie had to be removed from the face Of the earth
We of the West suffering deeply from this miserable
Erie crusade Thousands of dollars worth OF property
have already been lost by u.s. and thousands more are
Bat for pity sake don't punish US for others sins We
want raways even Erie shall be sunk and its whole Ter
ritory became lake. We must come east 10 new forx
and New England and New York and New England must
come to u.s. The very line of railways alluded TO- and IN
reference TO the progress Of which your article was wr
ten makes connecting link the north SIDE o. LAKE Err
with your City.
Tie souh west the center of Indiana the north western
mart of Obo-all can come TO New York and Boston and
10 Bufao oo by the Great line proposed to be aided by
the bill of Mr. Bright now before COngress-connected
only nv a short railway from Toledo 10 Detroit Your
Civ and Boston and all New England are this day con
nected with Detroit by railways From Detroit to Toledo
line Is now In progress and will be completed as soon as
men ard means can do IT, Then Mr. Brghts bill carries
the track onward and south wesward-to indianapolis
Vineenpes St. Louis Paducah Memphis, Mobile and New
Orleans. go ..,
We desire to do the very thing that will put it out OF the
Of the scamps at Erie to prevent US from coming W
New York and we hope to zee the East help u.s. .
This thing Of sectonzing our country IN approaching
the effect OF railways Is certainly conhning Tue u
10 TOO narrow limits True roads in the West benens
rs locally but there is not of them running from the
West TO or toward the East but benefits your Eastern
peoule 10 vast extent also. Ia making our Inc
from Paducah 10 Indianapolis and Toledo we cal
culate more Tor at least much upon ttT0ugh tnan
be- a railway from the Mississippi, at 81 LOUIS
and southwark, 10 New York and who, pray Is or
can be more interested in il than New York surrey,
then New York should not pray that Congress wouid I've
no lands 10 t. or would delay 10 aid it, until the oasSeS
Of Erie Tedressed. ,.s -
All who can should raise their voices, aye ana neess
sarv rgnds against such lawless violence as has soea
orr history in his instance The tune has passed 20 e
vent vast evil effects from IT, but il Is not TOO ae 70 @
he aoeressor with such punishment AZ VIZ io,eser pre
vent The ike occurrences again PennsyF an1 has y "
feel deeuy for this error. Her cites anu nel
men mscscuate il they suppose the ,nyveine o
them anything but evil No one w" e, ssp "a ~
with STATE whose laws, whose lawgivefs can ea Or
n toIerse unpunished in the hope OF gain-tor oroe
for what Il that gain bu: bribery an utter disre
gsrd of law and Justice, and humanity Inc rnian crew
saiu u g.,, and burn and stab the Railroad Company
80 iii su;ear their soied hands over the lair page OF
49, nun States history and viii be long before that
s4ain can fede entirely away.