New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1854-05-12
III DAILY CT Essl EN-
II FRIDAY MORNING MAY Il, 1864.
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cf tasssai 8fils and Pontehartrain Railroad, as
tl,iaassp itself capable Of comforting very grea
and perfectly sure advan tages upon our city
3tit e1cum6erea wikh special and eSorbitan
benefits ID tie pr9prietors, which would SO hay
overpAia them for what they were to perform.
that our citizens. 10 whom it was referred /
ratify o. not to retify the conditional gran
made By she Legislature, might well have r.
fused 10 approve il, upon the original terms I
tbat grant Such an opposition, we repeai
here wss and we ourselves, as oar files vii
sbssw we're Of it; but that legitimate opposition
ceased and another totally unhkeit, uufoqndea
uutslir, sud merely interested and selfish, hai
now tiiken fts Place III il no longer, that's II
say, d public opposition, D fair opposition, AM
mated by any aim Ia which the people Of our
city or of the country can sy6patIize; but TIL
ignohle rivalry Of Individuals, who labor to pre-
vent the accomplishments an enterprise tbs
most suspicious, only because they dread thsi
il may diminish the profits of another in which
they themselves expect to make or to bloat ny
fortunes
OF such al opposition as this last, the public
would, We are sure, DO little tolerant, were u
even uncoteerned in that which is in contest
hut where (as in this CASEY a warfare SO strictly
selfish is directed against not merely 8 great
private interest, sanctioned by legislative Pc
hey, hut one Of such wide concern to thg
general prosperity that to attack it is to attach
the common good Of the whole body of our citi
zens ne persuade ourselves that the public
will, when satisfied Of the facts, be even more
than impatient be sternly intolerant.
We are satisfied that sucha opposition as we
have described an opposition alone--per-
sonal, selfish bitter-as little scrupulaus of The
public good as of fidelity to its own pledges
exists az ainst the Mobile Railroad Thussa
fla, we Val proceed ut once to establish I'll,
facts and to point out the individuals sgainsi
whom they lie.
The head and front Of the entire masteF is .
gentleman somewhat difasiye in his pnbh,
ports; at once engineer Of Railroads and pf Gls
works, legislator assistant alderman, and Presi
dent of the jackson s. 0felopsas Railroad, hi
multipHes himself among talents, powers and
Offices; on this shoulder, he carries the State :;
on that, the city the Gas works on his back .
in his right hand, he Yields the Jackson Rail,
road / and with the left, he snlites down All
others of which he is neither president no.,
engineer In word he is or he represents q
state, city, diversity Of corporations. several
sciences; is q legislator, q politician, mathe-
natician, orator, fRaneer, practical chemist
and, besides being the agent of 50 naay othe
things, is the Instrument general of Mr. James
sRabb whom he serves at least as faithfully as
fit wera hefrom whom he draws his triple lines
ofpay.
Accommodating upon all these branching
honers aud emoltments that Of chairman Of ID,
Legislative committee of Internal Improvement.
this Pretens of genius was the person tcho re.
ported to The Legislature a,td s'tppurted dg1oyt
1t thai eerY grant of NE ,ao6lle Hqilfoao
which DE Is now ~ strenuous to destroy.
Wear bound to suppose TINT, as a legislator
he knew and did his duty: yet he gave to thu
P9ntehartrpin road precisely those oeeraavan-
tigtous privileges which the public has dsap
proved, which tee have disapprovea, and which
tue Company itself has yielded up That con
eession has reconcleft everybody hut him VIII
reported the Legislative grlnt-eyerybod but
btu and his priucipal Now. if Mr. Robh bf
freq nsIlably opposed to the Mobile Railroad,
"a any terms tohafeass, he should have pre-
vented A1r. Gampbell's supporting il if b,
merely otjeots to oertain advantages oDnferret
on il, he should have prohibited Mr. Gs recon
menilug Them or else abandon his objections,
nov tbat their alleged cause has haen removed
Both hi and Col Campbell are estoppad: for i
can only be in obedience to Mr., Rohbzs require
nents that Mr.. Campbell now fights agains
that which he advocated in a Tor more obieo
tiopahe form he is merely Mr.. Robf's agent
therefore: but the principal il honrd by the
acts Of the agent; md therefore Mr. Robb n
b und TO stand to what Mr. q, did IN the Legis.
lature.
Possibly, however, it was only to effect
log rolling operation that Mr. G advocated
this bill: lie ala H, to GET assistance for his own
road But what them Ii he did not act hon
estlg theu he should ut least act Cieeently nov
The simple truth is, that there can be no ex0usi
for Mir q s conduct; for il any body was bound
to stand by the Mobile road charter. Ii was he
TO stand by it even without the concessions
yet he and bis principal are now not to be re
and made Evidently, they dread it. as likely
VI superseae their own road, as the track for
NAfsfern travel, and are therefore determined |
tfaE it Snail rot come into existence on any |
tsrms But it is now too Lite: they should |
have made this discovery littleearlier.
tbs, however, il NOT all. We have before us
evidence most positive and most respectable that
Nessrs. Eohb q Campbell have, besides The
ll-condnet already shown, dreetly broken their
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