New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-09-11

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richly afford to pay more than $4,000 per annum
(ss the people of our State are paying sl5o'O'o'
and would receive il all back and more too In the
increase of her revenue from taxes, based on the
enhanced value Of the real and personal estate
in her Northern Counties. And the "Pennsylvauia
.policy" insugurated in the sack of the Erie Road
i. to be carried out consistently 10 the end.
The citizens of Erie, with some help from
New-York. constructed railroad eas'eriy to the
New.York State line, there TO connect with 8
New. York road. That connection was made,
and in due time the citizens Of Ohio also con-
nected with the same road at its Western ter
minus in Erie, forming continuous line from
the Atlantic ports to Cleveland, Cincinnati
Chicago. and the Mississippi. But this connec
ton is crime, an outrage, usurpation, in the
eyes Of Erie and her sympsthising State, it being
contrary to Pennsylvania policy to allow the
people Of Ohio and States further west the same
facilities for reaching Eaftern markets that Penn
sylvania claims and enjoys herself Pennsyl-
vania stretches from the seaboard to the lakes,
and wishes so to embarrass, obstruct and en-
nance the cost of travelling or sending produce
to New-York that the Western people shall be
bs6gered into changing their destination and
taking their produce to PhiladelPhis. This
would not be quite so bad If she hac actually
constructed line via Erie and some practicable
route to her commercial capital; bus as she has no
such road, and will not have one for several
years, the justice, to say nothing OF the sener-
o.ity, Of compelling every one to stand and de-
oliver" at Erie, is not obvious.
Erie, through Der leading citizens, made her
Railroad eastward exactly on the route those cit
liens selected and which her municipal authori-
ties expressly sanctioned. There was no murmur
of disspprObatiOn on her part until connection
was formed between it and the Ohio LAKE Shore
Road, so as to permit passengers and pro''dcts to
pass that point without transhipment. 1aeu aud
for that cause alone was commenced series OF
outrages on the Road and its friends, on the part
of the authorities aud mob of Err e, backed by
her ympatbising State without parallel in civ
ilized countries and which woald be disgracefdl
to any Barbary power. The road was torn up,
and, having been reaid under the express sanction
of the L. S. Courts was again and again torn up,
compelling thousands of passengers to founder
through snow.drfts and across bleak, high plain
for eight miles through the greater part OF last
winter. By these acts of piracy mails were ha-
btually detained, limbs were frozen, and great
loss and suffering imposed on the entire travelling
OF produce carrying public The loss wantOnly
imposed on the forwarders of cattle alone must
have amounted to many thousands OF dollars.
The Supreme Court of Penns, lyania has just
rushed to the rescue of the patriotic bridge burn
ers and msil-obstructers of Erie. On a suit
brought in the name of the State. though nOto-
riOusy at the ibstga'ion and in the Interest Of
the Erie rioters, that Court sitting 1t Pittsburgh
has sdjudged the express assent gwen by Erie,
through her cOnstitUted authorities, TO the cross
ing of her streets by the Erie and North East
Railroad, legal nullty and ordered all the Road
lying within the borough Of Erie to be taken up
and destroyed That's to say-Ere having fully
assented to the building of the Road where ii IT,
begins to fight aud destroy it so soon as its gauge
il changed from six feet to four feet ten, that
she 10 longer derives so great local advantage
~ - eh' '.PN'tcN- - "iND
road track III Der streets did not annoy her ia the
least, but narrow one she cannot abide Aud
the Supreme Court Of Penny lvanis cOanives at
and legslizes her reputation, permitting her TO
hide hesself behind the State and thus accom-
plish her malignant and destructive purpose
THE defendants counsel have made another point
which il &rg to notice IL is said t1at though thus
proceeding conducted in the nans Of the State its
real object is TO. redress supposed injury which is
private or at most merely local in IL character We
urged TO lock not at the flag but at the parties who
fight under it. These pariies-the public authorities
Of Erie and the people Of the neighbOrho Dd-encOur
aged the defendants 10 e1pend large sums OF money
in building the railroad and the attempt which they
are now making 10 break il up dc .Ouneed in the ar
gume nj act of wanton injustice The only party
before us is the Commonwealth We CO not even
know the of the other persons alluded to- The
Commonwealth complains in due form by her
credited legal representative, the Attorney General
that Of her corporations has violated its charter
We have investigated the and found the com
pl,nt 10 be true The delinquent corporation cannot
Justify itself by showing that IN the commission OF the
wrong IT received aid and comfort from other persons
II the Mayor and Councils 81 Ere theIT cOasItu-
enfs coaHred a nIs tytach u igr tkey weye gna Y
Of sA for cklch Helr best e[cye - that tkey seem 10
hare tepsnted Of IT, and Hpv disp0sed 10 assist tie
STATE IN bringing tie ether ggea4ers 10 tie same TAOe
some stateot mfnd.'
De You believe honest men ever talked so
exactly like scoundrels as that last touch
Hear the reasoning of THE model COurt-that
is, model Pennsylvania COurt-on another point.
The Railroad CCmpany-nOt foreign CORPORA
ton, but composed Of the foremost citzers of
Erie Borough and County-of course ran their
lire parallel to the old Lake Shore wagon road.
They could not ell help this, as they were con-
meeting exactly the same points which that road
connected. OF course. they ran at some points
near the old wsgon-road, and at some were CON.