Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1854-03-16

late our Dutch creek friends ON their good for
tune.
+ If we succeed. we will do 50, by having to pay
/ through the nose for it, ! mean the friends Of the
/ Central line. We do not seek 10 dictate, and all
that but simply as We have right To do, to say
where the roHd must 90. If we pay any thing to-
wards making IL. looking not 10 irrational. hut
mainly 10 sectional and Disadvantages his -
onr policy a. 10 moans.and the .'nsiional
gentleman may apply t. ii what epithet he choos-
e.. We assail and have assaulted no one for DO
ing likewise And we assert that every assault
has proceeded from that quarter first We have
retorted. and INDICATED ourselves.
A. Ia the subscription by the county-leaying
out the immedae river country. already accom-
modated by the Canal. and made mainly by State
taxation,of which we all pay our proportion. more
than three-iifibs of the people, voters aud tax
payers Of this county, reside west OF the pro
posed route of the Central line. We hold that
If the county shall take stock. then majority
should also say. 10 what line il must be subscrib-
ed and there Is no controversy with any well in
formed man. that the only line which stands any
chance of success, is one which must at least
approach the centre of the county, so that the
benefits of the road may be rs equitably distr-
bntcd az possible The rule must apply IN both
cases. And should the stock be n good paying
one, Us ''Gommon Sense" condescends To inform
us. he thinks il will. then the benefits of the div
dends will enure 10 the whole county the whole
aiding in raising the means.
But it will be seen that in this case, 'your bull
has gored our OK" Common Sense" would
have resisted his cdeoethes scribendi, and been
dumb oyster, if our people would only have
gone il blind for his line of national i'm
portanee, and surrendered the purse string INTO
hands which they desire and expect TO control its
appropriation.
We know il will take money to make this road
any where, and We have honestly, tremendously,
gone for a line, upon which NC were satisfied,
from knowledge of public sentiment, the larg
est amount could be raised.
The attempt 10 make this question between
Dutch creek and Louingston is rather bare
faced The appeal TO prciudces against the lit
tie village at the Court House is hunbug and
small potatoes, For one do not think it DESTROYS,
the roud should pass land Common Sense"knows
that with many of the eTcinsire friends of Central
line, il Is by no means recommendation OF the
road. that il passes) this standing text Tor
Maine Liquor Law advocates. But what are the
facts There are u Justices in this county,
reside on 1yo River; on North Rockfish; on
South Rockfsh; On Rockfish above the Stage
road bridge, , in the Faber's Mill neighborhood;
uear Howardsvilc; 4 in the New Market district
on james river; ! ON the Dutch creek line at Iye
River; and in or near Iovngston. The whole
Of the Magistrates Ind been summoned, and ~
were in attendance; one LopingSton Justice being
necessarily absent from the Bench and one Tye
River Justice most distant from the road, being
detained at home. These gentlemen had inform
cd themselves of public sentiment in their dis
triets, and the full attendance shows that IN in
tercst was felt on the subject. One Justice in
the l.osingston valley voted against the naked
resolution to submit the question, cifhOW the
pfopiso. So there were but three Lovingston
Justices ON the bench in favor Of the tax and
Common Sense" knows that the district of one
Of these inclu les all South Rocklish and the adj
iaecnt country and that of another large por-
ton of the county North of Lovngston Not
less than ) OF Justices voted against submitting
the question to the vote any way that left IL or
II on the Bench III favor of submitting the ques-
ton to the people, and of that number eieren not
caring fig about LoUingston or its valley, voted
for the proyso, and lroutd not hare poted for the
resolution rithom H. They were controlled by
the location near Mrs Blain's aud w. w. Har-
rs' Mill, which is sine qua non, with them and
their constituents. So the three Loyingston JUS
tees might have voted the other way, and The re-
sut would have been the same. VIII the gen
tieman tell these eleven justices, that Lovingston
and its influence controlled themi Let him di
rect his pop gun against them, and the whole of
the piney, Tyc, and Rocklish country and not at
poor Livingston, which has sins enough, in his
opinion, to answer for, without laying this charge
NJ its door. SO much then for this slang -whang
ing cry about Loyingston, "the central glory of
creation, &c.n But certainly it has as much
claim 10 fay or as Murrilfs shop, Gordon's Gap,
aud billiards. Mill. And the elephant will be
as likely to be seen in it, ut either of those
spots.
What n pity Common SENSE did not reach
the bench that he might have enlightened these
eleven henightcd Justices, and restrained them
from the awful fate of having excited his dis
gust by the "loathsome features" which they
gave the proposition.
''In the name of all the Gods at once" how
he piles the agony when he consuts his dictio-
nary for epithets! We have "deporc unjust,
impoitic, oppressive, grooming, enormous, pig
my, surging, overtaNed humbuggcd, shoelcss,
hatless, grub and jiggers" shnmeiul,m ishap,zg
gag, &c. &c. rs plenty as blaekberries. And
whoer how he curls il on the canal. Clear the
tuck and let him stride. The Examiner News
paper cannot hold n candle to him, when he plum
gos into the raging canawl." How he scars
il is quite reireshng,as much so rs will be trip
to the moon after supply of green cheese or
the sight of the "Elephant' to the barbarans,
when we get our rond.
The gentleman has improved on the lesson
taught him by the ''highly imaginative County
Lawyers and being "cross road orator. him
sef,ou certain occasions and subjects, he knows
how 10 judge of such efforts.
The gentleman has "a horror of IA vote,eyen of
three titths on this question. We wot of another
vote by simple majority, which meets his ap
probation, by which n law would be adopted, to
be carried into effect by the aid Of "hirelng in
formers and "gcntemanly spills" little
reflection should teach us all moderation in inn
pugning the motives of others. We are all liable
to rand stand in need of charitable construc-
ton of our most honest actons.in the question of
this road, there should be nothing but an earnest
mud omen effort for what each marty chooses to