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

writer over the signature of COMMON
SENSE" in your last Semi Wcekly paper, stint
lated doubtless by II recent newspaper pull, has
undertaken to address the people OF Nelson coun-
ty on the subject Of subscription, ON behalf of
this county, 10 the stock Of the Orange and Al
exandriu railroad.
In his usual style Of hyperbolicnl rhetoric. he
says: "Already the people of Nelson are groda-
ing beneath the burdcno of enormous taxation. ~
Angels and ministers of grace defend us Did
any body hear it thunder Perhaps it was an
earthquake! Who has heard their groaus
Assuredly the gentleman had just been reading
Sidney Smith The gentleman is quite ''im-
aginative' rs the "lawyers." And this sentence
is n tgpe of the whole article. That statement
is about as near the mark rs most of the others
in his piece.
But this volunteer defender of the taxpayers
has jumped before he was spurred. Should the
Stockholders, ta the 2ird Of March, adopt hiS
route, rote piH be taken. Till then, be had
better have spared his thunder and the space in
your columns.
should they adopt the Central line. it's friends
will be pleased to meet Mr.. Common Sense" at
the Gross Roads," before crowd composed not
only of "shoe-less and hatless louiers," but of
the ycomanry and tax payers Of the county
And by the way there is more than meets the
eye, in that Sneer ut loafcrsi Till then, we for
bear any explanation or argument, unless some
volunteer defender of their cause, for whose con
ISOLATION it may be said that, under the system
adopted by the Court it is pre- umed, he will not
feel the burden of n railroad tax at all 1t is sup
posed that he is actuated by philanthropy and
public spirit. We would be pleased to see the
gentlemen who subscribed their money on ac-
count of the 'BGtiOHGf character of the road.
Common Sense" il subscriber at all, must be
the man. Certainly all the Dutch creek sub
prib So m | recommend those
gentlemen, TO go at once, and AXE stock in the
Pacific railroad. Gentlemen of such enlarged
IDEAS should not bury their talents and useful
ness. We lay claim 10 no such liberal and INA
tional' public spirit. And we have not the means
to exercise II, If we possessed It, Tho gentle
admits that ''if Nelson county were TO con
struct the road with their own money alone, and
for their own purposes, they would be perfectly
justifdbie in running it where they thought their
own interest would be promoted II thank thee,
jew for that word" | will take his own propo
sition, admitting that his proposition is well G
nough, if he had addressed it to the Stockhod
ers, not to the people OF Nelson.
The Company has the undouhted right To Sc
lect a route for their road. We propose to aid
in part in its construction, with means. small
or lnrge. Disclamng any ''naional' spirit
this subject, we claim the correlatlve right to de-
termine on what route the road must be located,
if we pay any thing. Surely Common Sense"
will not deny us this poor privilege; we yield it
TO him cheerfully.
The issue is then made up for the Company.
The Dutch creek line, with what money it has
raised and can raise, and its merits natural and
other-and the Central line with what money has
been and can be subscribed II it, and any ,lener-
its, ii may be sought to show, it has. Let the
Stockholders determine.
If the Dutch creek men succeed by reason of
their moro eligible route and certain othp~ zap
petitions" as old acquaintance of ours says,
aud which they have labored to acquire, as much
they have Ia obtoin subscriptions. then we will