Herald of the times. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1849-1856, 1855-09-13

dignalion has already made the direction
suro. The State Of New Jersey is tho
party primarily responsible for this slaught-
er. There is no escape for her. In the
sight Of her thirty sister States her hands
reeking, her skirts dripping, with the blood
of the innocent. Under this September
sun, she has done deed that, he,her her
jury writes it or not, will ever stand accurs.
cd in her calendar.
We yield nothing to figure ofsp,cch. We
mean Just what we say. The State of
New Jersey is as verify guilty of man
slaughter as any culprit that ever swung at
Tyburn. Manslaughter is defined to bs
the killing of anolher without malice, yet
without warrant or excuse and that is the
very form Of guilt New Jersey has con.
tracted in trifi!ng with and destroying the
lives of those travellers who have placed
themselves in her keeping. We do not say
that she was impeled by passion; we
know that she was not. But we do say
and it is thing she may hear too il she
will in the curses "not loud but deep"
OF every man out of her Iimits,-that This
work OF death came from vice that strikes
deeper yet-the meanest rage that is
cold.blooded avarice. To put money into
her purse! 1t is for this that New Jersey
has for years, in spite of remonstrances
everywhere about her, refused to make safe
her great line OF travel. In the face OF all
experience, in the light of all warnings
amid indignant scorn, she has persisted in
making one track on the most important
railway in the country do the work of two,
till at last murder has come from it-twen-
ty murders and at single swoop.
There need be no talk of the Camden
and A'nboy Railroad Company. That
thing is the creature of the State OF New
Jersey. New Jersey made it, and said it
should have no rival. New Jersey protects
it, and directs it, and shares its ill-gotten
gains. 1t was New Jersey, by her charter
of 1882, that forever prohibited the con-
struction OF any other railroad across her
limits, between the cities of New York and
Philadelphia it was she that by her sub
sequenl legislation, and alteration of her
constitution, has made this charter perpetu.
al and it was she that made the extra
ordinary compact whereby she receive
transit duties Of ten cents for every pas
senger not belonging to New Jersey, and
fifteen cents for every ton of merchandise
carried through this State and it is she
that, as direct partner in the virtual owner.
ship OF two thousand shares of the monopos
ly which never cost her a dollar, annually
receives dividends Of fifty cents on every
three dollars, net money received for
through passengers she also that has
levied two cents every ten miles OH bullion
transported Oh the line. From these unpa.
rallied levies and impositions, the treasury
OF the Stste of New Jersey has already
acquired more than one million of dollars
d,rived too, as is boasted in an address OF
the Directors, " almost exclusively from
srangers and persons not living in New
jersey" In plain English, tho State Of
New Jersey has year after year been sup
porting itself by plunderng its neighbors
through the gigantic and grinding monopo-
ly. The people in New Jersey have en-
dured it, because it released them from the
burden Of taxation; the people out of New
Jersey have endured it because they have
been able to find no efiectual remedy. Ye,
patient as has been this endurance, the
public neither in New Jersey nor out of it,
have rested content with tho single track.
The matter in somo form has been before
almost every Legislature. The company
has in fact made the very necessity for
such track the ostensible plea for the con.
tinucd favor OF the State and the State in
the face of such necessity, has permitted
it to construct and buy up branch roads, and
60 on distributing great dividends, and turn
every new privilge to selfish account, be.
cause forsooth she too would share in the
miserable gains. More than all this. The
State has not only suffered the track to re.
main single, and divided with the company
the exactions she has commissioned it to
make, but she has refused to initiate the
just and faithful legislation of other States
by rendering the company liable for any ia
tai accident on it's road to the legal repre-
sentatives Of the deceased. She thus not
only connived at the delinquency OF the
company, but in advance absolved them
from ito righteous consequences.
There is reasonable doubt whether some
of the partial legislation of New Jersey in
favor of the Camden and Amboy Rail-
road, does not conflict with that clause OF
Constitution Of the United States which
entities the citizens Of each State to all
privileges and immun,ies of citizens of tho
several States, and whether Congress might
not, under the power establish militia
ry and post roads, cripple this monopoly by
authorizing the construction of an untaxed
National Road between the two great COM
mercial cities Of the country. But whcth-
or any remedy Of this character really ex-
lists or not, public opinion has jurisdiction
upon this matter from which there is no