Star of the Kanawha Valley. [volume] (Buffalo, Va. [W. Va.]) 1855-1856, 1856-02-06
more serious opposition g encounter
than from that resolutions r,t lsajs1d1
/ We remain rs i p8
+ Your ob'tIseryts, &c, saR vi
~ g. DAVID McCOMAS, btp
4 .:oa j.. Ii. FRYssiSsita si8i
+ NICHOLAS FETZHUGH ]
To Alessrs. 3. 'II. Srn;th. Andrew

To llessrs. 3. II. Srnith, ! Andrew
| Parks, Charles Ruffiier and others;
i Gentlemen: ii reply.to your CONF
lmunication, which is al offensive III
| iii! pnrport and intent al it is trans.
parent in its object and design, we
simply say, that one Of tke best evil
dences of an organized scheme to de-
the Gov. and Ohio Railroad, &c, is
that to be found insEm, communities
ton, a disposition on your part to
shift the prospective responsibility of
| the defeat Of that road from your own
shoulders to those Of yourcenstituents;
and for this purpose, tho more effect
ually to screen Yourselves, you have
sought to make an issue between
yourselves and us who composed the
committee. s}.gf h 5s ilaGfF73 4tst.}
This device, however, will avail
yon. nothing-for be assured, gentle
men, that your constituents are quite
too intelligent to be duPed with q, de-
vice SO often resorted Ito by certain
classes of politicians, ofmaking per-
sonal issues a means Of escaping pub
lie censure. We will SAY more. -;
We5yery much regret to find among
our Representatives any person $50 far
torgetful Of the duties pertaining to
his trust, astoarrainge hisiconstituents
with. censure, under the cloak of in
quiry, for meeting together and ,ex-
pressing their views in adignified and
decent manner, on subject in which
they have very great interest, We
are induced to say tliisfnueh from the
| fact that the organized scheme" re-
ferred to in the resolution adopted by
the meeting; which seems to have in
CURED your censlre, is as we'll known
to you is to us; and perhaps there is
one of you, gentlemen, altogether too
MUG implicated in the plot, not to
feigll entire Ignorance Gift Xxi
To one Of you, gentlemen, we will
| say this: One great reason provoking
| the public meeting referred. to by you,
was the fact thatIyour cbgstituenfs, or
many, ofthem, had recently, from Ger
tain knowledge, rs web as rurnors.
come to the conclusion THAT you had
determined, bcfore or spon after YOU
took yonr seat III the House of dele
satcs-for what mbtiyers you can
best answer-to pursue q course cal
culatca III their Judgment, TO promote
the se-called Improvement Ofthe Kan
awha River, at the hazard Of the
Railroad. Whether this be true Or
not, we do not say. BE- that as it
may, it is enough for; yon to know,
that such was anhis the opinion Of
many persons. here. !. e ~
Perhapsthis is not as explicitas you
seem to desire; perhaps much more so
than you really wish. A s.s3 7r>>4><
We onlyregret that D certain gen
tleman have signed your communica-
ton, and thus undersigneIly lent
themselves to your effort to make a
a personal issue betwcenlyou aud US,
a veil to secure yourselves from that
public censure into which you were
pleased to interpret the ,yery timely
resolutions Of the people ofthis coun.
". We>do not make this reply to
your communication as your constitu-
ents, but as certain persons whom
you. have designated BY name, for we
take it for granted that no free people
would cendescend to answer the en-
:quiries Of public servants, M de in
such a spirit aud with such intent
as is plainly pereeiyable in your COM
munication, and above setout.l gi 45a
We are anxious to SEQ the Kanawha
Improvement made useful to the COM
mercial prosperity Of the Common
wealth, but we will always condemn
any measure calculated, in our judg-
ment, to hinder jor delay the early
completion ofthe Covington and Ohio
Railroad which We regard not only as
the great work Of Virginia, but as .
great Southern measure, calculated to
disinthrallth Sonth from its CONNER
cialI bondage to the North. We.have
views, whatever yours may be- gen.
tlemen, which extend far beyond the
mere commercial advancement of Vir-
ginia, cherished as it is by your con
stituents, and embrace the whole
South. For these reasons, and claim
ing the privilege to express those
views, how and when to us may seem
meet, we hope the Legislature Of Vir-
GINA will pay no regard whatever to
the personal controversy you have
provoked between yourselves and us,
and look withfenlargetl views to the
military a. we'll As To the commercial
importance ofthe speedy completion
ofthe Coyington and Ohio Railroad.
| tiWeare willing, gentlemen, TO oyer
look the fact ctllat Ypersonst who. are
| strangers to- as have been influenced
to sign your communication, because
lwelapprehend they are bot aware Of
the motives that prompted it, or Of
the design which induced q solicita.
ton of their names. And we are
disposed to believe that Major An.
drew Parks and Col. Charles Rnfnel
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