Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1858-09-30


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q sWered the second OBJECTION,
d The third objection is too funny to bedebateo
lcalmiy. have no doubt that in this aSJska0scss
seciuded; primitive valley, the first fey times the
Iron morse went tearing, snorting, shrieking
at laundering and crashing along that there would
q be some racing and chasing among the poor
fhorses, colts, cattle and sheep, and <so0,kies
ftop, all of whom have been kept too long
lnnacquainted with the wonders of the age in
Whlcn they i've, and the refinements OF the civ
3lllzatlon OF the world beyond their happy valley
but aaes negroes, horses cattle and sheep, will
I'LL soon see there IS no harm in the running,
& nre-splttng devil and easily become reconclled
20 his noise and his fire and his smoke.
AS to the fourth 1t is well known that m
stead OF running villages and country stores it
1.-THE means OF converting the one into villages,
|and the other into towns. In the west the ter
I minus OF railroad IS the great talisman ths
converts half dozen houses in as many years
into large and Hourshing city--as witness
Buffalo, Chicago and hundreds Of others-splen-
Ibid towns, which few years ago, were hardly
1calIed hamlets, and would have remained thus
insignificant, like venerated old villages, but
flor the railroads passing through them, bringing
TRADE, capital and a spirit of speculation, and
1imparting life, energy and rivalry to the old as
j;well as new settlers
i have reserved the first objection for the last
Ito be answered, because on its surface there is
more that meets the eye of that class of mem
lmonied mcmillan I am sure on reflection. meet
their sober reason In it is found, in the first
Iplace, the one great argument always advanced
in support of railroads. which is that The lands
lneighboring on its route will increase to very
great extent by reason of the facility to get their
produce to a remurerative market, and by rea-
| son Of the competition among newcomers, who
would be purchasers at any price. and because
fof the increased demand in the ltame market af- |
! forded by the villages whose nopulatiOn would
increase. as consumers almost. if NOT nrite as
fast as the producers in the country would IN
crease their numbers. The experience of the \
last twenty wears has made this an axiom in po-
tical economy. and is a sober truth. when it is
asserted that the more leading avenues of trade
that a community enjoys the higher rule the pri-
Ices of land and it's products. and as production
| increases; consumption increases and labor is
better rewarded. In what way, L would ask,
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its means, class af purchasers are brought iuto
| his neighborhood who advances the price of his
| 1000 acres from $50 per acre to $3.50 per acre7
Is he not at once, without having had to toll for
lit. rendered 100000 richer So with his
slaves If, by means of the railroad, large farms
yielding say on one-third only because that
! quantity of land on farm is usually worked)
$40 or $50 per acre are subdivided and nearly
the whole farm worked annually and made to
yield from 800 to $3.50 per acre, does it not
follow that the negro then would hire for twice
| as much per annum as he does now, and there
fore would be worth twice as much money, so
that personal estate would rise correspondingly
with the realty? To those who have made this
objection, I.would say that there is about as
much reason in their argument there was in
that of the Quakers to Governor RITNER, of
Pennsylvania, when he was induced to veto a
railroad bill, and as it is pleasant Renaissance
lpf authentic history, deem it not out of place
41c44py II from Hdsper's WeelKy of September
4th
"The, introduction of the steam engine upon
railroads encountered violent opposition The
horse was the only power used and most persons
believed it to be the only power proper to be
used or ever would be. A bill was introduced
in the Legislature of Pennsylvania, providing
for the purchase of ten locomotives for the rail-
road between Philadelphia and Columbia. Not
withstanding strong opposition. it passed both
houses. and was sent to the Governor for appro-
VAL Here, however, it was arrested, and the
clamor against the law reached it's climax, dele
CATION from the Anti Masonic Districts, through
which the road passed, came to Harrisburg in
quick succession, appealing to his Excellency in
tho stron onst manner They renresantad that
grain markets, and PROSTATE the best interests
of the farmer. Overcome by this pressure, the
Governor interposed his veto and the bill fell