Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1858-03-05

haNC AOi SOAtSht WIZ Itut pAOpHCt was.
Then too, / remember, B. Fl. publicly
decried individuals for not subscribing
for, or not taking more largely than they
did, of the stock and claimed that the
public had morally the right to make the
apportionment, and fix the minimum
amount of stock that individuals should
take. Those individuals now cheerfully
pay their assessments, and B. II. repu-
dates his. Why is this so? Is the en-
terprise any the less patriotic, any less
of public concern now than it was then ?
Or did they WHO now repudiate and then
appealed TO the patriotism Of patriotic
men, only
"Sigh and groau.
For the public good, and mean their own?''
Who of the subscribers even in Derby
Line or Barton villages dared then insist,
as an ultimatum, before the people of this
county, that the road should follow any
then certain course, or terminate at any
then fixed, narrow, point on the frontier !?
/ Who then dared insist that the directors
should do otherwise than TO " designate
the line, course, or way, tchich they may
deem the most advantageous for said
rdilrOad?" Who then dared claim that
the directors, in violation of the charter,
and at loss of 100000 or $4,000
to the company, should designate the
line, course, or way which may be most
advantageous TO Barton or Derby Line
rlilages? Ii the great and paramount
objects, viz: 10 reach the frontier, can
be attained, who outside of those villa.
ges, save few interested persons on Ell.
= Their route, cares whether the road make:
a dstour eaSterly or westerly from the
one, and does or does not terminate il
the other? Who, aside from the person;
referred to, among the mass of stockhold
ers, would have any particular locality
favored al large and avoidable expense
to the company? Dispas>ionate mel
will answer, None. Where then is tn
+ patriotism, the public spirit that vaun,e,
= itself in 1858? Is it oozed out at tn
h fingers ends" or absorbed by selfsI
y spirit?
II 1t is for the interest of Barton to ex
5 cite clamor. if by so doing a farthe
i extension of the road can be prevented
d 1t is for the interest of certain lawyer
d to arouse a litigant spirit among stool
b holders, if by so doing lawsuits wi
n ensue. 1t may crafty men who wi
J. have their way or no way; who woul
: rather reign in He'll than serve
II Heaven; TO constiain tie public I
r, forrgo the advantages of railway an,
Ia where il the former can not have it ;
n, their own doors. These may deny the
3 furnishing stonachs half Loaf, becau.
= they can not monopolize and parcel Of
I the whole. But is such a dog-in-th
lg manger feeling a general sentiment?
D. such a feeling had been extensivel
III avowed in 1853, your railway tie
Ie minus at this moment would be in
m JOhnsbury. II was not for the intere
e, of any town or individuals in Orleal
s. County that the road should termina
st there, So to, and for The same reaso
Id it is for the interest OF Stanstead al
%. Derby-Line villages, and of the comm
ng nifty north of Barton, that the road >hou
es not terminate at the latter point, thou.
N, otherwise it should run to Beebe Plai
Yet say some, like children petted t
en- spoiled, we will have all the tit-bit
ay none. And the siren song of Bart
IN village so fascinates others, that at h
he bidding the latter 90 hang themselves.
ed The serpent beguiles them and tn
ze. eat.
Of The road can not be extended withc
nd means, and men need not " lay the fl
me tering JUNCTION to their souls" that it "
ny be extended if the country does not c.
On tribute. Regulators will be constra
9Th ed to pay if they can be. and the res
mtg of no justices trial yet inspires the Co
the pany with hope or fear on that point.
,m- But suppose the country does not p;
and the road should not be extend
its where will real estate OF the same gu
lies ity be worth the most, and meet the m
fol ready sale, in Derby or in Barton /
Ise- suredly N Barton. How then wo
en- stand the profit and loss account Of ST
ed stead and Orleans Counties! tt
. ia would save the sum of their subscriptir
inns or so much, if any, as the lawyers
on not get for keeping them from havin
I"g railway: that Is, say fifty per Ct
and gained. They would have the sati,t
tb. ton Of living out back of Barton VIII
M. real estate would be cheap, and also
n,ly consoling idea that, like the boy in