Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1858-05-31

nitude of the ccssionS of u conquering hero, to
the members of his staff, have been the order
of the day. All went on well enough, until
point was reached, at which the good luck oil
the lobbyists deserted them. 1t wasat this par
tcular iuncture that Byron Kilbourn, President
Of the La Crosse and Milwaukee Railroad Com
pany, found himself brought up standing be-
fore a specially appointed Investigating Com
mittee. The peculiar beauties and general
principles Of legislative bribery then and there,
underwent a process of ventilation -T
President Kilbourn, in his testimony before
the Committee, asseveratcs under oath: IS
| l never offered, agreed to pay, nor gave to
any member of the Legislature any land, stock,
or other thing as a consideration for his vote in
favor ofany grant ofland to the Company nor
do l know of any other person having done so,
| or of any member of the Legislature having re-
ceived such payment. ID.
So states honest Byron Kilbourn! Nothing
uncommon here-simply the good round swear
ing of virtuous official. But wait 4! Presently
the immaculate President is pushed a little, and
he is willing to allow that
Il did promise certain parties, not members,
and also members of the Legislature, that in the
event of the company securing the grant, 1t
would mike them liberal compensation for
such services as they should render in bringing
the subject to the attention of other members,
and using their influence for the passage OF the
Bill x did cause it to be understood
among the medium of persons not connected
with the Legislature, that, in the event of the
La Crosse Company Ohtaing egrant, the Com
pany would acknowledge tile faUOr by q liberal
dOuceur Of gratuitytO euch members as ShouM
tucor ats passage i
When still further pushed he goes on:
AS n general proposition it vas decided that
in the event Of the La Cross Company obtain-
ing the grant, 1t a0oa& Gter to tie acceptonce 81
mena5ers of the Senate roting tor At, ten Mou.
sand dolLtys each, and to members Of tie A$sem-
| 6Ly, fire thousand dollars each, payable an the
stock or bonds Of the Company.
And being still further pressed in reference to
his dealings with Governor Bashford, he added:
That in consequence of the past and prospect
of the future, the Company felt disposed to eX-
tend to him pecuni1ly compliment If he should
feel at liberty to accePtit He said that with
the views and purposes expressed by me, ne
ShOWM nat feel Gt liberty to decline q comptlmeRt
of the kind, and acOut1 accept 1t '0ittingty. |
then stated that would, at an early day, place
in his hands the bonds Of the Company to the
amount of $4,000.
Mr. Kilbourn being asked whether he thought
all this was right, ingeniously replied
That was not for me to determine. saw in
it nothing legally offensive, and as to its norali-
| ty, did not feel that had any choice between
its adoption and defeat.
OuR RELATIONS WITH ENGLAND.---The last
number of the n. Y. courier and Enquirer, has
lively, ably written and conciliatory article on
the existing relations between Great Britain and
this country.
The Courier says:
No intelligent person in the United States
will for moment pretend, that there exists in
this widely extended country one man in thou
sand, who is not DESTROYS of cutivatlng the
closest relations with Great Britain, so long as
we can do so without a sacrifice of our self-rc-
spect; and we believe there is not ~ man in
America, who can speak with greater accuracy
in regard to the feelings of the British people
towards this country, than the writer OF these
remarks. We have wintered and summered in
the Cities and amid the rural Districts of Eng
land, and VIC hazard nothing in saying, that
nineteen twentiethS of her entire population,
are as anxious to preserve the closest and most
friendly relations with the United States, as 1t is
possible for a people to be. To Englishmen, all
people and all nations are f0reigReTs with the
solitary exception of the inhabitants OF the
U. S. Mexicans and South Americans of every
description, are F0reiguers; but the man does not
live who ever heard this term applied to us by.
| an Englishman. We are simply "AmericGns 3
and we have repeatedly heard the men Of the
Continent rebuked by Englishmen whey. discus
sing international subjects in England, Ameri-
cans have been spoken of as Foreigners. eve
do not call Americans Foreigners, h..$ beenthe
quiet and natural remark; and to it spoke
volumes. 1t proclaimed the sympathy of race,
of blood and of language; of literature, of reli-
| gion and of government; and he Who effects
upon the ties which bind together the two coun-
Itries-ties similar in all respects to those
which exist between the parent and child, and
which even disrupted for period, are certain
to bring the parties closer together in the hour.
| of reconciation-cannot fail to believe With us,
that the last thing on earth which the people of
England can desire, is rupture with their kins-
men ON this side of the Atlantic.
It concludes its well written article as follows;
Let it be provided by Treaty or by special
arrangement between the two Governments, that
every American cruiser employed in putting
down the slave trade, shall have on board an
English Lieutenant, whose duty it shall be to
command the Boat required to board suspicious
vessels carrying the English Flag; and in like
manner, every English cruiser, employed on this
duty, shall have on board Lieutenant Gt the
Americon Nary, whose duty it shall be, to com
mand the Boat called upon to board suspicious
Aessels under the American Flag. M I'D .r5
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