Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1859-08-05
[For the Daily Free Press.1
RAILROAD REPUDIATION.-
SHALL 1T BE REWARDED!

that decisive and surprising action must be called
has excited much attention and feeling over the
State, and is destined to create still more. 1t is
the second time that public faith to the people OF
| Vermont has been violated, and the conditions
| of an enactment of the Legislature, have
been set at nought by corporation whose for
feited franchise it restored to them-and after
they had accepted the conditions, within the time
limited. Some four weeks only remain before
the lst September and it is certain now as it will
be then that the first condition will not be complied
with. That act generous to the corporation and
just to the public, the result of fortnight 8
thorough investigation, by joint committees OF
the House and Senate, composed of able and dis
interested gentlemen from all parts of the State
and it passed by ajorities all but unanimous
Every fact explored every interest heard, and
every consideration weighed which was involved in
the case And the legislature decided that prinei
pie of pu blic policy essential to the future well
present pr osperity of our railroad communica-
tions should be maintaiucd that equal justice be-
tween the two sides of the mountains should be
enforced; that public fifth. pledged by solemn
charters should BE- yindi Gated; and that powerful
and wealthy men, who at present constitute the
corporation, shall perform their obligations as
well as humble citizens. 1t was from
such Just and elevated principles, and not by
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gentlemen who compose the Direet'n oi tnr YER
mont ana Oanada haiToad' no" 'ney nave met
that confidence, the Pubic know. FROM among
the numerous routes surveyed ID former unes'
by able Engineers, when there was no motive to
do wrong, one might have been chosen that would
have carried out the known and just objects Of the
Legislature, and been satisfactory to the Public,
# those gentlemen had been disposed to do so. And
the blame belongs exclusively to those who had
this duty assigned them and assumed it, if an hon
est and satisfactory route was not selected Here
it is instructive and to the purpose IN hand, to
glance at what done, and omitted.
l. Letting the Spring Of 1859 pass by, the route
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holders at Mortified, 1ieh is held on the 7th Julv,
only weeks before lst September-the time lin
tied in the act for the fufment of the first condi-
ton Does this look like intending to perform it
as the Corporation had voted to do?
.. Mr. Parrott, the President and Director Of
the Corporation their appointed agent to survey
and fix the route. His route, denounced by the
organ and the champion of the Corporation in this
vicinity As grossly unsuitable, inconvenient cir
cutous and expensive. is indisnaauy rejected by
his associates At the Northheld meeting Does the
meeting c4ll 'nelI agent 70 account anu pIoceeu 10
SeAe'' au no1es' anu s@'l'lSo'oly route NJ Du'
D. Inc 0tocAhoiueI' al once le'clnu their Pfe'l-
Gus 'o'e 20 i"'S' IuIus 70 'ne io4u 'o'e
1'"' pt0P0'''40H '"A' my ii''H" 10 OU'iu - ~
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''lpiieu III 'neSe p io0ee'ins' anu principals anu
AGENT l4H'' HA'o 'eeH III u01 uAs'uIoeu u "isOo'er
tha' lhe excited discussions ABOUT the merits and
Va '"0 a''o'' NM anu '1iIous o'ueiS'
'''' y '"e'' l'''n'S anu "u'Ooa'es' nave
u''e''eu d''eH'Ion 'oiu 'ne Iea' question: VIZ
"he'ner mere S'a" 0saHy route at all.
NO" nooouy SuPposeS 'ua' "hen 'he corpora
uon lorWalIy feluSeu 10 iulnl the oohGation as
'uneu oS iesai 'o'e oi 'ne directors uuly pass
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'Ie9 "'l' " 'o'is'' U'' 'neH iAiiioau TO
'i'e' 'ii0 i'"''A"' i''ii'o'u "' burlington "ith-
III VIII ''''i 0'"e' '" 'Se 'hiS CORPORATION
SHALL 'HAsh AM 'i''' All SHALL BE VOID Inns
'H'y i1N'u u uo' 10 'ei'''e 'ne corporation
iro'n '"e ioiiei'"ie' anu eA'enu the time four
ye'is 'ie ''' u 1915 was passed. requiring them
10 ouiiu 'ne iAii'oau from burlington (running
tnence TO some point west OF the Town House IN
OoicneS'er-'hence 10 Mhton) by the most con-
''''''' ana a"e'' rou'e-'o locate and survey the
tOu'o ~ 'i'1 W III 'u0 'oi''i uo'ioh 'hereoi
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