Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1861-02-26
To the Friends Of Open Handed
JnStice.

FINDING tempt in the Daily PATRIOT of the ed
4 INST. the sign iture of some twenty persons,
of whom CT I'M fespectability, to commit foul
SANDER upon my ca lra Le, ask in uigence II the
pres utation Vi few Ia IS tJuChing the subject
the alloy - nie-Ous card The gat 5 On the
oensviile Road have been let by the year
for miy travel, and some yea sine, through a
loiicy Vt the Co, LhlS WHO Travelled air
q TIA who ssed b,.L Once : month or IS, paid
the pce, and upon tue discovery OF the Ie4uai-
ity Guf nees tGls petlcr, tue al. ectIry
soved ban, a. anu INSTR cte JEei agent,
let the gates by he year Only O. spec al Mira l.,
iOr aV nee Ply, aha - son p zee 5 We Id be pro-
POI tIon bic 70 -lT..vl dOne and for al l
nave been working u bill g bout tnvl WI hes, but
not wing otlce tiac tlJai, aLd tie feq elt
chan u Z -te Keepers, rende very 4 fiji. 10
led die exact JuuJ III udvef by tile seve
men. The - year, however, gate ks per Of pyI
cation snJ system was pr cureu, and VS. Wis
at the close Of The year he would be required
class Lhuse VIII ha tiaYcled by the y. al, IN -four
q sses; 10. signuying thos WHO travel IN niost
So ON until ~ i, which nan ked th,e VINO try
oled leLs he accordingly niarAed each III
OF the yeasm n s '.toei I BooA, an. made not Tor
my inform lou 10 tue cite ti'at No passed daily 20
tscscs dGEiy with lew exceptf n, some with
iaees and bdgei 3, nd lot No was but as
ansivnt II !. then raised the srice No. L,
anu i'll some cases slightly z, NJ was IN
changed, and n No. reduced
highest prize Guar ed Any one II The 'te for
yearl, family avel is Si2, and f Of these per
who tdvei tise ext srIioner charge
a the Charter of tue koa1 allows, they would pas
oyrT S1JO, WI re they pay 81, but of half
ne psssns whose nam appear 10 tAis extraordi
card, truth mpels 10 stare their tolls for yearly
travel has mol been ratsed iOm last yea
tuem do not lke it at all ana of them have
passed the vehicles OF tn VIII have taken yearly
prlvIisg Violai f justice and contract
for the past year, without I'll RI to pay cent.
Now 10 these ge try VINO pass the gate daily, let
but for thi great iecunlary pressure, should
in justice 10 the ttu rep ed II u raised their tolls
m sch higher. This Rod cost One Hundred
Thousand Dollars, and almost to a SD H.,
and for last months of 1850, paid = per cent.
divd nd, and 2H the previous six months. II Is
any of these gents their money at this
rate? Not the, and not 81 of the oFgi al did
inf .rInation have or get, but small pittance
taken by any of those owning the lands they
hold. The publ spirited who built At, jointly
18th the STATE OF n1e-see, and who pay thousands
of d. liars annually Tor its REPAIRS can't at nd to let
you, Though You assume tine guardianship of over
wealth and pie sure, wi bout paying sometime
for IT, The Law coniem l.tes gate
the road TO b. opened and the trav. Ter
allow ed to pass through alter the toll is paid, aud
your petition referred TO in your card, asserted
that you bel, vel, WIS exerc 81 unaulI rlzed
power; but ID yuur personal INT rview with the Board
VIII CHI you ref you sad if ia that you
and the Board approved my Is as their anu be-
lieved it Just anu rect you would pay il I'D cease
Instruct public how the owners I'd representa-
lives of the iIdiviiu stock OF he Noensvlle Turn
like hoad voted III their private business mat
ter in which tue public have Ihtere AMI
which you have right t, me Idl-. But Tor Y, ur
inT, iti | will state tDat my ned
by he aud represent .tives of at lea niue
this of The in iividuaI stock Lepor
sHy OF this response, aud deeply regret IN any v
ing .odI should attempt kold pub &c gaze
extortoier. But by stubborn facts let stand
or fall. 1HOS- B. JOHNSON,
Superinte 1dent of the Nole.ssille r. Road.
Walnut Hill. 25th Feb. 1851 ~