The Big blue union. [volume] (Marysville, Kan.) 1862-1866, 1862-07-26
RAILROAD MEETING.

9rH OF Aueusr, at o'clock, P. NJ, to
take in. consideration the Railroad interests
of this County. and to appoint delegates
| to a general Convention to be held at
Troy, in Doniphan County, on the goth of
August. A full attendance is requested,
as business affecting every mans interest
will be brought before the Convention.
MANY CITIZENS.
The above is call for Railroad Con.
vention to be held in this place on the 9th
prox. to elect delegates to attend general
convention at Troy in Doniphan county,
on the goth of August. The counties of
Doniphan, Brown, Nemaha, Marshall and
Washington are vitality interested in this
move, and if we are correct in our i'm
preston this is preparatory step towards
selecting men for the Legislature who will
attend faithfully, earnestly and honestly
in that body to the interests of their con.
sti:uents. 1t is a notorious fact that the
railroad interest of the northern counties
in this State has been shamefully repre-
sented in the Legislature, by men who neg.
ected or ignored the trust reposed in them
by the people who sent them. And it is
now time if these counties wish to derive
any benefit from one of the branches 10
the Pacific Road, to elect men who are full
ly alive to the subject-men Of ability, who
will have not only the brain to perceive
but the integrity and honesty and will, at
all hazards, to resist every attemptto wrest
from them their only hope for a Road
through the northern tier Of counties in
Kansas. Heretofore, men have been
elected upon purely party principles, but
now is the time in our national affairs
when we can all afford to lay aside strict
party ties, and the importance Of our local
interests demands unity of action. Elect
true Union men, who have never had
taint of secessionism upon their garments,
men who will guard we'll the interests Of
their constituents.
The State Senator'S elected next Fall
will have vote in electing U. S. Senator.
and the question is, whether the people of
the northern counties are alive to the i'm.
portance of selecting and electing Mem.
bers who, when the time arrives for choos-
ing the e. S. Senator, will vote for man
whose interest is identified with their in
terest. and is magnanimous and indepen-
dent enough to legislate for the people of
the whole State, and not for one town or
locality to the exclusion of all others.
We notice in the Missouri Democrat of
the 18TH inst. an article begging and i'm.
ploring the Kansas Legislature not to
grant the power to the H. & St. j. R. R.
to build branch road direct from St. Jo-
seph to the main trunk of the Pacific
Road, and concludes by saying that if the
the Legislature docs, not one passenger
or pound of freight will 60 over the Kan
sas Valley Road. Now this is very can
Gid admission for the Editor of the Demo
crat to make, but the truth is and ST. Lou
is sees it, that road from St. Joseph to
the main trunk of the Pacific Road can
be made at least one hundred miles nearer
than up the Kansas Valley where the
main trunk commences. And for Jour.
nalist of another State to be debating TO
our Legislature what they shall do, and
what they shall not do, upon railroad sub.
jects, comes with very bad grace indeed
The writer shows his ignorance of Kan
sas affairs or has made willful misrepre-
sentations. Hear wha, he says:
"People of Kansasl If by any inducement
you are led to give your consent to the Hender-
son amendment rest assured that you not only
forever preclude all hope Of Kansas road to
the Pacific, but you will not even have q local
road along the beautiful valley of the Kansas
Consent to tie extension of the H. & St. 10. r
R., SO as to pass cut of your State along its
northern boundary to connect with Nebraska
road. and you build up, instead of tributary
rival to your own Kansas Valley road; ri
val that will crush it; that will effectually de-
strcy it as Pacific read, even if it permit IT to