The daily Evansville journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1862-1863, 1863-01-22
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Who Control the Eastern Railroads!

Who Control the Eastern Railroads?
Among other incendiary appeals made
by the democrats to the people of the
Northwest, in order to embitter them
against the New England States, none is
urged with more pertinacity, and with
such apparent success as that Of Rail-
road monopoly, and combinations to
keep up the tariff on freights to an un-
natural and exorbitant rate with
the Mississippi opened" urge the dema-
gogues, the people have natural out
let for their produce, and can get it to
market at reasonable price These
are plausible appeals, and-added to the
cry that the Northwest is doing all the
fighting and making all the sacrifices,
while the New England States are accu-
mulating untold wealth by Government
contracts-have had marked influence
upon the people With artful and devil
ish ingenuity Hendricks and his coad-
tutors have insidiously piled the people
with such appeals until their discomfort
is becoming very apparent in many
places. .......
1t is true the Railroad managers of
the great trunk lines connecting the
West with the Atlantic seaboard, have
taken advantage of the Rebellion, and
the consequent interruption of commerce
on the Mississippi, to advance their rates
exorbitantly, and consequently heve pre-
vented a great deal of grain from finding
profitable market. But have the people
thought who it is control these Rail-
roads? The New Englanders have moth
ing whatever to do with them 5r0
There are four of these great ines-the
Baltimore and Ohio, the Pennsylvania
Central, the New York and Erie, and
the New York Central. These have it
within their power to fix the price of
transportation, and they have never
manifested much hesitation in availing
themselves of every circumstance calcu-
lated to advance the tariff of rates. Cor
porations cannot be expected to have
more patriotism than individuals; and
when we see the Government Aeeced on
the right hand and on the left by merce-
nary contractors and dishonest officials,
it ought not to be regarded as a strange
thing if railroad corporations are equally
avaricious.
But the point we wish to set forth is
CnIs: N early all, If not all, of the great
thoroughfares we have named are under
the control of men who have always sym
pathized with, and acted for, the Demo
'cratic party. The Albany On. Y. Re-
gency, which brought out and elected
Mr.. Seymour Governor of that State, is
composed of the same men who have
absolute control of the New York Cen
trail Railroad, and have been most active
in advancing the tariff on freight. Dean
Richmond and Cagger, who has not
heard of these princes of wire-pullers
and political trickstersl They are the
power behind the throne which is en-
couraging Gov. Seymour in his enuncia-
ton of States rights and other revolu-
tionary schemes, They control the New
York Central Railroad.
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, at
the outbreak Of the rebellion, was in the
hands of notorious sympathisers with Sc
cession, but its rebel friends have so often
destroyed the road that it has not had the
power if it had the disposition to alleviate
ii the transportation troubles of Western
farmers. The same kind of political in
huences that govern the New York Cen
trail Railroad, also control the operations
of the Pennsylvania Central It's super
intendent is charged with having been an
active manager in importing from Phila-
delphia, the other day, the rowdies who
dictated to the Legislature the man they
should make United States Senator.
the officers and directors the New York
and Erie Road. 1t may be an exception
to the others, though we regard it doubt
full. Thus we see while Hendricks and
his little penny-a-lines are charging the
New England States with using the great
railroads to the disadvantage of the w est,
% those Railroads are actually under the
contol Of their political friends Wheth
-er it is an understood arrangement that
the rebel sympathizers in the East shall
SO use their position as railroad men to
furnish the rebel sympethizers of the
West with material to arouse the preju-
dices of the West against New Eng gland,
we are not prepared to say. 1t looks
very much like it.
pa We notice that rousing Union
meetings are being held in various parts
of the State by the loyal men, and good
and wholesome sentiment is increasing
favor of tho G A. -.