The Vinton record. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1866-1891, 1866-01-11


very true, that the refusal to trans
port is illegal and subjects the com
pany to damages by suit. 1t is al
so true that the receipt signed is
Of no binding force, because against
public policy. Still, the case is
practically great wrong com,
mitted by the railroads, and a great
injury suffered by the community
1t is in one, too, which needs leg,
islation. For a large majority oil
men in such case always suffer
rather than go to law against their
own contract, although it may have
been extorted undera sort ofduress
Upon consideration of the whole
subject, it seems to me with frank
admission Of the extraordinary ben.
fits arising, directly and indirectly,
from these Neutrality-suspicious. ov-
'er-eStimating their profits (for the
best Of them will not be found, in
the long run, very profitable, J and
without treating this class or its
property differently from others
the General Assemly should under
take a system of proper legis' alton,
which should do justice to them
and the people.
The sttbject has many and intrin-
sic difficulties. The principle of
combi9ations by all such interests;
their Fhfsleeping vigilance: their
great payers Of seducing all author
tiles, t10m.the County Auditors
who tax thsW-up to the Congress
OF the United States, which ought
to regulate them, by the little thing
OF a free pass to self and family, are
by no means to be overlooked as
amoung them. Perhaps a reason
ably severe penalty against the Civ
ing or receiving free pass, in the
case of officers, would be good
law. | should think it would be ac-
ceptable to the railroad companies,
for they are really oppressed and
tyrannized over in this way. Wheth-
er it would so well suit the Auditors
and Congressmenis is more doubtful.
AGRICULTURAL LAND-GRANT.
The Committee appointed by the
late Governor, under the authority
of the Act passed April 10. 1865,
after careful examination and con
sideration, has made its report 1t
will be duly submitted to you in a
special message. | beg leave to
say, that having, in the first instance
a very different view Of the matter
| am now persuaded that all things
considered, that Committee has de-
cided upon the best course which
the State can now pursue in the
premises. | commend to the Gen
eral Assembly a careful considera-
tiOn of this excellent document.
The more intimately | have
known the late lamented Governor
Brough, the more have / seen rea.
son to respect all his judgements
and to distrust my own, when they
CHANGED to be different. Neverthe-
less, upon the subject of the grant
and the institution contemplated
by it, | am bound, If understand
them, to dissent from certain parts
Of his reaSonings and their conclus-
ion in his last message.
lie seems to labor under a great
difliulty (Which does not exist,up-
on the old questions of sacrifice,
i'll the educational establishments,
Of the practical and the useful, to
the scientific and abtruse parts and
principles Of education. 1t does
seem to me that there need be no
such sacrifice. There can be no
proper or successful practice or
utility IN any thing deserving the
name of an art, which does not as
directly grow out ofsclence, (knOW-
ledge Of principles), as simple and
directly as limbs, leaves, flowers
and fruit grow from their proper
roots. Science" and "abstruse"
are relative terms, and they more
frequently denote our degree of
ignorance and unfamiliarity with
their subjects then their own in
transic difficulty or impracticble-
ness. The simple usage of the
common farmer, for example, we
call practical and useful. But to
barbarian, who had never seen
them, they would seem wonder
fully deep and strange. And, cer-
tainly, there is not one Of them, if
useful, which does not depend upon
the principles of strictest science
and many of them upon most abb
--darkest--principles, too.
So Of every other art in the cata-
logue, up to the newest and stfang-
est. Telegraphy and daruerreO-