The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1867-04-16

rerart a tbe remarks 4 Mr. Park the I
oooas,on a tie discussion Of tie rail-
road question in Free Library Han q
few evenings SINCE
Hon. r vi. Park then came forward,
and commenced by saying that % the
10th 81 January lsst the community
was startled bv the announcement that
Railroad facilities had ceased He bad
thea supposed TINS would soon end
But h ala net. ia few DAYS after
Il Lad become definitely understood
that tho connection was permanently
severed preliminary meeting was
called az Arlington, when every town
mon tho line q the road was largely
represented, and thc matter fully dis
cussei. 40 another meeting held IN
+ Bennington shortly after, il was resoly-
"a to build ont VIA Chatham, which
/ had always been a fayorite scheme with
f the people 1t vas the idea when the
I Western Vt. road was built We are
4 an Harlem Railroad men, save those
who may have been hired to some 9TH
+ er end. He had offered to put his en-
tire road in-the rest must come from
the people interested The mode pro-
poscd was the fairest ever known IN
/ Vermont for voting money, for il made
an equality, and at the same time pro
tected every class Of voters and tax-pay-
ers. One speaker had denounced the
law as infamous" and that il was CON
cocted by abrain Internally cunning. ~
He would say that the entire Commit
tee Of the towns on the line Of the road
comprising the best citizens in those
towns had favored it, without single
exception. as also every Representative
in tic legislature from these towns, the
Legislature passed it unanimously and
It received the hearty approval Of Coy.
Dillingham;, on account of its manifest
great fairness and justice. he wanted
to know, with these facts in view what
right gentleman had to charge it with
, being an infamous act, or on what tan
gible ground they could base so grave
an accusation.
The speaker then took up the sub
iect Of the Assent, and proceeded to
: give it rigid analysis, declaring that
{ as compared with town meetings it was
much the fairest method
The gentlemen on the other side hac
claimed that under the machinery Of
the law, the people were ROBBED Of theil
! rights, and had said that i'll New Yorl
they had full protection. He would say
that in New York, according to the pro
visions of the law, the Commissioner
: to take charg Of the town bonds were
9 appointed directly by the Supreme
1 Court the people had nothing to d.
: with that very important matter. II
: Vermont it is different. Here the PEG
pie select their own Commissioners
But gentlemen claim that in New Yorl
: subscriptions are conditional; no par
G Of their money is to be used until tn
\ road-bed is made ready for the iron, AM
! they had asked the question why it wa
y not so here. He would tell them: th
e the road must be graded by some onC
< II it were so here the road could not b
g built at all, for there would then be N
!, means for grading it. Besides, fftee
years ago the towns in New York, 0,
y the line, had lad out large amounts {
K money, in heavy grading and mason
d work, and had, therefore, done thei
1 share in this direction, There is ever
protection in the law, and the assen
under it, for it gives to the towns til
} right to fix their own conditions in eI
: cry particular. One gentleman ha
l. meanly insinnated that 'some Nations
! Bank would gobble up the bonds in til
!, end, and the people would lose there
u by. He wanted to tell that gentlema
% Mr. Sibley, that one of the expires
N conditions of the assent is that tn
II bonds shall not be sold below par
:. They must bring dollar for dollar; an
!, yet alfred attorney Of the Troy & Bos
- ton Rrilroad talks about their beln
os "gobbled up!"
p He remarked if you want to see pee
r. pie anxious for a railroad, go dow
I, through Lebanon, Petersburg, Berlin
: &c, and see what measures they hay
d. taken under an Infamous law" "col
OF cocted by an Internally cunning brain
es to gain railroad facilities. In Leblanc
~ the amount raised by the town is twent
: FIVE per cent Of the grand list, or equt
= to $I50,000 from the town of Bennint
IS ton In the other towns, Berlin, Pc
b. ersburgh, &c, it foots up Is per cen
l. on the grand list Now, then, if the'
!, farming towns, with little or no mann
featuring interests, can 60 into til
u work so zealously and effectively, wi
ur should towns on this end of the lin
IS with manufacturing interests at stalk
H. second TO none in the State, hesita'
and hang back?
But gentlemen ask, why not raj
nj the money by subscripiption| /
It. would say that about one year ago tn
he method was tried, and only $4,000
"a $4,000 could be secured IN town. II
own idea was, that it was unwise to as
- for $I25000 from the business men
ol- Bennington, for if SO raised he believe
r. business mist necessarily be crippled.
ed The great question now Is, does tn
community neen railroad, and if nee
= ing ii, are they ready to act accordin
ne lyg II gentlemen don't want it, wh
he don't have anything to do with it.
all is for the people TO decide. If they q