Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1867-12-04
Railroad Legislation.
We copy below short article from Wal
tons Daily Joarnal, in which allusion is
made to the FREEMAN:

We copy below short article from Wal
tons Daily Joarnal, in which allusion is
made to the FREEMAN:
The Times ISLANDERS us. For proof, we de-
fend our remark, to the Iimes. by the in
disputable fact that while the question was
pending before the Legislature, the Time,
advocated the Burden side in its editorial
columns. 1t may quibble by saying that the
Burden interest was not the Troy and Boston
Railroad interest, as the FREEMAN does. Our
answer is that the House decided to the con-
trarv, by vote Of about five to one.
Again, the Times cannot - well, sweep
ingIv say that FfaltOn's Journal was in the
interest of Mr.. Park for tire reason that,
while the question was pending, Nations
Journal intimated no preference or opinion
| Of either side of the question and since its
settlement, it has only defended the Legisla-
turc from uni Just aspersions, copied by the
Springfield Republican from the burlington
Times and Troy organ of the New York
Railroad-we mean the Troy Pest. When
the IiHes and the FREEMAN find themselves
in the company of the Troy papers, it seems
to US they ought to suspect that there is
somebody under the hay beside the Burdens
What our cotemporary calls = bubble, ="
was mere statement of fact. The Messrs
Burden, whose word or testimony is, TO say
the least, as credible as would be the tes-
timony of any member of the last General
Assembly, stated under oath, before the COM
Inttce, that they asked for the charter eff Il
railroad to their iron mine wholly for them
selves, and in that application they said they
had no connection whatever with the Troy
& Boston Railroad. There was absolutely
no testimony. or even evidence, to contradict
that statement; and we challenge the Jour
nal, (whose reporter took minutes Of the
evidence, at Mr.. Park request to produce
any testimony, Except the opinions of wit
nesses,) that the Troy & Boston Railroad
were in any way in favor Of the charter
asked for; and if the House refused the
charter on the ground that it was asked for
in the interest of the Troy & Boston Rail
road, they, well neighbor, were
most egregiously imposed upon. We know
the committee did not find any such fact.
Our neighbor should also bear in mind,
that the manufactures, of the Messrs. Bur
den, in Troy, are of vastly more advan-
tage to that city, than is the Troy & Boston
halIroao ana the newspapers ana merchants
and people of the city arc more interested in
what will increase the extent and prosperity
Of the iron manufactures Of Troy, than in
any project of the Troy & Boston corpora
ton. And the FREEMAN, while it would
hail with pleasure any legislation which
would build up manufacturing anywhere in
Vermont, is quite willing to he found in
company with any newspaper which regrets
and condemns Legislative action which would
make every manufacturing enterprise pay
tribute to railroad monopolies, whether those
monopolies be in central or south western
Vermont When the iron and marble and
copper of Vermont seek their shortest and
cheapest road to their most proftable market,
the FREEMAN will not be deferred from ex-
pressing the opinion that they ought to have
such a road, even if, in that course, it should
find itself in company with the Burlington
Times, and the newspapers Of the rapidly
growing cities of neigboring states, and
should.be obliged, reluctantly, to disagree
with its neighbor, the Daily Journal