The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1867-07-31

despise the coiored people: The greatest fault
he found was that they loved them too we'll.
If you did Mt believe it 60 to thecolored schools
and look at the complexion. Thought the
colored people were getting sense fast and that
they had about got even with the white peo-
pie, on the high rent question, by charging
So SO day during harvest, Closed by say
ing they were learning sense very fast, and
some of them, by listening to Mr. Fultz and
the other lawyers, we're getting to be pretty
sharp on the law. He added that next Thurs
day they would have another speaking, bet
ter speakers than to-day; that Gen. Echols
and Colonel (H. Nd Bell would speak at the
Colored Church. Plenty to cat would bethere,
for those who had the money, and all such
we're invited to eat-others to listen.
Mr. jackson, Agent f. Bureau, being call
ed for, said there was no success to be gained
outside of party organizations, and that there
was no question up but that Of Loyalty to the
Government or Disloyalty; that every man is
bound to vote for loyal men by his oath Of
Registration, and all could easily go back a
few years, trace a man up, and know who was
loyal and who was not. He did Mt think it
necessary to give them (the colored people,
any advice about industry, &C., but he was
satisfied it was not good policy on their part
to hold so many meetings. Every meeting
meant the loss Of days work and that was an
important item. (Right here negro, behind
us, remarked, captain Jackson don't wantus
to hear Gen. Echols and Col. Bell.0) Capt.
Jacksons speech was short, but it struck us
that it did not please the colored people.
They seemed to think he talked to them like
man who owned them and whom they were
bound to obey if we could judge by the re-
marks around us. One or two said "Its no
mans business how many mectingsthe Freed
mon hold"
Mr. Maupin here made an amendment to
Mr. Hout's motion, which was defeated. Just
here the Immortal Philosopher, j. n, the
great reconstructed" appeared upon the
scene and requested us to make an announce
ment that he would shortly cliff the veil. p
We pointed him to the Chair, and Mr.. Fultz
moved an adjournment. Then, ~. n" ma
jestieally throwing back his flowing locksfro
sprincely brow, told the meeting that Grant
was right and so was Lee, and both were
wrong" and that he would surely Gift the
yeil'' that night. He was greeted with APP
plausc and, so, ended the chapter.
The Central Railroad Completed.
The Virginia Central Railroad, to the point
indicated in the Charter, establishing the
Company, has been completed. It has re-
quired years Of untiring effort, on the part Of
the officers Of this road, to bring about this
consumation but they have kept the end
steadily in view; obtaining help wherever they
could find it. husbanded their resources and
used them all for the accomplishment of one
great object and their exertions have been sue
cessful We congratulate them upon the re-
suit and argue from it fayorably for the sue
cess of the new enterprise they have in view
When the charter was granted to the Virginia
Central Railroad, the State of Virginia, undi-
vided and unspoiled, proposed to build rail
road upon her own account from Coyington to
the Ohio, and the work was progressing ra-
pidly towards completion when the President
Of the then United States summoned her to
arms to Invade sister State, and she respond
ed, by calling upon all her sons to defend her
self. The work upon the Coyington & Ohio
Railroad stopped, the war followed, and now
divided and despoiled State is powerless to
carry on this great work to completion and
give to her people the benefit Of the mighty
tide of trade and travel, that would natu-
rally flow over this highly favored route.
Under these circumstances the Va Central
Railroad, witnessing the completion Of her own
line in early prospect, but disappointed in her
expectations when she started, that she would
meet at Covingt the trains from the banks
Of the Ohio, and seeing no prospect for the
finishing of the Covington & Ohio Road, by
the States agency, asked and obtained from
the last Legislature a bill giving berthe priyi-
legc Of extending her own line on to tho Ohio,
using tie work already done by the State
Now this Corporation, that was once the
Louisa Railroad, 76 miles long, and asked to
become the Virginia Central Railroad, and,
her request being granted, isnow the Virginia
Central Railroad 204 miles long, with these
successful anticedents, has asked to become the
Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad and with the re-
quest granted, she comes before the people to
secure the completion of thenew extension by
the same agencies that she secured that Of the
old.
We do not doubt of tho success Of this plan I;
our people have seen too much Of the good ef.
feets Of railroads to withhold their aid now
they are too practical not to see that they had
better pay one fourth Of one per centtax on the
value Of the real estate alone of the County
and so pay the interest on 100000, and help