Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1868-02-07
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sIaFRIDAYi EVENING, FEBRUARY I.
MEETING or CITIZENS. IN RELATION TO
iRHRa CANAL AoUDUor.- PURSUANT to call,
published in the Gazette yesterday evening,
'Ameeting of citizens was held at the Corn Ex-
change at noon to. day, which was numerously
attended BY the business Of the city, all of
whom manifested deep interest, and expressed
much feeling at the course being pursued by a
portion of the people of:Georgetown toward
Alexandria, in the matter of the Aquduct.
- Themeeting was call to order by 4. FL. Mil
Ter, upon whose motion Hugh. Latham, May
orsof the city, was calledto the Oh air.
es Onsmotion Of P. G.. Uhler w. G. Cazenoye
was chosen Secretary 4s 81
i!ss Mr.. Miller, the only surviving member OF
the original Board of Directors of the Alexan
.dria. Canal, then explained the object for which
the meeting had been called, and after a few
explanatory remarks submitted the following
preamble and resolutions, which were received
with marked appreciation by the meeting. ~,
Edgar Snowden, ST., in few remarks, set
ting forth the injustice sought to be done our
city and its trade by Georgetown, and assert
ing that our people are ever ready at the pro-
per time tovindicate their rights, concluded with
-signifying his. especial appreciation of the last
resolution, mentioning in connexion Herewith
9Mr. Bernard Hooe, at present residing in
Washington, and who vas one Of the commit
teesthat waited upon Congress to have the bill
passed for the construction Of the aqneduct,
seconded the resolutions, which, after few
verbal alterations, made at the suggestion of
Lewis McK enzie, were put to the meeting and
unanimously adopted >a2
WHEREAS, the Alexandria Canal Company
was chartered by the Congress Of the United
States in May 1880, when the town and coun-
qty of Alexandria were included in the District
of Columbia, under the exclusive jurisdiction
Of Congress, who, as the paramount and su-
preme authority, had the unquestioned right to
legislate in all matters over the ten miles square,
including theriver Potomac therein and
~ Z Whereas, by that charter the Alexandria Ca
nal Company had authority granted it to con:
struct the Aqueduct and Canal, and confirmed
/, by the U. S. Supreme Court at its January
term 1888. In the report Of the case, CITY of
Georgetown vs.. Alexandria Canal Company"
the Court says when they Virginia and
!" .Maryland) coded to Congress the. portion o.
hsir territory, embracing the river Potomac
within it's limits, whatsoever the Legislatures of
:" Virginia and Maryland could have done by
their joint Wills, after that cession, could DO
i" done By Congress- subject only to the limits-
cations imposed by the acts of cession.'' L
aa.A Again the Court says If, then as we have
s. Congress had the power to authorize the
Reconstruction Of an Aqueduct across the Poto-
a" mac, ifso having the power, they have given
ITO the Alexandria Canal Company the au-
s.Ithority to- construct it.; and if, in the COZ
-t..struction, that company has not exceeded the
.power given them. either in the thing done,
" OF in the manner Of doing it. so as to produce
1.-THE least injurysor Inconvenience practicable,
:. consistently with the execution of the work,
sit would be difficult, as illegal proposition, to
, - predicate of such work that it was unlaw-
full or that it was nuisance, SO as to justify
." a Courts in interfering to prevent its progress
towards completion and, :
Whereas, this decision so made, when but
I" oae massive pier had been constructed" and
2" as the Georgetown bill ayered that was within
s'ssit corporate limits, Immediately ,a6ovc and
"aoest OF the prineipaIpubh and prioatesoA
" OF the town ~ and when they further averred
that by theuse Of clay and earth thrown: in,
to make close certain Golfer dams, the harbor
= " had been Injured" and now, after q lapse of
thirty years, when nine massive piers are stand.
ing, and cannot be removed, and new wooden
snperstructire is nearly completed, a Grand !
Jury has been induced eight of its members
from Georgetown) to indict it as q nuisance
case by the Supreme Court; therefore,
oResoleed, blythe good people Of Alexandria, IN
toion meeting assembled, That we cannot view
tho proceedings in the present case as any other
than. An iniqutous and selfish attempt to inter-
fore with our Vested rights an attempt to cut
as Of from participation in the trade Of the
Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, towards the con-
gltruction of which the people of Alexandria
made liberal subscription as individuals, and
4 corporate subscription to its stock of quar-
tar Of million Of dollars. a.a lis sts
. Resolved, That we believe that when the coal
trado on the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal shall
reach one million of TONS as it shortly WILL it
cannot be accommodated alone, in any event, at
Georgetown, and that it will be to the serious
loss and damage to that great artery Of trade,
~ we'll as to the coal-felds of the upper Poto-
mac, TO- limit its ttanshipment to that port
Resolved, That the Alexandra Aqueduct and
Canal is an indispensable outlet for the coal
: trade, and has been SO considered. by many, If
not by most Of the enlightened Directors of the
Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company, by the
Coal Companies Of Allegheny county, and al
others whose selfish interests have not been at
feeted by its operations. -. ,rs 5s.@..--.
Rssolved, That we have seen with mingled
sentiments Of disgust and indignation the aver
sment, of David T.. Shoemaker and others, in