Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1869-03-04

+ ing west of the village of Rutland, through
| Pittsford village on to Vergennes, revealed
such heavy grades, such capacious fills and
] such deep cuts, occasioned by the high
> hills and deep ravines in its course, that
} the capitalists of Boston, on whom was re-
lied for the largest amount of capital, fell
, back and declined their aid. Thus new
: difficulties arose-new obstacles to be sur
mounted Then from Gov. Paine and his
friends, burst forth paans of rejoicing,
over our discontinue Then, too, there
: were among us then, as there are among
us now, in relation to the Woodstock road
those who would have rejoiced greatly in
the building of the road, those who knew
: that, without it, the place was dead, even
t as those now know that without the
: Woodstock road, the place is becalmed
and at stand-still. But to palliate their
, disloyalty and treachery to the town, and
to cover their parsimony and niggardli-
ness, stood back and began TO asperse and
, throw out objections, such as many are
now doing. All was encouragement. A
black fog of dispair settled all along the
!. line. Then, in 1874, was the darkest day
that Rutland and the Rutland & Burling-
ton railroad ever saw. Mr.. Cain was seen
to bow his head, and dispair was in his
face; at length he started, looked up,
snapped his eyes, pulled up the collar Of
his shirt, and darted off with rapid strides
to the west, an engineer breathlessly tug
ging at his heals. They reached the
Otter and followed down its banks to
Brandon. A rou.e was surveyed. They
returned with a note of triumph-Eu-
reka | have found it burst forth with
a joyousness. of victory that echoed from
hill to hill, run along the valley, along
the line, until it reached the capitalists
at Boston.
Then, upon this route, was survey
afterwards made so successfully in its
course, through the whole distance, and
so astounding to Gov. Paine, that he de-
clared the course to be cheat and the
survey a fiction; beause if such course
existed, we would, at the outset, have
taken it. Then came forward the capital
lists of the country, Messrs. Follett, Brad
ley the Strongs, the Conants, Fletcher,
Hodges and the Changers. And soon,
1S47,) was heard, shrieking over the
mountain tops, shrieking down its sides,
into, and roaring along the valley of the
Otter, the thunder horse of p9wcr, away.
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even before the Central was completed.
Now, citizens Of Rutland, DO you
not here see what your pro5enitors
and predecessors have done for Rutland.
Doyou not here see the trials, the strug-
giles, the disappointments and discourage
ments, to which the former citizens Of
your town submitted, tor your prosperity
and success And will you subject
yourselves to the imputation Of bsse in
gratitude, by sitting listJessly down under
such jesuitical pretexts, and do nothing
for yourselves and those that come after
You Are you not now in the enjoyment
of that success, to obtain which they
sacrificed so much for you: Men of Rut-
land, ponder this matter. as you would
the good Of yourselves and families In
this world, are you not placed, as well for
the good Of the community in which you
live, as FOR yourself? Where would the
world of this day have been, had your
fathers lived only for themselves Where
would have been your hopes had they not
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Think Judge, BE the .thoughtless
slaves of no maJ.i
1t is foreign gentlemen who sit at ease
in a New ungltnu cIty and nod their
heads pulls the wires attached to these
IaciIe men, who forsooth, in their turn
hasten to obey their behests, who deceive
the people of Rutland and secretly act at
such distance. And what is one Of
their patent objections to the Woodstock ]
railroad That the giving bonds viii
create debt for Rutland which they can
never Hquidate" And they assume tlat
this debt the town Of Rutland mus: pay.
In the first place, they care not doit
for any debt OF Rutland. What have they ,
to do with the debts Of Rutland Thi.
then is a mere prctext,
But why must they Ply the deb.
Because" torsooth the road will mover /,
pay Gentlemen, you know better. !
When you can demonstrate to me, that
0urt is greater than the whole, then you .
AN prove to Us, that, although such "a i.
ength Of road, between such termini IS
Portland and the Pacific, or one
bird the distance, may pay, and likely
% be at Il premium, that a small /
proportion of the same r al t
rom Woodstock to Rutland, will not be u
worth dollar. Ii nothing worth, why
ire you so grcedily anxious to monopoize "
S or 40 miles of it !, You well know,
hat not a road in the Union, Of such a II
ength that is not now above par Why, "a
here Is not one of you gentlemen that r
lare personally stand before the people of
Rutland, and present to them such an ar
,ument "Of the five railroads that come G
nto this city" says an eminent writer, i
1t y quite within hounds to say that G
hese roads are worth to their stockhold- /
r. twice the honest cost of their construc-
ion" Yet here is link i'll road, in O
in length with those, begins al
It SUNRISE and stretches away TO sun e,
lown, and viii not pay, Prochll on el
procm este pyofuit' Stand affair." very n
ar from US, ye jesuitical deceivers of your il
elbow men. This objection also is mere v
oretext. b
Their other objections are so shameful O
Y purile, as to be an Insult to the com p
non sense Of any people. The one
That this road will be in the hands of
oreign capitalists This has been so well :
answered by the Courier. that | will ask d