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

tiles upon me, did not think again to
address you upon this subject; but a late
article in the Herald, emanating from an
imminent power in our midst, so full OF
impudcnt assumption, arrogant opinions,
false estimates and sophistical reasonings,
and so calculated to blind the eyes and
lead astray the ignorant, that / feel i'm
PEELED again to grasp my pen, and utter
my protest against such dishonest and
Machiavelian arguments.
You have all heard and some of you
have read of that dark period in the
worlds age when like black cloud,
Jesuitsm hung its pail over the destinies
of man; doctrine of Devils; which by
craft, hattery sycophancy; by fraud
falsehood and deceit, sought to accomplish
it's end.-gIying birth to the world an
accursrd doctrine and a more infamous
practice, that all means are justified by
their ends. | thank God, that the sub
vertne principles Of such an institution
in our land, have been overthrown, and
the dark power of its influence has been
dispelled by the resplendent rays of the
sunlight Of intelligence and truth But
the procljvities Of mankind to ccntraliza-
ton of power as manifested in this insti
tuition, still exists in greater or less
degree, in bodies corporate, wherever ex-
tended influence has prepared the way
for the exercise Of that power And there
is, and ever will be proneness in such
bodies, corporate or polite, to exercise
that power, either for their own gratifica
ton, or to accomplish their own ends
until by their acts or principles, they shall
arouse a prejudice which they cannot
Withstand, or by their acts of oppression
they shall provoke an overwhelming de-
feat. Thus it will readily be perceived
that if in attaining their ends they are
persistent and with strength untried,
they are unwilling to risk defeat, and re
luotant to arouse the prejudice of a peo-
pie, how, ."FuciEs est deSceHsus dctThi,
how easy it is to set in motion the whole |
machinery of fraud, deception and duplic-
ity of Jesuitism ;-Jesuitism, which, with |
its sycophantic ilattery, dupes, or with its I
crawling constructor power entwines and
brushes its victim, with its Shiny, tortuous
folds.
With apprehension Of similar results,
have |, for many years, earnestly watched
the workings and influence Of the railroad
monopoly of our country, stretching its
power all over this land Such fears are
not mine alone; they have been, years
ago, expressed by greater mindsin high
places. These corporations, with their
hosts of friends, directly and indirectly
interested in the success Of their roads -
with their present and increasing infuen-
ces, stretching out their grasping arms
and forces through cities, country and
trackless wild.
~-'FroIn Indus to the pole
from their vast recources, their plethoric
treasures, ever ready to disgorge for their
own interests; with such principles as
these; corrupting and corrupt; without
principle as without soul who SO blind
as not to perceive and perceiving, not to !
apprehend the danger OF such power com
bined What day has passed, without !
revealing some. of their lawlessness, and
witnessing some complaint Of their dis
regard of the public good 1t was but
yesterday that in the Tribune Of New
York, might be seen, in relation to the
action of the. committee of the Senate \
upon their investigation, this remark:
of the enactrnents of tho Legislature a
were observed, ,by the railroad compa- a
MES, there might be wisdom in these in '
yestigations but we have seen railroad a
companies paying no more attention to o
the statutes of the State, than they do to T
the interests Of the public '
True, the influence they possess has l.
been thus far confined to localities, and a
has been expended in bitter and wide ex
tended quarrels among themselves the /
Erie war, the Central, the Camden & Am d
boy, the Fort Wayne and others, have f
engrossed their energies But where, in Y
all our land, has the railroad power ever II
failed to succeed. III any object which it .
had in view Has not their powerful in Il
tercst even compelled the call of an extra 0
session Of Legislature OF a State, for
their own purposes bl1 thl', iorSootn' a
was for the good OF tho people Il may p
have been. b"t such are an thelr pre- Il
fences. Lord no" precious are thy .
people, to q corporation winch has no t,
soul 10 L" was the 'e'nlt'sm OF l-oyola il
for the good OF the world Yet what it
blessing i, the railroad to rs, What (,
blessing to commerce nA' " ol'Ssins h
to CIVILIZATION. " haV.a oleaSinS 10 tue Il
world 90 too' Nh'' " oIeSSins 10 pco- p
pie i Autocra'y "Aeh Tor GOOD 'he il