The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-06-18


10 The Editor QJ The EUeni,,g Telegraph
In your issue Of june H. slight, too slight
notice is taken of the meeting in the Bank of
the Republic Buildings of the subscribers and
other parties Interested in the stock of the James
vile and Washington Railroad and Lumber
Company of North Carolina. The very marrow
or pith Of the matter was inadvertently omitted.
l mean the composite character of that meeting.
Its most peculiar yet strikingly valuable feature,
/ may be pardoned for CLOSING
over in my haste, in penning
the article of the 9Th of June, ventilatiug the
energy of our fellow-citizens, the untiring, in
domitable lumbermen along our Delaware ave-
nue. in stretching forth their arms to the inter-
minable forests of the frigid North to swell the
trade of our metropolis. Then, as soon as the
temple of the "god of war" is closed, the
hatchet buried, and the dulcet notes of peace
sound throughout our late perturbed sorrow
stricken country, they follow upon the footsteps
of those bearing the olive branch to our brethren
of the 'Sunny South" not to "hod the word of
promise to the ear to break it to the hope"
but to bid them be of good cheer, the time of
passion has passed-God grant forever Again,
instead of the sharp crack of the rifle or the
booming of the siege gun, or the confused clatter
of the park of field flying artillery, upon the gem
tie breeze is borne the song of the husbandman,
the lowing of herds, and in the hummock swamps
and primitive evergreen forests is heard the
peaceful sound of the woodlands axe.
Again, in the article of the Sth instant, under
the caption of Sc aheadatveness," 1 conjured
the peace-loving llanthropist to take the front
in the reconstr' ION, instead of committing our
restored bretL a of the land of flowers to the
"tender mel eies' of the blatant political dema-
gogue.
Well, sir, will your readers believe that the
very spirits was calling Gas | supposedly from
the vastly deep were quietly, unobtrusiyely, yet
resstlessly encountering discouragements, i'm
pediments, menaces, every imaginable' hostile
element among those who were prepared, on
their advent, to treat their noble representative
the resolute Francis Lightfoot, with an outfit of
tar and feathers and an agreeable ride on rail?
But 'presto!" these same "Iotspurs" now bid
all Yankeedom welcome, ''wooden nutmegs"
and ALL provided always they go, as did these
broad-brimmed, straightforward, placid, peace
loving, law-abiding, liberty-loying, good old
Chester county and New Jersey agriculturalsts,
with their genial Christian faces bedecked with
smiles, while their hands were extended not
meaninglessly empty, but full of hard-earned
dollars, to the restored landholder, bidding him
with the material aid" to work out for himself
and posterity glorious destiny. OF such was
composed the meeting of stockholders of the
10TH with the enterprisng Gaskill at their head.
] was taken, l confess, by surprise.
With regard to the work in their hands, with
the great and liberal privileges accorded them
by the State, and with their prolific farms in old
Chester and Burlington and Salem forming the
backbone of the undertaking, there can be'pros-
pectively mo such word fail;" and while
listening privileged spectator to their de-
mure yetfervid even-toned remarks (not spread
eagle speeches), 1 was ready to toss up my cap
and shout, "God bless Quakerdom !" if COM
prised of such. L. s. G.