Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1870-08-02

/ OWn interest, the town will teach her, and force
| her into It," You may call this trick or BY
what name you please, but we submit this looks
| like there was ''sha, per- working the wires.
! Gentlemen of the Central Committee, We
| confess We feel humbled and wounded in our
reputation as Augusta county men, to see your
names signed to such an address. Why suffer
| such wholesale dctation to those who have
| trusted you as the Conscript Fathers of Au-
gusta. 1t was meet and right you should pre-
sent this vital question to the county upon its
merits; but when the intelligent land owners
of the county said No, you should have sub
mitted and said amen, and not have coun e.
nanced any trick to trick the county into this
subscription, the second time. laa sd5 s1as
This old county OF Augusta is our county 1t
belongs to the people who inhabit It, We are
iaborlng, not specializing people, and must
labor to gain our subsistence. We are also a
happy and Independent people. We have no
debt on the county, thank God, to be voted
away as the State stocks are being parcelled
out. We have ready market for all our sup
plies, and You city gentlemen now grumble at
the price we ask you for butter aud eggs. One
OF our Conscript. Fathers said in speech at
the Court House on Court day, that we should
vote the 100000 subscription, and the old
ladies OF the county could sell their beans and
cabbage while the Rail Road was being built
We say we don't want our wives and mothers
and sisters to pedde beans and cabbage along
the line Of a Rail Road to Penitentiaay conU,cts
and Chinese laborers, in order to pay our taxes
The same gentlemen urged you to vote this
subscription 10 order to break down the gigan-
tic monopoly Of the Chesa. & o. r. r., and
The same gentleman asked you but short time
since to vote 100000 to this (C & o. r. r. J
monopoly as the grandest improvement of the
age, and you said no. Now, does not this con-
tradiction look strangely? zr.u 6 oa1
This Conscript Father speaking of the Shen-
andoah Valley r. r, said he did not know
anything about the purposes of that Road, but
rather made sport OF that Improvement -
Ought he not to inform himself upon the
merits of that Road, before he undertakes
to urge the county to vote tie subscrip-
The Shenandoah Valley Rail Road asks moth
ing at the hands of the county, and it is an
important improvement to the East side of the
county and the whole county, as it will pass
through Maryland, Pennsylvania and New Jer
sey TO the city OF New York. The President
says: The Shenandoah Valley Railroad will
be built regardless of any other road and there
Is no contingency in which it will be abandoned
in favor of the Valley K. r. - The survey has
been completed, and is of the most satisfactory
character. We think this fact accounts for the
nuErJ In gettlng the county s SUBSCRIPTION TO
the Valley Railroad Now or never So
You tell us there will only be 15c tax on the
500 worth Of property. Add this to the other
taxes and see how it stands: State tax, 50cts
county TAX, not less than 2Oc-making So cents
Oh the 500 worth Of property. So that if
man is worth $1,000 he will pay So so; if he
is worth $4,000 he will pay $685. if he is worth
500 600 he will pay $I70 tax or $105 465 to be
paid out OF the labur Of the county anuullly-
to say not hing of the United States tax-and
these gentlemen living 10 the city will not touch
it with one of their fingers. We would advise
you, gentlemen, to,read the 45fh and 10Th YER
ses of the lth chapter of St Luke. &
All We ask, gentlemen, is to be let alone
We don't want our houses. farms, stock.
bonds, money, and property, both p rsonal aud
real, to be placed in trust to the b. u . K Il !,
for 80 long years, which will be troublesome, as
well as expensive. We have not asked for
this road, and we have told you once by our
votes that we would not have you to rule over
us, and we will on the 9th day Of August, rem
der the same verdict. Voters Of the county,
We leave this important question with you to
decide on the 9th day of August, and we say to
you, do that only which you believe will pro-
mote your interest, and not vote from mere i'm
pulse, expecting something to turn up, for we
well know if the road is built our resources will
increase so slowly as to be unobserved.
+ . 'Tis better to bear the ills we have,
Than fly to those we know not of
,e'e AUGUSTA.