Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1870-08-16
Stauntum Spettator.
A Word to Anti-Subscription Voters.

A Word to Anti-Subscription Voters.
As we stated last week, the defeat of the
subscription by this county of 100000 to the
capital stock of the Valley r. R. Company
was due chiefly to the fact that the impression
was successfully made in the Eastern portion
of the county that the Shenandoah Valley X.
r. would be built through that part OF the
county without cost to the citizens along Its
line Though this was the chief cause OF the
defeat Of the subscription to the Valley Road,
it was not due wholly to that cause. Many in
the county voted against the subscription be-
cause they believed that the town was allowed
to vote on the question for the purpose OF carry
ing the subscription though majority IN the
county might vote against it-that it was done
on the theory that the Affirmative majority In
the town would exceed the negative majority
in the county, and thus the subscription would
be carried. Taking this view of the subject,
aud wishing to rebuke what they conceived to
be purpose to force the subscription, notens
rolens, upon the county, quite number, we
believe, voted against the subscription, who,
otherwise, would not have done So We be-
Eeye that the voters Of this county, if the ques-
ton be submitted to them free from ''entan-
Cling alliance with the town, will vote sub
scriptiou of 100000 What we now desire to
see is mowment on the part OF the voters OF
the countu to have the question Of subscribing
that sum submitted to their vote. We would
be especially pleased to see this movement In
augurated by those who voted against the sub
scription. It would present a noble spectacle,
and furnish an opportunity to win honor and
enyiable distinction which is but seldom vouch-
safed. Those who are now reproached for de-
feating the subscription necessary to secure the
other conditional subscriptions amounting to
So, 900, coo, and thus defeating wholly this
great and valuable Railroad project, would
then have the credit of securing the amount
necessary TO make this great improvement, and
they would be hailed as public benefactors, and
their praises would be on every tongue
The Railroad men-builders of improve
ments-now value you as of little worth; but
will not the stone rejected by the builders be-
come the head of the corner? We do not de-
SPAR yet of obtaining a subscription by the
county to this improvement, which would be so
prolific Of benefits to the county. We appeal
to the calm reason, the dispassionate reflection,
the careful calculation, the enlightened self
interest of the voters of the county. We have
great confidence in the sober second thought of
our people, and believe that they will not fail
to reverse the decision they recently rendered.
1t would be manly in them to have the indepen-
dence to dc SO. We appeal from an excited
and biased, to a calm and uuprejudiced judg-
ment
Subscribe Stock to the Valley r. B.
The defeat of the subscription to the Valley
r. r. is not only unfortunate on account Of Its
jeopardizing that important enterprise, but il
places Augusta county in the uuenviable posi-
ton of having, by her opposition, defeated the
ong-cberished hopes of the whole Valley, and
arreys against her the opinion, prejudices and
interests Of all the other counties of the Valley.
She thus stands in humiliating position which
she never before occupied A plan has been
adopted to enable Augusta county to retrieve
her credit and save the Road Subscription
papers have been put In circulation to enable
the people of Augusta to make up, by private
subscription, what she, in her corporate Ca
pacity, has failed to do. Many of those who
voted against the tax, declared their willing
ness to make private subscriptions. They now
have chance to show their sincerity. The
friends of the Road can at least subscribe what
they would have paid 10 tax if the vote had
been in its favar. Let all who feel able sub
scribe at once. The time is short What is
done must be done quickly. All subscriptions
thus made must be in before the lst of Septem-
Der. IF you feel able and willing to subscribe
anything, hunt up one of these papers and sub
scribe at once There are large number Of
them 10 circulation. Remember this opportu-
nifty to retrieve the credit of Augusta County
will only add doubly to the prejudice against
her, if it be lost