Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1870-07-22
Railroad Meeting.

AT il meeting of citizens of the county, held
in the Office of the Valley Railroad Company in
Stanton, on the 18th of this month, on the mo-
ton of Capt. Bumgardner, Judge David Fultz
was called to the chair. and G. ". S. Turner
was appointed Secretary.
On motion of Judge Sheffey it was resolved
that the Chair appoint Central Committee,
whose duty it shall be to adopt proper measures
of organizing so as to secure favorable vote on
the question of subscribing $780, 600 to the stock
of the Valley Railroad Company and to issue an
address to the voters of the county On the sub
ject.
On the motion of Mr.. Gibbs it was resolved
that the Central Committee be requ ested to pub
lsh and distribute such statistics and other plain
statements of facts and figures will inform the
people of the true merits of the question they
TO act upon, and such other documents as in their
Judgment will be useful.
The following gentlemen were appointed men,
bers of the Central Committee
NJ. G. Hartman, David Futz,
A II. H. Stuart, Hugh w. Shelley,
Thomas J. Niche, John B. Baldwin,
John Echols, n X. Trout,
C. r. Harris, VIM. A. Burke,
r. G. Bickle, George Baylor,
Joseph A. Waddel James Fl. Skinner,
Thomas G. Elder, S. Travers Phillips,
john NJ Hardy, W. H. German,
P. B. Hoge, H. NJ Bell.
DAVID FULTZ Chairman.
G. W. S. TURNER, Secretary.
TO THE VOTERS OF AUGUSTA COUNTY.
On the 9Th day of August next you will be
called on to determine by your votes, whether
you will subscribe $500, 900 to the Stock of the
Valley Railroad Company. We have been APP
pointed Central Committee to use such proper
means and arguments and to disseminate such
information as will induce you to respond favor.
ably to the question to be submitted for your de-
cision. You will understand u.s. then, as ap-
preaching you in no partisan spirit, as the advo-
GATES of no individual sectional interests hut
friends of the proposition, that great line of
Railroad shall be carried thirty-four miles through
the heart of Augusta county, and that you, who
think, will be recipients of immense benefits
TO flow from the construction of this Road, shall
help to make it. In various ways you hare Civ
your confidence to many of us in times past
think we have not heretofore deceived YOU by
our counsels, and we now unite land in this we
are sustained, we believe, by every citizen of the
county, in whom, at any time, you ever reposed
your general trust, in earnestly urging you to
vote for the subscription. We are Influenced in
giving this advice, by considerations too numer-
GUS to be stated here in detail but we have care
fully pondered them.
Communities are generally influenced in their
actions by two considerations: First do honor
and good rfpute urge us to follow certain line
OF conduct? and Second, does Self-interest in
cline us in that direction? We are convinced
tbat both cf these considerations demand that
Jon shall vote for this subscription.
Augusta county is the Empire county of Vir-
ginia; it is the most populous and wealthy coun-
ty in the State. 1t has for many years been the
favored recipient of public monies freely spent
in its borders it has been distinguished by its
support, and advocacy of internal improvements,
ana Tor Its public spirit; it has for many years
past been earnestly desiring the construction of
y great Railroad thoroughfare through the VAL
hey; 1t has in connection with delegations from
,ti the alley counties, gone by its delegates in
iasSe NUMBERS on two occasions, to the city of
bafamore; once under the immediate auspices
and personal lead of Gen Robert E. Lee, Ito
whom the construction of this road is an object
OF peculiar interest;) and has urged and en-
treated baltimore to aid in this great enterprise
Inc efforts OF her citizens, in this regard, after
an earnest struggle, have been successful. Bal
tlIlore has agreed to subscribe one million of
dollars, the Baltimore & Ohio Company has
agreed to subscribe another million, nav, more
the sister counties along the line of the Road.
aave subscribed $s0O,OOO, and the Town Of
Stanton 100000. All this has been done, in
maintenance and part performance of what Au-
.gusta county has demanded for MANY years
should be done, and vet all this must 90 for
naught-must fall as water poured on the sand
without the cooperation of Augusta All the
Dther subscriptions are conditional and unleSS
IAN additional sum be subscribed by Augusta or
ssoWe otner county or town in the Valley thew
must all fail We know of no other county which
0an or will subscribe an additional sum. W.
confess that we shall feel humbled and wounded
10 Cur reputation, as Augusta county men, if We
turn our backs on our friends at the crisis of tr
al, and refuse to unite with them; and the NOR
so, should the refusal be made for the reason urp
ed ny some for pursuing this line OF conduct
that this, that somebody else will do the work and
we will get the benefits and pay nothing for
them. Take an illustration of this:-Six Eeiph.
bors want road made thro' district Of connfr,
for the accommodation aud convenience of al
five OF. them raise and are ready to expend thu
means, on their part, to complete the road Th
sixth man, who happens to live midway betwee,
the terminal points, says to his neig6borsMss
want the road very much, it will be a great bless
ing to me, but as think you are bound to hay
it any how, without my contributions, will d,
nothing and either live without the road, or en-
10Y 1T at at your expense" This we say is no
The utterance of an Augusta county man of tn
olden time, and we trust no such thought will
be eherished and acted by any of our peo
pie.
Again self-interest governs communities
This is too vide field for comment here but w
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