The Cairo daily bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1870-1872, 1871-05-28

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The court met in special session, and, jim
stead of placing the subscription on ito
original footing, agreed TO make IL
on conditions which, il they had been
accepted by the company, would have
rendered the bonds valucless-unssleable.
More than this, in the face of Judge
Bross' promise, the court refused
to submit to the people the ques-
ton of restoring the donation contract. In
this action Of the court we believed and
yet believe we saw a spirit of hostility 70
the railroad enterprise--a renewed deter
mination to kill it.
We are aware of the fact, that Judge
Bross has asserted that he was in good
faith in favor of what he promised to favor,
and got out Of his colleagues all that could
be obtained but Judge Marchildon, we
are informed, has said that he voted
against the order of the special term be-
cause it did not restore the subscription to
its original footing-did not go tar enough
in the direction Of the wishes Of friends of
enterprises whilo Judge McCritc declared
on the day on which the order was made
and after it had been made, that he did not
know exactly what the court had done
that the subscription had been made with
some sort of restrictions which he did not
clearly understand. Here we have two
members Of the court protesting that the |
order of the court did not meet |
their views, and one member that he |
did not know what had been ordered. |
Who can explain this mystery And
what is still more astonishing, in the same
breath in which Judge Bross asserts that
he wished to do more than the court did,
he declares his determination to not do
anything more in behalf Of the project
not if the city Of Cairo should sink--not
If ninety-nine voters in every hundred in
the county should order him to place the
subscription on its original footing sad
restore the donation contract
In the face Of these facts, there are u
few of the citizens of the county who APP
plaud the action of the court, and we are
informed that Judge Bross has said his
to do nothing NOR e--to rest
on his oars-has grown out Of the fact
that he has been abused. We cannot be-
lieve this. Judge Bross is a man of firm
onvictions-an intelligent gentleman, for
whom personally we entertain sentiment
Of warm friendship and respect aud we
have too high an opinion of his manhood
10 believe that he would allow SO trivial a
cause as the abuse of any man or set of
men to warp him from doing what
ne believes he should do. He
is too much Of man to
'ay: 81 know / ought to do this or
hat, but won't because the !S,t,, or the Pa
per, or THE BULLETIN, has made mouth
1t me-" He is, we hope, too much of
Democra, to cay: ~ know the people
are in favor Of this enterprise, but / will
not do the will of the people because l
don't like Col. Taylor, and dislike Cap.
tains Hurd and Halliday" He cannot be
driven, we know, but we hope that he can
be reached by rcason-that he can be in
fuenced by the will of his constituents.
We therefore hope that the movement
now on foot to obtain an expression of
public sentiment by petition and public
meeting may meet a return Of good A.,
results; and we appeal to the County
Court-to Judge Bross and Associate
Justices McCrite and Merchildon-ap-
peal to them in behalf of the endangered
of Cairo and Alexander county,
o give to this matter unprejudiced con-
liberation, and, sinking individual preju-
lice in consideration of the public veal, to
comply with the earnest desire of the peo- {
'le, and by granting the petition of the I
Cairo and Vincennes railroad company c
cave no room for the charge that they =
ire in enmity to the interests of
The city and county in which they
live. Granting the prayer of this petition
may not secure TO us the Cairo and Vim
cennes railroad, but granting it cannot in
any event work to the disadvantage of the
people of Alexander county-cannot take
from them cent unless for it they obtain
a fair equivalent.