Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1872-06-05

and lose the case too.
In the meantime the project Of an in-
dependent line from Portland to lake
Champlain had been gaining strength and
taking form all along the line. Boston
became aroused. The Vermont Central
bondholders, an association Of Boston
capitalists. and who, Of course, care more
for Boston than any other community in
the world, began to stir themselves to
head of this threatening rival. H-ving
failed to secure connection with the Port
land road at West Danvile; or, in other
words by the Montpelier line, aud find
ing they must concede something to the
Lamoillo Valley enterprise, they proposed
buiilng branch further west, TO connect
their line with the Portland road, or from
Waterbury to MorrisvilIe. This, they ar
gued, would paoify the most important
part of the Lamoille Valley, and would
be a virtual fufilment Of the pledges Of
St. Johpsbury; it would also effect what
the Vermont Central has from first to
last, aud above all desired, to wit, cut
off the Portland railroad from independ
ent communication with Lake Champ,aiu,
and from prospective connections with
Montreal and the West. St. Johnsbury
declined TO accedc to this. Her pledges
to the Lamoile Valley and Franklin Couu-
ty were to be kept in full. So this fell
through although the Central would build
the branch at her owu expense
The Central made vet third effort 1t
offered to build, at its own cost, branch
from Cambridge, on the Portland road, to
Georgia Bridge, on its own line. Observe
the proposition was not to build from Cam
bridge to burlington. The Vermont Cen
tral didn't want the Portland road to
touch Lake ChampIaiu at any point. All
its propositions and all its arrangements
have had in view making the Portland
road its subordinate, and q peusioner up
on its bounty. This proposition, like the
others, was rejected, because its accept
aDce would compel St. Johnsbury TO break
faith with us in the Lamoile Valley, and
our nelghbors west in Franklin county
st. Johnsbury, in all these trials, saved
her honor untarnished. Standing to her
pledges, she got shorter route and bet.
ter route in every regard. Montpelier.
detection proved to be the best thing fol
= st. Johnsbury, and will prove great gain
, to the whole line 1t led to the choice Of
, an independent road from Casco Bay tc
r Lake Champain, and thence to Muntrea
7 and the West.
: From this point onward, from the timt
: it became evident that its purposes cou {
' not be carried out, hostility of the Yer
mont Central to the Portland railroad be
gan to be manifested. In the languge o
: its own exponent aud advocate, its "for
0 mer feeling of friendship vanished, anc
r in the spirit as confessed, that "interest
e before mutual had become rival" If thu
: Portland road would not be handmade
S to their road, it should not be at all, ha
e been the temper manifested. To cut Port
4 land off from Ogdensburg. the ultimate
I point of destination, it leased the "olt
p; Ogdensburg" line, move, as matters arr
, issuing proving utterly abortive for th
t purpose intended. 1t hoped to cut Port
e land off from Montreal likewise, aud tn
: great railway system thence westward
g now entering upon construction. Its hop
e has turned to ashes on its lips. Aud now
e torgetfnl of the past, with the most auda
, cious disregard of its own record as res
: poets the Notch route, it is pouring ou
Q through every medium at its command.
c torrent ofabuSe aud misstatement upon tn
e head OF its own offspring, Do the man
: ayers of that railroad imagine that tn
+ people Of Portland have no memories
S Have not your people heard the coutroll
S er of that railroad demonstrate with al
= the eloquence of persuasive statement, th
Notch route to be the route of all routes
. Did he not advise, urge, and beg the cit
: Of Portland to put its money into it? Di
n he not vouch for it early and late D
he not offer to lease the whole road a
( six per cent? And now, when, throug
: elaborate columns of misrepresentation
Z effort is made to disgust tho Portland put
e lie with their undertaking, will not tha
public hold up the present to the miro
e of the past, and see how the Impression
0 tally? Gentlemen of the Vermont Cen
Q tral, you are at once too late and too 500
!. ---too late because yourformer utterance
!. have been promulgated-too soon becaus
n they are not yet forgotten. Your cour
: sells, gentlemen, we feel free to believe
t have notbeen sought Portland has ey
: cry reason to be distrustial Of you. Par
/ ties who can eat their own words, and de
. my the common sense Of their own repent