Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1873-12-17
Tho Trnstee Prncess.

road trustccd the lower roads, in order to
get its rent from the Central Vermont.
The suit was to be brought before Massa-
chusetts court The Central Vermont asked
Of the Court Of Chancory an injunction re.
straining the Vermont & Canada from pros
ccuting any such suit The injunction was
granted 10 respect to the process, and also
in respect to all further action on the part
Of the Vermont & Canada against the cur.
rent earnings Of the Central.
There were in the hands Of tho lower
roads when this process was issued, more
than 100000 belonging to the Central
Vermont and due to it, The effect Of the
process was to lock itup in the hands Of the
lower roads, and keep it out Of the hands Of
the parties to whom it rightfully belonged.
For it must be remembered that the Yer.
mont & Canada corporation gave lis legal
consent to all the leases and expenditures
made by the Trustees, for which its own
stock was liable, and under which it now
groaneth and travaieth 10 pain 1t was
principal in all the transactions for which
1t now suffers loss of rent 1t is irwin, il
vain to get its neck cut Of the responsible.
tics which it voluntarily assumed Hence
these suits and processes, these writs and
clamors aud agonies. Having become re.
sponsible for vast debt in connection with
the Central, it is aiming to shirk its oh.
legations, aud leave the Central to suffer
while it goes scot free. The courts would
doubtless gladly relieve the Vermont &
Canada, if they could de so legally and
honorably. But it would be a new thing
under The sun for our courts TO aequit =
corporation Of responsibility for its own
actions and endorsements.
We are surprised that the lower roads
should lend themselves to aid and abet these
unhaudsome and puorile procedures The
time must certainly come when they will
regret it. Their action with regard to the
Central Vermont seems to be spteful and
yindictiyc. They act as if they were un.
able to do it any serious injury, and were
therefore DESTROYS to put it under as many
inconvenience and disagreeabliiies aud diff
fcultes as they could If the Vermont &
Canada, with its allies on the lower roads,
were a set Of old women, they could not
evinco any more feminine spite than they
now do. Defeated in all their movements
| by the courts, they stil resort to all posi-
bic arts to yex aud prosecute and disparage
the Trustees Of the Central. They have
engaged in a miserable and hopeless war
against the results Of their own actions
against their old associates, with whom they
are equally responsible for the present
position Of affairs; against all rational aud
legal preccdents, and against judiciary
which is neither to be nlttered or brow
beaten. 1t is time for this malicious war
fare to cease 1t benefits nobody. 1t is
not in this way that the Vermont & Canada
can collect its rents, or the Central be put
in way to meet them. These prosecutions
are malignant and shameful. They are
iustigatod not by any expectation Of relief
but by malicious desire to injure They
involve large expenditures in legal pro-
ceedings. They are the frantic struggles
of bedlamites, and not the action of sensible
and honorable men.
If there is any political object behind
these incessant and petty prosecutions Of
the managers Of the Central Vermont
who are acting under the charter of the
Legislature, aud according to the order
aud direction Of our courts-we assure
the principals in them that their policy is
as bad as their principles, and that the high
offices of Vermont will not be the reward
of the untiring bitter warfare, which has
sought, for two years past, to cripple and
destroy our leading railroad interests and
hand them over to the mercy of foreign
corporations, and to overthrow public con-
idence in our most honorable men.