Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1874-01-02
The Recent Vermont and canada

The Ertrnt Vermont and Canada Trustee suits,
The Montpelier Naltinidn commented in
the following vigorous manner on the re-
cent suits in Massa chusett7 against the Yer
mont and Canada
1t must he remembered that the Vermont
and Canada corporation gave its legal con-
sent to all the leases and expenditures made
BY the Trustees, for which its own stock
wa liable. and under which it now grcaneth
and trt>ailcth in pain. II was principal in
all tfi. ,rnn>lrtionS COR which it now suffers
loss Of i,ni II is trying in vain to get its
neck a..t 4 tht responsibilities which IT
voluntas..y assumed. Hence these suits and
process. these wriIs and clamors and
agonies Having become responsible for
vast debt, in connection with the Central.
it i aiming 10 shirk its obligations, and
leave the Central to sn(rer while it goes scot
free The courts would. doubtless, gladly
relieve the Vermont and Canada, it they
could d. - legally and honOrably. But it
would Dee new thing under the sun for our
courts 10 ac9uit corporation OF response
bi!it, for IL usn actions and endorsements.
We are surprised that the lower roads
should lend themselves to aid and abet these
unhandsome and puerile procedures. The
regret it. Their action with regard to the
Central Vermont seems to he spitelul and
vindictive They act as If they were unable
to do il any serious injury, aud were, there
fore DESTROYS to put 1t under as many incOn
yenienccs and disagreed bilities and official
ti,s as they could. Ii the Vermont and
Canada, with its allies on the lower roads,
were set of old woman, they could not
evince any more feminine spite than they
now do. Defeated in all their movements
BY the courts, they still resort TO all posi-
bic arts to vex and persecute and disparage
the Trustees of the Central. They have en-
gagged 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 posi-
ton Of affair." against all rational and legal
precedents, and against a Judiciary which Is
neither to be flattered or browhea ten. 1t is
time for this malicious warfare to cease. 1t
benefits nobody. 1t is not in this way that
the Vermont and Canada can collect its
rents, or the Central be put in a way to
meet them. These prosecutions are malig-
nant and shameful. They are instigated
not by any expectation of relief, but by
malicious desire to inlure. They involve
large expenditures in legal proceedings.
They are the frantic struggles of Bedlam-
ties, and not the action of sensible and hon
orable men.
If there is any political object behind
those incessant and petty prosecutions OF
the managers of the Central Eermont-who
are acting under the charter of the Legisla-
ture, and according to the order and dlrec
| ton of our courts we assure the prlncl-
pals in them that their policy is as bad as
their principles, and that the high offices OF
Vermont will not he the reward of the IN
firing. bitter warfare. which has sought for
two years past, to cripple and destroy our
! leading interests and hand them over to the
mercy of foreign corporations, and to over
throw public confidence in our most honor
able men,