The interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1872-1881, 1874-01-09
THAT RAILROAD AGAIN.

THAT RAILROAD AGAIN.
To err is man.likc, to forgive is like
woman. We confess TO have been lit
Gle surly about that railroads giving our
venerable collection Of dilapidated dom
icils the 90 by; for we are routed, horse,
foot aud squirt-gun battalion. We are
left houseless, homeless and pennies, as
nude as japanese cur and the deuce
is, we are too proud to beg. We know
that by our impertinent insinuations and
Thomas.like incredulity, we have wound
ed the sensibilities Of the great and good
men who have been commissioned TO
spend that little fund of Cincinnatis;
but we come now in sack cloth and coal
dust, repcntent and Inundated and ask
pardon for our perversncss; and we feel
that in so doing We save to the country
the manifold blessings Of "that road. "
We could not, in after life, bear the har-
rowing thought that our pervcrsncss
oaused the abandonment of fostupendous
an undertaking as the Cincinnati South
ern Railroad. We now trust that the
gentlemen of the Board won't mind
what WE may have said in some unguard-
ed moment, for our special friend kauif'
man wants "that road, and he ought
10 have it. There's lots of folks in the
West End who want "tha: road" and,
Inconsistent as the declaration may seem,
WE want il too and we want il to run
just where the surveyors have made it
run and nowhere else. We are now per-
fectly reconciled to the awful circum-
stance which compels us to walk eight
miles of the way to Cincinnati, and to
foat our paper, type and whisky that
distance on our broad-guaged shoulders.
Indeed, that is a matter Of no conse-
quence, just so long as We are annexed
to Porkopolis. Give us that boon or
give US expatriation. We don't care
for having our bluegrass cut up, our
stock killed up, our marvellous soil torn up,
just so we have the privilege of looking
upon Porkopolis engine occasionally,
and Of running down To the little city at
the mouth of Licking for the purpose of
attending to our suits against that road
in the Federal Court-result Of the con-
lessness ola drunken engineer We don't
mind these little unpleasant necessities.
We want that road-especially, since
Cincinnati nabobs foot the bills of con-
struction. Give us the road and take a
quit-claim title to our real estate, but
nary dime will we give thee.
These have been our sentiments since
the first application was made to the
Kentucky Legislature for grant to con-
denim line through belt of forty
miles of our country. Upon these terms
we were, from the first, willing to accept
the road upon any line or route that was
most satisfactory to Cincinnati. We
were unwilling toacceptit upon any other
terms. Porkopolis, through her repre-
sentatives, excited our anger and incur
red our everlasting displeasure by plying
the thumb-screws to the people of Cen
trail Kentucky, playing the simpering,
giggling coquet, endeavoring to pit
county against county and section against
section with the vain hope of extorting
from Kentuckians the money to carry
out Cincinnati's enterprise, and build up
Porkopolis's institutions. She worked
upon our credulity, got us terribly excl
ted and envious of each others chances
in the grandest lottery of the age-but
she didn't gull us out of our money.
Failing in that, she has, 'after many
days'-but not until compelled by our
liberal charter--given some indications
that she means business, by partially To-
eating the road and shoyeling down our
mountains and tearing up our peerless
bluegrass pastures. She is now digging
u great hole in the boss Knob (Which we
hope will not be the grave of the en-
terprise), condemning lands, ETC., in or
county. This smacks of business, and
indicates purpose to construct thor
oughfare long needed, the good results
Of which, even in our county, il is I'M
possible to estimate.
We say, success TO you, Messrs. Bish.
op, Heddle, Skeddle, Wharfrat Il Co.,
in the important work of connecting
your city, by direct line of railway,
with the South, and developing a region
Of country in our own State which
abounds in hidden wealth enough, if
utilized, to build a double-gold-track
railway to the moon. Since the Trus-
tees of "that road" have shown a pur.
pose to act, and act Immediately, We de-
clare truce, but when they begin to
show signs of that dilatoriness that has
characterized their merchants during the
past two years, we claim the privilege
of grumbling, Kaufman, Hawkins and
Falstaf, Notwithstanding.
The Kentucky Legislature.
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