Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1877-03-30

generous opposition from the RAILROAD, the bill
was passed and by it the canal was completed
to Cumberland, thus placing this class of credi-
tors in the front ranks and as high and sacred
as the debt due to the man who puts the last
Single upon the house top or he who stops the
leak and saves the ship from sinking to the
bottom of the ocean. lie who questions, or
would hinder the payment Of an honest debt
! like this, is not worthy of public trust or to
be classed with upright and honest men.
| The canal 10 test the sincerity Of the railroad
made arrangements for transferring coal from
the latter to Dam No g. Pending the COM
pletion 10 Cumberland, the railroad asscnted
but clogged and hampered the arrangement by
such inconvenient conditions ms TO prevent and
discourage any one from engaging 10 any ex-
| tent in transporting by that route notwith-
standing its former professions Of mutual aid
and assistance and great benefit TO the State,
by which professions it has from time TO time
cajoled the Legislature into grants and privi-
! leges which it now returns by defiance of ils
authority and assaults upon its most vital in
| terests
The canal now, when about to emerge from
its long night of darkness and gloom, and
after overcoming innumerable hindrances and
difficulties which bad so long impeded its pro-
gress and crippled its productiveness, seemed
upon the verge of prosperity and success
| W ucu TdlltOHu, IOTpetIul OF us pro-
| fcssions and obligations, steal,hly steps in
and secures to itself the trade for which it was
not chartered and which lcgiIimately belonged
TO the canal, sister institution Of the State,
thus twhatever may be its professons) by its
| position and occupation menacing and placing
in peril and danger its most important trafc
and through it the very existence Of the canal
! itself
| Such is the Interior object Of the Bal imore
and Ohio railroad, Boosting II surplus Of $780,
! 900, 600 and Of constroling capital of $780,
900, 900, towards the canal, sister work 10
which the State has "A very large unproductive
investment, but which, if fairly dealt with and
let alone, is capable of speedily paying off its
preferred debt, and entirely relieve the people
of the long inflicted burthen of State taxation
Such its forgetfulness OF the pledges when
before the legislature for relief and assistance
THAT we are in no sense rivals but mutual
aids and assistants TO each olhcr.''
| And such lis want OF consideration TO q work
to whose magnanimity and generosity it is in
debted for pr0longaton Of its line beyond
the Point Of Rocks when arrested and hound
hand and foot at that point by The decision of
the Court of Appeals in favor ofthe canal, and
| further BY the corporation and assistance in
obtaining for it (lhe railroad) the subscription
of 50, 600, 900 at vital point Of its necessity.
Verify the old proverb, corporations have no
souls, never had n more apt illustration. than
in the dealings Of The great mammoth, railroad
ing, sleain-shipping, bookkeeping, canal-de
stoying aud coal-mining monopoly with the
State, its people and most imporian nj Interests
! In what have written utterly disclaim any
hostility to the Baltimore and Ohio railroad.
| Within its own sphere, and the declared and
| legitimate otjscts of its charter, il has no
| greater friend or warmer adnirer. II is only
when it departs from those objects and unjust
ly throws iis tremendous power against The
interests products aud investments ofthe State,
which the Constitution adopted BY the people
! torbi1s that | write To expose and condemn.
No part Of the State will feel this blow. I'M
less wisely ave7ted and coun;eracted, more
han Montgomery county, and it bchooves her
| people well to consider and heed The timely
admOnition Of Mr.. Peter, Take care of the
Chesapeake and Ohio canal.
AGRIcoLA
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