The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1877-06-30

next breath they tell US that the railroa
gets every cent that is made on it.
Charleston has not only the Chesa
peake and Ohio railroad, but she has th
Great Kanswhs river, now boing i'm
proved by the United States as q part o
the great central through water line from
the West and South to the Atlanti,
ocean, which increases her means o.
transportation ten, or perhaps. twenty
fold over those of Clsrksburg.
And IN addition TO this the location o.
the seat of government at Charleston
under the terms Of the act passed by the
last Legislature, which insure its perma
nency, will compel the building of rail
ROAD from some one or more points on
the Chesapeake and Ohio railroad to the
Baltimore and Ohio railroad, but which
location at Clarksburg will not do, OF
even tend to do.
RAILROAD FROM CHARLESTON TO CLARKs.
And while ! am on this subject of the
railroad allow me to respond to q ques-
ton propounded to me by writer in the
weston Democrat, a copy Of which has
just been put into my hands. The
writer asks me to state whether or not
am authorized by the people of Charles.
TON to pledge them 10 the building of a
railroad from that place to Clsrksburg.
my answer is that sm not authorized
by the peaple of Charleston to make any
sort OF pledge for them upon the subject.
The people Of Charleston have not
talked with me, nor to them in relation
TO the matter.
But am happy at being able to give
you something better than mere pledge
upon the subject. After the Capital had
been located At Charleston under the act
OF 1869, the people of Charleston, and
hanaWha county, turned their attention
TO the subject of a railroad from that
place TO some point on the Baltimore and
Ohio railroad, and several public meet
lngs, il l remember correctly. were held
upon the subject, at one of which adelega
; ton from Clsrksburg was present.
They assured us that il Kan
aWhs county would vote S225OOO
to the construction of the
road BY way OF Wes-
ton to Clsrksburg, Harrison county
would vote like sum, ard if the other
counties along the line of The road would
vote an amount TO be assigned them, the
road would be built, and the Capital
would be safely anchored at Charleston
The county of Ksnswhs, notwithstand.
ing the fact that she had voted $500 600
to the Chesapeake and Ohio railroad,
took them at their word and voted tho
1925, 900. The counties of Clay, Brsxton,
and Lewis, all voted the sums assigned
them, but the county OF Harrison, in
violation of the solemn pledge of her
representatives, refused 10 vote anything;
in fact she refused to take any vote up
on the subject. Arrangements had made
been to build the road if
these subscriptions were made,
but the failure of Harrison county
to comply with her part of the
agreement defeated the undertaking.
Then the agitation over the removal Of
the Capital from Charleston com
menced, and the panic came on, and Il .
iOoo % NV UulIb oub kuC pOOPlo ~
Lewis county determined some time ago
to build that part of this road from Wes-
ton to Clarksburg, relying as am in
formed, upon the people Of Clarksburg TO
help them, but, TO their great surprise,
the people of Clsrksburg not
only refused 10 help them
build the road, but even re-
f,,oaI hn ri-ht 81 rnn1h n
town to the place at which they desired to
make the connection with the Baltimore
and Ohio railroad These facts state
not of my own knowledge, but upon in
formation derived from the citizens of
te htown of Weston, and if they are not
true the gentlemen present from Clsrks-
burg can correct them.
But the bill to take the vote Of the
people upon the location Of the Capital,
passed the Legislature. and Clsrksburg
wanted the votes of Lewis county and
then she began te repent of her conduct
in regard to the railroad, but l never had
much confidence in desth-bed repent
ace. Clsrksburg is sick and ready TO
die, and she is repenting in ssckcloth
and ashes over her opposition to your
railroad, and she now proposes not or y
to permit you to locate your road through
Ter sacred precincts, but TO subcrlbe the
munifcient sum OF $4,000 to its con-
struction. But my friends let me give
you piece of advice, and / charge you
nothing for it if l am lawyer, and that
is to secure this subscription, and bind 1t
fast and tight in black and white before
you vote upon this Capital question.
Don't by any means let it go till after the
August election, for it is we'll TO bear in
mind the familiar couplet, and 1 mean
no disrespect TO Clarksburg by repeating
it.,
"The devil got sick, the devil a saint
The devil got well, but devil a saint
was he
This same writer asks 10 explain 10
the people of Lewis county wherin it can
be TO their interest to locate the Capital a.
Charleston, more than hundred miles
away instead of at Clsrksburg, only
twenty-three miles away Ifthere were
no other considerations connected with
the location of the Capital but the mere
matter OF distance TO be travelled 10 reach
it, there would be something IN the sug :.
gestion. Bat the people OF Lewis county
are, trust and believe, prepared TO look
at this question In very different light
than that OF 8 mere matter Of convent
ence to themselves in reaching the seat
of government. They are, am,
convinced, ready to concede the tact that
the people of the Third Cohgressions 81
District have some rights which the peo-
pie of the First and Second Districts are
bound to repect and that they are will
ing 70
PASS UPON THIS VERY IMPORTANT CUES
TON WITH REFERENCE To THE IN
TEREsT OF THE STATE AT LARGE,
and no, with reference 70 the interest OF
a little town that never viii and never
can amour, to anything more of conse'
ouence, with the Capital, than without il.
And 1 insist upon il that every interest
OF the people OF Lewis county, unless it
may be thst of few persons 10 Weston