Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1881-07-09

bear.
The system is enc, however, which
will ultimately lower the service and
saddle upon the people horde Of
mere time.kilers.
SOME friend has favored us with a
copy of the Fifty Third Annual Re-
port of the President and Directors
of the Chesapeake and Ohio canal
company" etc., recently made to the
stockholders.
A striking feature is observed in
the care and elaboration with which
all the matters pertinent are exhibit
ed. Conspicuous among these, and
the one of most interest to the JOUR-
NAL and its readers alike, is the doc
umentary record touching the con-
nection sought by the Georges Creek
and Cumberland railroad, via the
Pennsylvania railroad in Maryland,
aud the Baltimore and Ohio railroad,
with the canal. A careful reading of
the record ISSUED herewith in sup
plement) will make much plain that
has been misunderstood. 1t will be
seen that President German, begin
ming with the goth of July, 1880, up
to April Goth, l68l-the date of his
mastery letter touching the matter
referred to and heretofore published
in these columns-exerte1 himself
with all tie prudence and tact which
the object sugg, sted to secure The ac-
GERS to the canal which the new road
desired and was entitled to. There
can be no doubt that his urgent de-
mands and unanswerable letters ulti-
mately achieved the connection now
in process Of completion, and which
must at very early day become a
substantial theme of rejoicing to the
wcrkingmen of this region.
The wider publication Of the facts
affords especial pleasure to the JOUR-
FAL, inasmuch as the issue of the
great controversy appears upon the
side of the people. Upon this ques-
ton, as upon all others, we have
stood irfexibly by the interests of the
populace and the welfare of the re-.
gion, and we are glad to know that
unconsciously we commended officially
for q result which Senator German
has shown was "lawful necessity
The attempted assassination of the
President of the United States last
Saturday was most shocking occur
renee. Whether considered as the
act of an individual, or as piece of
factional strategy, it is an extra-capi.
tai crime which no restraint known
to our institutions seems wholly able
to meet. 1t is none the less, how
ever, a shame, burning shame, in a
country, free, fair and liberal as ours,
that such assaults upon our political
and business economy are possible;
moreover, that any individual may
feel called by any stress Of circum-
stances to strike down the ruler whom
hepeople have set W. In monsrchies
where the "divine right" is hereditary
and the caprice of king and emperor
is law, such offences may sometimes
possess tile quality CT justification.
Even there, however, the proyocation
must involve widespread, wanton
oppression and inaexible cruelty, that
bloody resentment may evoke the APP
probation and endorsement of man
kind.
But the assassin, as such, always
and everywhere to be hated, is to be
despised in NO land under the sun SO
much as this. Whether as the instru-
ment Of his own develish volitions, or
of the execrable behests of his en-
ployers, he is the same loathsome
creature, wholly berefr of title to
leniency. If a socialist of that radi-
cal order most affecting to love lib
erty, he is its worst foe; or, "a stall
wart of the stalwarts" seeking the
elevation of his faction, he is through
his means an enemy to tie people be.
sides whom all others now living are
angels of light. If the biggest thing
outside of Gods kingdom is a devil,
the biz geat devil is an assassin in a
free country
President Garfield has done no.
thing to provoke deadly hostility to
his office or person. A difference
with faction of his own party has
been occasioned solely by an indepen-
dent determination to exercise pre-