Year: 1866

our aid, secure the completion of thI
Henderson and Nashville Road. NJ
reason is given, except that we don
need another road running North unit
that one is in operation. Ihave already
shown that because the Evansville 4
Charlottesville Road cans OF, or does not
at all times promptly forward goods
large quantities that otherwise woulC
come here are pas on railroads at other
places.


Leave the Straight Line Road anfin.
ished and complete the Henderson and
Nashville road, and not pound of the
produce received at Henderson would
pass through Evansville to other mar
kets. 1t would be shipped on the Lou
isville and Henderson packets, and pass
on to New Albany, and the owners would
90 with their goods. 1be manifests
would read, Owners on board, and we
would get neither their produce nor their
custom. Let the people South of us
understand that they can, at any time,
forward their cotton, sugar, tobacco, DC.
by rail, and that there is a market here
for their commodities, and then they
will come here with their produce, and
if they can sell it at satisfactory prices
they will do go, and invest the proceeds
10 our merchandise and manufactures
But they will not come here with their
produce, il view of the probable alter
native of being compelled to sell It for
less than its value, or wait one, two, or
three months for the Evansville & Craw-
fordsyiIle road to forward it to a better
market


have said there would be organized
opposition. A partially successful at,
tempt has been made TO make use Of
the newly organized Board of Trade as
en- engine to aid in crushing the
Straight Line Railroad enterprise. One
gentleman presented to- the board at
the last meeting preamble and reso
lutions, setting forth the Importance to
Evansville of the Henderson and Nash
vile road, and pledging the members to
use their best efforts to induce the peo.
pie of Evansville, Gin their individual
and corporate capacity, to take stock in
said road, to an amount sufficient to in
sure the completion of said road, pro-
vided, &c." l objected to that port on in
relation to taking stock 10 orr "corpo-
rate capacity" on the ground that the
corporation had no power to take stock
in the Henderson and NASHVILLE road,
and added that humbug and deception
sometimes secured temporary advanta-
ges, bEt that it was always better in he
long run not to attempt 70 delude others
by promising to do that which could not
be done. ] also argued that our future
prosperity depended upon the completion
of both the Henderson and Nashville
Road, and the Straight Line Road, and
that my proposition was that the city, as
q corporation. should aid in construct
ing the Straight Line Road, aad that
individual ciizens should take stock in
the Henderson and Nashville Road


Instantly, upon the conclusion OF my
remarks, the cIoven foot appeared pro-
truding from beneath the mantle which
had hitherto concealed the presence


No objection to taking stock in the
Straight Line Road, on account of in
creased taxation, was urged 1t could
not be done at that time BY one who was
a resolution promising to
INDUCE the people to take st ock in the
Henderson & Nashville Road 20 any
amount necessary Ia secure The coupe
ton of that road But it will be urged
by the same class of men; We are
tsxed nov, and have been for ten yea re-,
to pay interest at seven per cent. on
800, 600 already invested in III, Straight
Line Road, and will have to pay the
principal some day, whether the road is
finished or not; and We may lhavesto pay
100000 poTeI If we refuse to take
stock, and still have no road.


/ propose that the city shall help to
finish the road and have the benefit of
our money I desire the city to take
only $l50,0 600 OF stock to aid in compile
ting fifiy-seven miles of road, in our own
State and under our control, while the
Board of Trade proposes TO take "any
amount of stock necessary to secure the
Of" one hundred miles Of
more costly road in Kentucky. Taxa
ton is monstrons bugbearif incurred
for the completion Of Ihe straight Iine
Road, but tsxatiep to an amount two or
three times as great, for the completion
Of the Henderson 4 Nashville Road, is
small matter The simpls truth is
that the cry about taxation is a mere
pretence, resor;ed to TO conceal the real
motive, which is to prevent the comple-
lion Of the Straight Line Road, sosas to
continue the monopoly of-the Evans
Vile J. Charlottesville Road for the
benefit of the few who own its stock.


The same men will insist that soma
guaranty shall be given thst the road
will be finished. Was any such guar.
snty given Ia relation 10 the Evansville
and Crawfordsville road? Does the reso.
luton of the Board of Trade demand
any such guaranty that the Henderson
and NashYiile road shall be completed? /?
This is another appeal Of the demagogue,
to preludices known to have been engenr
dered by the disasters of the Evansville,
Indianapolis & Cleveland Straight Line
Railroad Coupany. aAre there not in
this community men sshonest and trust-
worthy as those who have had control of
the Evansville h Charlottesville road ?
May those who have managed that cons,
Germ rightfully say, "thank God we are
not as other men2 clamor as we will,
against the deprsvity of human nature,
We must have faith in the integrity of
man. Without il, not only trade and
commerce, but society itself must eease.
All the terms of. the subscription are
left by the law to the discretion of the
Council. They can emhody in it any
and very stipulation and condition
WHICH to them may seem best calculated
to prevent the money from being lost or
squandered, and it seemsto me that the
people who elected the Councilman,
ought to have sufficient confidence in
their chosen officers 10 leave TO them the
details Of the Contract Of subscription.
They are not wanting in intelligence
and integrity, nor will they fail to avail
themselves of every means for the pro-


lection of our interests which is
practicable in such cases. In all our


business, and every day of our


lives, each of us is of necessity com.


PEELED to trust and con6de in our


Heighbots to some extent. Tithont this


trust and confidence no community, civ


iiized or savage, can exist.


The city and county took stock TO the


amount. OF two hundred thousand dol