| From the Daily Bulletin (Charlotte, N.
C.) |
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| January 9, 1862 |
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| Editor of the Bulletin: |
| "Agricola," in your
Wednesdays issue, states that "the country has not been
indifferent to the contest now pending in our town for
Commissioners." While we are willing to see our country friend
take an interest in our town election, yet we beg of him to take a
truthful view of the matter, and make a truthful statement of
the point at issue. |
| He states that the town
subscribed $40,000, paid half the debt, and now certain parties do not
want to pay at all. Agricola mistates the matter, (whether willfully
and with evil design or not, we do not say.) The town subscribed not
$40,000 -- but $60,000, with the condition for an independent
guage. The Commissioners of the year 1860, without authority from
the people, reduced the subscription to $40,000, and gave up the
independent guage, and virtually made the road an extension of the C.
& S. C. R. R., and Charlotte a way station thereon. |
| The Board of 1861 doubting the
authority of the preceding Board to undo what the people themselves,
through the ballot box, had ordered, refused to sanction this change
of subscription and guage, and therefore refused to pay the interest
on the debt after such a change, so prejudicial to the interests of
this town, and so contrary to the original contract. They regarded the
interests of the town of Charlotte as paramount to the interests of
the C. & S. C. R. R. Co., who were extending their road at the
expense of the Corporation of Charlotte -- and they throw themselves
upon the verdict of the people of the town to say whether they have
done right in protecting the town from such an imposition as the
extension of the C. & S. C. R. R. Co. {Charlotte
& South Carolina RR}, commonly called the A. T. & O. R.
R. {Atlantic, Tennessee & Ohio RR},
is likely to be. |
| Agricola may be a stockholder
in the C. & S. C. R. R. If so, 'tis plain why he thinks the
present Board wrong; he will make his profits in increased
dividends; and it matters not to him if the people are saddled with a
heavy and urgent debt. |
| Citizen |
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