Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 May 1877 — RAILROAD MEETING. [ARTICLE]

RAILROAD MEETING.

Mr. Lee, president of the Indianapolis, Delphi and Chicago Railroad Company, has written to Mr. Alfred McCoy under date of May 26, that Col. Prescott and himself had a very pleasant trip of inspection over the proposed line of this road and were well pleased with the outlook for business if the road is built. He is of the opinion that it will be a valuable road when in operation—“as good as any contemplated line in the state.” He will be in Rensselaer on Sat* nrday, June 9th, and desires to meet all the people of Jasper county that feel an interest in the project in a public meeting to be held in the court house at 2 o'clock p. m. on that day, at which time he will be prepared to unfold the plans of the cbmpany and listen to all suggestions that may be offered by the people of this locality. This being a matter in which all the local readers of The Union necessarily are interested we recommend that there be a full attendance.

Elsewhere is published a letter from Elder D. T. Halstead who is held in the highest esteem by the local readers of The Union. It will be seen that he comes to the defense of the people of Magnolia and Macomb City in Pike county, Mississippi, against certain reflections of a general character that appeared in these columns a week or two since. Mr. Halstead’s high character for impartiality and truthfulness entitle any and all statements made by him to implicit confidence. Whatever he says may be relied upon as being strictly in accordance with the facts as he understands them. For many years it has been the policy of The Union to favor the settlement of the South by enterprising men possessing capital, intelligence, enterprise arid habits of industry. No portion of the United States has nature more lavishly endowed with advantages than those states lying south of the Ohio river. There is not a region of country on the American continent where fertility of soil and mildness of climate combine so attractively. The resources of that portion of our country have not been'half developed. Let the present inhabitants but display an earnest determination to carry out in good faith the promises which secured for them a modification of the policy of the government at. Washington and there will dawn upon them a season of prosperity. far in excess of the hopes of their most sanguine friends. Comes now that rampant administration organ at Chicago,* yclept the Tribunrt, and tells its readers that the recent murder of a republican negro in one of the Feliciana parishes of Louisiana had no political significance whatever; that it was the result of the madness of a husband whose wife the aforesaid prominent republi can negro had debauched; and the Tribune hacks up its statement with the certificate of the circuit judge and prosecuting attorney Of that district. A peculiar feature of all those outrages, murders and assassinations is that the victims invariably happen to be active republicans. In the particular case referred to it may possibly be that the reason alleged is the true one, but somehow it does really seem singular and the singularity is becoming monotonous that all of the sufferers are invariably republicans. At the north it is not true that republican voles are confined to the lower lawless ranks of society, and hence it is difficult for the average northern, manto understand how and. why it is that they should all or nearly'all belong to those classes in the south.