NP, GN 8/3/1861

From the Galveston News
 
August 3, 1861
 
The Railroad Question
Messrs. Editors
   Had I known that Mr. T. H. McMahan was the Vice President of the Harrisburg Railroad {Buffalo Bayou, Brazos & Colorado RR}, I should certainly have written the article signed C., in more courteous phrase and with more respectful language; for there is no man living for whom I have a higher respect than for him. When he sees the signature below, I am sure he will not imagine that I could have included him among the officials, upon whom I animadverted so severely.
   I wrote strongly, because I felt strongly; and I felt strongly, because from my official position as Chief Justice of this county, I have greater opportunities perhaps, than any other, of witnessing the unemployed working classes in our community. I wrote too, under another misapprehension; I had been informed that more than nine-tenths of the stock of that Road was owned at the North, and that only enough stock was distributed in this State, to qualify a Board of Directors under the requirements of the law.
   With this explanation, I adhere to what I have written, and subscribe myself,
Your ob't serv't
J. P. Cole

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