Counter statement of the Plattsburg and Montreal Railroad Company, addressed to the Legislature and public of Canada.

|i»Yaying fhat tne property on the security of which they lent their anoney to the Montreal Company may not be transferred to another Company, whose only object in acquiring the same is avow-• ose of ali buildings to the highest bidder for any piirix)se, and the object to be attained by this wanton destruction of a great public enterprise is to restore to the Champlain Read its ancient and vexatious monopoly.This is evidenced by the language of the Acts of amalgamation now before the Legislature, and it can be proved to be the com- unon, every day opinion, and determination expressed openly by the Directors and leading Stockholders of the Champlain Road, a;t is too notorious to require proof anywhere except before the Railway Committee, where, it is earneetly hoped, such proof maj he demanded .andreoeived.With this sole object of the proposed amalgamation before our eyes, we will now proceed to discuss the statements put forth by the representatives of the two Companies.The object of this statement is, in the first place, to show that the Plattsburg Company have no just ground for opposing the amalgamation, and the tendency of the leading arguments is, to shew, -First.-Thatno agreement existed ah initio for the simultaneous construction and continued co-operation of the " Montreal " and of the "Plattsburg "Road.In support of this assertion it is stated " that an agreement was " entered into to run the two Roads as one interest on the 15th "day of September, 1852.The date of this agreement being '^a fter the Roads were finished, affords another argument that the " Roads were originally built independently of each other, and " that so far and so long only as served their mutual interest did " they mean to run in common."The signers of this statement must have forgotten,-they cannot be ignorant ofpreceding agreements.The printed prospectus of the Lake St. Louis and Province Line Railroad, (be it remembered here that the Lake St. Louis and Province Line Railroad v/as subsequently united to the Montreal and Lachine Road, under the name of the Montreal and New York Railroad,) issued to the public in August, 1850, sets forth: " 4.This Line commences at the Indian Village of Caughna- " waga, opposite to Lachine, and continues to the Province Line '-at or in theTownshipof Mooers, in the State of New York." G.At this point in the Township of Mooers it is proposed to " unite the Lake St. Louis and Province Line Railroad with the " Plattsburg and Montreal Railroad." 1.The Plattsburg and Montreal Railroad Company is a law-" fully organised Company, with a considerable amount of capital '' actually paid up.It commences at Plattsburgh, and, as its- " name purports, mill terminate in the City of Montreal^hymeans " of the Lake St. Louis and Province Line, and Montreal and' " Lachine Railroads, " 8.By these Lines passengers and freight, embarking in the " cars at the terminus of the Montreal and Lachine Railroads, can " at all seasons of the year, and every day in the season, be put " down at Plattsburg in two hours.

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