Gentlemen:— My second letter had been sent to you
before I received an answer to my first, declining to
make a reduction in the fare on your road for an
excursion party to Washington and Harper's Ferry, and Charlestown.
Since I received your answer I have seen paragraphs
in the newspapers stating that you were afraid to take
my excursion, as you believe it, they would not be a suitable class
of people to visit Virginia. In answer to that, I would say
that I have moved more than 200,000 people within the
last nine years in excursions, and I have had no accident happen
to any of them, nor have I ever had any complaint made that any of
them did not behave well. I do not think any one would go
on my excursion to Washington or Harper's Ferry that
would not conduct with propriety. I cannot say how
many would go on the excursion, but if it is got up about the
middle of December, so that they could be in Charlestown on
the 16th of December, I think a very large party could be got out.
Many would go to Washington, and not go to see the
men hung, while a great many would go to witness the
hanging. The sentence of the Judge was for them to be hung
in public, which means that the people may go to
see them hung that want to. In case a large party should
go it would be necessary that an extra train should be
in Baltimore on the morning of the 16th for Harper's Ferry and Charlestown, and remain there
for three or four hours, and return to Baltimore or
Washington the same night. I am told there are no hotel accommodations
at either Harper's Ferry or Charlestown, sufficient to take care
of one or two thousand people. If you
will take one fare for the excursion ticket from Baltimore
to Washington and back, I will advertise the excursion at once, and sell
them all tickets through to Washington, with the agreement that you will
sell round trip tickets to Charlestown or Harper's Ferry for
all that wish to go there.
You need not fear of any trouble from any of the people that will go on my excursion, as any one that would not behave well would not dare to go. Hoping to receive a favorable answer from you by return mail, I remain truly,
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