From the Cortland Standard of Cortland, NY
Wednesday, August 2, 1876

War on the Midland

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   An occasional correspondent from Cuyler gives a brief history of the Midland troubles in our columns to-day, and doubtless expresses also the general feeling of that community towards the company. With this feeling there is little question but that the people of the county, so far as they are acquainted with the facts of the case, heartily sympathize.

   But there is one thing with which no fair-minded man can sympathize, and that is the placing of obstructions upon the track, thereby stopping or throwing off the trains. It is almost a marvel that one one has not been killed or seriously injured.

   The killing or maiming of passengers who are in no way responsible for the misdeeds of the Company, would be a most inhuman method of bringing the Company to terms, and any proceedings which would tend to produce such a calamity should be sternly frowned upon. We are informed that it was the intention of the U.I.&E. Company to stop the train which they had commenced running at Cuyler after a few days, and if this is the fact, the lawless persons who obstructed the track did themselves as well as the town a great unkindness in forcing the Company to withdraw the train.