Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1849-03-13
To the Editors OF the Enquirer:
NcNppIs TENNESSEE. Feb, %, LEA!

MessIs. Editors Accompanying this letter |
send you a Memphis paper, containing the pro-
c~eedines Of a meeting OF the cilizeEs OF our
Town, responsive 10 a meeting recently held al
Little Rock, Arkansas, in favor OF a Railroad
from This point 10 he Pacihc.
From a perusal Of the proceedings, you VIII
| find thai i : propnsed 10 hold a Convention AT
Memphis on The Fourth Of July nexl, 10 which
| ali Inc States ut The Union, and The citizens
thereof, who may De interested in, and favorable
| TO the proposed route OF a lailIoad, are invited Ia
send delegates.
Iuust that | need not apologize Tor requesting
| YOU (Which /. now dog 10 copy in your valuable
| journal the proceedings Of our meeting. No Al
| lantic Stale can DC more interested IN The pro-
| posed railroad Than Virginia; ami | trust She vii.
lie ably represented here on the 4th OF July ncxl
Yon may, perhaps, remember, that, abou
twelye mon n ago. whist the Legislature II
your STATE AMI your piCss were discussing ID"
Wcptictl and relative mefiis ol different routes
and sy>.ems Of internal improvement, The writer
al This wIo;e a communication luf Tie Enquirer
II wh oh he eGdeavcred L. show lhai the lfue in
leresl> al your Slqie required a iaiiIoad from
| Richmond 70 ihc Tennessee line. Among Other
| reasons even for that atca, work, ! stated lha',
| il Virginia would bui,d road 10 the Tennessee
| line, TIA; / did mo- louh, hat Tennessee would
| ex,cnd Tie railroad 10 this point; and that the road
would men be extended 10 some pert On the Ia.
| cifc, which we would acquire by the war win
| Mexico, and which we would never surrender.
mu>i refer you 10 the article itself iar lhc Tca-
sons why then inoushl, aud sill think, that tie
plan ] proposed was Inc mos, preferable Tor he
true interests If y,ur SAFE. One Of lie chlct
reasons why wrote hat article, was, that ! fully
belle we'd that Memphis would Ge The Poini j.
winch Inc Atahtic aud Pacine Made wouid NEE
and embrace each cher On ,hc Mississippi river;
and that The proposed pan would b. bsneicialin
us, oil Tennessee, as we'll as t. yon, Of Virginia
Although nv article was written and forward.
ed 10 you early in the session OF your Legisla-
lure, and long previous to The appearance OF the
article III II. Maury, in favor OF The Memphis
and Pacific Railroad, yet you Withheld is pub.
~iioalion until alter The appearance OF LII. Mau-
rvs Article, and then failed 10 notice The fact that
YOU had been in possession Of my article pregi-
Gus IL The appearance .Uf his.
Tais mortified me got a iiile-for, 10 those NJ,
cosniZanl q The iacis, it must evidently have
appeared lnai | stole the idea ot a Menph Is anu
Pacisc Railroad from him, without having Inc
| cando. 10 give him credit Tor II.
| de- rot complain IL this, Tor suppose You
regarded The great route ! hastily skelched, As
wild and chimeIical; and that, rot being sane.
TENED Ly a great name, as being scalcciy ~or-
Thy II consideration.
There is one other IDEA ! will adj, and thai is
| in reference 10 what seems to be u spiri, OF rival
| " that appears 10 be rising between different
points IN The Mississippi 10 regard a. the point.
The proposed railroad snail lap ;he Mississippi
river. This seems 10 Eie 10 br extremely silly;
To- let u suppose ina, Memphis was selected as
The point for The main rouc. the people II Mis-
souri, would run a road 10 ~iGlersect with j; some
where in The erea, prairies-and should ST.
Louis be the point, Memphis would ~intcrsect her
ROAD.
Il seems 10 be utterly impossible for any
one CITY. on the mississippi River, 10 appropriate
The whole Trade 10 herself. 1t is impossible. Il
viii never be.
The bes, plan would be 10 select some point in
the great prairi s, al which Two roads would
mser, and then eYierd enc read IL The Pacific.
This wenid reconcile conflicting Claims, and
would II a~sreeirs 10 do that in the start which
must inevitably ir Inc result IN The end. Onr
local position is such, that we must and will
have a road ION this point.
ARISTIDES.
[Oar intelligent correspondents statement, is
correct, though we are almost sure tina, VI did
make him he amende h0norabk. We reere;
that the Memphis paper, with the proceedings of
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