New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1852-04-12
A Railroad Appeal.

Messrs Editors of the C,escen-But few months since
city filed with enthusiasm for carrying our
great lines of internal communication A convention
concentrating much of intelligence influence and energy
laid before the community the necessity and practicabty
of perfect system of INSTRUMENTATION in the
great valley of the Mississippi and animated by one
common sentiment all seemed to be lending their energies
the accomplishment of this great object Now all is in
difference and lethargy. Why this Is that those
who were clothed with legislative power have not re-
sponded the expressed wishes of the peope On the
contrary the Legislatures of Tennessee and Mississippi in
the spirit of enlightened policy have granted all that
could be asked and Legislature have passed.
the organic law would permit the necessary enact
mens allow the people to engage in these important
improvements So far then, as the Legislature OF the
country every facility that could have been
expected has been granted Has, then, the necessity
which called into existence the earnest desire for the COM
pleton of these improvements become less urgent Is
the trade which have lost returning to city Are
those cities which competing with for the com
Of this rich valley less energetic On the contrary
every day adds fresh argument to those already in exist
and every mail tells of the increased energy of our
sister cities informs of the loss of this that
that wont to pour its rich tribute on our
wharvcs
The practical experience of last Fall it would SEEM
would have strongly impressed the citizens of NewOr
leans the necessity of perfect system Of internal
commu ucation than they at present possess that
uments appeals would again be wanted to rouse them
to nut forth all their energies 1t cannot have been for
ten that goods which shipped from NewIork to
this port to be forwarded the Northwest after arriving
here we're reshipped back NewYork and sent by the
lines railroads and canals to their place of destinations
and, that passengers who wished to reach Louisville
Cincinnati found the most expeditions and comfortable
route to be by the way of NewYork VIII not the
period the year bring the state Of things And,
So the urgent necessity for this city put forth all
its energies passed away If the whole city will
forward with the spirit that animated them last Jan
uary, the two great lines Of INSTRUMENTATION will be
charters for the great Northwestern Railroad pass
ing through Jackson Mississippi and for the Opelosas
road, submitted to the people firm decided
energetic spirit will these two roads and
open the commerce of country teemng with untold
wealth to city but if the citizens of NewOrleans
hold back each waits until he what his neigh
Dor will do these important improvements, traught with
the destiny of New0rleans, will be numbered among
the hopes that frightened sky but which have
| been lost in the dim shadows of the past.
Will not the citizens of NewOrleans. then rouse them
selves and stretch forth their hands to gather the u
that bountifu Providence intended for them? Let each
one, then take shares in these improvements If he
not take his thousands let him take his if his
tens let him take his single share and thus bring
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