Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1853-12-11
THE RAILROAD QUESTION.

IT seems that the Mayor and Aldermen, unable
to agree how the vote of the city account of the
stock owned by it in the Nashville and Chattanooga
Railroad shall be cast have resolved to submit the
question to the people on next Tuesday. We will
not permit ourselves to doubt that the answer IN
favor of the "old board will be very emphatic
Their management may not have been perfect, for
they are mortal men, but thatit has been eminent
" wise, energetic, and successful no unprecedented
man can doubt. Their superiors mon of business
capacity and ncorruptible integrity cannot be found
in the community Their success-in the face of ap
parenty insurmountable obstacles is S monument of
which they may well be proud. To reject these
men, who have so long and wisely labored for the
prosperity Of the city, would be disgrace to her
citizens Its very easy matter to ind FAULT and
for an lIstart critic to say that this and that thing
might have been better done. But no candid man
will seek only to pick out little flaws in the man
agelnent of so stupendous a work, and disregard
the wisdom and forecast which planned and has
steadily carried it forward 10 its completion Ii 1t
is necessary to overlook any minor errors OF judg-
1nent on the part of the present directory, what
vast volume of errors should we have had tn excuse
had their present critics been directors IL their
stead
1t is said that the directory have spent too much
money. And yet it is undoubtly true that the
seset springs of the attempt to suppant this direc
tory lie in their refusal to pay to certain contractors
as much money as those contractors claim to be
tkeir duel
1t is SAID that the election of Mr. HORN as Mayor
and of certa n Aldermen was decision against the
present boardI Not bit ofitl Mr. Horn should
be modest enough to remember that be is a niaoTI-
I'd MAYOR having received little more than third OF
the votes cast; and we doubt if half of those who
voted for him were ever told that they were thus
voting against the present board, and for old DR..
A7.st,,o1gs neB Certain it is, that we ourselves
voted for one OF The aldermen who now uses this
argument when we would have seen him in DR..
Armstrong; mll-pond before voting for him if he
had only let US into his secret before hand
1t IS but simple truth to say, that no road in the
United States of equal extent has ever been as
cheapy built as his the Nashville and Chattanooga
road. 1t is a wonder, considering the formidable
obstacles it has encountered, in comparatively
new and sparsely settled country, thatit has been
built Ii has succeeded because its directory were
men of iron energy and resolution, who determined
TO know no such word as fail. To supplant them
lust when their labors about to be brought to
brilliantly successful termination-to supplant V.
X. STEVENSON, ALEX. ALLISON Francis B. FoGG, s.
D. MORGAN, JAS. B. KSowLEs E. II. EWING, W.
SPENCE, JoHS NJ Bass, LEWIS GARNER, JOIN T.
NEAL, JEREMIAH CLEVELAND, A. NJ. RUrLEDcE,
TaoNAs POWERS, PETER S. DEcHARD, and JAMES A.
WmTEsIDR, with DR.. armstrong and such other
gentlemen as be may dictate is something which
Mr. Mayor Horn will pardon us forsayingh he tOas
secer escted to do, and what if done by her vote,
would be a shame and disgrace to the city.