Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1853-02-17
Z EB RI AIRY l7, 1853.

Vile, to be connected Win II Dp an
arm or ext tension, if you please. why
all this Vi sionary, improvident, and
useless cd ntemplated expendi turd?
Look you, gentlemen directors Of tile
Winchester and Alabama rail road, il
YOU will hi ye the prudence and good
sense to p4 use now while it is not too
late, and to convert your road into
be hutifdl McAdamized road to
Hunt tsvilley you will not only confer
a public benefit, but y0u will save
yourselves much future self reproach
and much future public odium, and
be entitled to the just encomlum,
that although wisdom kept her dis
tance from you fot time, yet she
came to ytg at last You will man
ifest that you are more capable Of
sober sound thought and will not
persevere in wrong doing against re.l-
son, light. and knowledge. II you
do not take this course, you may
live to Sc / the day when the exe1
crations of ruined stockholders will
burst upon yom heads, and your rail
road project be remembered only
to be derided as the Winchester folly
For it is plain to the most conlnol
disintcrested observer, thai SO fur as
it is necessary to form as rail road
connection with Guntelsville, it is
wholly unnecessary and useless for
Your com pany to strike lick or ex-
pend dollar, and that any expendi-
ture 10 q fleet that object by youF
company in the direction YOU pro-
pose Will be worse thar useless.
Now, gentlemen, IS the time to pause.
Go not forward with reckless haste
--restrai'a your wrath. Passions are
dangerous oounsellors; guided by
them, men follow in a path that is
seldom right for those who pursue
passionate ends are imperceptibly lel
into deeeptions- and false positions,
from which in calmer moments their
reason and sense Of justice will recoil
with horror, remorse, and disgust
Then too late they find they have
done injuries to themselves, or III
flicted wrongs upon Others which bat-
1e all future efforts TO repair. AT
gentlemen, in view Of I'll he
grand outlet thr rough the NashyilI Ie
and Chattanooga and Charleston alid
Memphis roads in the direction Of
Gunteroyille, and of the Tennessee
river from Bolivar to Guntersvillt,
your projected road is as unphil@
sophie as the mott on Of a celebrate d
who l.i,i l.ole cut in
The lower part Of the door of bis
chamber for the ingress and egress Of.
1 f;lvorite tom-cat. A lady present t.
I'd the philosopher with a beautiil lll
kitten, with which he was very mudh
pleased; and sending fora carpentd +,
directed him to cut small hole FIR
The kitten along side the large one
'or TOM cat why said the car
renter, "lhis is a useless affair; can't
the kitten 20 out and come in at the
hole the tom-cat goes out and comes
n?n "Ah! sure enough, replied tha
philosopher: Il did not think Of that
before! The Nashville and Chatta-
nooga rail road will DO as well TO 20
to Bolivar as to Charleston; the Mem
ohis and Charleston road will DO as
we'll to 60 near Guntersvllle to thd
lrm to that place as to Memphis. Il /.
Do you not see. gentlemen, that yduf
road to Guntersville is the small hole
or the kitten n--utterfp useless9 IL
With these manifest facts in view Fl
,ith not single argument in faYot
Of your route, but with every reason
why this hole for the kitten shotll /
not be cut, and the project altogeth- 1
er, promptly, and absolutely alb an
ibned, let US turn for a moment tol
thd true the only great south-wf est
erh rail road route--the route lsom
Danville, Ky.,to McAlinnyille, Tenn,
from McAIinnyille 70 TulIahoma; from |
Tullahoma through the centre of the |
great counties of Lincoln and Giles
on to Florence, Ala, below the Mus
Gle Shoals, almost an air liIe. Few
railroads approximate it's0 closely
at Florence, forming a junction with
two great railways from Mobile and
New Orleans, the two great tidal
marts on the Gulf of Mexico. A
great Tennessee road, avoiding the
whole mountain range passing from
the northeastern to the southwest
ern border Of the State. There it is
lool, 90 - g Ill H.,