New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1853-07-15
VIEW ORLEANS IND MOBILE R.4IL
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The Mobile papers are agitatng the question
whether this road, when completed, will be ad-
vantageous to their city or otherwise The
press is divided on the question, and asspirited
discussion is now going on between the rival
prints in regard to it. The query with them
appears to be, not whether the road will be
built, but whether Mobile will find it to her
advantage to aid in bringing it to an early
completion
A section of the press takes the ground that
Mobile must be the sufferer by it, that it is
their interest to throw every obstacle in the
way of its early completion This is very bad
doctrine for them to preach to the capitalists Of
New Orleans. Should it once become known
here that our sister city is opposed to the enter.
prise on account of the large amount of trade
which it would draw away from them to us, the
monied men here would launch out the funds to
any extent in order to bring about the dreaded
catastrophe. Let the opinion once prevail here
that the subscription of few hundred thou.
sands moro would tap the vast trade which Mo
bile expects from her great Northern and her
Girard Railroad, and neither sympathy for
their decaying commerce nor gratitude for faeli-
ties offered by their enterprises, would prevent.
the taking the stock in the new road to the last
share. 1t is to the jingle of the dollar that our
capitalists can be made to dance and if the an
tcpated road tends to our single advancement
the Mobilians had better keep dark about it.
1t is contended ON the one hand that, al
though the road will be built sooner or later.
yet it will be completed earlier with the aid Of
Mobile than without it. New Orleans, with all
her capital, say they, is not equal to every task.
and consequently it is to be presumed that she
will accomplish more with the assistance which
Mobile would lend her than she could without
It, This would be true if they would keep it to
themselves, but no sooner do they discover it to
be the case but they trumpet it, and warn us of
fact which we might not have thought Of.
This awakens our ambition; our blood is stirred
Mt the thought of increased communication in
creased value in property, fat dividends and all
that; and straightway, spurred into activity
by the golden prospect We dash at the enter
prise and gallop headlong into prosperity, over
the shattered fortunes of our neighbors and
particular friends. bad prospect for the Mo
bilans, and a bad kind of polemics this, of fur
nishing us arguments which may be used to
their own overthrow
The other side, we think, takes a better view |
OF the case. They argue that the question of a |
road or no road can not be decided by Mobile |
The States through which the road must pass
have chartered it, and the fact that Mobile re-
fuses to take share of the stock. or 70 trayerI
upon it when it is built, will not interfere in
the least with its completion The road is a
necessity, and it must be built, and Mobile can
neither prevent or retard it. Therefore, they
argue that it is idle to talk against the enter
prise, but that, as people moving onward to
destiny that is inevitable, they should prepare
to meet it, and combat whatever evils or grasp
whatever advantage. may result from its com
pletion. 1t is one of the fixed facts, resulting
from the onward spirit of the age, and they
must prepare to see it at an early day
But we can not agree with those who think
that Mobile will be injured by the enterprise,
BY her central position, her fair harbor, which
only needs little of the fostering care of Gov {
eminent to make it accessible to vessels of q
large class, her fine air and healthfu location,
making her one of the most desirable places Of
residence in the South, she must and will be. ;
come great centre of commerce Let her.
then, come forward and aid US in this enter
prise 1t must 60 through, and perhaps as soon
without as with her assistance 1t is in the
hands of bold, unfinching, enterprising men. /
who have the capital and the will to nut if
through. In the month of September the work
VIII be commenced, and by the time Mobile has p
completed her Great Northern and Girard Roil J
roads, we will be able some fine morning to h
awaken them with the snort of the iron horse I,
bearing at his heels laundering train and q,
mail army of we'll wishers, ready to shake
hands with her over the completion of her great t
Enterprises, and to rejoice with her in the &c. II
nenting of irmer fellowship Let her ioin Il
lands with us, them in the march of prosperity. "
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