The true Democrat., 1854-11-22
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to any other for trade and travel? And could any engineer not working for "the prosy consid- eration of four thousand dollars year. have the pitiful fatuity to argue before the face and eyes of the world that the building of partic- ular railroad should be ediscountenanced because if built. it would accommodate the public bet ter than any other? Who but man working for pecuniarv consideration and infatuated and made silly by that consideration would contend that a road should not be constructed because 1t would best suit the population of the country? Is there a man in the highly intelligent Legsla- ture of Arkansas, who, if convinced of the truth of what the engineer alleges, will not, tor that very reason if for no other, give his volce and his vote in favor of the Little Rock and Memphis railroad? What sort of legislator would he be, who, if thus convinced would he- sitate? Would he be any more representative of the people, their wishes and their interests, than the engineer of the Helena railroad is? It is no part of our design to say sing le word against the probability of the construction of the Cairo and Fulton railroad, for we sincerely wish to see 1t constructed. Still we are dispos- ed to correct the interpretations of this mis- chief-seeking engineer. He says that the city of Cairo, so called, holds the ear of the mo- ney market through the capitalists concerned in its prosperity" and he enumerates among these capitalists, through whom Cairo has hold of the money markets ear, the Messrs Roth childs and the Messrs. Earrings of London.- Neither the Rothchlda nor the Earrings have one dollar of interest in Cairo, nor has any other man who would not be glad to get his dollar back again. Cairo is nothing. The Cairo and Fulton railroad company do not think of Cairo as anything but an open space for the tranship- I f,,t .l+ IT., hirrb ter nobody will ever be able to touch it with ten foot pole" But this is matter on which we need not dwell.
 The Helena engineer undertakes to say orac- ularly what will be done and what will not be done by this or that railroad company. Oracular statements from him are no novelty. He stat ed in one of the papers in this city in July last, that the railroad between Helena and Holly Springs would "be put ln octive progress on tue setting aa oj moderate aDeather" that is, as soon as the weather should be cool enough to admit of labor. Nearly three months have elaps- ed since the commencement of the autumn, and not spade has been wielded upon that route or is likely to be. The engi- neer, when he made his positive and direct assertion, knew that there was no ground for 1t. He knew that not mile of the route had been let, he knew that no survey had been made, and he knew that not even "the prosy consid eration of four thousand dollars had been pro- vided to pay an engineer. His assertion was wanton untruth, for which he had no more sha- dow or pretext of justification than he has for his assertions in the last number of the True Democrat. He is a cheat. He is a hum bug.
 We have extended this communication far enough. We are sorry to have felt constrained to use any harsh language. We would net have used it toward any man entitled to cour- tesy. A man working for " the prosy consider ation of four thousand dollars year. must try to put up with our prosy style of talking
 ARKANSAS.