The true Democrat., 1854-12-06
For the True Democrat.

MIR. EDITOR: K, in the Gazette and Demo- crat of last week, considers the building of the Cairo and Fulton Road, from this place to the Missouri line, as an "obsolete idea," unworthy of the "waste of time'' in its discussion. The friends of this important division of great na- tional work, are laboring under species of mental derangement in the opinion of this saga cious man, because they believe this part of the road is of the first importance to the most fer tile portion of the State, and that it can De 6uat The inmate of the lunatic asylum sometimes imagines the crest of mankind" have gone mad, and argues with becoming zeal that meas ures should be adopted to restore them to their senses.
 The article alluded to- upon a careful peru sal will satisfy any unprejudiced mind that the writer, although sane and logical upon all other matters, is little afflicted with "Mem- phomania,"- disease which, if unchecked by wholesome "railroadcal' prescription, might bring the afflicted into mortal combat with those who are and ought to be identified in in- terest and feeling, and should act in concert.
 X wants the people of Arkansas to build the road to Memphis, and from Little Rock to the Texas line, and wait for Missouri to push the road from Cairo to our border The distance from Little Rock to the Missouri line is about 165 miles, through rich productive country, crossing Little Red and White rivers, travers- ing the valley of Black river, the finest land in the world, able to sustain a population, whose trade and travel alone would almost sustain a road disconnected with great northern railroads The distance from the Missouri line to Cairo is only about seventy-five miles. A company has organized under the general railroad laws of Missouri, abundantly able to complete the connection, when our road becomes a fixed reality They have large subscription from counties and individuals, in money and swamp lands, in addition to the grant made by Con- gress, which they have received, as I under stand, without restrictions. Missouri has to build road less than half the length of our road. They have organized, and their road would be built through sparcely settled coun- try and terminate in the woods.
 Under these circumstances, who shall con- mence the real work first None but a Memphomaniac" would dare to assert that it does not dev6ve upon us to push on with our road with the confident assurance that our sis ter State can and will meet us promptly, and complete the great highway by which she will be brought in close neighborhood with the rich fields of Texas and Arkansas will be thrown into the commercial embrace of the entire North and East.
 The writer of this singular production must belong to one of three classes-he is either an exponent of the views of the most selfish class of the citizens of Memphis, who are anxious to gather intending tribute from the White river vallev-wlthouta a rival, or he seeks to provoke an unnecessary warfare between the friends of both roads and thereby cause real difficulty where his "incubus" only exists in magna- tion-by promoting the prospects of some rival scheme
 If he does not belong to either class of the persons above described, he is stranger to our best interests as a people e- ignorant of facts about which he wrtes-and is therefore the mere echo of opinions expressedlby the secret enemes ot our oppressed State and her railroad projects
 The true policy of our State is clearly indi- cated, Mir. Editor, by the course you have pur- sued-a favorable consideration of all railroad projects-opposition to none. Let every scheme succeed or fail by its own merits or weakness.
 WHITE RIVER.