Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1854-01-20
COKAUlTCATYON.
RAILROADS IN THE UNITED STATES.


The same marked difference in regard to the pop
uation and the value of land between the States OF
Virginia and Tennessee; and the States of Indiana,
Ohio Pennsylvania, New York and Massachusetts,
is equally manifest, in relation to improvement and
advancement in agriculture, the number Of manu-
factories and the annual value of their products,
general education, railroad improvements, and eve
Fythng that is characteristic of great, prosperous
ard happy people. The system of railroads estab-
lished by the New England, and middle States, ex-
tending from Portland, Boston, New York, Phla-
dephia and Baltimore their great commercial en-
porums TO the northwestern States electrified said
States with spirit Of enterprise and improve
ment in advance of many older States in the south
which evidently the prime cause of their pres
ent populous and prosperous condition. Virginia
and other southern States seeing and feeling the eff
fecs of this policy after tie commerce and trade of
the whole west and north west had been GAVIN
from them awoke from their lethargy and '.ingo-
rious inactivity to weep over therown restitution,
folly, and want of foresight and have at last com
menced the work of railroad improvements in earn.
est The State of Virginia to re-estabIish her an
cient renown and greatness, upon which she has
n
siby wasting away is now engaged in prosecuting
vigorously system Of railroad communication by
taking three-fiiths of the stock in all her |
railroad projects The State Of Georgia in |
advance of other southern States, has already |
completed a system of railroads intersecting her |
territory in all directions and extending TO the
valley of the Tennessee river at Chattanooga, and
There connecting with railroads completed, and in
Progress, that will extend to tie Mississippi and
emo valleys, adding thereby new and brighter lau-
f e 10 4er escucheou, by placing herself in the
nrst rank IA progressive advancement in wealth
-lPflt' anu prosperity and rejecting the highest
Nj w ul'C" lier wise statesmen. The Statesiof
So. o,tn anu SCUM carolina, and other Southern
az a"'heheu TO lively interest IN the pol.
49, =; rrso,,t; l.eiuons, and are now en-
gaSed IN prosecuting with much oner,, a.
structon OF these great highways of ~ 'iie con-
is with Illumination and mortified priIa -. put II
to the great natural resources of TenreS@1'' look
see how little had been done by Legislation ,1 anu
the passage of the acts oflS5l-52 to deveon 10
She is indeed great State in all the natural I1
ments of wealth, and property not SURPASSED -
a single Stste in the Unon-her climate Is MA
and healthy, her atmosphere pure and inyigoratino
territory extensive and less than but few States
her crystal streams gushing from every mountain |
side abound everywhere, aAording ample mower
for machinery OF every description, aud manufac
tories IN endless variety the bosom of the hills and
mountains teen with lnexhausGble quantities of
the best Iron ore, Lead and Copper ore Hydrauic !
Lime Burr Rock ofsuperior qualify Timber in preat ,
variety, and stone coal in aud on her borders in !
abundance, Sufficient 10 supply her with fuel and |
aer manufactures through all time, and her soil IS
lch and productive in great variety of stanle =
commodities. Whist State can boast OF more2
Massachusetts, Is not her equal, Pennsylvania not
er superior III her natural elements of wealth and
scllhes Tor manufactures. But alasi her talents