The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-02-03
MORE NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.

In every branch of business and trade hon
est competition is legitimate and right. Blu
when men resort TO Misrepresentation and
iaIsehood 10 obtain advantages over and in.
iilet injuries upon other enterprises and in,
terests than those in which they are imme.
diately concerned, they should be promptly
exposed and the injury made to recoil upon
their own heads. From the time Of the
reorganization Of the East Tennessee and
Georgia Railroad Company, its management,
business, and interests have been subject to
4 system Of misrepresentation and hostility
Of the most bitter and yindietiye character
IN fact, falseh Gods have become SO common
with some men'in regard to the operations
Of the road thtl we seldom feel called upon
to contradict tl1m, presuming that 4 dis,
eliminating pubIISsense will cOnsign them TO
the proper place. Among the latest misrep-
reservations PUTIN circulation TO prevent
freight from leaving the river at the first ac-
cesslble point, islthis; hat the Western and
Atlantic Road will 81 carry off the freight
from the East Tenotree and Georgia Road
at Dalton, but that &,,left in the cars there
to the injury Of eshippers, while the pro-
duce that finds its way to Chattanooga by
the river is immediately sent forward Now,
this statement is not only untrue, and unjust
to our road, but is albel and Islander upon
those having the management and control of
the Western and Atlantic Road. So far
from being true, the .ofiisst,.ec Tia. road are
at this tiyefcsfeadips with decentralization
to this line-not only taking off the freight
as fast rs it reaches Dalton, but are constant
y sending extra cars OH 10 our road to ena-
bic the management on it to clear the depots
OF the immense amounts of produce con-
tinually pouring into them. This fact
is so notorious that those who have put
the report in circulation alluded to above
must have known it, and consequently
the whole thing is sheer fabrication, got up
expressly to interfere with the interests Of
the road ,r
We feel authorized to saw that every car
load Of freight that passes over this road to
Dalton will be subjected to no unavoidable
delay at that point, but will be sent forward
and, also, SO far from any oh.
structions being thrown in the way by the
present able management on the Western g.
Atlantic Road they are discharging their duty
and taking of the freights from
the lower end of this line rs readily and as
rapidly as from any other points on their
road. 1t is natural the produce from the up.
per country should seek the railroad ut the
highest point on the river, and if the boat.
ng interests arc affected by it, the fact fur
fishes no excuse for persons in the employ
If those interests, to iabricate and circulate
eports intended to inure the road, and ut
he same time rejecting upon the integrity
mi competency of the gentlemen having
he management and supervision of the line
'cIow, who are doing every thing in their
'owcr TO accommodate all the trade, whether |
finds their road by the slow and tortu.
'us windings Of the river, at Chattanooga,
'r reaches it by the more rapid and safe
node of transportation over the East Ten.
lessee and Georgia Road, to Dalton.