The true Democrat., 1855-06-19

the or slaveholdlng States, because of ice in ,yintn and shoal water Tn summer
 From the above and similar editorials we conclude that Louisville desires the Atlar tic and Pacific road, with it's pasyenraru ''''', " commerce. to pass from New York and Balt more across Ohio Indiania and Illinois h,' r, Louis to the Paclhc, on what you term "tbo Ohio and Mississippi road, traversing the cor' "0 try fifty miles north of Louisville and ,a"! oouI' parallel to the Ohio river" "''y
 You, gentlemen, are aware that lines of uo;, roads are, now, nearly completed, extendinr ", from Caro, from Evansville, and from L7n;s vile, connecting these points with tbo G, Louis and'Clncnnatl road fifty miles north of us'' ''h
 Gentlemen, no man has authority to say Inn contradicted) that the people of KeptuctyN " N'.- o1 Louisville, wish the railroad route to rnn ,m around our State, by going from Baltimore b,. w heehng and Cincinnati thence across Indiana by Vncennes to Cairo, there to connect utp the Paclhc road, and with uninterrupted nav; gation on the Mississippi river ..l ''-
 lou know, gentlemen, that there is anotbor great line of railroads, now almost comnIa,aS to-wt: from New York, by Baltimore sn5 Washington city, through Virginia, by Cbar lottesviilc and Abingdon, passing near ipmbar land gap, by Knoxville, Chattanooga, and Ta grange to Memphis. An investigation of +%o map will prove that from Memphis, by Knor vile and through Virginia, is the shortest nr.n tcable railroad route to Baltimore and Ea, ork; and that that will be the great route for the Atlantic and Pacific road, if that road iron, the Pacific, coming eastward, can be made to cross the Mississippi river at Memphis: but f. that road crosses that river at the west end of Kentucky 1t will certainly and inevitably he obliged to pass on by Hopkinsville, Louisville and Mouth of Sandy, to Baltimore and New lork. Examine your map aud you will agree that l am right in this opinion. Or, if, from the Pacific eastward, it crosses at St. Louis it will pass thence through Illinois, Indiana. and Ohio to the eastern cities-will it not?
 You, in your editorial, argue that the inte. rests of Kentucky are and vii. continue to be preludlced by that Cincinnati and St. Louisroad Then, sirs, will they not be greatly more preiu- diced by "a Virginia and Tennessee road which, if Memphis is to be the crossng-place will become the true " Baltimore and Memphis road," ," and will cause the great Atlantic and Pa cl1c road to "traverse the country fifty" or q hundred miles south of us, and on a line nearly parallel with the southern boundary of our State?
 lst. deny that Kentucky desires all the rail- roads from New York, from Philadelphia and from Baltimore to cross the State of Ohio. and concentrate their freghtS and passengers of Gin clnnatl, to be shipped thence across Indiana and Illinois to the Pacific through that GREAT (St. Louis) GATEWAY TO THE WEST.
 2d. deny that Kent,tcEians desire the roads from New York to pass by Philadelphia, Balti more, Washington city, and Abi, gdon, to con- centrate all their freights and passengers on or near Cumberland Gap, to pass thence through Tennessee, and the MEMPHIS gateway to the Pacific and west
 3d. l feel authorized to say that every inte rest of Kentucky will be promoted, if that At- lantlc and Pacific road is made to pass from New York and Baltimore through Virginia by the mouth Of Big Sandy, Lexington, Louisville, and Hopklnsvllle, thence westward through that great Kentucky and truly "NATIONAL gateway" at our western border
 The glSt of the whole controversy. and the point most essential for Louisville to ascertain Is, 1st. Whether it be true as stated that the entire route from New York, across Maryland Nlr9lnla, and Kentucky, to Louisville, is either complete or under contract and that part un- der contract rapidly progressing toward com. pletion.
 Secondly, whether it be TRUE that the road from the Pacific to the Mississippi at the west end ot Kentucky has been .fred a1ld pr0a,ideI for by donations cf public lands from Congress and from the SIate cf Ieras. And whether the peo pie in the State of Arkansas are now, by an ef tclcnt railroad organization, earnestly and zea. lously urging forward thatroad to a speedy con- pletion from Little Rocb direct to Kentucky, according to the provisions of the act of Con- gress donating public lands to that State for that especial purpose thus leaving the space be- tween Louisville and tue Mississippi the on7y portion of that long line unprovided for. Be. cause if it is true, as here state, that the go- vernment has made the eastern terminus of the Pacific road on the Kentucky border, instead of at Memphis, no sane man will then argue that the road should run from Louisville to Mem. phis in order to form railroad connection with Louisville and the Pacific road.
 Now, Messrs. Editors, to decide these oues- tons, examine the law of Congress, the journals of the first session of the last Congress- the law of Texas and the Gadsden treaty, by which, at the first session of this Congress. we gave ten millions for the railroad route between Fl Paso and the Pacific; then examine the subscription VI PuoiIC oy GuS tOuutleS lQ ArkdnSaS, to the Cairo and Fulton road; then examine whe- ther any public lands have been voted by Con- gress or by the State of Arkansas to the Mem rhis and Little Rock road I say none. The journals of the first session of the last (thirty- second) Congress show that the several propo- sitions, presented in different shapes, for an ap- pr' priation of lands to a road from Little Rock to Memphis, aH Jfai1ed
 ! Read the following from the most jealous and active friend in Memphis of the Memphis and Little Rock road
 Memphis, Tenn, April 14 1854.
 70 the Elitor of the Arkansas Whiq:
 SIR: A friend has handed me late CODY of your paper, from which it seems you entertain some doubt as to the legality of the subscrip- tion which Memphis made last year to the Little Rock railroad
 The hope that may remove that doubt, and the wish to set right some other things connected with that subscription, induced me to ask the use of your colums. As drew up and pre- sented to the city council the application for this subscription; and as I was somewhat active in getting the popular vote upon it, it is notPro- bable that such an objection would have escap" l cd my ott