The true Democrat., 1855-06-19

why there were no delegates from Memphis to that convention, was "that they were on tha, day, holding convention at Brownsville Ten. nessee, forthe purpose of organizing company to build the same road we were in convention about to wit: the Louisville and Mempis air. iile. Then gentleman from Dover, and oth- CTS arose, and stated that, 10 a railroad conveu- 'lon' heid a few days previous at Dover, a letter was read from this same Memphis gentleman, S'''ol"s that they had recently changed their oetermlnatlons at Memphis, and now intended running thelr road to Dover, thence running one orauch by Clarksville towards Bowlinggrcen. e@cc'' @ ana the other towards Hopkinsville." etc. lie apoHe Is the subtance if not the words. Will merely remark here, that no company can oe organized until stock has been subscribed u'iuer charter; and l am authorized to state ciiaC they mad not then, nor now, any charter ior an 0ar-Ane road, or for railroad from Mem phls to our State line, on direct route to Hop- kinsville or Louisville
 Tn the Memphis papers of September, looo, short time previous to the meeting of the Hopklnsvllle convention above alluded to. were editorials reminding the public that the stockholders, under charter to build a road rom Memphis to NasAvil1e would meet at brownsville on the same day that our conven- ton was held i'll Hopkinsville, for the purpose oi organizing company under that Mem phls and Nashuille" charter, in which a full at tendance was urged, and it was stated that no stockholder would be allowed vote in the or gahlzaton ot said company unless he had paid specific amount of each share
 Agaln: It Is stated in the Memphis Eagle and Enquirer, of the 24th September, 1853, "that the citizens of West Tennessee were about to organize company for the purpose of building road from Memphis to Paris, Clarksville, Bow. hnggreen, etc." (alluding to the meeting which was held at Brownsville on the first Monday in October, 1853, which was the same day of our Hopkinsville convention)
 Again: The Rife of the 9th of February. loo4, publishes another letter from that same Memphis gentleman to gentleman of this county, dated Memphis, Jan 26 1854 saving "l wrote from Nashville in December that 1 had procured charter for the Louisville and Memphis airline railroad company from the Legislature of Tennessee and that would for ward the same in few days. l write this to apologize for seeming neglect to inform you what had done'
 Would it not be advisable for the people of Louisville to examine that charter, also to see what was done "oGicial2y' at that meeting at Brownsville, Tenn, on the first Monday of Oc- tober, 1853? The Memphis people recommend that the : airline" from Hopkinsville shall cross the Tennessee river on the same bridge as the road from Bowlinggreen by Carksville, etc., to Memphis does. See Eagle and Enquirer of January 25th, 1854.
 do not wish to be understood as intimating that there has been any misrepresentation, in tentional or otherwise, by any one but merely as stating facts which the people of Kentucky ought to know.
 Again, deny that "at Memphis we meet the Mobile and Ohio railroad" but state that the " Mobile and Ohio road" is under contract from Mobile by Trenton, Tcnn to Columbus, Ky, and by Mayfield to Paducah, and does not ap- proach nearer than about sixty or seventy miles of Memphis
 Again, state that the only pretence for road being un,ter contract from Memphis to- wards Kentucky is road from Memphis to- wards Paducah to the intersection Of the Mobile and Ohio road at Trenton, Tenn, which is an almost direct route, to wit: from Memphis, by Trenton and Paducah, to Vinccnncs.
 l am authorized to say that there is d charter from Memphis to the Tennessee river, with eight or ten thousand dollars per mile of State aid. Then another charter from Teunessee river by C}arhsuiNe, to our State line, with the same amount of State aid per mile, and two hundred thousand to build two bridges one across the Tennessee and the other across Cum bcrland river at Clarksville. There is then another charter for branch road Obtained from the Legislature last winter) from that Memphis and Clarksville road towards Hopkinsville, but no State aid for that branch.
 The citizens of Hopkinsville sent two gen. tlemen to Memphis, just before the Hopkins. vile convention above spoken of, to ascertain definitely what Memphis intended to do The following are extracts from the Memphis Eagle and Enquirer, which published the official pro- ceedings of that conference:
 His honorable mayor (of Memphis) prcsd- ed. The mayor introduced Messrs Wad- dell and Woodbridge, of Hopkinsville, Kv., who stated that their mission here was to pre- sent to the consideration of our citizens the claims of an airline road from Memphis to Lou isville. They spoke of the importance of the road to Louisville in opening her immense coal fields, directly on the line of the road, from which fields Louisville and Memphis could get their supplies of coal for fuel gas works, manu- iacturln9 purposes, etc., at any and all seasons of the year, at uniform price, instead of de- pending upon the ftful stages of the Ohio river for 1t. While they disclaimed making war upon another great project, which they knew Memphis had most at heart to wit: the great direct connection with the eastern cities by way of Clarksvile, Lexington, etc. * In con- structing our favorite work, which we familiarity term the Louisville road, they knew we intend cd going almost to our State line before bearing off eastward to Clarksvle" *
 The editor goes on to say that Ia committed Mir. J. T. Trezevant and others, wasappointed, who presented the following preamble and re- solutions, which were unanimously adopted," of which the following is an extract
 "An airline road to Louisville especially comments itself to Memphis, inasmuch as at Paris, or some point in the northern part of W est Tennessee, it will form junction with another leading road coming to Memphis from the cas- tern cities by the most direct lines through Lex ington, Danville, Bowlinggreen, Clarksville, etc.
 "On the Louisville line will come the thou sands from the Ohio valley and the lakes--on the Bowlinggreen and Lexington line those from the Atlantic cities. The main stem, there fore, from the junction down to Memphis, must be one of the most crowded thoroughfares in the Union; here continuing the tide of travel +o Orlo orl .l,