The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1856-03-28

ncr cont;sinsa copy OF speech delivered at
| the recent session of the Legislature, BY Mr..
Richey, the member from Bradley county,
on the subject of railroads, which ought 10
be read by every friend Of internal improve
ments in the State. We regret want of space
rcrbids us giving this able effort Of Mr..
Richey the benefit of our large circulation.
A few short extracts is all We can pos
sibly find room for, which we give below,
promising that the gentlemen was soliciting
an appropriation of i've thousand dollars to
build hospital at Cleveland. He said:
"Clrveland is now prosperous and happy
place, and from the daily prospects of its ap.
preaching prosperity have come to The con
clusion that the great Surveyor of the Uni
| verse run out the earth to find the centre of
the world, II was fonnd to be where Cfeve-
land is now located."
After giving his reasons for this happy
conception, and referring TO the endorsement
of the Bonds of the East Tennessee and
Georgia Railroad Company, the speaker, as
renortcd in the Banner, continues:
"But there is one more approaching scene
which is not very far distant, though defeat
ed ut the present. | allude Ia the Ducktown
and Cleveland Railroad. The day is not far
distant when the thunders of the iron horse
will be heard as he comes booming from the
mountain gorges, laden with millions of min
eral wealth: will find its way to tire coal
fields within our State, which will deveope
| IL ,l..,,.anI., ,.f
pion of country. But ! would further say
| while ! have devoted n few moments of my
reasoning powers to this momentous sub
ect-that nature has so directed that from
the extreme GOODNESS of the North that il
would distract the running of the ears in the
winter season. and from the extxmc heat in
the South and the diseases that would natur-
ally follow in that unhealthy clmate-that
| the main trunk to which have alluded will
BE- pari of the great thoroughfare through
out the length and breadth Of the State"
We make room for one more. After re-
marking upon the fact that an enterprsing
citizen intended to "buiid MILL" and make
other improvements, the speaker, as reported
in the Banner, closed with the following:
"When these things are all accomplished
the town of Cleveland will represen; the hu
man systematic heart beng the centre and
the blood which flows through the arteries
to the cxtremities, and back again to the
heart, which will represent the Railroad sys
TEN in the United States. II will then be-
come our duty not only rs a civilized but as
christian people to exteHd the hand of cha
rity in doing something to relieve suffering
humanity. for in the event these things
should be accomplished Cleveland will be-
come great commercial city, and be sub.
icctcd to southern diseases and the diseases
of the commercial world-it would then be
indspensably necessary for the building of n
hospital for the benefit of the sick traveller
and the surrounding country, and when these
things are all accomplished, hope all sec
tional feelings will be done away with and
all political parties may see eye to eye, as in
the millenial day, and the proud flag of De-
mocracy seen to wave over her exalted head"
That last is happy decidedly With the
exception of a speech reported in the last
Kingston Gazetteer, we have met with meth.
ing approaching it. The members from
Hamilton and Knox may stand aside-the
"gentleman from Bradley" is entitled to the
cakes.