Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1858-02-13
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No traveller over the Nashville and Chattanooga
railroad, fsIs 70 wonder ct the stuPeaiOus diEonl-
ties overcome By that work in crossing the oumber-
land Mountains, and to sdmire the engineering akin
which triumphed over such natural obstacles Here
stunnelthrough the solid reek, and there an embank
msnt in deep valley, place nature at Defiance and
afford safe and smooth way for heavy commerce
Our eighboring county Of Rutherford has FOR many
years been the residence Of a political engineer,
quite as expert in his trade as the civil engineer who
built railroad over and through the Cumberland
Mountains. DR.. JOIN VI. RICHARDSON is this engi-
neer. To preserve an anti-demoeratic majority in
Rutherford, that county, under his influence, has
been shOrn Of every odd corner which was demo-
cratic, and all the adjoining counties have been laid
under contribution for wing or knoW-nothing pay
ments Here democratic corner was thrown of
into Davidson, and there Ehig corner was borrow
ed from Williamson Cannon and Coffee absorbed
superAuous democrats and DR.. RICHARDSON seemed
to live more to serve as Whig and knOw-nothing
engineerin-chief to keep Rutherford in the track,
than to let his excellent and amiable qualities as
physician have free scope; kind physician and sue
cessful that he is, be yet never nursed sick man
with half the assiduiy and care, that ne bestowed
on the sick party which lately breathed its last in
Tennessee. To get back to our first figure, Ruther-
ford has been filed up and cut down, and tunneled,
until Its aspiring know nothings felt sure Of easy
grades in the road to Office; and all this mainly
der the leadership and guide Of DR.. RICHARDSON.
But while this skilful engineer has been ndefatiga
bly, at work, q constant succession Of bad luck has
followed his best efforts. Rieqrdsons Purchase be-
came saturated with democracy and slid sixty feet
Deep over one of the neatest portions Of the know
nothing track. A storm in 1856, and another in
1857, destroyed quite half the bridges which the
Doctor had erected; and in 1858 the labor Of years
found to be wreck, and the Doctor himself, in
a collision with the engine Jack Woods, received
great damage. Good mechanics declare that al
though be kept the track he can asUsr run again.
We are glad of it, A capital doctor was spoiled to
make poor politician when this doctor left his pro-
fessiOn to engage in the work Of political engineer
ing. Say call is vanity Doctor. Say, "take
physic, politics." and let the know-nOthings, to
whom, it is said you belonged work out their
own salvation with fear and trembling. DOctOring
will do them no good, politically; but they have
souls and bodies to be saved.
In Short the Legislature has granted the prayer
Of the petitioners and res ored the old line between
Davidson and Rutherford, restoring some fifty dem
Ooratc majority to Rutherford and it has also given
Rutherford some Of her voters heretofore attached
to Coffee. 1t is supposed that this will make Ruth
srfOrd democratic; and hence, those who were anx-
iOus to see the lines Of Rutherford changed to keep
the county knOw-nothing, astOnished and indig-
nsnt that the old lines should be restored Isn't it
very strange that the democrats when they have the
power should redress just one of the thousand acts
of injustice to which they we're subjected by their
opponents in days past
A correspondent from Rutherford thus discus
ses the subject andWith his letter we drop the mat
ter: