Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1858-05-22
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negroes, as slaves OF apprentices. The new
French traffic in apprentices has reproduced
this demand, aud bloody wars have recon-
Dsneed, FOR the mere purpose OF obtaining tie
subjects, to be sold to France, for 4" free . emf
grants Into the West Indies.
The ofieIal dispatches to our own Govern
msnt, from the American sqdadrOl on ihe
coast Of Africa, confirm the statement, that
the apprentice system OF France, under all the
safeguards of a national protection, has re-
viYed most Of the horrors OF the ola slave trade,
and has stimulated anew, in quarters where
peace and industry had begun to Be sPprecia-
ted, new and bloody wars and forsys, for slave
catching. TIE President Of the negro repub-
lie Of Liberia, in; bis public message, Announces
and deplOrss the sane fact. The law and the
testimony 90 to show that the scheme Of sp-
premiership, whether French or American is
a disguised slave trade, and in that respect, a
stimulus proForstion and bounty-for
bloody wars slong the whole African coast.
THE RAILROAD ExfEKsIOE QUESTION
| To iAs Ez,fOrs Of the Memphis appeal
Our business In this Communication is with
the resolutions which were part of the Ma
/ jority Report Of the Vigilance Committee on
the railroad extension, and which were forced
1 through Council on Tuesday night last. These
resolutions are now public property; and as
they are beautiful specimens Of what resolu-
tions should be upon such an important subject
as the extension Of the railroad, we propose
20 dissect and examine them, presenting their
beauties to an admiring public.
When these resolutions were frs. read in
| Council, We supposed that the authorship was
attributabIs to, and would be claimed by, the
distinguished chairman Of the Vigilance Com
nittse, with the reflection Of the approving
! Judgment of tbs balance Of the majority Of the
committee, viz: Jones, Hill and Lohand. This,
we say, was the legitimate inference from the
relative position of the members of the com
mittee. But in the course of debate, dis
tinguished member sf that committee, uuwill
I ing that ths responsibility Of these resolutions
should be divided, publicly proclaimed that be
was fhCir author. This the chairman Of the
COMMITTEES nav have felt as the unkiniest cut
Of all, but as be is the undoub.ed author Of the
very voluminous and learned report, The real
author may have felt the same sort OF sympathy
/ for him that the negro felt for his master when
be refused to tell him Of the death Of both
oxen at once be was fr4id be couldn't bore
itD
The first resolution grants ssto the Memphis
and Charleston Railroad Company The Priyi-
legs to lay do Tn rails for a single track into
the Navy Yard, commencing at the depot and
running to Bayou Gayoso BY as direct line ss
practicable thence down, and when practicable
Immediately over the same" (NOw, would it
not be good thing if The author Of these resO-
lutiOns ouId tell az sdniring public who is to
be iudgs,of this practicG5ls,) " else along either
margin thereof, as may be most convenient, to
the track Of the Memphis ana Charleston Rail-
road. ["
This same resolution further requires that ihs
/" Railroad shall at all times make their track
conform strictly with the grades Of the streets
and alleys over which it may pass" II there
should be an impossible grade between ore
street and another, under this clause, the rail-
road as 10 power to change it.
In The second resolution, " the ComPsuy
shall not lay down rails for track over any
street, alley, wharf u promenade running sOuth
or Wes from the Navy Yard" This is most
singgisr condition, that this Copmtttee should
have had the audscity to try and prevent he
Memphis and Charleston Railroad Company
from running track pest across the Missis-
sipPi.
We ask, is not all the glorious free trade
doctrines which are so beautifully and cIsssi-
cally Get forth in the report, set at defiance by
this effort on the part of the resolution to stop
the onward march Of this great railroad in its
Western courss2 Why not let it cross this
little dirty stream called the Mssissippi, and
BY the aid Of few more reports and resolu-
tions, rushed through Council over the heads Of
the minority, and in defiance OF the rights and
interests Of the people OF Memphis, this road
might reach the banks Of the Pacific. This
we say, was a most terrible restriction on the
railroad company and coming too, as it does
from the peculiar friends Of g @eztsasiOE," We
would not be sstonished to hear the company
cry cut save me from ny friends''
But this same resolution says they shall moi
go sOuih-
Why, gentlemen, what does this mean? shsI
not 20 south or west" May 60 east or north
This lie extremely liberal, to permit the read Il
20 east or north, but stop its progress south ol
west What object could the Alderman frOH
the Second Ward have had in stopping th'
progress Of this road Scest or south, and have
by Implication at least, given unlimited powel
L y
the mighty West or the poor South done tha
they are TO be denied benefits and privileges
: which are extended TO the North AID East
q" o, shame where is thy blush"
The %, 4th, 5th and 9th resolutisus will b
attended to coon. NlNO