Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1858-1860, 1858-11-19
For the Pdtriot
The Railroad Connections OF Nash

prospect Of the four other roads that centre
here. Ought not her citizens. this being so.
to aid the construction of those unfinished
roads that need their help! We are having
bitter experience because we have, and are,
neglecting those enterprises which cry out TO
US TOR assistance. Memphis and other cities
are taking advantage of our want of energy.
and are pushing us from the high position we
are too slowly working for.
Had Nashville done her duty. the Tennessee
and Alabama Road had not stoned in the
woods; and she would not have experienced
The loss brought upon her by the short-sight-
ed policy Of the Tennessee and Alabama
Railroad Company, in making Mt Pleasant
the terminus of their road This road and
the Louisville and Nashville are but links
In great chain of road extending in north
east and southwest diagonal line through our
Union, with all the great cities of the North
and East at one end, and all the growing and
rich cities OF the Southwest at the other for
I u dePots. The Tennessee and Alabama is
The only link of that great line which gives
no promise of completion and union with the
remainder. Now shall it be said that as rich
community as Nashville, allowed so great
an enterprise, giving promise of innumerable
benefits to our country, the greatest among
which is the union of the States, and cause
unspeakably dear to us all. to fail for want
OF little support from those il would chiefly
benefit? Why the Tennessee and Alabama
Railroad Company should be governed by
such want of foresight, it is hard to tell: and
why our people who voted the road 5000. 900
aid, should quietly submit to so ruinous a
policy when they could prevent il. is yelled
In mystery. | am sure no private individual
would be so reckless Of his prosperity. Can't
our citizens see that the full usefulness of the
Louisville and Nashville Road is cut short by
the terminus of this Road at Mt Pleasant
Don't the Tennessee and Alabama Company
see that the trade of their own road will be
= fraction only Of what it would be. if com
pleted through to the New Orleans, Jackson
and Great Northern Road at Bear Creek
Don't every one see, that the trade and travel
fr New Orleans from the East and North
Coming through Louisville, will at Bowling
Green, Ky, take the Memphis and Ohio Road,
which passes by Nashville, only sixty miles
west of us: Will not the trade for the North
and East from the Southwest take the same
road! Certainly. it will. Because, there, is
offered through road with unimpeded pro-
gress.l
All cities or countries that prosper, attain
their success BY liberal action towards other
communities. Nashville can reach high
point of prosperity, if she will act generously
and give as she is able. There lie now in
warehouses in this city, bulks of cotton,
bought in Maury and Giles counties by man
nfacturers of Louisville and Cincinnati. which
would have gone over the Tennessee and Ala
bama and Louisville and Nashville Roads,
had they been completed. Thousands of dol
lars have been lost to our farmers and mer-
chants the two past years that have gone to
Memphis; all because we have acted without
Energy and the proper enterprise If we
would regain our lost trade, We must act
speedily and unitedly. The longer we delay,
The more difficult will be our labor. Let US
arouse, and urge the extension and rapid
completion of the Tennessee and Alabama
Road. If the present Company will not
carry on the road, why let u.s. as you sug-
gested in your paper of August 3Oih last,
'orm ne,r Company, who win complete the
'hort link of S74 miles in the great rail route,
dining the North and South through Middle
no n
md the New Orleans, Jackson and Great
Northern Roads are looking with amazement
It the short gap separating them, and threat
sning if we do not, that they must build the
Dad over it. Shame upon us. if we allow so
leep blot TO rest upon our fair name. Must
We acknowledge that our boasted wealth aud
Enterprise. were only an empty boasts
The Louisville and Nashville, and the New
lot the only roads looking with anxiety to
he completion of the Tennessee and Alabama
Road. The Edgefeld and Kentucky. another
Dad to which Nashville has not paid that re-
gard which the trade it will bring her should
demand, complains of the unrailroad like
precedent set, by the action of the Tennessee
md Alabama Company. This road, besides
he usual agricultural advantages it will
bring into use, offers to Nashville a trade
more varied and valuable, suppose. than any
other road building in Middle Tennessee. The
Red River country. through which it runs for
ifty miles, is, perhaps, the richest agricul-
ural region known to Tennessee More than
en thousand hogsheads of tobacco are sent
o GAINESVILLE annually, from this quarter,
part of which will undoubtedly find II market
here. This country, only about 40 miles dis
ant FROM Nashville, is also the seat of many
iour mills, which manufacture every year a
hundr,d thousand barrelssot -four. Espe- I
tally will this road do service TO Nashville.
BY the inexhaustible quantity of coal it will
bring here. and at the low rate, We are told,
'essor Stafford, our Stale geologist, says the
quality OF this coal is good, and that it is in
in quantity. This road, will
bring to Nashville trade she never had be-
fure, which is already immense and increas-
ing yearly. Who can calculate the benefits
hat will arise TO our people, if they can get
cheap coal as promised 10y this road. Manu-
lectures that are now farihest from the minds
II our citizens, will spring up around our
Railroad depots, aud send up cloud of coal
Imoke. a sasory incense upon the affairs OF
heir iron and cotton goods. that shall show
Ifar of what Nashville Is doing. We do not
stimate this road nj its due value. nor do We
render il the countenanee 1t deserves. Its
luiet progress. under faithful management,
will Que day change Into a rushing storm of
business; aud we shall wonder We did not see
he benefits il offered.
/ The Nashville 4 Northwestern. Is another
Dad, the trade over which, will, in connec-
ion with the Nashville 4 Chattanooga road
greatly increase the wealth Of this city. The
rade from the \ rihwest and the Atlantic