Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1858-1860, 1858-11-25
For the Patriot. .
The Railroad Connections OF Nash
willie.

MEssRs EDrTORs:-A correspondent OF your
paper, writing under the above heading over
the signature of JAY. endeavors to create an
alarm in the minds of the citizens Of Nash
2 Vile in regard To the future prosperity of
their City; and the better TO effect his object,
would create an impression which the facts
in the case do not justify. He paints dark
picture of the consequences should they
neglect "to aid the construction of these I'M
finished roads that needs our help and those
enterprises which cry out to them for assis-
lance" What roads or enterprises thsOe are
he does not directly inform us, but it might
naturally be supposed. from reading his ar
ticle, that every unfinished road leading out
of Nashville, had not only stopped work. but
overwhelmed by ''sea of troubleS'' was
crying out to him "help me Cassius or 1
sink" Whether or not this is the case, and
what may be tue object of your correspon-
dent in endeavoring to make it SO appear, we
propose TO enquire.
OF the Tennessee and Alabama road he
says had Nashville done her duty the Ten
nessee and Alabama road had not stopped in
the woods and she would not have expert
enced the loss brought upon her by the
short-shted policy of the Tennessee and
Alabama company in making Mt. Pleasant
the terminus of their road" This company
has made. it is true. Mt. Pleasant the south
ern terminus of their road; but not without
acquiring to Nashville, connections rs import
ant, as if they had continued their own
road to the Alabama Mississippi line. He
scems to b. ignorant Of the tact, that this
road connects ut Columbia with the Central
Southern road and through this aud the Ala
hama and Tennessee Central with the Mem
phis and Charleston road at Decatur. The
roads forming this connection will all be
completed within the next year. and although
they may not point To New Orleans in so
direct line. yet taking into consideration
the time ia which the New Orleans. Jackson
and Great Northern road was likely, under
the must favorable circumstances, 30 reach
B ar creek, and the uncertainty Of its reach
Ing there at all, we cannot see shat Nashville
his lost any thing by the change OF routes.
on this ground alone. But, should the Ala
bama aud Tennessee Central road be extended
from Decatur to Montgomery.-whichq ,ies-
ton Is being, now, 50 warmly agitated in
Alabama, and with so ALTERING prospect
10 addition to thus obtaining an almost air
line connection with Mobile and Pensacola,
through section of country begging for the
products Of Middle Tennessee, and In which
we can have no rival for trade, Nashville
will have opened to her the coal fields of
North Alabama said TO be as inexhaustable
AID laying within very nearly the same dis
tance, as those of Kentucky which are TO
bring to her the benefits so glowingly desert
bad by your correspondent. These. however,
are contingencies; here are facts.
The Tennessee and Alabama Road was
located after leaving Mt Pleasant, through
. country comparatively unprod1etive, but
whose trade Nashville controlled, and viii
continue to control; or at least n much Of II
As any Railroad would bring her. But the
Central Southern Road runs through one Of
she most productive and densely populated
regions of country in Tennessee, and the
Ala anna and Tennessee Central through one
Of the best counties ia North Alabama.- |
" ,shville well knows the value OF this trade, |