Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1859-09-14
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as that they are asking. MEMPHIS.
RIvER CONNECTION.
EDrroHs AFFEAL Being in your city on
business, and Of course, to a great extent, " a
locker on 10 Vienna, ms stteuuon has been
drawn t. very many things connected with
yolr past your present, AL your future. The
time vas, nc. many days siuoe, hat Memphis
vas a place Of min1T importance. In 1850
ss7ea thousand Inhabitants, three millions
four hundred thouss-d dollars Of taxable
wealth., with a trade represented by one bun
lrsd and forty thousand bales Of cotton. At
present she has a population OF thirty thou
sand. a tsxsbF wealth OF sixteen millions
sn8 q trade represented by three hundred and
ify thousand bales az e~ottoa, four great rail-
r,7as. connecting ue No-lh, the South, the
East and the Wss AMI another in embryo.
Evarvwhare within vc 20 corporate limits ere
presented the unmis.akabis signs Of industry,
rapid growth, thrift, and increasing wealth
and popular strength. YoHr merchants and
capitalists, and n-7 of enterprise, are lively
models OF perpetual mo- ioa-kaspiag Sep "a
De music Of the furnace, the forge, the shut
re-. and the h1muer Of the mechanic. Your
fut re-bu Ileave hat 10 speak for itself.
When I sat l3w1 IN has'e 70 address you,
merely designed aIlulfn- to the recent action
Of your City C5l1-l. o~-Iaring an election TO
be hell for lhe citizens Of your city to deter
mine whether the Memphis and Charleston
railroad shall be permitted to run to The river. ]
an awars that here is mach prejudice against
this project among your people, growing out
NJ The fact, ss they assert, taat it will Be
Bringing other cities into 3irec competition
with Memphis.
It fs not sougbt 70 be ieniei that this will
be the result, but we answer that this is ar
eye q g free trsde,7 Of untrammsled com
maree. We Who plant merchandise in any Of
he country adjacent to Memphis, wish al
.hs barriers OF broken down, SO
shat, living in Alabama or North Mississippi.
we can tks the receipt Of the railroad at our
farms 20 deliver our cotton, corn or wheat in
New Orleans OF New York, and bring back
orr sugar and coffee, oar -four, hardware, bag,
-ing and rope. and dry goods to our doors
without drsysge or commissions Of any sort
This the rold can and ought to do. It has
/ -rown to be a large and wealthy corporation
and, IL necessary, it ought to buy is own linz
q steamer FOR up sad down river trade
making its agenr, buy, insure and ship
az thatwe wish purchased for cur use snt
sell an we send 10 market.
This might break up some OF your foundry
and machine shops, some o. your seven o.
aight hundred drsymen and omnibus men il
might throw out Of employment, some Of YOU
fifteen hundred mechanics and working men
and your merchants might not sell quite a,
many groceries and dry goods-but what d
his should be the result2 They Gao End EN-.
Ployment elsewhere. and they should not BY
any means seek to put their Iiriag in the WAY
Of our profit. They should never obstruet th'
crest channels n commerce, whether natura.
or artificial. They SHOULD rather all in th'
eaterpri=s than throw obstacles in the WAY
osf
Buf, t is urged, TIE Memphis and Charleston
RsHrosd obligated herself not to branch {,
the river. This was The contract at the time
the city subscribed the I've hundred d usau5
dollars 20 The construction Of The road. Well
sdmit this 70 Be true, let ne suggest how sasy
a mattel II IS FOR the road TO shut her ewes
while ether par lee. perhaps the friends OF tn
road, construct a branch to the river. I DON
know hat his VIII be done, but qHien sabs.
While Oh this subiec De- me advise the i'm
me iate organization of a CHAMBER Of Com.
mercr: u can Do much good for the merchan.
[ and he PLANTER
! ] would further suggest, that your school tsl
Re Increased. 30 "a 20 make something ike I
respectable fund, and that instead Of c~onfnins
is he-cd.s 20 y0ur 0rn citizens, Won should In.
wife The parents Of children from an paris o.
Z the country 20 partake Of its beneficial results
. What a nohie picture Il would PRESENT. hov
Z elor'ousiY and nebly she would stand olt from
Tie canvass hv thus sowing broadcast The
aerds N education.
Trusting that J nav again find Il in ms
power 70 drop y0u a line By the g1y. ] IN re
I snec.failv, AN OBSERVER