Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1859-09-16

e The following communication from
sam TATE, Esq, President Of the NJ & c.
Railroad, was received too late for insertion In
our issue Of yesterday:
Mrnrm- AND CHAELEsr0s r OTrItE.9
WEDNESDAY. Sept. a. 1850.
EnrroRs APPEAL noticed in the -f-cus Of
yesterday evening, an article, over the sigma
ture Of a "voter,7 desiring TO know, in the
event the privilege is granted to the Memphis
and Charleston Railroad to extend their track
to the river, whether steam or horse power is
to be used.
In answer 10 this question I will state, that
is a question which will be entirely in the
hands OF The City Council, whom, I presume,
the people consider comp.ent to see that their
rights are properly guarded, in the minutia
Of the contract, if entered into. can only
state, as far as this company is concerned,
they would only desire such privileges as are
granted other railroads extending through the
city to the river. Is there a man in Memphis
who is not willing to grant this road the priyi-
lege the Memphis and Ohio and the Missis-
sippi and Tennessee Railroads now have? II
their privileges are conditional and are cur
tailed, this Company is willing to be govern
ed BY the same law.
The stock Of this company is mainly hedbT
the agricultural interest along tha line Of ne
road, to whom the city is more indebted Tor her
wealth and prosperity as z city, than to any
other class Of people whatever. They feel, to
be thus Disseminated against, BY having the
products Of tseir labor so unnecessarily taxed,
while the privilege Of extending to the river is
granted 10 other roads, is an injustice that
time viii fad a remedy for.
This is a warfare between the people Of the
country who till the soil, and the people ofthe
city who sell their product, and it is easy to
tell, in this Enlightened age Of steam, that Is
opening outlets TO every portion Of the back
country and inviting their products elsewhere,
how this warfare is to end if Memphis con-
tiuues her policy Of attempting 10 trsmmei the
commerce Of the country, while other places,
in competition with her, are throwing open
their arms and inviting them 10, or through
them, as they may desire.
A word TO the voters Of he city. No.Wlth-
standing the amount Of abuse that has been
heapad upon me and he company I repressnt,
| f rhayiuz cotton W, " for designing purposes =
| this scheme for extending the road 70 the river,
and for working secretly and silently to carry
the question BY stealth, and being charged
with drilling and depressing operatives into
voting for the measure, and for bullying the
people into voting for it by threatening to car
" the road to the river elsewhere, to the in
Jury Of this city" let me say are an both false
and grstuitous. / have not even asked the
| Council 10 have this vote taken. was not in
the city during the tendency Of The question
/ before the Council. I have not spoken to a
half-dozen citizens on the subject, 70 an Op-
| erative on the road, nor do know how any
one expects to vote. I expect them in this
election, a. in an others, 20 60 to the polls and
vote as freemeu. without being Influenced or
inundated in the slightes. manner, BY any
man connected with the road in an Official po-
sition and I am sure there is not al operator
or officer connected with The road but will bear
testimony to the fact 7 here state.
ask no mans politics, religion or birth
place. " Il be honest; is be capabley" Ny
views have been repeatedly published in the
city papers, stating I believed this Company
had no right to extend their road to the river
without the consent Of the City Council, and
/ was surprised TO find a man exalted to the
position Of an Alderman, who was so far be-
hind the times az not TO have known that fact.
Z must ask him, or get his constituents to do
90 for me, to readthe paper a little more closely
before making speeches in Council for bun
combe, charging me with advocating that this
Company had the right to do things which I
had long since published to the world, that
thought it bad no right TO DO. Ihave stated
openly and freely to all I have spoken to on
this subject, that / believed if this privilege
was refused this Company, that it would cause
such a prejudice IN the mind Of the people Of
the country, that they, in connection with par
ties interested in Fort Pickering, would form
an independent company to build a road from
Fort Pickering TO a point on the Memphis and
Charleston Railroad near the city, without the
corporate limits. But 10 do this, legislation is
necessary.
Is there a man in the city Of Memphis who
believes there is a member Of the Legislature
representing a constituency outside Of the city
Of Memphis, who would vote against granting
such a privilege? It viii be a question Of the
country against the city. Which has the
larges. representation in the Legislature2 In
this event he Memphis and Charleston Rail-
road has no choice left it. They are hound BY
the internal improvement law Of Tennessee to
receive the ears and freight from connecting
roads, and transport them in the SAINT manner
and at the same rates as if they had been ship
ped at a station on their own road-in no case
to discriminate against a connecting road.
Therefore, II the Memphis and Charleston
Railroad Company was opposed to a road
being built to Fort Pickering, they could no,
prevent a company from doing 50, or obstruci
the operating Of the same.
Respectfully,
SAM TATE, President.