Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1867-07-18

bank IN Nashville, by reason OF his posi-
ton as Presidents Have you any idea OF
the amount of business he can and has
turned into that channel? 1t is more than
you wonld even dream Of Again, if the
property of the company is to be insured,
or freights, Mr.. Burns & Co. own insurance
offices, and of course fix that all right.
IL freight is to be sent by express, Burns a
Co. own an express company, and OF course
ship it through their company. II leather
or anything IN that line is needed, Burns x
Bro. can supply the demand at low rates.
If oils, paints, etc, are needed, land an
immense quantity is required), somebody
& Co. can furnishit If shovels, spades, or
anything in the hardware line is required,
E. & Co. can supply it. If any one
sees proper to ship freight by way of the
Northwestern and Chattanooga roads, we
must pay Ewing q Co. FIVE cents on every
100 pounds thus shipped. So much
twenty-five cents, | believe,) for every
hogshead of bacon so mnch per car load
for all live stock and 50 on through the
whole catalogue. How many of Burns,
Browns and Ewing's connections by mar
riage and otherwise, have paying posi-
tions in connection with the roads, | will
not undertake just now to say neither
attempt now 20 point out to you half the
ways in which money can be made besides
getting it in dividends from the Nashville
and Chattanooga railroad. What do
Burns g. Co. care for dividends? What
does he care for the salary he
gets ? They are mere drops in the
bucket compared to what he makes in
other ways, directly and indirectly, by
reason of his position as President, etc. And
now, gentlemen, notice the deception at
tempted to be palmed off on you in the
last lines of this comparative statement.
On page seven he hattered you by calling
you intelligent and honest stockholders
Here he treats you as if you were a set of
blockheads. | allude to the certificate of
r. G. Bransford Read it l hereby GER
! tify that the above statements are correct
No, not a word of it. Well, what do you
| certify TO then, Mr.. Bransford2 | certify
that the figures and calculations in the
| foregoing are correct So do /, w. S.
Higgins, certify to the same thing; but
will not certify that the statements, con-
illusions, or results are correct. Neither
| does Mr.. Bransford and | am persuaded,
| that come loss of Office, or life, or death,
| OF M1dt HDl, LldL ne Will uOb uO w IOI
| believe him to be an honest man.
| Mr.. Burns cannot deceive the stock
holders this time they have got their
| eyes open and their pockets empty-the
latter being terrible sharpener to the eye
| sight. Mr. Burns why did you not tell the
stockholders in your comparative report
that you had an order passed at the last
meeting of the Board to give proxy TO
| two gentlemen to vote the stock belonging
| to the company-for your Board-stock
that was purchased by the old organization
for the purpose of being retired and, also,
! that you had voted down a resolution
! which | offered in lieu, to the effect that
the stockholders be requested or permitted
to vote their own stock at their next annual
meeting, provided it was right or proper
for it to be voted at all. But, | suppose,
these kind of things did not, or would not
answer the purposes for which the COM
paratlve was written. So be it. | intend to
| put this sort in my comparative. And this
reminds me that | ought, too, to draw a
comparison. Grant, Whitesides and myself
examined all of the papers and books OF
! the old organization from 1861 to 1865, and
we are familiar with the present admins
tration, and have no hesitation in saying
! land l believe that Messrs. Grant and
Whitesides will concur with me in this
opinion that the present administration is
an hundred fold more corrupt than
the old and you all know our
opinion Of that. Stockholders, if you
will appoint committee, Tor order the new
Board to do so at your annual meeting,
composed of gentlemen who are not under
the influence of the present officers,
will spend six months more of my life ii
necessary, in procuring the testimony to
establish the correctness Of all that | have
said, and great many more things, blacker
still if possible, which l have not said, and
which l do not intend to say, for pruden-
tial reasons, until such committee is
appointed
Those of you who have given your proxy
without knowing the facts in the case, OF
have done so through misrepresentation O
any kind, should see to it that you have
them revoked in time, or go to the election
and vote it yourself The facts, in part
are before you; the road belongs to you
you have the right and the power to selec
whomsoever you will to manage it for you
without being dictated to by President
Burns or any one else, as to who should b.
the managers. Respectfully,
W. S. HUGGINs.
MANCHESTER, July H. 1867.