Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1867-12-19
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Nashville ExpandIng-Threate 10
Spread all over the State and into
the Adjoining TeFrttOries-SOme.
thing About the Great Spread, etc.
II the spirit Of the brave and venerated
General Nash, from whom this city took
its early name, could revisit the scenes Of
his early labors and look in upon our
growth and prosperity, gradual and sure
as II was under the old regime, glow OF
satisfaction and pride would animate il.
But what would be the ine1pressible smile
that would light the features of the old
hero were he here in person TO behold the
unprecedented expansion of the CITY con-
templsted by the new order Of things.
Nashville is forced TO expand-no pent
mp Utica must contract the tremendous
powers that control her destiny. They
cannot be contracted, they must have room
or burst The glorious destiny Of our city
is looming up. There is no doubt but that
the present authorities and the Legislature
intend to make r city of her-a big city AZ
that. II is said that they have sent TO
Chicago for the chart Of that CITY 10 be
governed by in wiping out our old land
marks and establishing new ones. Whether
they will bring Lake Michigan down for
skating park and the "tunnel" for
sewerage purposes remains to be seen.
Bun Nashville is 20 be a big CITY
that's settled. Babylon with the hanging
Gardens of Semeramis, Thebes. with her
hundred gates, Rome with her seven hills
her Tyber and her Terrapian rock. were
village way-places, compared TO the size
Nashville Is going TO be. Nor is she going
TO attain this extended size by any slow
process ; it will only take few weeks to
complete the unprecedented spread. 1t
fills us with pride 10 feel that we have
prospect Of living in very big city at
last. We are sick of having no city beyond
Fort Negley, out on the pixies. and away
over the river. The idea is intolerable,
that the fats Of Lick Branch and the Mill
Creek bottoms, should be allowed TO
remain in the country. The country I
Fudge Mill Creek il ours and as oloiP'
a stream as ever bubbled She must be in
oorporated. 1t is gratifying TO know that
the time is rapidly approaching when we
cannot look beyond our city environs. The
first spread oar city will take from the in
fantile swaddling clothes in which she has
been wrapped and Graded, will be circle
drawn from far beyond the Medical College,
at point out toward the Trabue place,
thence west back of the hills, and thence
to the Cumberland, some where about Fort
Zollicoffer; the line will then cross the
Cumberland, and proceed all around
Hdoraftal1 ofrilsuc, l.
at point above the waterworks, and cross
back to the beginning. Now that is what
we call spreading, and will embrace some
thing like the size of a respectable city. 1t
is strange that it never was thought Of
before. 1t Is just as easy to have a big city
as little one. Edgefeld need not cut up
about II, because she will be a part of this
big city. None need resist coming in the
law Is plain il is an exercise of govern
mental power Of which the persons newly
taken in have no right to complain; they
have no voice in the matter, no power to
resist, nor is any right infringed upon
When city commences TO spread no one
has the right or power to prevent its spread.
lng. This is the law and the ordinance
passed on spreading. So now we are to
have big city, and there is no telling
where we will stop--for we have az much
right to include one district as another.
The next leap will be TO Edgefeld juno
ton north, to Triune south, and from the
Cumberland coal mines above, to the iron
works below, and who can tell where we
will stop. With coal, and iron, and wood,
and all the farm products inside the city
limits, we will be in the full tide of success.
We are overwhelmed at the prospective
expansion of our city proportions, and
await the tremendous results with feelings
of unrestrained ecstacy.