Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-07-17

II not entirely, the best Glass Of immi-
grants. and, perhaps too, divert the cap
ital which our enterprise would need,
= and so our little design would fade into
d Insignificant failure, before the magnifi-
! eence Of Its success. Should there come
7 to the levy scheme any after failure, dis
E aster, sicknessOr discomfort, It will damn
/, forever our enterprise as being contiguous
1 and similar. And again, should this levy
: scheme be by any chance abandoned or
9 a failure, il needs no prophetic vision 10
: hOpelessiy see that epidemic depopulation
{ and financial depletion will not be long
} in following agricultural prosperity aud
r commercial success; but should our
scheme succeed, its railroad facilities Will
: be an aid, and its colonial prosperity an
encouragement, while the comparatively
J small population it draws, will be no ap-
preciable drain so the magnitude Of the
5 other.
! We want labor or what in this case
: would be its more than equivalent, since
it would at orce be both, We want popu-
lation. However painfully prominent
may be now the want of labor (the more
, 50 from its having been so long supplied
, whether adequately or not Is not now to be
/. argued) we have want as palpable-the
means Of transit; we want neither very
badly without the other, nor will want
either long, and though we cannot deny
! that population might produce a means
of transit, there can be no question that
railroad would at once induce (if en-
eouraged) thriving population; either
alone would fail-One for the want Of
support-the other for want Of facilities
advanced by both we can begin at once
an unimpeded march to prosperity snd
happiness, and to our essential capacity
of development ; without them We are
with open eyes and helm in hand,
wrecking the talents entrusted to Us and
steering TO want, ourselves and those de-
pendent on us. We can have both, and
both Of the most faultless kind, soon,
cOrrellative, reciprocal we can have
neither without general, an energetic,
liberal, continued and an early effort
Railroads are no more built by railroad
men, than turnpikes and Nicolson pave
ment by contractors; thsy are built by
those to whom they pay greatest divi-
dends, however indirectly they may be
paid they are most beneftting to land
holders and to the landholders by whom
Eass they are and should be built by
SiDen. If the parties to be benefited, do
"a 1t see their interest in the seeming
( lAcrifice of a liberal donation of land or
4 stIuivalent on fullest guarantees, to save
| bad enhance the remainder far beyond
| eAe amount of the investment and to
tilize both, then those less interested
Pill not see a speculation in railroads; if
| droperty is to be at once doubled or quad
| foIpled in value by any enterprise, he
D.ho owns largely can give in greater
! thDportion for the purchase of a larger |
pone6t, and he who has most beyond his
frOeessities, should show corresponding
herbnitude IN other Wsys.
etorsed We more than point our intelli-
lEnt people to the certainty that what
SS,onri S,I sesidue Of land we reserve for our
trfct OF ses will rise in each phase Of value |
tionately TO the amount We invest |
INC means of increasing that value /
OF thbur investment will be progressively |
revolensative? That il we invest barely /
posssiety to build a road, that mOiety will |
meaInce more than return to US in the /
92iApe Of enhanced selling and agricultu- /
raj value, while if we do more, and in /
vest enough to insure population, we /
I have GdUdnced our interests, and this /
/ benefit increases in incredible progress
| sion, as our Investment at once serves /
1 the double purpose OF immediately plant /
ing the best pos.9IE1.9ep and securing the /
/ financial ability of our road.
Suppose a road TO be built as indicated, 4
in connection with the introduction of
select population Of the best nativity and 4
homo both together and each 1
auxiliary to the other, what LnquestiOn-
able result do we see? We at once Gud ,
home market of transportation for all We /
have to sell and diminished cost of all we
buy we find labor, by nature tract
able, industrious by habit, skilled by
training, organized from childhood into
discipline and obedience, temperate, hoa-
est, truthful, healthy and cheerful
We find other labor improved by /
the contact and example, teaching
the new what it needs to learn
and become profitable, and for the
character, because its meat and bread
depend; we find servants, labOrers, and
the mechanical skill OF the north ready
to come at our need, because they can
get to us-ready to serve US because they
have the capacity, and because they will
find with US good hcmes, pleasant
service, good wages and kind employers.
We will have introduced arts and pro-
duets we do not know, and thrift and
industry of WHICH we had not dreamed.
When We need help, hoe8es who COM
mand their men, will bring gangs of
skilled laboTers, and do our crawding
work at cheap contract and leave us on
light expenses, while soil and climate
fruits and vegetables north, and other
products and cattle and poultry where we
please, fOS give labor 20 our soil and
climate and none can raise them as
cheaply as we; our forests instead of
resting, tangled mazes in which to lose
ourselves or gather miasm, or of becOm-
ing the deadly desdenings which alone
we have been able to make them, will be
sold for mOney-the lands on which they
grew become groves and pastures; our
fields will ehangs their noisOme weeds
for paying crops our creeks and branches
be gatheredin into running streams through
grassy meadows; our hills will wave
with fruits and clustering grapes our
people become alive again and happy;
our land no more blot upon our coun-
try's map.
We know that our dismalists, ever
more ready to wish than to work, will
say wait till thetelectiOD is over, ,n-as
il politics, that subtle art of putting worst
men In best places, uusatished with its
long curse upon US, must still hamper our
rise with the cunning device, WAIT :" |
or as if intense delay were some mighty
genius to solve all our riddles aud accom-
plish all our ends: suppose we wait and
suppose the elections be barren of
efects-then we have only lost time
aud opportunities suppose the elections +.
should give our affairs better turn and
brighter promise-we have then lost pros
perity which by waiting we have in so
far failed to advance; and if the elections
give to our affairs darker phase, they
will have relieved US of our interests |
drawn Us nearer to q necessity and
farther, if not wholly from the ability to
avoid it. We trust this dim fOreshadOw- ,
ing of events will open cur eyes to their
coming-lest when they come our m cans
of their conversion shall have passed
away.
a scheme has been devised, which, if {
al once prosecuted, promises in the
shortest possible time to supply to the {
route on which located, the two great
wants of population and Of transpor- |
tatiOn-each in the best manner, each of
the best character, and each in a way
auxiliary to the other. 1t only remains
for the people interested to take prompt |
action-tO signify in whatever way may
to them seem best, the extent OF their {
willingness, for commensurate ability l
can be found for them) to carry out an (
undertak king so laudable-sO entirely free
from risky chances-sO certain of pro-
ducing to them the best results.
Forer1nners being essential to the pro- |
curen ent Of the best material for our :
purpose and to It's most speedy prosperity,
in order to gain a year of time, small
colonies or nuclei might be this fall |
located at certain accessible points to be
designated, that they may assure their 1
friends at home, Of Our good faith and
our Inducements, and 10 make for those !
friends home, and be prepared to in {
struct them. We say at certain accessible
points, for in region so universally good, :
on whichever route q road be built ana !
all to become so accessible, there can be !
but little beyond present aceessi ibility and
the spirit of the people, to effecta choice.
Any communication to or through the
Memphis APPEAL will receive attention.
June II, 1867. 3.
MIssISsIPPI NEWS.
"A northern letter writer goes int {
eostaeies over the specimens Of female
beauty encountered in the Mississippi
towns, but especially in Columbus and I
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