The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1868-02-20
The w. q A.. Railroad and Lincoln
aa - n. County.
The Lincoln County News says:

"We are informed tbatthe w. ~ A..
Railroad will be completed to this
place in the course Of q few weeks
71is is indeed adiags o. no small impor.
lance to The people Of this county. but
still we almost regret to see this ROAD
finished again, as 1t is now located
With, perhaps, much less money than
has been expended In the late repairs,
purchase Of iron, &C., on that route, an
entire new road could have been made
from this point to Tullahoma," &c.
"And again." says the News, indulging
in a grumbling, ~unsatisttd disposition
"Winchestcr stood like q little spcck,
unnoticed by the the N. 4 c. Railroad,
but commanded the W. Il A. Railroad
And, to secure an easy ride to the first,
she would render the second an object
of laughter and derision. vi
This is certainly humiliating, and must
rest upon the shoulders o fson'e.
We have too much wealth, too much
intelligence, too much self respect, to
always stand At Winchester's back
door holding the bag"
In the above extract the italics are
ours. ,.D
Now, it seems to us that our neigh
Dor is harboring a spirit Of envy not at
all justifable, and, to say the least, is
guilty Of inconsistency, manifest and
apparent at q glance. After announ-
| cling that the compilation Of the road
was haings Of NJ small Importance to
the people Of Lincoln, lie then, in the
next sentence, expresses regret, or al
most regret, to- see the road completed,
which completion, it admits in sub
stance, is of great Importance to the
citizens Of Lincoln.
But the News man wants to 60 to
T~ullahoma on rail. Well, that's a
good joke. It's q SO much larger spcch'
than III nee tom, the wealM, inteN-
genee, and ssIf-respect Of old Lincoln
wouM not be Inundated in holding the
bag at the back of Ta2ahoma!
But III neighbor is grievously in
error in one respect. If he means by
''holding the bag at our back door,"
that W. rely upon Lincoln county for
our supplies, he is totally ignorant Of
our resources, and we can inform him,
and the rest of mankind, that VIC raised
ample supplies Of every description,
and a good deal to ship to Northern
markets, in our county last year,
Time was, during the war, when the
wealth and intelligence of Lincoln coun
ty was Inaccessible to the Federal
troops because Gifts niggardness, rocks
and mire. Our county was stripped,
and u people lad to go to Lincoln
to buy bread, but they paid war prices
therefor. But we take it that our
neighbor means by bag-holding that
they are dependent on us for their sup
ply of wealth, intelligence and self:ro
spect, forMe n who goes TO buy gsner-
ally holds the bag. Well, n~eighbor, if
your people are in that position, it is
self imposed, and in fact more imogin-
airy than real. AS to Winchester being
a speck, thcre'sa speck OF the green
eyed monster III that "%unkindest cut of
ALL"
We take it. (now marx ~ that if Win
possesses the inherent power,
whether derived from wealth, intelli.
gence or self respect, to rule 80 imperi-
ously so much wealth and intelligence
as is contained in old Lincoln land we
concede her wealth and intelligence are
considerable then it follows as a logical
deduction that Winchester is one of the
powers that be, and not such q little
apeck, either, as Fayetteville, which
latter the N q C. r. H. has not even
yet noticed, and as to the W. d. A.. r.
R. being built to give us an easy ride
to the N. d. c. r. R., if that were 50,
our interest would not extend farther
than to build the road to this point,
which could have been done by our cit.
liens. But the road was continued to
Lincoln county, for the benefit Of her
citizens, and it would have been to our
interest to hrve stopped the road here,
or at Salem. But from the expression
OF opinion of the good people of Lin
coin, We arc inclined to think they do
not regard it as humiliating because the
road penetrating their rich section hap.
pens to pass by the town of Wiuches
ter. Is Nashville humiliated because
the N. Il c. R. r. passes such points
as TdNahona or Normandy? We can't
see it, and are at q loss to know what
has put our neishbor in such an i'll hu.
NOR. When the road is completed we
hope he will throw OFT his sackcloth,
wipe of the ashes, and come and see
us. VIZ q assure him VIC do not de.
sire the humiliation Of any orc.