Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1868-02-29
THE TENNESSEE AND PACIFIC
RAIIQRAD


THE TENNESSEE AND PACIFIC
RAILROAD.
The people of Davidson county are to
determine for or against the construction
of this road on Saturday, the 9TH Of March
We cannot Oyerestimate the Importance
Of this enterprise. The materiaIinterests
of the State at large are involved in it,
and especially the future growth and
prosperity Of the city of Nashville The
returns from Wilson county show that
the people Of that county have voted
against the $780, 900 tax Tor the construc-
ton Of the Lebanon and Gallatin branch,
bat the tone Of the press of that county
and the animus which its people exhibit
are unequivical and threatening 10 MS.
They have made up their minds to have a
railroad, and in the recent election there
upon the Gallatin branch, they have only
indicated a preference for the Pacific
road 1t has required the use Of every ar
gumeht and the influence of all the friends
Of the Pacific rad to keep the Wilson
county people from voting for the Gall
latin road Every feeling OF State pride
has been appealed to, and the strongest
assurances have been offered that the
Pacific Railroad tax would be voted in
this county, and thai the construction OF
this road was certaiaty. The action of
our County Court when the matter was
first brought before il, came near seeur-
ing the tax in Wilson comfy for the
Gaihtin road The faithful friends of
fhp Pacific road, who have the real m
terests Of the State, aud the State eaRital
at heart succeeded in overcoming fhe
disaffection which resulted from this
action Of the County Court, and the Gala
tin road was voted down But this has
been done with the publicly expressed
reservation upon the part of the Wilson
people, that if Davidson fails to help in
the immediate construction Of the Pacific
road, they wiz again push forward the
Gallatin road There are many local
arguments in favor Of the Gallatin road,
and they have been overcome, even for
the present, with the greatest difficulty
A refusal upon the part Of Davidson
county and Nashville to invite the trade,
and help the enterprise of Wilson county,
will revive the Gallatin branch road,
and il will receive the aid OF Wilson,
by an overwhelming vote. 1t will
be built at once, and when built
it will pass into the hands Of the Louis'
Vile and Nashville railroad monopoly,
and moved by the rival interests of
Louisville, it viii be pushed forward to
Murfreesboro Thus the trade east Of
our city win be entirely cut on. We may
shut our eyes if we please to this ineVita-
bic consequence, butwe warn the citizens
of Nashville against the paralyzing in,
fiuence that will be felt at once npon the
trade and commerce and property of
this city.
Thepeople Of Wilson county are re-
solved to have a road, and it needs only
the refusal of this county TO vote the tax
asked for, to concentrate their energies
at once upon the construction of the
Gallatin branch ~
A road running from GalIatin through
Lebanon to Murlreesboro would become
a thoronghfare equal in importance to
an ypart of the main track of the Louis
Vile and Nashville railroad 1t would
turn away from our city the trade, travel
and freight which coming north, reaches
it by the Chattanooga road, and the
travel and freight which passes through
it from the North and which reaches it
by the Louisville and Nashville railroad
When these things occur We win see the
blight and feel its whitening influence
upon every interest that is worth pre-
#tfgEE
If the people Of Nashville and David
son county vote against the 100000 tax
for the Pacific road on Saturday, that
day win be remembered as the period of
a most unfortunate blunder the fatal
of which this generation
viii notreeoyer FROM we warn the peo-
pie against the threatened danger, and
we urge them again to go TO the polls and
vote for the tax. .. .s. 4fIsr