Brownlow's Knoxville Whig. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1866-1869, 1868-04-29
TENN, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 20. 1868.

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and Southern Kentucky trade Of itself sufieien
TO build up respectable city. Surprising, ther
that Cincinnati desires the trade Of Central Ker
lucky, which route should she choose2 On Ii
Richmond route the only addition that she can gai
TO her trade is that Of Madison county for beyon
that county, toward Mt. Vernon there is nothin
bat knobs, and the trade Of Fayete is as secure o
one route as the other. and She VIII get only smal
portion OF The trade of Madison county. Cor ths
county Is already penetrated by branch Of ID
Knoxville road, in which the county has $500 90
/ Of stock and il which The peonie viii take Aaene
interest than ia the Cincinnati road Now trsc
the Dsuvile route on your map. On and near TIL
: route lies the entire trade of Jessamine rart !,
GaFrard, al Of Mercer, parts Of Anderson an,
/ Washington all Of Boyle a large part Of Lincoln
seven large and rich blue grass counties, who's
trade is very great In addition - this suppos
ing your 5oad goes no further than The junction 0
Knob Lick you are there in reach Of all the colin
ties lying directly south Of Danville clear 20 th,
4 Tennessee line, which are obliged TO come 10 tht
Junction before they cen 90 either to Louisville Of
Cincinnati and then you have an equal chance fol
their trade Here, then, IS the trade Of about one
dozen Of counties standing against the divided trade
OF Madison Now, suppose you turn Of at Licking
/ ton, and go through Madison, whist viii become Of
1 the trade Of those dozen counties? VIII Il sill
reach your road Except Jessamine this entire
trade is as completely lost to Cincinnati as if she
I had no Southern railroad through Kentuckv-thai
loss made certain BY the fact that in case the
Richmond route is chosen, the Lexington and Mich
olasyille piece Of road will be taken up as il even
now does not pay the cost Of running No city
cares particularly to build railroad into trade Of
which she Is already secure Now, we lay it down
as selEevident that on whatever route Cincinnati
builds this road all the trade that lies east of the
line until you reach the neighborhood of the Knox
vile road is already secure TO Cincinnati II TO-
lows logically from this, that the further west she
penetrates with her road the greater will be the vol
ume of her trade from this State Now, gentlemen,
do you wish to initiate the brilliant policy of Mr.
Guthrie in avoiding the trade of the Blue Grass
counties Of Kentucky Take your stand at the
Lebanon junction on the L. s. n. r. r. You are
at the foot of Muldraugh's Hill; going south from
that point over the Knoxville line you find YOUR
self in sight of the hill and the knobs entirely round
the semi-cree TO Crab Orchard, ninety miles leav-
ing the whole body of the Blue Grass Of Central
Kentucky exposed 10 Cincinnatfs grasp the mo-
ment she chooses TO penetrate it. Was il wise engi-
neering, or successful strategy? Now, sirs, those
same knobs circle around TO the Kentucky river,
just above Richmond. Do you, then, propose to
turn OF at Lexington and skirt the eastern end of
the knobs, and meet Mr.. Guthrie in the mountains,
and thus avoid all the wealthy portion of Kentucky
In order TO remedy Mr.. G. s errors for him. and af-
ter all force the trade which he has thrown away
over his line TO Louisville? Your affection for
Louisville is stronger than we supposed if you do.
With these facts before him, can any man doubt
which line offers the greatest facilities for trade p
Now forget not that this vast advantage is secured
at about half the cost in building road, which the
Richmond road requires. 1t will be good while
before this great work is through TO its Southern
connections; III the meantime this Kentucky trade
is not TO be despised.
3. The route by Danville offers much superior adj
vantages, as it respects future connections and
branches.
When a skillful general enters bis enemy coun-
try, he marches on that route and strikes at the
point, which is the key to the whole section of coun
try. A railroad engineer in locating an important
road, intended to cover with its iron arms a whole
section of country follows the same principle. He
is concerned not only TO find good road bed but
his eye is the strategic points, and considers what
great through connections can be made, penetrating
whole States beyond. We take il that the business
men of Cincinnati are not limited by the petty OBJ
ect of dividing the little East Tennessee trade that
may come 9YegT the Louisville and Knoxville road,
,f roads ,o,,ot.sS.: 70 Ia5 dywn great svsfe--
Tennessee and, BY tfeif aFate connections, draw
ing off the vast volume Of Southern trade. II tnis
is their object them suppose you tHe eio instead
route After building "a miles OF new Toao hsleau
Of 81 miles you aa3 yuttrselvos IN the mountains
s,s,l brush sonsewere nefr Mt vernon Anu ss-eIe
AZ you then z gu are, absolutely, IA the power
OF ffr. Guthrie. Do you yet Saow where Mr.. o.
is going with bis road Is he going TO Knoxville!
If so, is he going by Cumberland Gap or by Burn
side Point? Gentlemen, Mr.. Guthrie is year or
two ahead of you if you take the Richmond route)
and has choice Of routes and OF course VIII choose
the route which will defeat your purposes most eff
fectually Is it not strange fact that no man Nv
ing outside of Mr. Guthrie and, perhaps the silent
Mcleod, knows the location of the Louisville and
Knoxville road beyond Mt. Vernon? He IS walt
ing for YOU to show your hand. But, suppose MI
G.. goes 10 Knoxville, by either route what then
will be the use of your building another and psrai-
lei line TO Knoxville? Can you raise the money 10
buih a road through barren sand to divide East
Tennessee trade? We doubt it. Then, when you
get to Mt Vernon, it will simply end in depending
on Mr. Guthrie's road. Are you not, then, utterly
at his mercy2 Can you prevent him from making
the same charges from Knoxville to the Junction
that he makes through to Louisville How car
YOU hinder him You have no compromising sd
yantages to offer him as an inducement TO lower I
| freights You can't even compel him to stop al
vouT junction Well as there will be no use for yoI
| 10 build a road from Mount Vernon to knoXVllie
where will you 60 then Echo, among the noun
tains will answer, and the great southern roau emu
/ in the brush All this is Immensely aggravated Dy
tine nossibility that Mr. Guthrie may not go U
| Knoxville at ALL bat may go to the east oil Ouin
| herland Gap and tsp the Virginia and East len
nessee railroad at Bristol some polns east OF II
in order TO make a sea port for LouisVllle az MOI
! folk Where then, is your Southern connectlOh
In either case where is your great system OF south
ern roads? So much fer the through connection
of the Richmond route
Now. suppose you take the Danville route, an
build tNenty-one miles Of new road TO the JuhClo
at Danville Take your stand at Danyiile or ID
Junction. Here you are in the very center OF heL
tuel,v. lust half way 20 Knoxville or Chattanooga
a. a furnishing town, in the midst of one OF IN
most fruitful countries in the world, within fort
niles of nexhaustiGle coal banks on the line
| your own road-an admirable location Tor whaIeVt
Tepairing shops we must have, among rlch peopI
devoted 70 your road and city, Now, look ar oun
Won for connections All the Blue Grass countf
| lies behind you and at your command Turn TO u
east and there is the Knoxville road gong som
, ,rhers. and from which you can derive All Inc a
vantages It can give aHyChcre. Turn souIh"ar
and Won have an Hnbroken stretch Of country VIII
ont a rival road First here is the open line su
veved and shown entirely practicable, by that 40
! enSineer Mr.. Gum, entirely out Of the way Oh u
: 4 louisville and Knoxville road, TO point IN lie
noseee where YOU can have choice Of routes OF
meeting the Knoxville and Kentucky road throut
, N Knoxvile-the other 20 Chattanooga giving y
(. a direct route TO Atlanta, Ga. Turn to the sout
. west toward Nashville, and there hes most INV
{ ing route through Liberty, Adair and Cumperlan
: ! IN Kentucky. on 20 Lebanon, Tenn. and thus
? Nashville through a country vast IN resources al
e nerishin- for a road AT Nashville, you commal
!, The trade of Middle Tennessee and North Alabau
: and YOU carry it on over your own roads Ere
| psnvilIe look westward and you see that by Mn
= short Gap you are at Munfordsville, and there Z
= tbe louisville aud Nashville road, and command
n large part OF Southwestern Kentucky, Iu addltl
N 90 all this, many valuable short brsRches might
; timAtely be sent of at various points from tn
% main stems Now, sirs, is II not plain mat DanV
IL has vast advantages q radiating point over a
h ether route thought Of From this point IS not
"A prospect grand one Tor Cincinnati Is it not
lev Ia his whole country We doubt not q
r. MT Guthrie would rejoice 20 see Yen digging on
Il Richmond route.
be Now, then, sum up the argument II favor o.
g DanviIle route First, you have at most twenty
ST miles of road 10 build against sixty-ioT mics
ed Second there can be no comparison IN Inc su 40
:. IL IN lie r...lLn nrar that az IN