Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1868-04-28

good old tunes" OF Just and equal legisla-
ton for all sections OF our country shall re-
turn--When national aid will be given by
Congress for the benefit of all the country
when the nation shall give aid equal to
thai given 10 other roads, 20 the roads from
hemphig and New Orleans 10 Guyamas,
San Diego, and San Francisco, when the
West and Northwest shall emaneipate
themselves from the thousand Of eastern
manufacturers and eapitalists-when the
seats Of Manufactured shall be removed TO
the valleys Of the Ohio and Mississippi,
and the great sources of power are con-
yeFted and utiliEed-WhPn the great West
and Southwest shall establish and maintain
aaofher seapOrf-fheir Ol0n seap0rt-then the
products and travel will pass and repass
from the South to the Lakes and the Up
per Mississippi and Ohio, and from the
Western slope of the A,leeanies, ahd from
ta,sL4bss aha the r.eys q ~ Asss.s-
sippi 20 their 0wR seaport.
Those times will come, and I trust are
not distant. speak in no political view.
but doubtless the changes wrought, and to
be wrought in the opinions of mankind,
will hasten the times. Natural and moral
causes will work this contamination. The
impediments of nature, her very laws-the
barriers Of Gods creation, the mountains,
the storms, the SHOWS, the ciimate-must
render the Northern lines of railroad to
the Pacific impracticable and comparative
~ useless. The sagaeious managers of the
central line Ct the Union and Pacific road,
compreheDding the insurmountable diff
o,,lt;o, H. sro,,os,s; l.; Hi. =, tla 49, -
detecting their line from some point east
of Denver to Albuquerque, and south Of
that point into the line of the Southern
route. The Southern route will prove the
only practicable line for a great natural
railway from the Atlantic and Mississippi
to the Pacific coast.
The imperious necessity of the West,
Northwest and Southwest, is another seaport
than New York-is seaport of their o1gn-a
seaport on the coast of the Mississippi or
the Gull, or Southern Atlantic-NeW Or
leans, Mobile, PenBacola or Norfolk
great centreport, into which the Ohio and
its tributaries, the Missouri and Mississippi,
with their innumerable tributaries, with
the great railroad lines, may pour the pro-
ducts of these boundless vallies, and de-
liver them for shipment over the various
seas to all foreign lands, and receive in ex-
change the products of other countries. The
West and Northwest can make for them
selves such a seaport. Does not their in
terest and commercial independence re-
qulre the combination of the great States
of the West and Northwest to the accom-
piishment of this result2 When free trade
and equal justice to all sections obtain,
these results will follow.
A Southern Pacific railroad will be free
from all the distractions presented by ma
ture 10 the successful operation ofthe North
ern roads Roads from New Orleans and
Memphis can be at all times and seasons
operated as readily and safely as a road
through your State, and with equal GER
talnty and reliability. This freedom from
distractions, this reliability ofthe Southern
route will draw to it the greater proportion
Of the travel aud business. England and
Holland and France, and all European
countries, will be drawn to the Western
terminus OF the Southern road 20 New Or.
lea,a ~ Pensacola OF Norfolk. There g. p
small diisreaUe 80 tbs distance from Liv-
erpool, Bremen and Havre to China and
japan by Norfolk and New Orleans and
New York. The certainty, safety and re-
liability Of the Southern road over the
Northern roads will determine the trade of
Europe with China and Japan to Norfolk
and New Orleans. The commercial nations
of Europe have for centuries sought the
rich trade of the great countries of the East.
The trade and commerce of China and ia
pan will be sought after and cultivated by
all the nations of Europe, and their nearest
route thither is through orr country.
The distance from London
to \ okOhOma in Japsn
by the Suez canal ls...-,, II 500 miles or 81 days
BY n eW Orleans on South
ern Pacific railroad.....- 1900 miles or p days
Difference in distance and
time. .........,..... 400 miles or So days
FromLondon 10 Shanghai
China. via Suez........... TO- go miles
From London to Shanghai,
China, Via Southern
Pacific railroad.......... s,l35 miles
Difference in distance. 2,l35 miles
Now let there be Southern Pacific rail
road, let the Great West, Northwest, and
Southwest have sea port of their o,oa, on
their own waters, at New Orleans, Pensa-
cola, or other place; let us have free trade
centralized capital, then beside the rich
and exbanstless products of the great
valleys of our rivers which will be sent
from North TO South, and South to North,
by water and by rail, teas aud spices, and
silks, the rich fabrics of artistic manufsc-
ture from China and Japan, will be brought
to the same sea port for exchange and sale,
and distributed over the world by land and
by sea. The trade and travel will be
turned in part over the railroads running
North aud South, the power of monOpolies
will be broken and the interest of the whole
country promoted. Whether these results
will OF will not he accomplished, and be
lieye their accomplishment is as sure as the
future of our country shall be prosperous.
feel every confidence that almost all OF
our railroads will be profitable, and GER
tainly beneficial 10 the country. The great
change brought in the institutions of the
Southern States, the modification of the
labor system of that section, thegreat change
which will be wrought in its population,
the new element Of people from other
States aud nations, must act benefCially on
Southern railroads. At no distant day
emigration must set toward the South and
Southwest even 10 the Pacific, and trade,
business, aud commerce, must 20 with Il in
every direction over our roadz
/ believe the Evansville, Henderson and
Nashville railroad will constitute one OF the
important and valuable roads of the coun.
try, and must acquire national Importance
aud useinlness. / entertain no doubt OF
my success in building it, If it receives the
support il is Justly entitled to- / have no
reason TO doubt IL will.
In regard 20 the aid from Evansville,
feel sure that city will modify their sub-
scription 20 as to render it available at once.
Ii is a necessity OF the city. The Indian
apolis, Ninoennes and Cairo railroad will
sweep fifty miles north Of her through In
diana and Illinois, the Shawneetown and
Edgewood railroad will pass fifty miles
west of her, the Eiizsbethtown and Padn-
cab railroad City miles south Of her, and
the Greensboro and Russellville railroad
ffty miles east Of her. Evansville has bat
one railroad. To her, railroads are the Ne
cesssries OF life She Is determined 70 have
more roads. She will have them. On tbs
9th Of May next, the city BY vote, will de-
eide on the question Of modifying the sub
scription, and will render 1t available.
As TO the subscription from your county
Of Davidson, have taken no steps since
last fall, when presented proposition L
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