The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1868-04-18

APRlL Is, lobA
The Nashville and Northwest
ern Railroad.
The Governor of Tennessee and Sc
Nor Editor" of the Knoxville Whig,
] publishes in his paper of the sth instant,
a lengthy correspondence between him
self and Judge Hawkins relative to the
affairs of the Nashville and Northwest
ern Railroad The animus ard evident
purpose of that individual may be plaiuly
inferred from the following Introductory
sentences:
RSince this correspondence occurred,
quite recently, the Governor has APP
IA new set of Directors on the
he Stat", feeling called upon to
the passage of late act eh
act to define the powers and
State Directors in the railroad
of this State. In selecting
Board of Directors on the part
State, the Governor has sought to
7 men who were not stockholders, aud
20 would be likely to act lmpartially
took closely .after the isslezsgtss - =
! ssasT i--.t -ss& 81 ~ Tbe Rebel papsss
think otherwise. He has at least selected
men who will harmonize with those hav-
inc charge Of the road, instead of max
inc war upon it. The road is now doing
well pnder the management of its eff
cient officers If the outs do not pro-
duce confusion and anarchy by a war
IAN the ms, the road may be expected
crease its business and usefulness.
eSever, the contentious parties are
- upon the destruction of the road,
ct them continue their reckless warfare,
and take the consequences. One thing
is certain, and we speak now by author
ity, the Governor will not be intimidated
nor deferred from doing what he be
lieves to be right by any threatened suits
at law. writs of mandamus, or talk about
impeachment; and If any parties con
template such action as this, the sooner
they begin the better.
The appended extract from the letter
Of Judge Hawkins on behalf the Direc-
tory, read in connection with the above
characteristic effusion, will show the
present state of the case 1t is sub
ject which requires and will receive
thorough attention through Ehe press,
and we give this much of tie matter as
we find it in the official and personal or
gan of ,he Governor as preliminary to a
fuller discussion of it hereafter Judge
Hawkins says
| hoped and believed that. under iu-
dieious and economical management,
with the assistance OF the aid recently
rendered by the Legislature, the com
pany would, at no distant day have to
meet and discharge the liabilities Of the
State on account Of bends issued to it.
and insure realization of the just and
reasonable expectations Of the road: and
to this end have entertained hopes that
ere this the road would have been re
stored to the company, in whose hands
it would, to great extent, have been
under the coattol aud management of
Directors upon Une part on the state, APP
pointed by your Excelleney, composed
Of men living along the line Of the road
most of WHOM have been long and favor
ably known, and have long been ideuti-
fed with the interest OF the State and the
road but in this well grounded hope
have been disappointed And now the
men selected and appointed by your Ex
to guard and protect the inter
est of the State in this road are subjected
to the humiliation of seeing themselves
discarded and set aside, their counsels
wholly disregarded in the management
of the road, aud themselves practically
denied the right to perform the duty to
which you assigned them, or to dis
charge the high trusts confded to their
hands. Under existing circumstances
they are compelled to stand hAi in silence,
with folded arms, and witne day by
day the destruction of the interests they
are expected to protect, without the
power to arrest the arm of the destroyer,
and to see the credit of the State para
lyzed, and the pockets Of her people
plundered without the power to pre-
vent it.
| wish most respectfully to call your
attention to a conceded fact, that the
early completion of the branch road from
to jackson is matter of
vital importance to the State, in enab
ling the company, by an increase of its
business, to pay the interest upon the
State bonds. And in this connection, it
must be remembered, IA Receiver has no
lssar to build a road. All he can do is
D and manage road already built,
ands of the company is now so
it can do nothing.
= also again, most respectfully,
our attention to the fact that the
has never accepted the State
pred by the act of December
tpt upon the condition that the
at = mould be restored to the company.
10 {. condition never having been com
h with, Consequently thesofered aid
Q Ter ksen accepted, and the issn-I
- of such bonds to any one is wholly
thorized by any law, and being IS
without authority of law aud the
kant-ef the company, they constitute
|on the road or liability upon
II the company. But being ad-
at one hundred thousand dollars
bonds of the State had been IS
nhe Receiver. in order to meet
ion which must come, and TO
he interest of the State on ac
of said bonds, | procured the adop-
N6of resolution by the board pledg
ing the company, in the event the road
should be restored to the possession and
control of the company, to assume all
liability on account of the bonds, in so
far as they had been applied to the pur-
poses for which they had been designed,
as fully and to the same extent as Ii
they had been accepted by the company
and delivered to its officers
/ wish also again, most respectfully to
state to your Excellency, that having had /