The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1869-07-07
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RALRoADs-Whether it will effectany llia'esi'' soo
or not we vet deem it our duty to occaslonaiy souu
the note Of alarm to property holders Oh ''s
ton Whilst we appreciate fully the lack OF surplus
capital in the hands of citizens, we can o't
that they do not see it is TO their interest " n'Ao
preset sacrifices for future good results. "e ~
the opinion of all that this is the most direct anu
best line for road to the Pacific, either from wait oi
enterprise on the part of people, from the previous
management of this road or because the advantages
Of the route have not been properly brought before
the minds of European and Northern capitalists Tue
fact patent that the Cairo and Fulton road oids f
| to have all the preference.
In noticing the fact that Mrssrs. Overmann Freund
& Co. of New York have closed negotiation IN Lon
don for building the Fulton and Cairo railroad, run
ming from Chalk Bluff to Little Rock, and thence to
Texana through the State of Arkansas, the New York
World says:
There is great field in this country for all the cap
tal and enterprise Europeans send us as well as
for the throngs of industrious emgrants who come to
make this country their home. We welcome capital
and enterprise cordially do labor Considering
the prostraton in which the South left by the late
war; it is gratifying know that foreigners be In
duced to build railroads in that section; and the only
subject of regret is, that the mscbevous policy of the
Radicals has kept the South in such state of confusion
since the that this kind Of aid has been long
| tarded and delayed"
| On this subject the World further says
The recent action of the Memphis and New Orleans
Commercial Conventions has turned public attention
strongly in the direction of the Southern Pacific rail
road. In this connection learn that arrangements
have been made to push forward the building of the
Memphis, El Paso and Pacific railroad during the
present summer, in anticipation OF aid from Congress
at the coming session. Engineering parties have been
placed in the field along the line of road and strong
force Of laborers collected for the grading 1T various
points The company has decided to use heavy iron
and powerful engines in order that the highest rate of
speed with safety and regularity, be obtained
as to place Norfolk Va, and San Diego, five days
apart. The iron for the section of $50 miles from JEFF
ferson and westward will be shipped from Dunkirk and
Antwerp during the months of June, July and August
and it is expected that 100 miles in Texas will be fin
shed within the next six months.
The Galveston News contains the following in refer
ence to the matter:
The interest taken in the roads leading towards Gal
weston is not abating in the Western States If little
more energy displayed here, might profit
thereby in very great degree The enterprise dis
played in the following notice will attract attention:
"A correspondent Of the Chicago Tribune says that
the Mississippi Ouchita and Red River railroad has
ceent prospects. 1t is to begin at Eunce, the
Mississippi, the southern line of Arkansas, and
extend across Arkansas to the west through Camden
the headwaters of the Ouachita Fulton the head
of navigation the Red river, and the terminus Of
the proposed Cairo and Fulton railroad"
CHANGE OF BAsE.-The rrepressible Brownlow has
come out in card, ir which he advocates universal
suffrage In declaring that if he had it in his power
he would dsfranchse for life the active leaders who
brought on and upheld the rebellion, he is very evil
IDENTIFY not actuated by any feeling of generosity or
reenting towards rebels but ventilaes his newborn
policy through the declarations that Grant elected
upon the platform of universal suffrage and is fair and
square, in his inaugural in favor of that measure; that
the reconstruction of Congress all proceed upon
that principle, and that the Republican party Of the
nation and the Republican press of the North
unequivocally in favor of universal suffrage.
We not that the satanic gentleman is en-
titled to any particular credit for protesting to sustain
his party behests. In his card which is before
u.s. he adrerts to the late decision Of the Supreme
Court of Tennessee which restores the ballot about
twenty thousand rebels, among whom were some of
the active leaders This we may nationally conclude,
has had effect in opening his eyes to the changes
which time is working, and enables him to perceive
the admontion upon the wall, Stand from under"
Universal suffrage under the Interpretation of |
Brownows party, seems to as intended to apply |
exclusively the black race capet-baggers and seal
awags so far as the South may be considered Its
practice goes to the exclusion, from the ballot, of all
the white people in the Southern States who are not
enough fall upon their knees in acknowl
edgment of crimes which they unconscious of hay
ing committed who are unable to swallow twoedg |
oahs and who have the temerity to cast their votes
for any candidate who does not strictly conform to
Radical orthoepy in the uterance Of their Shibboleth
4 question of grave moment will probably arise in
connection with the Cuban revolution. The Spanish
government will be very apt to shoot garrote the
leaders of the volunteers from the United States who
may be captured and send the rank and file into cap
tvity in the dreary and maarious region of Fernando
Pc, whence but few would ever escape alive. viii
this country submit to repetition of the Crittenden
massacre? We are disposed to think not At that
time we were a more LAW abiding people than now,
when turbulence and discord rule the hour. And
even then there hundreds of thousands of quiet
and conservative people who thought that vengeance
should have been visited upon Spain for that
Many of these volunteers are American citizens, the
flower of our youth, belonging to families in every
State of the Union. They went to the island
rashly no doubt but most of them with deep and
honest sympathy with the liberal cause. They are
not so much to blame for that for press and people
have taught them to sympathise with people whom
they believed to be in bondage They probably did
not reflect or did not care that the Cuban of in
dependence is rebellion that the insurgents not
begerents either by Spain the United
States that on land and they in the law moth
ing than pirates, and carry their lives in their
hands Had our Government issued the usual proca-
nation of warming it might have deferred some, but
would have made no practical difference with most of
them.
Notwithstanding all this, blood is stronger than
water" and the prediction that should cap
tured American citizens be shot down, as Crit
enden and his command the report of the murderous
muskets will be the deathknel of Spanish dominion in
Cuba
The METHoDIsTs -Overtures have been made by the
Northern Methodsts to those of the South for re-
union. The prejudice on the part of the Northern