Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-05-23
CINCINNATI AND NASHVILLE.

/ think its publication will afford int
est to many of your readers, and
. attentive consideration will give them
: better idea OF the important connection
|. that can be made at Nashville
Truly yours.
Il N. IMAGINABLE.
NASHVILLE, May ii, lS69.--N. MAJ
neale, Esq.-Dear Sir Your favor cam
duly to hand and was submitted to th
Mayor of the city for his action in refer
ence 10 appointing committee to pre-
sent the claims of Nashville to the favo
| of your citizens as the route Of the cor
| templated railroad from your city t
some Southern terminus, as your ctizen
in their wisdom may select. have read
with some interest the views presented
by the delegates from Chattanooga, Nc.
Minnville and Knoxville, and othel
points, urging their peculiar views with
tact and ability to The favor Of you
people. 1t is not my purpose to enter
into an elaborate argument to Tefute the
claims of any of these places to the locas
ton Of the terminus OF the contemplated
road.
| take it that your city, in subscribing
the princely sum often millions Ofdollars
to build road TO benefit your interests
will be Influenced by only one consider
alton, namely, to locate the road and ter>
inmate it at the point which will do most
to increase the commerce of Cincinnati.
Our city on another occasion sent com 8
| mittee of some of our best citizens to
confer with the authorities of your city
as to the advantage to be derived by your
people in selecting Nashville as the tiers
minus ofthe contemplated road. In vi W
of these facts don't know what action
our city authorities will take in the pre-
| misses, but trust q committee may be
| appointed to confer with your city au~
thorities. am impressed with the adj
vantages TO be had from building Of the
road to both cities; and will touch on a few
points that appear so obvious to the in
terests of Cincinnati in making Nash
vile the terminus of the road that l cans
not lorbear bringing them to your notice.
1t strikes me that you are interested
chiefly in building this Southern road to
strike as many of the Southern States as
possible, and especially those who use
most Of your products, and who have
products that you want, and to have the
road under your own control, and not be
dependent On the managers of roads un-
der control of RIVAL cities. No other
place in my opinion offers induce
ments equal to Nashville. The Covings
ton, Lexington and Nicholasville road is
finished to or near Danville, giving you
considerable portion of the road finished.
The Tennessee and Pacific road is sur.
veyed and the letting advertised to Leba-
non, Tenn, and from thence TO point ia
Smith county, Tenn. By your people
filling up this gap from Danvilie TO
point on the Tennessee and Pacific road,
it would give direct route to Nashville,
and think shorter route than you
could get by any other contemplated
route.
The Tennessee and Pacific road has
obtained State aid from the State amount
ing to $4,000 per mile, beside a sub
scription from Davidson and Wilson
counties of three hundred thousand dol>
lars each, and the other counties on the
line would subscribe in like manner when
aske1 to do so. 1.-THE two roads would
use one common track it would insure
double State aid, or twenty thousand per
mile (the five thousand in excess of the
regular State aid being somewhat in the
way Of a donation. Thus far, where is the
route that offers so many inducements,
Tennessee building her portion of the
road? The Kentucky road, being already
finished to near Danville, you will per-
ceive Nashville don't offer herself as a
pjrLionleSs bride to her wealthy neigh> |
Dor.
Then you strike Nashville by that |
route, and avoid your rival Louisville |
who has bridged the Ohio in order to
avoid your city, and seek northern and |
western routes by Indianapolis, thereby
directing from you as far as it is in their |
power the Southern trade, and by
change of gauge making your Southern
bound freight break bulk at their city.
In doing this, Louisville is only using the |
advantages that her position gives her,
and cannot be blamed for taking care Of
herself The other advantage you
would derive from connection with our
network of roads, is it that gives you
easy access TO the States of Alabama,
Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas and
Texas and Florida, striking the very
heart sof those States.
The Nashville and Decatur road has
let out the building of that portion of
their road to Montgomery, Alabama, to re-
liable contractors, and will be finished be
fOreiyour road can possibly be.done, and
giving you railroad connection with Pens
sacola and Mobile, bringing, as it were,
the trade Of the West India Islands to
your doors. There is another road in
contemplation of being built, which, by
making Nashville your terminus, would
give short road TO Atlanta. The road is
alluded to is from Decatur to Atlanta,
avoiding the Nashville and Chattanooga
road, and the Western and Atlantic,
if you would prefer doing so. The
Nashville and Northwestern road is now
built to Hickman, on the Mississippi, cons
Meeting with the Memphis and Ohio road
at Nc Kenzie, and the Mobile and Ohio road
at Union City. There is now road being
built from Huntingdon to Jackson, and
twelve miles is graded, the whole
length being thirty eight miles. When
that is done it brings us in direct connecs
ton with New Orleans by tho Missis-
sippi Central and the great Northern AMI
New Orleans road by this route it will
bring us within 5S7 miles of New Or
leans, and be the nearest route by rail
from New Orleans to Cincinnati, and
avoiding the Louisville road and its con-
nections altogether. Besides these roads,
you have the Chattanooga road and the
Nashville and Henderson roal.
The marayers of the Louisville
and Nashville railroad, with q
sagacity that does them credit, have in a
quiet ard unobtrusive manner extended
her iron arms into the heart Of the Mis-
sissippi valley, where she has, comparas
lively speaking, no rival. Is Cincinnati
going 10 let her enjoy the vast trade Of
the valley Of the Mississippi, and only
contend with her for that trade
by the river common to both? Is Gin,
cinnati going to adopt route for her
thoroughfare, that when adopted, only
strikes portion Of two Southern States,
Georgia and South Carolina, and, when
it becomes necessary to seek the trade
| oF L., Il H.