Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-04-19
Special Correspondence Of the Memphis

Special Correspondence Of the Memphis
Appeal
WAsHINGToN, Thursday night.
Innumerable railway schemes are
presented for the consideration of Con-
gress. The South thus far has secured
no concessions; northern spectators
and mighty combinations of northern
capitalist have monOpOliZed federal
benefactiOns. This is a wonderfully
practical age. OF principles and
theories of government, we hear little
and see less in the action and speeches
OF men. There are really only two
great parties in the country; the skin
ners and the skinned; the robbers and
the robbed; the taxed and the un-
taxed; mOnOpOlists Of power and
beasts of burden. The north controls
every source of wealth, and pRrvert-
ing every principle OF common justice
in accordance with dictates OF selfish
ness the south derives no pTac-
ticaI advantage from the vast expen-
ditures made by federal authority.
THE ISSUE PRESENTED.
Each great Northern railway line is
subsidized until it costs the builders
less than nothing, and, when Fremont
and Others representing Southern rail-
Way interests, come before Congress
and appeal TO Federal muniticence,
we are suddenly told that economy
must be practicedL that public land
=bould not be devoted to railway
building but applied to the extinction
Of the public debt. A complete an
sWer to this suggestion is found in the
tact that however much finished roads
have cost ia lands, the wealth OF the
Government and Its resources are
greater than if not one acre had ever
been applied TO the creation of rail-
way systems in Western wilds, States
and Territories. Practice and pre-
scription have thus settled the ques-
ton Of right, and, this fixed, the South
will soon find means of eXacting JUS
tice. Suppose the South declare its
preference, In the next Presi-
DENTAL campaign to that party
which does most to give us
railway connection with the Pacific,
with Kansas City and the new North
west. 1 am inclined tO'belieVe that In
making this condition Of adhesion to
a northern paTty-iOr there are only
the drifting hulks Of shipwrecked par
ties in the South-the South would in
stantly become the recipient Of the
choicest blessings and most eXtraya-
CANT expenditures ever laviShed by
Federal power upon any section Of the
Union. The end aimed at in ILlIng
the Senate chamber with New Eng
landers and Northern men who assume
10 represent Southern constituencies,
involved the perpetuatiOn OF this sys-
tenn of robbery OF One section and the
perpetual progressive aggrandizement
Of the other. Not only does the North
the denial of all aid 10
Southern schemes OF progress, but the
South, through adventures really
remote Northern States,
with certificates of election from
legislatures and governors,
becomes q compact fOrce employed,
like the tabled deity Of old, in de-
those whom it is bound by
every law Of common right TO protect
and enrich.
WISE POLICY.
Having no congressional representa-
ton save that which is nominal; plum
dered without any adequate advan-
tage by the tariff system; denied any
proper share OF wealth arising from
the national plundering banking sys-
TEN; and bereft, through this sudden
ly excited sense Of honesty, Of every
TO arise from the public
domain, the South, in convention,
might well declare its adhesion TO that
partisan organization which does it
Justice and equalizes blessings and
burdens OF government.
GOOD NEWS FOR THE SOUTH.
With ferOcity that was wicked as il
was blind, representatives OF the
Pacific and of the Memphis,
Fl PasO and Pacific Railroad COmpa-
nies have been wsging war against
Zach olher. Each has destroyed
in Congress the potency Of the
other. FrelGOnt and EpperSon
have been uaViled and villified |
and grossly misrepresented. North |
ern and Southern railway corpora /
tiOns have devoted money TO the pur-
pose Of promoting these dissensionS.
No corporation can build a Pacific
road through Texas without the as
Sent of the two corporations whose
rio sts were defined in charters enacted /
lsfore the present Constitution OF
Texas. " bich prohibi all land grants,
yvss framed. Fgemont's rights we're
ac0uired before Texas was recon- (
structed, and before its present code |
of organic law was conceived. The I
ahIest LAWYERS assert that his rights, I
as President of the Company, are un- |
affected by political changes OF the
mast ten wears. The two Compani 2
will now effect an alliance, and, Co !
operating perhaps with the extreme !
Northern Pacific Company, which /
would connect the great lakes with |
Astoria or Alaska, WELD power
enough in Congress- 70 secure the /
same liberal concessions that enriched
the Union Pacific Company. Within /
the last tWenty-four hours these plans |
have almost reached perfect cOnsum-
nation. SherrOd OF Alabama, r. {. /
EppersOn, Fremont and /
[. .bers have brought about these /
ausnjciOus results. Fremont, not /
only SoIds the franchise of the I
southern Pacific road through Ar 4
kansas anG Texas, but has pur- /
chased the exclusive rights Of q 1
Of a chartered company through Ari-
iona and California. All these rights /
and governmental concessions may be 1
by Fremont to the South |
ern Trans-continental Company. The /
cOrpOratOrs of this TFans-continentai /
with which this fusion is to |
be effected, are John A. Q. Gray, |
EnOch Francher, Marshall o. Roberts, |
w. L. Vermilye, w. c. Sheldon, c. F. |
II. d. Cook, Sam. Tate, }. |
L. GoOdloe, o. II. Bynum, Michael /
Burns and r. G. Brinkley. On the /
Memphis and El PasO route, the start |
inc point in Texas is TexareanS, on |
the Southern Pacific, Marshall in Har-
rison county, not far from Shreveport. |
With this last mentioned branch, the
and Little Rock Road Wih
be speedily connected.