Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-06-24

from the builders of the Chattanooga
and New Orleans railroad. The pub
LEGATION is full of important facts, az
fecting the Southern route to the
Pacific via Marshall, Texas, which is
shown to be 500 miles shorter from
New York to San Diego than by the
Union Pacific road to San Francisco.
This pamphlet, be it remembered, is
issued by Northern men, the Messrs.
Stanton and their associates, from
Massachusetts,, who have just learned
that Sambo is a deity that may well
be worshiped at a great distance.
They have telegraphed to San Fran
cisco for Coolies, and propose
to become practical, as they may
have been theoretical a~bolitionists.
These gentlemen say that " the South
ern States have the same rights as the
Middle or Northern States" 1t is
| curious how a Northern mans eyes
are opened by a little change of lati-
tude. Not only has Sambo lost his.
divine p~erfectiOns by simple proximi-
ty, but these New Englanders have
absolutely learned that States, er al
termf7i, are States or nothing-equal
in every right and fact of statehood to
those blessed little communities which
must have undergone most horrible
agonies Of parturitiOn when they pro-
duced men capable of liberalization Of
ideas like the Messrs. Stanton. These
Stantons 90 further and assert, in the
excellent pamphlet before US, that
Norfolk, Charleston, Memphis, Sa-
vannah and Mobile, can justly
complain of a Middle State
monopoly which proposes to
pour all this continental traffic into
Philadelphia and New York. Not
alone the foreign commerce of
of the United States, but the X
tended growth of the peculiar
products of the South and augmenta-
ton of the numbers Of people would
add vast sums to the whole country's
wealth. In truth, this pamphlet of
the Messrs. Stanton gives a strong
reasons and defines as clearly the pecu-
liar advantages of a Southern Pacific
road as any production of any South
ern thinker or railway builder. Plainly
enough the Messrs. Stanton have I'M
dertaken the task, and would popu-
Iarize themselves as builders and
owners of the Southern highway to
the Pacific. Their route lies through
Vicksburg and New Orleans. Espe-
ciaIly are they interested in the
immediate extension of a road from
the latter city TO San Diego. Memphis
can e no special reasons, just now,
for favOring the schemes of the Messrs.
Stanton. If they must control the
Southern Pacific, its wealth and traffic
will be directed over lines owned by
this Boston coalition of capitalists.
In truth, New Orleans would be the
sole beneficiary of that Pacific road
which owes paternity TO the Messrs.
Stanton. Not the less do we admire
the energy and pluck of these gentle
men; not the less willingly do We
confess that they r the ehiefest ben
efactOrs of Alabama; but we are not
willing that they should control at
will the destinies of cities and States,
and least of all that they should
own a Pacific road who must neees-
sarily subordinate it to selfish purpO-
ses, defined by their interests in the
railroad system of Alabama. 1t is in
fnitely better for all States and rail-
way corporations east OF the Missis-
sippi that no one of these should
monOpolize power over the highway
to the Pacific west Of the Mississippi.
Messrs. Stanton should stand aside
and suffer the Trans-continental eoru-
pany to accomplish the task which
they propose TO achieve. We are not
of those who would be governed in
tlAo AAdttC4 W any oSCtiohdA pASJuNASCs
Questions involved are only those
of dollars and cents. Our military
men have not won any marvellous
triumphs as railroad builders, and
still fewer as managers of railways.
Fremont is deemed a failure; Beaure-
gard has won no laurels in his latest
role; JOe,Johnston, with all his splen-
did ability, gave up the Selma and
Rome railway; Malone alone has
been successful. Red tape does not
win in practical life. Let railroad
men, like the Messrs. Stanton, build
the Pacific road and it will be well,
eheaply and speedily constructed, but
we would not have this highway con-
stitute part of a continuous line from
San Diego through New Orleans and
Chattanooga to Boston, and owned
by this ring of Boston capitalists.
Beyond these facts we are friends and
admirers of the Messrs. Stanton but
would hardly suffer them, with all
their newly-bOrn love for us, to be-
come our absolute commercial mas
tiers.