Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-01-03

IF it were a recognized fixed fact, as
it seemed two months ago, that the
Memphis and Little Rock Road would
at once be completed and constitute
part and parcel Of the Southern high
way to the Pacific, every city and viii
lage Of the centraland Southern States
would, of necessity, seek immediate
railway connection with Memphis.
The wealth and travel of more than a
third of the Union would converge at
Memphis to overspread Arkansas and
make that the richest and most pOpu-
lous Of all Southern States. Finish
and equip the road to Little Rock,
and Savannah and Brunswick are
compelled to extend GEN. For
R~EsT's,Selma Road to Memphis. Com
plete the Little Rock Road and
Charleston must have a shorter route
to Memphis than that furnished by
the Memphis and Charleston Road.
Make Memphis the great terminus of
a highway to the Pacific, and Vim
cennes and indianapolis and the Penn
sylvania Central must bridge the Ohio
at Paducah and have direct connection
with Memphis. The destinies of Mem
phis and Of Arkansas r involved
in the immediate construction of a
read which draws to US by an irresisti-
bic force the great Trunk railway
lines from every State and every
Southern Atlantic seaport. The very
magnitude of interests involved in the
construction of the Little Rock, as
part and parcel of the Southern Pacific
Road, has excited the cupidity
aroused the enmity or won the fixed
attention of every thoughtful citizen
of the United States. That mighty
combination of capitalists which gath
cred enormous wealth by the con-
~struction of the Northern Trans-COn-
tinental road is 10th to have a rival
route opened at once 70 the Western
ocean,. 1t therefore happens that
Northern and Western newspapers
TEEN with letters from New York and
Washington designed to destroy the
confidence of the country in every
person and movement connected with
the completion Of the Memphis, Little
Rock, FL Paso and Guyamas road,
who have shown their ability to pay,
and, as well their purpose, to make
Memphis the initial point of opera
tons, are constantly assailed by the
agents Of that great ''ring" which
yields untold millions and absolutely
prevents the simple concession of the
right of way by a venaI Congress.
Gov. CLAYTON may be the hired
agent Of the owners Of the Northern
Union Pacific Road. If such be the
fact, he is surely the most terrible
enemy the South, this city and Ar
kansas have ever known. He who
intervenes, whatever his private
rights and personal interests, to pre-
vent the immediate construction Of
the road to Little Rock accomplishes
a great public calamity. The politi-
clans North and South who have
maddened sections, and dragged null
titudes to slaughter and States to pow
erty and degradation, are not, for
mischief, the peers of such a man.
Give the South this boon, this high
way to the Western Ocean, and cities
will spring into existence as if by the
hand Of magic. Population, white
men by the million, will occupy de-
serted homesteads. Arkansas viii be-
come a garden, rich in every element
Of prosperity and greatness, and Mem
phis an imperial city.
This Arkansas railroad question
must be adjusted. If committees and
courts will not act instantly, the peO-
pie of Tennessee and Of Arkansas
must intervene, and put an end to
this ruin by the stealth of railroads.