Vicksburg weekly herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1868-1883, 1870-09-17

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railroads leads us 70 make
n se,ioas upon the subieetof
d asadlBg.
ne Appeal protests against the
a1Ees inyeclives hurled By Ala.
balaa papers against the hard-hea
81 nllWay builder, Stanton, who
displays greater energy, perhaps,
beeausa be commands more money
ihaa any practical physical revOlu-
aonlsis employed in the industrial
regeneration Of the South" and
thinks that sour Alabama neigh.
boFs do not properly appreciate Mr..
stantOn,V who Is building and will
soon finish nearly three hundred
miles Of railroad from Chattanooga
70 Meridian, and thence to New Or.
leans: The Appeal proceeds to
enumerate the roads In Alabama
that have received State aid in
bonds 10 the aggregate Of about
twenty-five millions Of dollars and
tAyss complete the three largest
OF these roads and the rest, per
force, er necessftdte rel, will soon
ALL -
be finished. What a magnificent
State does Alabama becOmel RICH
The word does not contain half the
idea. Coal and iron and pineries,
ana IN Southern counties, the most
productive cotton fields in the
weird, ell developed and populated
BY railways, viii make the State
peerless in the prOfusIon Of its re.
sources"
We know nothing and care moth.
Ing for the siantOns, personally,
but we endorse the Appeal when Il
says ''of such men 10 the triumphant
regeneration Of the South"
A surer source OF growth aud
prosperity for o State than rail.
ways, there Is none.
Railways are the hoes and plows
Of Gods cultivation that make the
wilderness and uninhabited re.
gions Of the earth to blossom like
the rose"
Doubtless, Alabama acutely suf.
fers pecuniArily because Of the
magnificent swindIes embodied in
many Of these railway aid grants,
and thus looks upon the whole sys.
tenn with disfavOr. But Alabama
will yet have cause to praise the
day when her people were deple.
ed to provide for the execution Of
railway schemes. They must even.
tpate in the upbuilding sud glori-
Gus prosperity Of that State.
But where are the railways Of
1iGsissippi2
AZ the Appeal says, Of Tennessee
we have railways that for years
have been stupidity extended upon
paper, hammered at by the press,
; and BY bogus and other contractors,
until popular patience is exhausted
and Toe pray for the advent Of a
Stanton
The Stantons arc reported to have
bought the North Louisiana rail-
way, and II that Is true we doubt
not that important road will be
rapidly pushed. forward to compile
don.
e The hearts blood of that section
Of rich county Of which Vicksburg
d the centre, lie wildly but vainly
pulsating for an outlet for the de-
velOpment Of its arterial circula-
ton.
The completion Of the North
Louisiana road will afford 1t one
grand artery for the circulation of
tFade and for the valuable inter-
change Of commercial facilities.
But there are other grand outlets
f0r this section which need to be
pushed rapidly forward.
The route Of which the HERALD
Aas spoken at tlmes, the Little Rock,
Pine Bluff and New Orleans road,
which was to make Vicksburg its
terminus, ls q road Of immense im-
p0rtanee TO our city and lie tribu-
AIRY neishbOrhOOd. True, the
route Is not located upon Missis-
Eippi soil, but It is, nevertheless,
p~se-eminently q Mississippi road.
The Canton, end the YazoO City
roads are Mississippi routes.
Whers are they2 On paper, and
nfsanderiug through the puzzled
bruins Of their progenitors.
To build railways requires not
only brains and pluck, but capital.
Have those at the head Of Missis-
aippi railway schemes the latter
Feqpisite2
We wish to give every aid and
assistance TO our railway schemes,
al We have again and again urged