Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-09-06

cumbered with crude, inexplicable pro-
visions as to be wholly unavailable, and
in other cases where expense is absolute
ly necessary no appropriations whatever
aksve-been made. All these Inventions
have retured to plague the inventors. I
may mention the case Of the Southern
Pacific railroad somewhat in detail, rs
peculiarly in point, both as illustrating
the vast undeYeloped resources of the
South, capable of being welded, in the
hands OF wise and patriotic men, to the
promotion of untold benefits to the coun-
try at large, and at the same time that
selfish incapacity and neglect Of public
duty which is either stupidity blind or
wantonly indifferent thereto. z
That Congress at its last session did
not give 10 the South the charter 1t asked
for q through line to the Pacific on the
thirty second parallel of latitude, and to
which il is entitled by all principles of
comfy INC sectional obligations, the
Southern exotic delegates are alone K be
blamed. Generally speaking, it may be
said with truth that want of fidelity on
their part TO the section which they repre-
sent, their Inability of mutual co-opera-
ton by reason of personal or political
~jealousies, their utter want of intelligence
and efficiency we're the sole causes to
which the failure of Congress to legis-
late upon the subject is to be attributed.
Nay, l may go further and say that but
for the efforts of others, who had material
interest at stake, the boon of a Pacific
railroad so earnestly coveted by the South,
so promotive OF its growth, SO indispensa-
bic to its future progress, so desirable as a
national work of internal improvement,
would have been snatched away and
appropriated by the greed of rival corpo-
r~ations, who would have rendered the
legislation Of Congress absolutely value
less to the South. Indeed, the contest
which was presented in the name of Gen
eral Fremont involved this issue, whether
or not a charter, avowedly meant by Con-
gress to inure to the benefits of the South
ern States, should be permitted, by reason
of its point OF terminus, its gauge and
board of corporators, to subserve the pur-.
poses alone of the Middle and Northern
States, already provided with subsidies
for three through lines, or whether il
should in reality be what its name pur-
ported, a Southern road, traversing the
States and territories on the thirty-second
parallel, and giving facilities, not other
wise enjoyed, to one of the most pro-
ductive regions of the country.
Such was the issue, whether the road
should extend westwardly, via Fulton or
Memphis, to become in fact q northern
corporation, with a gauge different from
that of II, coo miles of railroad now built
in the Southern States, different, in fact,
from every mile of Southern railroad, 50
that it could o by any possibility be of
service to the psople of the South; or
whether, extending westward, via Vicks-
burg, Meridian and so on by existing
railroad connections through the South
ern States themselves, it should indeed
be entitled to the name of a Southern Pa
cifc railroad. Responsible parties-prac-
teal railroad meH-who had invested
millions upon millions of dollars in eX-
| sts..- C4rFLA-- -,,T~-aZ1 -Ea-l .aaI- -
construct the liIJ through TO the Pacific
via Vicksburg. The Alabama and Chat
tanOoga Railroad Company, a corporation
whose road extends from Chattanooga,
Tennessee, through Alabama to Meri-
dian, Mississippi, and which has CONSOLE
dated with intervening lines, so as to form
a continuous line thrO .gh Mississippi
and Louisiana via Vic---hurg aud Monroe
TO Marshall, Texas, a distance of some
seven hundred miles, asked in the first
instance to be permitted to extend their
line thence via FL PasO to San Diego, on
the Pacific coast. In other words, the
parties owning and operating a large por-
ton of the existing railroad from New
York TO Marshall, Texas, via Philadel-
phis, Washington, Lyuchburg, Cbatta-
nooga, Meridian and Nicksburg, asked
permission of Congress to extend their
line through TO the Psciic-an enterprise
the conummation of which would have
been indeed the establishment of q
Southern Pacific railroad line. Whoever
will take the pains to examine viii read
lily see that it would have constituted a
great trunk line through the most popu-
lous and fertile portion of the Southern
southwark to all prominent points, and
extending in a direct route to New York
and other important cities.
To have urged this magnificent enter
prise forward to a completion would have
been TO promote every material interest
of the South, to multiply its
beyond calculation, to augment its popu-
lation, wealth and prosperity; in a word,
to have given the south the only through
line 10 the Pacific from which it can de
rive any benefit whatever. But to the
| Southern exotic delegates, as a general
rule, these results were not apparent. AT
another time l may give some account of
the measures taken to blind them; at
present it is sufficient to state a nearly
all of that portion of the Southern dele
CATION vulgarly known as carpet-baggers
utterly failed to support this and other
important measures of great advantage to
the States they were placed in Congress
to represent. Northern members, on the
other hand, all who make any pretension
to craftsmanship, were, in a spirit of
m~agnanimity ana justice, perfectly willing
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but their kind and generous intentions
were frustrated by the impracticzbility,
to use no stronger term, of many of our
Congressional exotics from the Southern
States.
1 will cite a few cases to show the value
of these transplanted Congressmen to the
States they claim to represent.
Mr.. George G. Mckee, of Centralia, Ill,
enlisted as a private soldier in one of the
Illinois regiments during the recent re-
bellion, and after its close made his ap-
pearance here as a representative in Con-
gress of the Nicksburg district of Missis-
sippi. How well he represents his district
viii be seen when it is remembered that
he gave himself diligently 10 the support
of a measure which would forever de-
prive Nicksburg of the immense advan-
tages that must accrue to that city if its
principal Western railroad had been ex-
tended through to the Pacific, as was
proposed by its managers, but defeated
by sO-called Southern Congressman.
Mr.. Willard Warren, OF Ohio, was APP
pointed colonel of one of the Ohio regi-
ments in 1854, and in 1868 made his APP
p~earance here in the character of United
States Senator from Alabama.
Mr.. BeDjsmin T. Rice, of Minnesota,
enlisted as a private soldier in one of the
Minnesota regiments during the rebellion,
and soon after its close came here as
United States Senator from Arkansas.
There are doubtless very many private
soldiers in our army who would
make excellent United States Senators.
If the Arkansas Legislature will try again
it can make a better selection. 1t GER
tsinIy can find man batter acquainted
with the interests of the State than Mr..
Rice.
Mr.. william P. Kellogg, of Illinois,
served in an Illinois regiment during the
rebellion, was appointed Collector of the
Tort OF New Orleans in 1865, and in 1868
Took his seat here as United States Sena-
tor from Louisiana.
Mr.. G. B. Darrell, member of Congress
from the Third Louisiana district, is, if
remember right, from Pennsylvania. At
the last Congressional election in Louis
lana Mr.. Darrell received only S56S votes,
while his opponent, Mr.. Adolphe Bailey,
received 1905 votes, The election was
regular, quietly conducted and in every
respect legal. Mr.. Bailey received 74g7
majority OF the legal votes cast, but his
opponent, Darrell, was nevertheless adj
mitted to a seat in Congress, OSten-
sibiy on the ground that at a
riot which took place some weeks
previous to the election a portion
OF the negro voters were so frightened that
they did not vote as they otherwise
would. 1t is not denied that Mr.. Bailey
had over 1000 majority, but it WAS claim
ed hat Mr.. Darrell would nave received 8
majority a. some of the negro voters had
not been inundated; so one day when a
large number of members were absent a
resolution was introduced and smuggled
through the House of Representatives
giving Mr.. Darrell the seat. / think that
II the truth could be known Mr.. Darrell
got his seat mainly through the influence
of the Pennsylvania iron interest. 1t will
he seen, therefore, that the principle of
minority repn sen; ation' has already
been adopted in Congress. There are
several other cases besides Mr.. Darrell's.
"A complete list of these exotics would