Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-09-15
RAILROADS.

A company of Northern capitalists have
taken charge of the road from Port Royal,
the great harbOr bet Charleston and
Savannah, n announce their purpose to
have a continuous air line road from Port
Royal through Memphis to Kansas City.
This road from the Atlantic passes Ope-
lika, Tuscumbia and across Alabama to
Memphis. Its and fortunes are
discussed with great interest by the press
of Central Alabama.
Several distinguished gentlemen,
Messrs. Judge Peters, r. B. Lindsey, the
Democratic candidate for GubernstOrial
chair, Judge Sale and Locke E. Houston,
| Of Aberdeen, and Major W. J. Sykes, of
Memphis, are to deliver oratiOns on the
subject of railways and politics twenty
miles from T~uscumbia, Ala, on the line
of the Memphis and Savannah road. A
great crowd, with many of u merchants
interested in tho trade of Alabama and
in the perfection of our railroad system,
will attend the meeting. By the way,
the fact that an air line road to Savannah
from Memphis is already amply endowed
and will be rapidly built, is not generally
appreciated or understood in this city.
WE are glad to state that the question
of railroads and other internal improve
ments can hardly enter into the canvass
in our sister State of Alabama in the APP
prosching election. The Democrats of
that State, as well as Radicals, are fully
and wisely committed to the policy of
State aid to railroads. The first State
aid bill was passed by the Democratic
Legislature in 1857. In 1868 and 1863, the
amount for which the State agreed to in
dorse the bonds of the various companies
was increased to $4,000 per mile. This
bill was voted for by members of the
Legislature Irrespective of psrty-by
| Democrats as well as Radicals. At the
last session of the Legislature this gene
raj law was so amended as to extend the
time of building the first twenty miles of
railroad, which was required before get
ting any Endorsement, to November, 1871.
This bill was voted for by the Democrats
in the Legislature as well as the Radical
members. Special aid, over and above
the SIG, 900 per mile, was granted to seve
raj roads, among them the Alabama and
Chattanooga, the North and South, and
the Montgomery and Eufaula, besides
81, 500, goo for the use of the Montgomery
and Mobile road, nearly the whole of
which was already completed. For most
of these bills the Democrats in
the Legislature, as well as Radi-
Gals, voted. They voted wisely
In so doing, and will be sustained
by their enlightened constituents. The
/ Mobile Register the Eutaw Wkiq, Greens
borough Beacon, West ALa6dHgidR, and
we might add nearly all the leading and
Influential Democratic journals in the
State have ably advocated county sub
scriptions to railroad enterprises. The
Hon. r. B. Lindsay, the popular and elo-
quent candidate for governor on theD DEM
ocrstio ticket, has always been an earnest
friend of railroad enterprises and Is now
a director in the Memphis and Savannah
road, one of the most important in that
State. He was a member of the CONNER.
eial Convention in this city and took an
active part in favor of public improve
msnts, not only by the State but by the
Federal Government. This is now the
true Southern position and must and will
be sustained by the Southern people. We
are glad to know that the Radical party
in Alabama are also in favor of the policy
of aiding railroads in the South, and that
upon this question there can be no issue
in hat State.