Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-01-23
NORFOLK AND MEMPHIS.
What the Chamber Of Commerce Must Do.

Cincinnati sent a delegation Of mer
chants to Washington who accomplished
the purposes Of their mission. Ciucin.
uaJi, and all other.cities, save Memphis
and Louisville, that are embraced in the
provisions Of the act Of Congress, now
have proper customs officers for the con.
duct Of direct trade with Europe. The
railroads between Baltimore and Cincin-
natl have provided proper iron cars for
the transportation Of small and valuable
packages, and a line Of twenty magnih-
cent steamers, Of which we have already
spoken, VIII ply regularly between Liver
pool, Norfolk and Baltimore.
THE DUTY OF MEMPHIS MERCHANTS.
It now becomes a matter of prime i'm
p0rtsnce to this city that the rail
way lines between this city and Norfolk
be consolidated at least 10 the extent
tha there may be through trains from
| Norfolk to the Mississippi, from the ex-
terror TO the inland ocean, having the
1 right 20 carry bonded goods in bonded
cars as provided in the act of Congress Of
July 1870.
THE SOUTHWEST.
We have spoken of the possibility Of
drawing TO this city the trade Of Shreve-
port and Vicksburg, and of the achieve
meut Of this purpose by the establishment
Of line of packets to run in connection
with the consolidated railway lines
through Louisville to Philadelphia; but
infinitely more important TO Memphis is
the consolidation and bonding of the
roads between Memphis and Norfolk. If
this be done, all towns On the Mississippi
and throughout Arkansas, must supply
themselves at this point with European
products and manufactures. In exchange
cotton viii be given, 20 be shipped through
Norfolk to European cotton mills.
WHAT RICHMOND SAYS OF IT.
Richmond r~ejoices in tho hope of the
speedy Communication Of these purposes,
Though the several roads between the
ocean and the Mississippi we're chartered
under different names, the presmbles 20
nearly every charter declares that the
purpose of the construction of the high
way is to give the people access to the
ocean. This purpose can only be
effected by the partial or thorough
consolidation Of all intervening
roads between Memphis and Norfolk.
IL is recited in the preamble to the char
ter Of the LynchburR and Tennessee road,
that It's purpose shall be international IN
teTcOUr8e and national defense" The
very name ofthe Memphis and Charleston
road predicted tho comnningling Of the
waters Of the mighty river with those Of
the mighty deep. Il is not for selfish
men, with purposes of self a~ggrandizs-
ment, that they may exercise a little brief
authority, as railroad presidents, 10 pre-
vent the attainment Of these great ends. |
All these roads must be consolidated, /
and all managed by ono great
Of thought and hand OF iron.
Within q few days q convention of South
ern superintendents sits in Atlanta, and
and va would fain hope that fscts and
necessities TO which we ave sdverted
viii be considered. and that our Chamber
Of Commerce. will show itself worthy of
the position il has assumed before the
country by directing public thought to the
attainment Of purposes that involve the
c~resJiOn az this point Of one Of the great
est centGrs Of wealth and population on
the continent. Do these things, and the
and population OF i've Thousand
miles of the richest country on the
globs VIII haYe here its great point Of
commercial Capitalization. The success
md prOftableness of railways, Of the line
IF steamships, the commercial indepen-
ience Of the South, depend upon the ex-
Of plans here defined.