The Sweetwater enterprise. (Sweetwater, Tenn.) 1869-187?, 1871-09-14
Retired.

The Press and Herald of Thursday
last publishes tho following editorial
in regard to the resignation Of the eff.
Gent Superintendent Of the E. I. V. &
6. r. r We transfer it to our columns,
and deeply regret that Maj. jackson has
thought it proper TO resigii his position
as Superintendent. The paper says:
From n end Of Fest tennessee to
the other the announcement that Mai.
K Q. jackson has retired from the Su-
perintendency of the East Tennessee,
Virginia and Georgia Railroad, will be
received With fegretful surprise. For
nearly twenty-three years he has been
so closely identified with the old East
Tennessee aud Georgia Road, that a
record of his business life during that
period would be q virtual history of the
Road, itself In February, lS49, under
the Presidency of Hon, A. D. Reyes,
and before a rail was laid upon the
track between Dalton and Knoxville, he
was chosen Secretary and Treasurer of
the Company. Two years later when
the track had been extended to Var
nelrs Station, nine miles north of Dali
ton, and an engine and q construction
train had been put upon the road, the
Office Of Superintendent was created,
and the labors Of this office were as
sum I'd and discharged by Maj. jackson,
in connection with his duties as Secre-
tary and Treasurer. In 1856, under the
Presidency Of Maj Campbell Wallace,
the business Of the Road had SO in
creased that a separation of the two
offices became necessary, and Maj, Jack
sen was co ltinued as Superintendent,
from year to year, actively and faith
fully dischargipg his duties, till Septem-
Der, 1868, when the military forces I'M
der Gen. Burnside took possession of
East Tennessee and, with i, the man
agement of its railroads. On the LIST of
September, 1665-there having been no
election in the meantime, and the Gov
eminent having turned over the Road
to the Company-Col. Thos. H Galloway,
then acting President, recalled Maj.
jackson to act as Secretary and Treas
urer. Upon the Reorganization Of the
Company, in March, 1866, he was chosen
Vice President end at the regular meet
ing Of the Directory in September, 1867,
he was again elected Superintendent.
This position he held until the CONSOLE
dation Of the two Companies, when both
Roads passed into his charge.
Maj. jackson had not signifed until
yesterday, except to his official associates,
his purpose to retire from the Superin-
tendency, whose duties, with the accu-
mutation of years, have become too on
erous for his personal attention. The
Directors were reluctant to accede to his
request, and in no phrase of Aattery, but
in words of honest meaning, in the res
olutions which we publish elsewhere,
gave expression to q sincere apprecia-
ton and regret.
In Withdrawing to the quietude of
private life-but not from our midst, we
are happy to state--Maj. jackson can
look back with just pride and satisfac-
ton upon his protracted official life I'M
marked, as it is, by q single act of dis
honor. Sustained throughout by an un-
bending integrity, and guided always
by n stern sense Of duty, amid scenes of
trial and temptation to less sterling ma
lures, even the whisper of calumny has
not been heard to soil his reputation.
By his great capacity, his personal vigil
and fidelity, he has made for him
self a name high up in the roll of Rail
road men in the nation, and has indisso-
lubly linked his name with the history
of his own States development and
prosperity. The triumphs of his life
have been the triumphs of peace, and
the award Of his countrymen is that
proudest title OF nobility on earth-AN
MAN.