Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-04-14
OuK KAILKnAn INTERVIEWS.

We publish to-day communication
from "a Stockholder," favoring thelease
of the Nashville and Decatur Railroad to
the Louisville and Nashville Company.
We have also received another commu-
nication requesting specific information
as to the terms of the proposed lease and
the necessity for it, and ..slill another IA
yoring the lease, insisting that as
Nashville cannot become great ter
minal point for through lines between the
North and South or the East and the
West, it is the part of wisdom for her to
cndeavOT 10 secure The great highways of
trade and travel through her limits.
Should she attempt 10 prevent the short
roads terminating in her suburbs from be-
coming portions of the great through
lines she would be passed by without ever
being touched by the through lines.
Would Nashville object to the lease of
the Tennessee and Pacific read to the
Southern Pacific2 | imagine not"
We give the substance of the last two
communications, and publish at length
only the first. This communication, as
indeed The others, appears to be written
in spirit of candOr and fairness, and,
we confess, presents probabilities as to
the extension of the Cumberland and
Ohio road to Decatur, by way of Muir.
freesboro, which had not occurred to US
lofo-o Tho flroc anJ oNoo4 &c sbae,
probabilities are cCnsidera' ly increased
by look at the map and by The action of
the meeting at Woodbury., in Cannon
county, a few days since, published by
us yesterday, and also the communication
to the Sparta Tribune, which was pub
lished in our last issua. At the Wood
bury meeting Stirring and eloquent
speeches were made" aud resolutions
were enthusiastically aad without Cppo-
sj;ion adopted in favor of extending the
Cumberland and OHIO road from Greens
burg, Ky, by way of Carthage, Alexan-
dria, Woodbury., Wartrace, Shel6yUilIc
to Pulaski. A convention is called TO
be composed of delegates from Smith,
D, Kdb, Cannon, Coffee, Bedford and
Giles 10 further this object. The cores
pondent Of the Sparta TrjJuac says:
understand there is 10 bea meeting of
the directors Of the Cumberland and Ohlo
Railroad, with those of the Danville and
NJ D.; Of
on the Doth Of April, 1871, for the pur-
pressing of Consolidating the Two roads
and making the terminus of the same at
Burksvillc, connecting at that point with
the Southwestern Railroad, and thence
on to Sparta. 1t is proposed that the
Cumberland and Ohio Road shall run
from CampbClsvillc via Columbia TO
BurksvilIe, thence via LivingiOn aud
Sparta to Chattanooga, or via McMinn-
vile to Decatur. Ala Inc counties of
Adair and Cumberland, in Kentucky,
have already voted 5000, $50 stock in said
roads, besides large amount of iudivid-
ual stock enough, ii is asserted, to COM
plelc the road to huntsville, or via Burks
vile to the Tennessee line.
Hence it becomes important while
looking 20 our lines OF communication
north ard south, 10 see that we are not
flsnked on the east.
We do not profess 10 sit in Judgment
upon the necessities of the Nashville and
Decatur road, nor are we entirely certain
with the lights before us as 10 what is
best to be done. We have expressed our
confidence in the integrity Of the Di-
rcctory of the company. We know that
there are some of the first citizens Of
Middle Tennessee who are leading mem
bcrs in that Is Jard, and a committee has
bccn appointed from this county TO repre-
sent lis interests. We shall therefore
await further developments, hoping and
believing that the best will be done.