Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-04-04

Merchants EsstlBg-HOw they Gendueied
ThsmssIVes-Ths spssOhss aad
their PHFposes.

course OF tradesmen, bankers and me-
chanics, were gathered in Peabody Hall.
They anne to insugurate a new era in the
city's history. They said that the recent
railroad election assured them that there
WIS solid vitality, utterly insxtinguish-
able by misfortune or bad government, In
every artery of Memphis trade, and in
the indomiJable spirit Of the people. No
one man can build a great railway, i've
hundred are i~ncapabls Of the task, but
there is no task which the ninety thousand
pec0le of Shelby county, acting as one
IA n cannot accomplish. Therefore the
Wls-Om of the constitutional provision,
which enabled the Honorable
JACOB THOMPSON
while asserting his inability to make q
speech, to assert his confidence in
the splendid future Of the city
and congratulate our merchants
on the suspicious event which
they met to celebrate. He had long recog-
nizsd the necessity for community Of
thought, purpose and action, and beheld
in the great thrODg, which he did not pro-
pose to address, an augury Of a brilliant
future for this city. He said that there
was a gentleman present who watched
with as keen an interest as any citizen Of
Memphis, developments Of feeling and
purpose made here to-dsy, and thought
a4Aa WIS GAaA49A "a Na4a44 M0AAA GIL MH
something which would prove most in
teresting.
Mr. ENGLISH,
of Kansas City, said that his people were
watching closely the progress Of events in
the Southern Valley Of the Mississippi.
We felt as deeply as yourselves
the necessity for the construction Of the
road to Selma. At no distant day IL will
constitute a part Of our shortest highway
to the Gulf and Atlantic coast, and when
thus perfected a mighty stream Of wealth
from the Northwest to the Southwest will
flow through this city, giving wealth to
the South and saving enormous sums to
the North. Our present route TO the
ocean is by rail, and so extended that
heavy frsights will not bear the cost Of
transportation At Memphis We have
already reached the sea, and when our
owe is felt and recognized in Congress,
and when a few more great States spring
into existence, or those that we have are
filled with a busy population, we will BEE
even such an ocean steamer as the
Great Eastern shall find its way through
the shadows at the Baliz5 and cast an
Choir at the Wharves Of New Or
leans. We must have access to the
Mississippi below the point 81
which il is closed by ice. Mem
phis will then become as Venice WAS
when her commerce covered the Medite-
ranean-AIemphis shall be such a Venice.
at the mead Of another Adristio. Even
now, in view Of the contamination of
this purpose, Kansas City is building two
lines in this direction, and one
will SOC reach its destination. The
people along the whole route of this great
comprehend the necessity inn
posed by geographical n climatic facts
That force them TO seek this outlet to the
ocean. The road viii and must be built. /
You would have flour and bacon. We
need sugar, coffee, cotton and the luciOus
fruits, beneath which the forests Of
Florida bend as trees that grew
the garden Of the Hespsrides. |
Wisely, therefore, has Mr.. Thomson
congratulated you IN the event which
secures 70 this city the shortest possible
inc to the coal, cotton, rice and supar
islds Of the Gulf States. There is but 4
me county along the whole line Of the /
'Oad from Memphis to Kansas City which i
las refused to make the required sub
.criptiOn. L am happy to say that it is
lot a county Of my state. 1t was named
n honor of a wise statesman and true pa
riot, who lives no more, Beside his
srsve, an empire Wept, Let Crit5enden
county be n8meless forever, until its ac-
in this behalfis reversed.
Mr.. Englis1's speech was listened
o with attention, sRd
need doubt that Selma and
Kansas City will yet be linked together so
loosely that drOWsy travellers will cross
he Mississippi without knowing that It
,ver wss an obstruction to the intercourse
nd commerce of the States.
OTHER SPEECHES.
or which we have not space this morning, ]
we're made by Msssrs. Douglas, Judge /
Brown and Carmsok, VIM. Farris s1d
thers. The latter gentleman was espe-
tally felicitOus in his criticism upon the
OttOn mOnomanis which sfiicts the
ity, De thought that the roads. of which
o much had been satd, would fill Mem
his with a opsy manufacturing pOpula-
ION. Tbs macEerals and helpless women
children Will disappear, and then
re- nave discovered the rue bases Of
oundless and enduring prosperity.
The crowd called for
WIN. R. MOORE,
Tho said he only deemed it necessary
, congratulate the merchants and
men of Memphis upon
auspicious Inauguration of
new existence Of the Chamber Of
2 Board of Trade. We have
ere concentrated The living, progressive
of our business life into one
impact mass, capable of executing any
theme or perfecting any great work
ssentiaL to the city's prosperity. Like
Tiers Who have spoken, l congratulate
on that ths completion Of the road 20
5lma is assured. It is a fact, too, that
De Mississippi river railway is at once to
put under contract, and that during
10 summer Messrs. GreenlaW and Tate
i'll rebuild the first forty miles of the
title Rock road, the last rail of which
i'll be laid tomorrow. Never again viii
10 trsckway be submerged. / happen
know that combinations are making
h1ch will assure the early construction z
the Kansas City road. On every hand, \
no political tOllies be perpetrsted, there
o sure and Trustworthy evidences Of
1~exampled prOsperitytO bless and enrich
lis city. Let Us, by combined efforts, .
sintaiu and extend our own packet .
}es, and perfect our railway system, and r.
hath not seen, nor ear heard, nor v
lth II entered into the heart of man" to
noeive The matchless %splendOrs of
emphiss Again COngratulating his aud
Jrs ynpon the promised happy results of
q tOnvocatiOn, Mr., Moore withdrew
MD the demonstrations Of the hvelisst =
tisfsctiOn. ,
PRESIDENT PINSON
thanks, not forgetting to pro- ;
,uncs an eloquent bensdiction, which
III follow the swelling, generous, msjes-
soul Of ?
MINI HOST OF PEABODY
rough countless coming years. The
.nes were rich, the table spread such IS .
might have envied, and the pro
of the Peabody Hotel became part 7
d parcel of the vigOr and intelligence
d social life of Memphis.