The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1872-03-14
llIanInIhiIs 49, II.n-oxrfIIs AIIT.E.as.

IeulDuiS ana hu9XFIf1e alT-nsHs.
We suspect that oar readers ard
getting wcaFied with SO much tank
=abont this road. without some corr
responding action. We ha3c only
this apology to make: We regard
tiiis as Estilaski's great oppOrfanity
and her lost one, and it is our pur-
pose 70 gorge our people With the
subject until some action, either for
or agaiRst the enterprise, shall have
been taken. we have already
waited until Columbia, by a viger-
Gus and liberal cooperation with
Jackson, has secured the location OF
4 road from Memphis through the
latter place TO Columbia. i is true
this does not entirely defeat our
proposed road from Memphis BY
way OF Bolivar, Satannah, Law
reaeebufg and Pdlaski, bat it rem
defs our road less important, by
giving to Memphis and West, Ten
nessee direct communication Rilh
our section OF the State, and afford
ing them the desired Eastern con
hectiohs. One OF these roads vas
an absolute necessity to Memphis
and West Tennessee and the other
aacohvenieRee to them, and a neees-
sity only to those sections through
which it was to pass We have
folded our hands and waited for
Columbia and Maury county to get
the prize. Memphis has been eager to
help bnild our road, but our indif-
ference and Colua bias easnestness
in the matterhsye been weighed by
her active raflrossl and business cap
.ftalists, and it s nothing more than
reasonable that the Iatter should be
selected as an objective point. The
location Of that road, while it rem
de-s ours less important to West
Tennessee, makes it doubly impor-
tant to us. This network Of rail
IOads at Columbia just on the
North OF US, and at Decatur, just on
the South, will destroy all future
hopes for Pulaski and Giles county.
unless we take hold Of the present
opportunity, and place ourselves
upon this great thoroughfare from
Memphis to Knoxville. 1t is not
too late to bald this road, but it
will require greater effort on our
part Row than it would have re
quired. heretofore, and our action
must be speedy and vigorous. Let
Us not daily until Aberdeen carries
her road to Decatur instead OF Pu-
IasEi, ana until Fayetteville extends
her road ELCoiumBia instead Of
Pulaski. Let us initiate the exam
pie Of jackson. With an eHterprising
spirit and nerve almost nnpafaiellcd,
she has succeeded now ia attracting
the seventh railroad, and she has
already become city of no small
pretensions. Last Saturday, with a
unanimity almost unheard OF, She
voted a subscription of 81 %, 0o5- TO
the Memphis and iCeItHn tia road,
thereby securing it beyond a
doubt. Why may not Giles county
subscribe a quarter, or even a halr
million II necessary, to be paid in
twenty OF thirty years. to aid in
buiiling the Foads prejected-to this
point. 1t would undoubtedly be a
paying investment for us and a leg
acy to our children. Elsewhere We
publish an extraet from an article
written hy Mai. W. j.. Sykes in
1S49. in which he then suggested
the Bolivar and Savannah road to
Pulaski In a private letter to US
Mai. Sykes says: "-The road from
Bolivar should go through Pulaski
either to Tunahonla or Winchester.
l am in favor of both the Pulaski
and Columbia routes" Mai. Sykes
has been. a Jealous worker in behalf
Of the Columbia road, and now that
he has succeeded ia securing that,
we hope to see him turn his atten-
ton to this. Suppose We have a
meeting of our citizens and invite