The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1872-07-11
THE RAILROAD.


CDl ,. Rose ana OO1 AZ W dyHtSDOFO'
The Waynesboro Reviel0 of the
9Th inst says: Last Monday being
County Court day great number of
our citizens were IN town. Court
adjourned about II o'clock, and Il
was announced that Col. SolUu f.
Rose and Col. a. Cox, of Pulaski,
would address the people on the sub
ject of Railroads and the develop
ment Of the natural resources of the
country. The court room was soon
filed to overlooking with citizens
anxious to hear the eloquence Of the
great Pulaski OratOr-nOr were they
disappointed. At ten minutes after
eleven, Col. Rose assembled the plat
form, and in his usual style began
one Of the most powerful and con
vincing arguments in favor of the
construction of the Knoxville &
Memphis Railroad that it has ever
been our good fortune to hear, AS
As he advanced with his discourse,
his style, became animated and the
audience were held spell bound by
his eloquence for the space Of an
hour and a hall. He set forth the
practicability of the route, the GER
tanity that the roSd would be built,
and its advantages in glowing terms.
He said it would be q link in the
great thOroughfare from Norfolk on
the Atlantic seabOard to San Diego
on the Pacific coast. That this
great route is being rapidly built
Westward from Memphis on to Ell
Passo, and that within a compare
lively short time the road would be
complete from Memphis to the Pa
cific, thus leaving only a gap from
Memphis to Knoxville to complete
the Great Southern Air Line Road,
across the continent lie sh WED
from geographical examination OF
the country, that the road is destined
to pass through the counties ofGiles,
Lawrence, Wayne and Hardin. The
mineral wealth alone, he said, would
in the event the road should be built,
make old Wayne one of the wealth.
est counties ia the State. He was
of opinion that our citizens did not
estimate highly enough, the i'm
meRsc beds Of iron in our hills,
which he had been assured were in
exhaustablc. The great advantages
arising from road passing through
the coal fields of East Tennessee,
and through the iron regions of
middle Tennessee, were too impOr-
tant to escape observation. He
maintained that the day was about
to dawn when the United States
would 10 longer import their rail
road IRON from England. 1t could
he manufactured here, and that such
wOHld shortly cease,
were the precursors Of
home manufactures, are a necessary
branch Of industry, and without
them no people could be prosperous.
The attention of the farmers was
called to the fact that they sell their
cotton and purchase the article
out Of the same staple,
with a tariff of over two hundred per
cent upon it. All that enormous
loss could be saved to the country
by home manufactures.
In the closing Of his speech he
drew graphic picture of train on
the Great proposed route, starting
from NOrfOrk across the continent
and took one of the highest flights
Of eloquence we have ever heard
The whole Of his speech IS regarded
by those who have long known him
as being one of his finest efforts
Having closed, Col. Cox was called
for, and responded in his pointed,
brief and sensible manner. He said
he was q farmer, and was rot in the
habit of making public speeches, but
he wanted to talk with the citizens
Of Wayne county upon n subject
which was so nearly allied to our
most vital interest; he was in favor
Of Railroads, and that the one in
would be built. He
lid not devote much time to rail
roads. The people knowing his
great reputation as a grape grower,
called him out on that subject, ola
which he proceeded to give his
views. lie was listened to with
great interest, and the people mani
tested IHuch anxiety for all the
knowledge they acquire on this new
branch Of Agriculture. The Colonel
expressed his opinion that the soil
Of Wayne and Lawrence counties
we're prominently adapted to grape
growing. He made some estimates
Of the profit arising per acre on
ground cultivated in grapes and the
result was truly astonishing.