Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-02-27

proposed EOrk AT tle tennessee llne
One Branch Striking Knoxville
and Connecting with the CarOIinas-
The other Striking MeMinnyilIe
and the Great Southwest Giving
Two Lines to Chattanooga at Cheap
err Expense than the One Projected
To the Union and American:
TALLADEGA, ALA, Feb. 23.-In their
recently published circular, the Trus-
tees of the Cincinnati Southern saw:
Pressed by an increasing demand for
its manufactures from its natural mar
ket, the South, and requiring in turn
the products of that fertile region, the
city of Cincinnati has undertaken to
accomplish, In the only available way
at command, what has become an ur-
gent need TO its citizens" That is, the
construction of a single line railway
through Kentucky and Tennessee to
Chattanooga.
Now If Chattanooga stands at the
head and forms the only accessible gate
way to all that fertile region, the South,
and possesses all the requisite railway
connections, on such lines and within
such distances to and through the
South as to meet all the requirements
and accomplish all the ends for the
transporting and satisfying the press
ing demand for Its manufactures and
to obtain the products of that fertile
region in return, for which the city of
Cincinnati proposes at immense cost,
to build its road, then a one line rail-
way to Chattanooga, however circuit
e.
desire and the South as a whole should
be content. Or, if its chief object is
to establish direct connections with the
railroads IN Georgia mainly; if these,
with such other limited and indirect
connections as it forms at Chattanooga
viii afford sufficient and satisfactory
facilities with the South to fill the in
creasing demand for its manufactures,
then by building its road TO that town,
the urgent need viii be supplied and
the object of its undertaking accom-
plshed.
That the demands from the South
for the wares and manufactures of
CINCINNATI are annually increasing
there can be no doubt. That there is
desire among our people, not in one
State only but In all the States, to
open direct intercourse and establish
business relations with that city is evil
dent. That these demands and desires
would rapidly increase and become i'm
measurably greater, by providing the
necessary transportation facilities, are
equally clear; and that the citizens of
Cincinnati are manifesting greater
wisdom, energy and liberality in I'M
dertaking to provide the requisite ave-
nues and facilities for the enlargement
of their trade with the South are also
unquestionable. But Will their pro-
posed road-a single line to Chatta-
nooga-open the South or any consider
able part of it to Cincinnati? This is
the question presented for their con-
sideration, one that should command
their immediate, earnest and dispas-
sionate study and decision, before in
volving themselves in fatal errors, and
too late to apply the proper remedy
perhaps, without mourning immense
cost, loss and damage. As already re-
marked, if the object of Cincinnati is
a mere connection with Georgia and
her railroads-if this is its principal
desire and will answer all its ends,
then sensible men would say, 60 ahead
and build ON that line.
But it Is presumable that Cincinnati
desires to trade With others as well as
with the State of Georgia. Is not the
trade of South Carolina, the city and