The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-08-20

| Shall the Santa Fe Pike be built? Am
| mistaken, when l say 1.-The County COuI {
| of your County virtually say no?" l think
not. VIII you, Mr.. correspondent, take tho
| pike at any of the propositions mentioned
! by the court9 win your friends or any
mum Der of them do so? Show us the man
or the men, that will accept any of said pro-
| tion that" the County Court virtually say
| no." Until you can find men of that de-
! scription, or can get deep enough in your
own pocket to find money 10 DO the WORK,
do not stultify yourself before an Intelligent
| and reading public, by denying my state :
ment. If the action of the County CouI
does not virtually prove my declaration,
| then bring the men to the front who Will
undertake to do the work. l want to SEE
| them, and will rejoice when they get the
milk out of the cOcOanut."
L hope, Mr.. correspondent, ere you pre-
| sent yourself again before the public, thai
| you will unVeil yourself and come forth i'll
| your true colors, Invested of that mystical
name, and tell pour constituents, how mucl,
MONEY you have, that says there Is milk milk
because IS. II. TimmOns & Sons" did no.
follow you around and beg You to take stock
in the enterprise. You have time enough
to walk in lemons aud be squeezed. just
name the amount of squeezing requisite 10
satisfy you-yOu can get all you want Shall
put you down 5000? Speak out ana lei
the people know how much faith you have
in your own theori and coniectures OF
the" milk in the cocoanut." We have no
objection to your faith, but we want TO see
ii demonstrated. Faith without works Is
dead, being alone" Let US have no wolves
IL.
your works then will we belisV you.
Think not that the good people OF Marry |
County, Will believe your theory of "the
milk in the cOcOanut" while you StudiOuSIy |
avoid all connection with the enterprise.
Your memory as well as your faith, Mr.. |
correspondent, is greatly at fault. You say |
the County Court, said to Messrs. TimmOI S |
IL Sons, We will give you the bridge which |
cost the county 5000, etc" Second, Take |
when 1t does give out, fall down, or wash |
away, elect whether you will rebuild it," |
Third, The County Court further offered if |
they would repair all the old pike they |
would give them the bridge and allow them |
one gate" You say, "They further offered,
II they would extend it to Santa Fe, they
would keep up the bridges over Duck River
md Snow Creek" Sir, permit me in kind
ness TO say, that you mistake the Identity of
the County Court. 1t is composed of many
mem beTS. Nothing less thOn a majority of
the magistrates of the county, expressing
themselves directly or through their author
lied agent, will constitute any proposition
a proposition of the court. You must not
mistake every proposition made by san gle
magistrate of the county for the action of the
court. If you act upon this hypothesis, you |.
Will fall into many errors.
The County Court voted on only three pro-
positions. First, whether or not they would |
let the turnpike company have the use OF |
the bridge free of charge. they voted al
most unanimously no. Second, whether or
not they would let the company have the
road bed free of charge, for the turnpike.
They voted no. Third, whether or not they
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miles OF road, and have one gate again
they voted no. These are the only PROPOSE
lions passed upon by the court. 1t is true
tnat other propositions were suggested by
some of the magistrates, but they did not
meet the appreciation of the com pany, and
were not submitted to the court.
l now submit to the candid reader, that
-he courts action is easily defined, and that
II means nothing more nor less than what
munt with q rim. Is there q private COM
p my to be found in Maury County that will |
accept a charter and build a turn pike to the
north side of Duck River, on conditions
to the County Court, if the |
lbove is to be a sample of their action =?
Let those who think suck persons can be
Ound, come to the front, and take charge of
he cOcOanut.
Actions speak louder than words" is an
Did axiom, but | must confess that the |
words OF Mr.. XVIII Xix and XX(Oh, whata
speaks the lOudeSt as he has no |
Jets TO speak at all. He has plenty of brains s
n is head, that says there is " milk in the |
'ocOanut," but he has no money in his | |
pocket that says any such thing. Well, that ,
may be glory enough for him, without the |
luxury OF riding five miles over good turn
bike road to his county town, at the en0r-
nous cost Of fire cents for the round trip. De :
risfi6us NON est dispUtdRdunp.
On, that could thunder into the ears OF ,
nd correspondent the redccming qualities
If practical men-thOse who exhibit their {
attn IN their works; If perChanc he |
n light be induced to come forward with his {
right hand of fellowship and his right ,
pocket of mOneyship," and contribute some
hing to the turnpike enterprise, and thus
luench his raging thirst, by drinking of the
milk III the cOcOanut." Come, do not be
imtd-take big draught, and remember
"That shallow draughts into cate the {
brain, ,
And drinking largely sobers again"
Mr.. NNIII, NIX, XX, L beg of you, that You
IhmaSk yourself and quit wasting your en-
'r9IeS in barren YerbIage, but come and
gather some of the experience of the origi-
lal stockholders in said Turnpike, and
how 10 your readers that you are i'll earn
st, and that you mean business, not that
Kind of business that eXhauSts itself in writ
ny and talking, but by Il contribution OF |
our money and means to the enterprise. .
-Ct us by a united effort, have turnpike
IpOn some terms, even if we have to donate
I % the county as soon as hniShed-thiS is
usinCSS, How much stock shall l put you
Town, and upon what plan? What say you $
Mr.. KS? w. IL. TIMMONs. =,