Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1876-07-14
A SEAPORT WANTED.
The PrOSosiiIOn of Mr.. Fahy Again
Dir consolidating Needed but
Push and Cash.
Mississippi Eeeds an Ocean Ontlea ioi
Her COmnteree-An the ssates
hhOifld Assist Her.

From an Occasional correspondent Vi e'e
Appeal
Air Mourn, YALLABUsHA CoUhTY,
July 3.-As there is In my neighbor-
hood a growing interest In proposition
laid before your readers in former 10.
sne regarding the possibility OF making
for the Stats of Mississippi q fine sea.
mort capable Of admitting the Largest
tonnage, and es yet the idea advanced
seems to them in q rather misty state,
heg leave to again trespass on your
columns, that l may make clear as isn-
oil age free from scientific techn1cs.ltes
can the benefits and the magnificent
results which will flow from the auop-
ton Of my scheme, when taat serene
becomes, as it may eventually, gfanu
success. There are those VINO VIII nancy
this practical idea Of mine an Utoplan
Sraanp. Weq u sseps a dreamer when
his mind conceived and brought to COM
nIation that srsnd. It Of engineering
faats the nineteenth century he's seen?
the Suez canal. Wss Eads dreamer
when he swept away the shifting sands
of the Mississippi and, laying bare her
rocky bottom, built on 1t a superstruc-
ture that is the glory OF Mis-.
souri9 Is that great engineer dream.
ing now es he forces the great
mEather of Waters' to plow q deep
| channel through the accumulated
| mud ofapes with his jetties making New
| New Orleans leading maritime city
with all the cities from Memphis down
| her depots-each having d customnouse
| of its Owl, each glorying in the success
| of the other, and smiling with honest
pride as she points to the stranger the
ships from far-uff chimes anchor opposite
her port, saying, Our energy has done
all this; our energy and our unity, anu
energy and unity will give The state OF
Mississippi as grand q seaport es there is
on fine Atlantic coast. No need In the
world of purchasing Mobile. Alabama
wants her own seaport; has got ii, and
will keep it. Louisiana will have hers
Mississippi, not to be behind, must have
one too, And what is to prevent
her? Her southern boundary on the
gulf coast-forests of the finest timbers
the world can produce, only waiting fol-
the ak of the newer and chopper, and the
ships to carlS the massive lumber to
countries which need, and will give
, | GOOD price for it, Millions Of acres OF
} the most fertile lands under the sun,
r waiting for the emigrant to come and
redeens them from their present doom
of uucuItivated wastes; and they, TIT
: emigrants, will assufedly come, wheI
: the ships come; and the ships Will
s come when the harbOr is ready; and thu
. hsrbor will be ready, when the I'VE
stone walls, mentioned in my first letter
: will be the boundaries OF q channe
t which will admit OF the free PCS
j sage Of q first.class frigate or
q two thousand ton lndiaman
And can these walls be bullt2 says
: rather skepticsl doubter. 1 answer
e Some doubling mortal no doubt hooN,
: at the idea of building an immense wa
n around country, with nearly as grea
an area as the United States-China-
10 and vet in spite OF the doubter (whoI
6 surmise had the prudence to keep hi
II doubts within his own breast) tho gres
r. wall was built, and stands to-day, affe
the lapse of centuries, the grand lnarvt
of what man can do, If he wants to q
y it and receives the necessary push. tn
It push in those ancient days was de-
% potic monarch's supreme will and tn
lash of the work-master; in ours 1t
II simply the will of the people and cesi
> We are now on the eve Of grand rev
Y luton, thank God, though 1t is the re'
,r ol1tion of peace. Let other nations IL
dulge, il they choose, in "the dance
- DEATH" and pay the fiddler. We hay
}; had our little dance among oulselVe
Of and are paying our fiddler with as GOO
la q grace e. we can. Now, that anciel
musician known as "Nst. Debt, ESD
u is very exhorbitant old fellow, ar
will try his best to s'oversizs your pile
ot and ruin you, if you do not work LII
,s the very mischief to pay him off al
a get rid OF him ss quick 80 you can.
III therefore behooves all Of US, Mississi
er plans, Tennesseans-citizens Of eve
1T State, from Cape Cod to the gulf
al Mexico-to interest ourselves in an
= thing or everything which may have
VI tendency to benefit each other, and pi
as that debt. And this remark brings n
70, to my original thoughts ere sat dow
No to pen this letter. Will the practic
=. men of all the States help Mississip
LIS to accomplish her grand design? L
er them speak through the press OF the
at respective States. The APPEAL Civ
al her columns, and the writer is sssure
her good will also. Come, genGleme
u the ball has commenced rolling, push
10, along. In my next I will show y
IT. that it can be done, and considering 4
ut glorious results which will accrue, at
80 very moderate outlay: