The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1881-12-07

GOOD NE VS. FOR MORRASIO WA.
Your last issue is stirring one
and bristles with vitality. You had
good cause for it. / do otwonder
that you rejoice. All your people
should rejoice with you in view of
your railroad prospects, which now
seem to be assuring. | read with
interest your "leader' and para
graphs" bearing upon the matter,
1t begins to look like you would
soon have highway to Cumber-
land Gap and on through the blue
grass State to the banks of the Ohio.
You write as if there was no mis-
take about it and l presume there
is none.
As you know, I have believed
and maintained for some time that
you would secure the connection in
question at no distant day. 1t was,
if you remember, hobby of mine
1t is yet, and no one would be more
inclined to rejoice over the compile
ton ofthe enterprise than myself.
I am a believer in destiny-in a
divinity that shapes our ends. Stu
ated as Morristown is, it could hard
ly be possible for her not to secure
the prize she is now grasping after.
Circumstances may delay its con-
Summation, as they have in the past,
but cannot finally prevent it. Of
this you must be convinced if you II
take the time and pains to study
Morristown's geographical position.
1t is not difficult to do. She is di-
rectly on the line which nature has
indicated as a great highway. For
years and years it was one Of the
chief outlets of Kentucky through
which that great State brought her
hogs and cattle and sent them to
the Southern States.
More than sixty years ago, if ]
am lot mistaken, few distinguish
ed men of South Carolina, sagacious
enough to comprehend the situation,
marked out this route as the most
feasible one to reach the seaboard.
A convention was held fully sixty
years ago in the interest Of this con-
nection in Knoxville and very de-
cided feeling was aroused on the
subject. A charter, I think, was
and certain preliminary
steps taken to inaugurate the move
ment. 1t was the first inter-S State
railroad convention ever held in the
United States. The efforts put
forth at that time came, however,
to grief, and the enterprise died out
not because it was not founded in
common sense or that it was not |
demanded by the laws of commerce,
but simply because it was too far
N advance of the times to secure
and support.
But the times have changed, |
wonderfully changed, in the last
ew years. 1t is an age of progress.
4 railroad can now be built across
he continent sooner than one could
De built to Cumberland Gap fifty
years ago. Syndicates are formed
Utmost in the twinkling of an eye,
With capital enough to put through
abulous undertakings. All you
lave to do is to demonstrate the I'M
,ortance of some railroad connec-
ion and the necessary funds can be
made available in its construction
n a very short time.
Let Morristown be of good cheer.
The "DAY STAR" of her redemption
S about to arise. The iron horse
will soon be neighing and pIunging
Trough the mountains which skirt
Ter northern borders. When that
vent happens, as it will, 1 want to
meet you at the Cain House and
ave a grand jollifcation. Tell
Tom that I am already "booked" for
hat occasion and that he must have
he little pot put in the big one.
lou should have the biggest barbe-
ue ever heard Of, your town should
e Illuminated and cannon should
end forth their laundering notes.
C. w. c.
CJATFANOOGA Dec | 1891