| From the Algerine Newsboy (New Orleans,
La.) |
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| January 11, 1862 |
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| The Road to Texas |
| We have frequently spoken of
the necessity in these times of public danger, of the completing our
railroad communication with Texas. We hope our representatives and
senators in the Legislature will procure the passage of joint
resolutions in that body asking the attention of Congress thereto, and
that our representative in Congress will give the proposition his
earnest support. Mr. Cushing, of the Houston Telegraph, has
lately been in Richmond, and thus speaks of the prospect of its
completion and of the mode in which it can be made a brighter one: |
| "A good deal of interest is
manifested here regarding the New Orleans & Texas road. The Government
has the matter of aiding three roads under construction. One is that
recommended by the President, which will be made a test question; the
second is that completing the link now wanting between Montgomery and
Jackson, and the other is our Texas road. All are important, and it is
generally conceded that ours is most so. I am inclined to think aid will
be extended in some way, but I cannot tell how. And it is to be
regretted that a certain joint resolution that was lately mooted in the
Texas Legislature was not passed. It would have weight in the matter,
and perhaps have secured its success. I am as much opposed as any one to
making a railroad company of the Government, or of opening the door to
any loose construction of the Constitution. That need not be done, and
will not be done. The present Congress made the Constitution, and they
made a very State Rights -- strict construction thing of it, and they
are not going to tamper with their work -- rest assured of that. Let
Texas be heard from officially as to the tremendous importance of this
work, and a plan may possibly be devised to have it completed before we
are well aware that it is begun. |
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