| From the New Orleans Times Picayune |
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| February 2, 1862 |
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| New Orleans & Texas Railroad Company |
| In our columns today will be
found an address appealing to our citizens to come forward and invest in
the stock of this important railroad. We commend it to the thoughtful
consideration of our capitalists, and, indeed, of all who have any
interest (and who has none?) in the prosperity of our city, our State,
and our Confederacy. |
| As we have more than once
taken occasion to say, there has no internal improvement ever been
presented to the support and encouragement of the people of New Orleans
and Louisiana more important than that, the object of which is to open a
railroad communication with the heart of Texas. And now that from our
changed relations with the North, it has become necessary to find a
source of supply for many of the most valuable necessaries of life; we
have looked for hitherto in the United States, it seems to be a sacred,
patriotic duty, that we should develop the natural resources that he at
our very door, within the bonds of our Confederacy. |
| There is nothing the North and
West have heretofore supplied us that we cannot have from Texas, let but
the proper channels of communication be opened to our trade, with her. |
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