| 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 lie 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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