| From the State Gazette (Austin, Tex.) |
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| January 12, 1861 |
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| The Effect of Secession on Railroads |
| The Nacogdoches Chronicle says that the
Eastern Texas Railroad company broke ground on their road three and a
half months ago. They have now sixty miles graded, ties for forty
miles, and by the 15th of this month will have thirty-two miles of
track laid. As the Houston Telegraph says, what a commentary is this
upon the efforts made by submissionists to induce the people to
believe that political excitement would ruin our railroad enterprises.
A dissolution of the present Union would advance them, by enabling us
to get our iron cheap from England. Of course, an article of import,
relieved from a high duty, would become cheaper. |
| In this connexion we will refer to a
statement of the Telegraph, that Mr. Gentry, who is so deeply
interested in railroad progress, mounted a secession cockade in the
streets of New York the day after Lincoln was elected, and has, it is
said, worn it ever since. The Hon. Horace Cone, who is also deeply
interested with Mr. Gentry in the same subject, is now advocating the
secession of Texas from the Union with great ability and eloquence. |
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