| Ord. Office {Atlanta
Arsenal} |
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Atlanta Ga |
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Nov. 12, 1862 |
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| Capt. J. L. Sehon |
| A. Q. M. |
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| Sir, |
| Yr. note with Mr Walker's reply to my
letter of yesterday has been recd. |
| Herewith please find my reply & my views &
wishes plainly expressed. |
| The Rail Road
{Western & Atlantic RR} has no more right to refuse to bring me
wood than is vested in them as regards other freight. |
| They can nor more take the wood belonging
to the People, or which they have sold me, than they have to take a
man's horses & appropriate it against the owner's wishes & if
Corporations have the right to seize private property, & deprive the
people of their rights then it is certainly these that we should
establish a different for of Government. The Road claims as in self
defence, & shall the poor man do without his salt to support a
corporation chartered for his own Govt? No such thing was ever intended.
It is very different power the action of a Government, in case of
emergency, which is done for the good of the whole people. |
| The idea of this company having to ???R.
R. t?? is absent, & is only decided to save a few dollars. Wood is wood
abundant on that Road than on any other, & as for its being ruined by
their accommodation to the Government, ??? receipts in the State
Treasury for last quarter. |
| I am, Sir, |
| Very Resply |
| Yr. obt. Svt. |
| M. A. Wright |
| Major Arty Comdg |
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