| From the Southern Confederacy (Atlanta,
Ga.) |
| |
| April 10, 1862 |
| |
| An Important Railroad Enterprise |
| We direct attention to an
advertisement of the New Orleans & Texas Railroad Company. This
company has been chartered and endowed with liberal franchises to
construct one of the most important links of railway connection in the
Confederacy, whether considered as a social, commercial or military
desideratum. The enemy have cut off the rest of the Confederacy from
the usual communication by water with the great Southwestern domain of
Texas, at once the granary and the grazier's field of the South. Our
only intercourse with that vast and productive region is by the slow
and devious land route over wretched wagon roads. This link of
railroad from the terminus in Louisiana of the New Orleans &
Opelousas Road {New Orleans, Opelousas &
Great Western RR} to the present eastern terminus of a road
ending on the Sabine river boundary of Texas {Eastern
Texas RR}, will give New Orleans and the whole Confederacy
direct railroad communication for seven hundred miles into the most
populous hear of Texas. Supplies, troops and munitions will thus have
cheap and expeditious transportation to the points where needed. |
| The company advertise to
contractors and for negroes. It has on hand all materials for the
construction of the road, and ample finances. The country where the
work is to be done is as healthy as any, and safer from invasion,
perhaps, than any other portion of the Confederacy. Therefore, owners
of slaves, who wish to place their negroes profitably and safely in
these times, can do no better than hire to, or contract with, this
company, and thereby serve the public weal and their own interests. |
| Let all the slaves who have
been withdrawn from endangered sections be sent to work on this road
at once. |
|