| From the Clarksville, Tenn. Jeffersonian |
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| September 3, 1861 |
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| Tearing up the {Louisville &}
Nashville Railroad -- the Directors Implicated |
| The most flagrant outrage yet committed
upon the rights of our citizens was the partial destruction of the
Nashville Railroad Saturday, in Simpson county, Ky., near the
Tennessee line, by the regular employees of the road. We made brief
allusion to it in the Courier at the time, but no explanation of the
mysterious affair has been vouchsafed by anyone. Can Mr. Guthrie,
President of the road, answer? The Frankfort Yoeman, of yesterday, has
information that the road was torn up by order of the directors. We
have received the following letter from Franklin, detailing the
affair: |
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| Franklin, Ky., Aug. 25 |
| Editors Louisville Courier, |
| Yesterday morning, quite early, a
construction train passed our town and proceeded to the "Big
Fill," over Sharp's Branch. In an hour or two news came here that
the hands were tearing up the track and loading the iron, ties,
&c., upon the train. The idea struck the people here that this was
an infringement upon the rights of Simpson county, and in a few
minutes the citizens, except the "Union men with Northern
sympathies," were a unit in a fixed determination not to suffer
it. They accordingly proceeded to the railroad, tore up one rail,
placed a log across the track and sent a deputation to the intruders
to desist. They loaded the train, however, and started on their return
trip. When they arrived a Franklin they met as determined a set of men
as ever assembled to assert and maintain their rights. These ordered
the conductor of the train to return, lay down the road, and place it
as nearly in the condition in which he found it as possible. He did
so, and the people quietly dispersed to their respective homes,
feeling conscious that they had done right. |
| The train is detained for further
considerations. We are in considerable doubt as to the object they had
in view. We say to all whom it may concern "??iti caveant." |
| A. |
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