| From the Southern Federal Union
(Milledgeville, Ga.) |
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| June 4, 1861 |
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| Killed, "Accidentally" |
| We have seen during the past
week, notice of the death or severe injury of two soldiers on the cars
in our State, by striking their heads against the posts of water tanks
on the side of railroads. Who's to blame? The man who unconsciously,
and in an unguarded moment, put his head out of a car window, or the
Railroad authorities, who put posts so near their tracks that a man's
hat could not escape between a passing car and the water tank? The
writer of this article would have lost his life in the city of Atlanta
in 1848, if a friend had not rescued him: yet we were only looking
back to see the immense throng of people which had collected to
welcome us on our way to the Stone Mountain Mass Meeting. We here
announce our determination to have a bill introduced at the next
session of the Legislature, to forbid the erection of any post or
piece of timber within three feet from the track of any Railroad in
Georgia, and we will never cease to urge it on the Legislature while
we live, unless our object be accomplished. If Railroads have no
"souls," men have. |
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