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Lagrange 4th December 1838
Dear Sir
Feeling, as you do, an abiding Interest in whatever [endures?], in the remotest degree, to the gen -eral prosperity of the state, and impressed, as you are with the necessity and importance, of bringing the influence of office, & the weight of personal pop -ularity, to bear, in the Cause of Corporations, strug -gling, like ous [sic], against [illegible] & Tide, for the advance -ment of such ends, we confidently appeal to you to interest yourseld in our behalf, with the Governor and Legislature of Mississippi, at an application now being made, at this evening session, for a Charter, permitting the extension of our Road, through this Territory, in the form -mation of a connection with the T. & Decatur R. Road, & for such others act and Resolutions, in that behalf, as to them. may seem least. -
[When? Where?] this only remaining Line [Lines?] shall have been supplied, you are aware, we shall then have one of the longest Lines of [illegible] communication in the world, terminating, the one end of it, within the Limits of Tennessee, & upon the Bank of the Mississippi, at one of the most eligible points, throughout all its extent, for a great City, the others, at Charleston, S. C. destined ere long to become the grand [illegible] of the
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South, but why debate upon advantages, resulting from this Connection, when your excellency's own perceptions so readily suggest, theirs; and when we know, it is only necessary to call your alteration to them, to ensure your that aid and efficient cooperation which is so like -ly to sustain us, in our undertaking, and effect a [Conservation?] so much desir'd -
Very repectfully your obedient servantC Michie P. L. & M. R. R. Co.
