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Lagrange 4^th 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