Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1826-06-06
To the Editors of the Enquirer.
THE GREAT WESTERN ROAD.

GENTLEMEN: In recent number OF the Co
1umbia Telescope, writer under the signature oil
c., and who is well known FOR his science, speak
ing OF the Grating or pra,ng mania, Tor in most in
stances, in the words orator and oratory the should
supplant the o. says the business character OF the
present administration in Great Britain, bids fair
10 strike at the roo, of parliamentary defamation,
which has been in that County and IS in this
lCountry A DREADFUL NUISANCE. He then
compares M. Hu-kisson with the prating folks,
the osfentatores meri, confdentes meri, gGrru
Eque ct n,aleuoii, speaks of the vantage ground
MIR. Fox possessed, in the errors of MIR. Pits ad
ministraton, and CO cludes ''wth us, By the
courtesy of the Country, the Government rs al
: aruys right" How ever, :" with him will say
ITO the point
have but Just received the Report of the En-
s,iueers the subject OF the National Road: In it
~! TO be found ample proofs of &c the courtesy"
e(Congress; and, in the silence of all the presses
of the s. States of the Country. We have had
Mr.. McDuffe Syslphus like, beginning his first
and ending his seventh public year, with I" an
amendment 10 the CONSTITUTIONS and all our other
( ,,nbers of Congress, whether orators, takers,
4 muses., positively doing nothing but INDUCING
:her c0coefkes ioquendi oel scribendi; for
" iere they cannot make speeches which their
fellows will hear, they write them for home con-
sumption.
saxnm iuscn; volvun; ali, rad, que Rot1 s,
District peridsn', sede, H,.rnum que sedeb,
The ridiculous absurdi,ies Astounding in the
Report, to the injury of the Southern States, have
:, all passed unnoced; and, forsootb, because Gen
p Bernard crossed the Alps with Napoleon, we are
10 bow without hesitation to his Dictd, and cry
out, / suppose, with the Ephesans, Great is
M General Bernard" But, ammo worsbipper oil
" strange Gods"
n The General (of whom know nothing hut in
his official character) will excuse my doubts the
accuracy of a survey made in a Mail Stage. His
Brigade, as think Mr.. Calhoun fancifully called
H. (for every thing must be military was scarce
ly or ever heard of in the s. States: and where 1t
was heard Of it did not, because it could not, take
time to obtain any sound or correct information.
The first Route the Brigade marched was through
Raleigh, Sc. Now, would beg TO ask Gen. b.
to draw line from Raleigh to Columbia and then
see whether it will touch Fayetteville? What is
the fact?
"Upon the examination of Mellish's Map OF
the United States, which is presumed to be the
most recent and accurate of any extant, (psrtcul,
" in the section of N. c. which must have beel
copied from actual survey,) it is demonstrate
that straight line from Raleigh, the Seat of Go
vernment of N. G. TO Columbia, the Seat of Go
vernment of S. G. passes in its course So miles
s ". w. in a straight line from Fayetteville; about
; miles S. L. from Rockingham, the Seat of Jus
tice of Richmond County, N. G. about five miles
n. w. of Cheraw, and precisely through Camden,
leaving Wadesborough IL miles 20 the N. W.
Hence, it appears, that direct Road from the
Seat of Government of N. Carolina to that OF
South Carolina, would diverse only miles in
one instance, and in another, 10 accommodate all
important points, between the two Seats of Gov
ernment; Fayetteville and Wadesborough except
ed the first OF which is 80 miles of the course,
and the last mentioned is II miles out, of the direct
course.
The distances of the straight lines being from
place to place follows
From Camden to Cheraw, is miles, 81