Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1835-12-01
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TIE CHARLESTON AND CINCINNATI RAIL

THE CHARLESTON AND CINCINNATI RAIL
ROAD.
siE-Thc affair of the Rail to Cincinnati, from
Charicson has so much engrossed the public attention
IN South Carolina, that determined ask, by the
dunn OF your paper what is the real opinion of the good
cuzens o the West and, especially, in the districts
likely 10 be affected on the OCCASION They must be much
interested, and II the Southern States the road be
properly steG they will he equally ben.6tted that is 10
say IT should be located peyade all those districts
where their wheat, -four, live stock tures corn
and cotton bagging, IAN article OF such importance
mand Tor ~ are most wanted 1t will be a market not
depending ON the contingencies of foreign but
one that will increase with the natural Increase Of popu-
iauon ana me augmentation OF its wants. On tSs other
hand II MIR. Calhoun plan of creating a Rail- Road TO
Charleston oa Athens, &C. &c. is adopted, the market
must IN measure alone depend On foreign market,
port where there not be found 20 900 whites
large number OF whom supply themselves, and with
whom you will be met by extensive competition with
the Roanoke, in addition that ,chc you ic par.ay
create in South Carolina itself by aordiny market for
those materials now denied to Tin Charleston from the
want OF Roads " The scheme here proposed be adopied
10th markets cHf be 0Den.
However when rcolIect the advantages with which
products wanted by the w Indies especially meet in
Canada, and the fact that very speedily the Western
States will have communication with the Lakes ria
the Mad River Rai-Road, whence, arrived San
dusky, the produce may 'wend its way" Nv the Erie
Canal, the n Y and Erie Rail Road, now the course
OF completion, To N. York to Montreal; when re.
member the projected Road from Lake Huron to Wei.
lington Square, U. O. when learn efforts of Maine
Massachusetts, and Pcnnsy lvana when see the pros
poets of the Winchester Road being extended to Staun.
ton and eventually Ia Abingdon when hear that Nor
folk at last alive to its interests projects in associa.
ton with her fellow citizens, dle continuation the
Road from Weldon To Evansham-of course, to Abing
don; when see what Tennessee is doing in her Legs
atvr Halls when rccollect how superior are the adj
vanages TO shipping IN Norfolk and every port North
OF IT. TO what they are or can be possibly made, in
Charleston; when know these facts and behold all the
efforts which are making, | cannot but believe that the
good people OF Charleston and Columbia dreaming
dreams and seeing visions in short destroying their
own interests, and not forwarding those of tue West
hat is the course OF their conduct, and the object
q Ia co.Nfo nl, In
New York, and to render it the importing porting
port OF the great West" This is an old story In
Io%O, bamboozlcd by of the in this exiraord
nary drama, and IL is said Roads, on tour of
decePon who had discovered that of all the
market products OF the State raised within nee
" miles and most Of The oher third, Within miles of
" navigabe stream, they about works under the
management OF this very man, which millions
ana winch, Win solitary exception, not only
less, but expensive. Ii may therefore, be calculated
with certainty that the works going on will render
profitable the Western trade which is now so TO ne!
and that Char lesion will supply what is now purchased
''in Baltimore and Philadelphia Such were his memo
raOie words, and the memorable object OF his pas,
present puhcrs and patrons
In 1923, the subject of Rail Roads pressed
only pressed the public attention What were then
the words of this very individual Legislature
dhat such Road, running parallel to navgabe stream
(he was going TO make all tile Rivers navvabr "would
De useless, aud such must be the direction of any Rail
Road communicating with the interior of tile State"
and, although IN lc2c IN letter TO Timothy Ford ESD
he had pointed out way to avoid the inclined plane
and stationary engine Aiken in 1885 he publicly de-
clared, in pIInt that where 100 the mile were L,
be overcome they imperatiyely necessary
But, what was the object? To road through u
district where no cotton grown, and To avoid one
where much was ralsed-through district whose sur
lace presented much difficulty aud avoid where no
impeachment to be found-through u district where
tennessee, Kentucky &c, &c., have market what
ever and avoid where they have great demand for
their products. Agan-What is the oDject Of Charles
ton and COlunbla--of their visonarles, l mean p
In order to secure, far they able the uncon-
siitutonal monopoly of the Rail Road Company u Road
is to be made from ranchvie To Columbia and thence
NeWDury, Laurcns. &c 4
the n g. ine-and thus TO deprive the West OF an in-
mense mart Tor their produce in Edgefird Pcndletca
Laurcns, Greenville, Rclland Sumter, Kersllaw and
DarllngOn-to leave some Of them without n roed, and
the Waerce barrier to many Of these Districts and
then to persuade the West, that by sending is rruck
To Charleston, Augusta or Columbia, aud leaving them
selves 70 the 'tender efcies (nd thes. stender MGR
cles rendered still more exquisite by gutted
the Merchants there they Will find better market than
among the planters of the country. This play now
to be ac.ed, and never was there greater hoax at
tempted
will conclude, by asking how the energes Of South
Carolina should be applied, benefit Itself enrich
Us to amount but not To value the enormously pfoduc
tive communities Of the Wesl-to lay down such roads
as shall become links in the great chains of Rail- Road
tnnti ere hung are destined to nb this and in
creasing cOuidry. Then site, I'VE studied
IT, ahd among whom believe you will acknowledge
long to have been one, obvious. North and East 81 Viz
gln OF OHIO, need not 10 be noticed The Dominion is
at tie hOan"kes and sleepy N Carolina cannot much
longer prevent Road To the Pee Dee-thence throuvh
Darlington aud Sumter, advance to the Waeree
aud proceed a Southern direction TO Charlestooand
NorIhW csern To Columbia Epcnfualig the one will
receive al Sumter G. II Branch from Kershaw Ian.
caster Charlotte, &c; and thus all the country East
OF The Naterec viii be supplied. On the other hand
Road through Greenyillc faurens, &c, &c, may
be made 10 the Broud at such a place as i'm.
Hedatag 10 accommodate Fairfield and eoentaaliy give
rise To Road FROM Chester, York, Charlotte 60 &c-
From the FORK Of the Wgcfee and CongAree Road
may hereafter proceed To Barnwe aud 80 through the
flat LAID Of Georgia, Alabama, &c sc. Thus 10 say
nothing Z" tile extreme poverty Of the soil and consequent
creumscnbcd character Of tie Of every portion Of
the Federal koid from Fayetteville to Augusta DC. sc.
viii the elevations and dcpfcssOns be- crossed in run
ning over It's Judges and barren sand bills be avoided,
but at Tue same tine, every mercantile depot will be
cnmnodaed by Roads, running down tie banks Of the
Rivers on which they are situated
in closing this paper would observe Tint on the part
ct Geofgin TrDnessep, Kentucky, Virginia, or c ,
no eNcephn can be taken 10 the routes have suggested
hey Traverse countries very accessible aud pass down
rivers Whose inhabitants wealthy and whose
are numerous. SMEAyON
II Ros opened, n. G. will sb supply itsof with
eOf2 Mheat ani meat Columbia aoi Camden suppl
oI by n. CafDint.
VI these d'a vaeoges overcome woy easy
f'cS % the psn herein Wihout
part % The whole Sisie noisl DO achieved. ore
costly OF uniiag a Of the districts
thocy 81 Chafcoa. Without combination nothing
VII b. or can be done.
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