Cheraw gazette and Pee Dee farmer. [volume] (Cheraw S.C.) 1838-1839, 1838-12-19


In patronzing this work, it was presumed
that the General Assembly intended TO be
governed by principles OF justice and iiber.
alitv. And it is upon these principles that
the Board of Internal Improvements have
regulated their intercourse with the com.
pany. The work has been prosecuted
with uniiring vigor. Ninety miles of the
road are now in use and continued by sta.
ees and steam boa,s of the best description,
so IS to afford an admirable route of travel.
ling from the Roanoke TO Charleston. The
remainder Of The road is under contract and
will be completed mex. year.
The oaher roads which were projected,
and for which the General Assembly con-
sented to subscribe like proportion OF the
capital, have made no application for the
States subscription. The reason has never
been communicated to the Boari OF Intern.
al improvements, nor to the Executive. Ii
may be found, however, presume, in the
inability of the companies to fill up the sub.
scrip ions 10 the required amount, although
20 one considerable subscription was made.
TO the other, perhaps nothing.
Doubtless the citizens on the route OF the
Cape Fear and Yadkin Road, and those in
,erested in lis accomplishment, strained
every nerve to bring about SO desirable a
consummalion, and though NOT successfully,
still the merits ofthe roule are not impaired,
and the interest Of The State, and particu.
larry ofits western section, demand, impe.
riousIy, its completion, to connect that rich
and valuable interior with market, and a
sea por, within our own S,a'e. At my par
,:cuIar request, Major McNiell, the chief
aueineer, who surveyed the routes OF the
Cape Fear and Yadkin Road, favored me
with SIGHT OF his report, which proved not
only the praclicabilty of constructing the
road, bu, at u cost which can be remunera.
ted to the proprietors. | would, therefore,
recommend renewal of the charter, inn
powering the Board Of Internal Improve.
ments 10 subscribe on the part Of the Safe,
fer three.fifihs, or even il necessary, three.
fourihs of the stock, SO us to insure the &C.
complshment of the work. Nay--so i'm
portant do consider it, that | had said for
all the stock, if necessary, but for the para.
mount necessity of associa,ing with the
State, interested and judicious citizens 10
superin.end the details, aud attend to tho
execution Of the work, which is certainly
within the means Of the State, probably
without the necessity of borrowing. Should
the Bank to which have referred, be put
in operation, and make to this road the sub
scription Of halfa million dollars, and should
The fourth instalment Of the surplus be re.
ceived in January next, which is probable,
as tho law directing the distribution has not
been repealed, amounting to S477 1919 l3
cents, with the proceeds Of the sales OF The
Cherokee lands, say S350,OO0 being ap.
propria.ed to this purpose, with what indi.
viaual subscription may be obtained, the
funds would be provided. 1t appears to
as mater of right and justice, to give
the proceeds of the Cherokee land sales to
opening communication to that section of
The State whence they have been derived.
There are other works Of no less impor.
lance, in which | had almost said the saliva.
ton Of the State requires that she should
promptly and vigorously engage. On our
west an effort is making by South Carolina
10 cross our State by rail way, to secure
to Charleston the produce ofthat fertile re.
gon, whilst the establishment Of her South
Western Bank--with Branch in our lin.
its, not only insares the success of the first
en:erp'ize, but by superceding the circula.
ton of our Banks. dcstroyes our currency,
and controls our credit system. The Ian.
puage of the friends of this Twelve Million
Bank, is "lhat it will be to the South Yves.
tern States in currency and exchanges,
what the Bank of the United States was to
tie Union" Sould Souh Carolina sue.
cced in carry ing out her views as 10 the cur.
rency, and as to South Western Conteder. !
Rcy Tor league) our fears cannot be boun.
ded by mere pecuniary loss. We should
be driven 10 trade with Charleston, and to
cherish sectional feelings until our attach
ments 10 the Union itself would become
impaired. We cannot serve two masters
with equal fidelity and attachment. Should
no counteractin. measures be adopted on
Dur part, should fear that she would sue
ceed both in directing our trade and super.
seding our currency.
The Bank have proposed would remove
he latter apprehension. and to remedy the
former, would respectfully propose the
D. i I
Of tide water on the Cape Fear River, com.
nencing in B!aden county, rum ng west
md flanking South Carolina as near as pos.
'ible passing through Roteson, Richmond.
Arson, Mecklenburg, Lincoln, and into
'---harford, and if experience justifics it,
:-4a Tennessee, and to the
- Iississippi.
oud intercept the produce
,rlh of It's iine--draw no in.