The Sumter banner. [volume] (Sumterville, S.C.) 1846-1855, 1847-04-14
WILMlNGTONNAND MANCHESTER
RAIL ROAD. z.


We received the following letter, which
we publish entire. just befnre The issue of
unr las. number, for insertion in which it
came too iale.
W1LMlNoroN. N. c., March 20, ls47.
Editor If "The Sumter Banner:
DEAR SIN: As friend to the Whining
ton and Manchester Rail Road, l am truly
rejniced that The enterprize has found in you
so steady and imparlln, an ndyncs.e. If
The importance and feasibility ofthe Soon
meeting Link" were as thoroughly appre-
cin,et by all the gentlemen nf Sumter as by
ynurself, there would indeed be no likeli.
hnnd of lis failure. II ton, we we're sails
fed, that the mode and manner in which
all its vast advantages might be obtained.
were as property and generall " understood,
we might safely calculate on witnessing it's
completion. at far.hest. in Two years.
The friends Of The road have much rea.
son to, congratulate themselves upon tie
favorable symptoms which have arisen
since The MsrionseC ohven,ian. Al ihn,
time, you will remember with what ankle.
~. the capitalists Of your districts. favora-
bile 10 a cnnnexinn with this town. observ-
edJthe efforis made in another quarter for
rfecting The same purpose Nolwiihs,and-
ihg the representations, which the dele
gntes from Wilmington were charged Ia
make. concerning The liability. Of the friends
OF. the Metropolitan Road In succeed with
their plan. the grea. delay and enormous
cos, of TINT work if effected. with The su.
pr:inr advantages %: tue Wilmington and
Manchester Ruil Road it could moi but be
observed that slate Of painful uncertainty
and suspense. concerning the success OF
both. would ultimately endanger the COM
plctiun Of either line.
l nm not informed what success the agent
Of the Metropolitan Road has met in the
Northern cities. ifin,sced he has gone ,hi,h-
rr; but believe that the chief part Of the
means requisite Tor its successful COM
menccment was expected 10 come from Pc.
tershnrg in Virginia; and il is now under
stood that the Arl, passed at the last ses-
sion of the Legislature of North Carolinn,
to authorize the Petersburg Company to
subscribe To u connexion will, South Caro-
linn. was intended mainly for the benefit
;l the Raleigh and Fayetteville ronne xion
You must have noticed in The Virginia pa
taken our respectable friends in Virginia.
The Road from Petersburg to Danville
promising. as 1t does, source ofproGt and
r. venue sn much more abundant, and its
erection being already. by lie aid Of The
state. placed beyond any reasnnabIetloubt.
the Virginil friends nf the Metropolitan
scheme will lprohably he found. .wheresnmc
other nouns are occasi"nalIy,-in the voca-
live.
Bun our main dependence is upon the
energy, the determination and the enters
prise. Of The people of Wilmington. You
are aware with what spirit, md under what
distressing circumstances, they came for.
ward and buillhe Road from this place TO
The Roanoke. They have since iIhmeasu-
r"bIy improved aud extended q II The springs
Of al,i,. and will nc. in the prescn, crisis
with thai liberality and sacrificing devotion
which is expected from them, and which
hlnne will srcure,the success Of a measure.
in which they are deeply and vitality inter-
cs,et. am positively assured, by gentle
men who know these things, lhnt the sum
nf nne hundred and fifty thousand dollars
Sl50,000.,) already down on the Book, is
nut one half of wha, they are prepared :o
'nbscribe, before the close Of the sixty
lays.
SO large nn amount, from this SMALL
own. could moi however be raisc, wi,I,nu,|
yreat exertion and the express understand
ng, that the second and al future install.
aents are net to be called for before S7OO,.
'0O.. in all, are subscribed. and the farther
'rouisionx that the subscribers IN az pav up
n money, or labor, or materials, in their
!iScretion.
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