The Abbeville banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1847-1869, 1847-08-25
Resolved That series of meetings be

Abbevillc G. H. on Sale.day next, at Due
West on Tuesday 7th, Douglass,s Mills on
Wednesday 9th; BulahC Church on THURSDAY
9th; Jourdan's Store, Friday 10th at
Cambridge, in the Old Fort, Saturday / lth.
Rcsolvrd, That this committee do recon-
mend. that tn Commissioners, appointed to
take stock, take into consideration the pro-
priety of requesting survey Of the Abbe-
vile route.
Resolred, That general meeting of the
friends (of the Abbeville route) of the con-
tcmplated road, be held at CoI1esbury on
Thursday the 23d of Sept'r. next
Resolrcl, That the Commissioners of Alb
bcville Andersen and Piclsens are respect
fully invited to attend said meeting and re-
port the amount of stock subscribed
Resolved, That this meeting request the
Commissioners to procure speakers for the
various meetings appointed.
Your Committee hope that the citizens
the above named places will make pre-
parations for the various meetings.
Res0lred. That the proceedings of this
meeting be publishd in tn Abbevillle Ban
ner
After the adoption of the report, the
Chairman of the eating Committee invited
us to the spring where we found most
sumptuous and we'll served dinner, for
which the secretary thinks a special reso.
luton of thanks should have been voted.
After compliments to the dining Com
mittee the crowd repaired to the stand, when
Mr. Joel Smith was called for Mr.. Smith
exhibited great zeal in his remarlss-he
was one of those who had been disposed to
doubt the propriety of Abbevil!e moving in
this matter. He had thought u. first that
there was but little chance of her success
but he had buried his scruples and was now
convinced, that if the money waa subscr.b.
ed we would get the road
After he concluded the meeting was ad-
dressed by Messrs. Connor, and Anderson
of Laurens and adjourned.
Il. r. GARY, Chm.
J. N. CocnRAS, Sec'y
Mr.. Editor-What magic mesh chains
down the people of AbbeviIle Is 1t not
time, in this age of progress and improve
ment, that they should arouse up to their
present interest, and look forward to their
future destiny? Will they continue to play
the proftless game of Rip Van; 10 while
their time in fruitless dreams until the very
last opportunity to join in the march to pro-
sperity shall be snatched from them2 Will
they yet stand upon the verge of the mighty
thoroughfare and gaze with upstretched
necks, like frighted birds, at the busy march
of commerce and commercial facility, with
out sense to appreciate, or energy to en-
brace its advantages2 Will they be con-
tent to live under lethargy that hangs
like an incubus upon them, foreboding
legacy 10 posterity, of poverty, desolation
and ruin? Will they be so inhuman as
not to love their children and confer upon
them one of the greatest blessings ever
realiaed b. a people? Will they be so un-
grateful as not to love their country; the
land of their nativity and the home of their
fathers? Where are the once prosperous
habitants of Abbeville? Look at the
neatly improved and we'll cultivated farms
scattered over her surface, and ask the
question how many have been their occu-
pants in the last 20 years and whittier have
they gone? Let the middle aged man
look around him and see where are the as
sociates ofhis boyhood. The tide of emf
grafton hassweptthem to the Wes,in search
of a more favored land. That same tide is
still desolating our country and impoverish-
ing it of its most enterprising and useful
citizens Will not those who cherish this
as the soil of their birth; who haliow its
solemn treasures of the dead who read
upon the sacred mable of the cemetery the
christian example of their fathers and are
admonished by the memory of the past to
lift their prisons to the living God Il Will
they not feel interest sufficiently strong to
bind them to Abbeville and influence them