Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1857-09-16
From the Lexington Flag.
THE COLUMBIA AND HAMBURG RAILROAD

An occasional intimaion i'll different quarters
show thai this project Is sill alive, hut apparent
" ;ut little interest is manifested in ii. w
sincerely tr;lst Tie .fi..nu5 uf the Projected iDa
iiarr moi g.rra up lie enterprise il, despair. II
is irau::ht with itm ,rU"!l Importance and wuHs
confer too maDy l;!,ting benefits Upon this pHr
ton Of our Sla;". for it to be aba,'iouc.l eforr
it has been flii j; ID iairl" tested. Frcm asI'ow
ing which was mmlc by facts AMI figures some
time since in the ;>a,"iN C".u!iaien, il was scci
that the Road can be built, if the proper efforts
are put !1rl. by the respective parties most deep
i; Interested III its construction. This is What
We have always believed. and We are fully per.
snadrd, that It only require. the right action TO
br taken il the premises, backed ny strenuous
anil persistent cyertion OH the part of The friends
of the measure to place the work III Il short time
fairly under way.
1t may be asked, why WAS noi The Road bnilt
when the former survey WIS made? Would the
enterprise have been abandoned them if its prac.
tica5ilitv ani Importance wcrr fully apparent ?
The work dill not proceed any further at that
time, partly because there was so much indllrr.
cure nnd apathy manifested by the people aloag
the route and BY the town Of Hamburg, bit
principally because it w:is Irowne,l upon by the
South Carolina Road, corporation which ap-
pears to be almost omnipotcnt in the City of Co.
iumbia Surely our nci shbors Of the Capitol,
who, we know are too wise not to see the great
advantages they would reap from this link in the
great line of travel North and South, to say moth
ing of another inlet Of vigorous trade that it
would open to her bosom, will not suffer them
selves to be bulied ont of this enterprise, and
crouch down in meek submission to the dictnm
of monopolising Company, which has never
shown them any particular favor, and owes them
no very great goodwill.
We do not believe the friends of the contem.
plated Road will Lo iEtimidated any longer by
this or any other sinister influence, which may
be brought to bear against them. 1t may be
that the location of some of the Roads in the
State was unfortunate; but that now is their
lookout, not ours. 1t is not to be expected it
would be an unreasonable stretch of generosity
to suppose, that we should suffer ourselves to be
isolated and cut off forever from all the blessings
and advantages that follow in the wake Of the
locomotive and its life inlilsng influences. sim.
ply because it happens not tobe convenient, and
would not be TO the interest OF that gray.hcaded
and sinscarrcd Company, 10 let lis have Road.
Let us ask for renewal OF the charter of the
Columbia and Hamburg Rail Road, and as soon
,s it is obtained, let books OF subscription he
again opened. In the interim, let the people be
awakened, and the right spirit be stirred up by
public meetings, by appeals through the press,
ind by every means that can be used. Let the
,learcst heads of the friends of the measure be
put together for the iurtherance of the good
work. Nothing can be accomplished, let us be
without energetic, determined, and per.
;evering effort Concert Of action will be indis.