Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1859-10-01
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From the Patriot and Mnuntninecr |
Blue Ridge Railroad.


CAss GouNrY, Ga, Aug 10Th, 1859
MAJ. b. f. PERRY [ have lust been
reading your speech, delivered ut "Tua-
ncll Hill on the " Blue Ridge Railroad "
This speech, to be appreciated, will have
to be preserved to be read by poStcrity-
Some OF your positions were doubtless as
incredible, as they will prove to be true
Forlnstancc, you say "thc increased value
OF the lands on either side of the Blue Ridge
Railroad, in South Carolina alone, would
buildthe road" Twenty years agoI would
not have believed such an assertion; now.
i nm satisfied that the Increased value of
slip Of land, ten miles wide on each side
OF the well located railroad, would build il
this | believe from what have seen. and
having seen, know it to be true Your
wider riow, though, of the advantage to
the State, physically and socially. you have
{nnd any other man would have, } failed to
dclincatc. Dollars and cents cmnot do it,
The opening of that highway os travel into
end from tho great valley of the Father of
Waters. cannot be counted by dollars, for
it would let in n life flow, a flood tide, of
material necessities and comforts, into my
blessed old mother State, (who shall love
with the devotion of child in life's last
ebb,) which will not only swell out the
wrinkles of her age, but rciuvomte her.
and continue her young, as long as the
"stars'aud stripes Shall float over an un-
divided land. This is nc poets dream no
fancy picture, and dark as the prospect may
now be of its accomplishment, is, never
theless, only question Of time. The
originol /" IIayne idea will be realizcd.-
The Iron horse y will run through (marli
it) from the Athntic's coast, and after ira.
vcrsing the Blue Ridge and the Cumber-
land chDin lave his heated side at Louisville
with the waters Of la belle Ohio and
when that day sholl come, grateful peo-
pie should honor the memory and the name
o. that great man, by erecting monument
to his mmc ut the initialnnd terminating
points of his great conception. Pardon NE
for this seeming flight. ] cannot hear,
think, nor see anything, which pertains to
the material or social advancement OF the
State Of my birth, boyhood, and nearly
manhood, but that feel to lend her u
helping hand" and like the Jew who
wanders over the Garth having DO home,s
no country yet cherishes the hope, TINT his
last wahdcrings mny be in the land of his
fathers, and his last resting place, the " val
Icy of Jehosaphat," so I, when this fever
ish state shall terminate, would hope that
my last wandcriugs might be in the land of
my fathers, and that with them [ might
sleep. But, sir, there is enough of this
Your great rail way win be built at sooner
or later period; The main question is how !?
AT my earliest leisure will devote letter
TO yoa on this subject--the how consider
-practicablc-safe.
CAss County, Ca, Sept. Sd. 1850.
The railroad system of South Carolina
~ detective radically, in that it has branch
es only, .pd no,trlnk. These branches
must gradually and certainly wither and
die, without either trunk being made or
the stockholders being called on from time
60 time, for further subscription Of stock
to keep the branches up, as many'of them
cannot certainly sustain themselves. The
SOnth Carolina Railroad, from Charleston
to Hamburg. and from Charleston to Co
lumbia---the latter diNcrging from, the for
mer at Brangtgille~-rand both belonging to
tho same company-srafe doing we'll tile
main trunk. from Charleston to Hamburg,
being fed by Georgia and the valley of the
Mississippi, and the branch to Columbia,
bcieGia feeder to the main trunk from the
upper. portions Of North and South Carolt..
na. But suppose that a road was TO tako
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