Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1859-01-15
OOMMU lN0OATD0Ng
roR gnE KEowEE counrEn.

Asa constituent of yours | shall offer
no apology for the scrutiny of your acts ];
and my effort shall be strictly governed by
veracity.
We quote from tho 18th Psalm, of Da-
vid, part of the lst verse Lord who
shall dwell in thy tabernacle r" The 5th
verse reads; He that svcarcM unto his
ne'yhbor, and diSorpointth hto, not, though
it were to h Is oph hinaroncc
| suppose that when you were boys, you
read the fable of Cock Robin aud the spar
row; and, in nhistory, the burning of Rome
by Nero, lie fddlcd nine days by the
light of the city. You, gentlemen, have
accomplished more than the sparrow or
Nero, for you have wantonly destroyed the
reputation 4. your own Site, poiit:caNy
and commercially. You have invaded the
rights of the city of Charleston in her cor
poratc capacity, and the private subscrip.
tions of individuals.
The ith day of july, 1896, nine States.
their delegates numbering $50, with 81
from South Carolina, decided that the CJn-
cim0h aud Charleston Rdlr0od would
make US neDh6ors. ask, cmphaticaly,
what son of South Carolina dare to shy that
the following gentlemen acted with pre-
mctlHutee2 tootiShacsS. and intended to dis.
grace the citizens of South Carolina in the
eyes of the world, by their action, that
South Carolina could not build this road or
the Blue Ridge Railroad, which is one
and the same project. The first failed on
account of the great commercial rcvulson
in 1886, and the latter for reasons that I
IN, ushaur@d to give; but the people of
our neighboling States willsay that it Jua-
cd-nevcr Joiio@cd in the .t@ot$tcps of the
following gentlemen, who represented us
in the Knoxville Con, c ltion, vi 4: II. V
iIaync, j. Il, Ponsctt, Jno. b. O'Neall,
Mitchell King, James -Gadsdcn, Thomas
Lowndes, r.. Barnwcl Smith, j. Il. Holmes
b, L, Dunkin, Patrick Noble, j. III. Irby
VIM. X. Clowney, b, j. Earle, f. Ill Ell
more, James IL, Adams, Abraham Bland
ing, John Il. Calhoun, j. Edward Col
houn, and John Buchanan, who pledged
themselves to their sister States that the
road was practicablc-th it could and
should be built. The com,nittcc OF Forty.
FIVE, at Knoxville, reported eight rcsolu-
tions for the action of that body.
The first speaks of the impulse which
this road must give to the industry of the
east and firH!c regions through which it
will pass, by improving their agriculture
adding to the value of lands developing
their mineral resourccs-iutroducing nc,c
nion'Vact'res-augmenting their popula-
increasing the demand for labor of
every description, aud building up ciuagGs
in all directions.
Eight and lastly it's controlling pcrma-
ncnt influence OH the peace and perpetaity
of the Union, by practically increasing the
reciprocal dependence of the North and
South, from Michigan to Florida, by cstab-
lishing connections in business, promoting
friendships, abolishing prejudice, creating
greater uniformity in poltiicM opinions,
aid blending tho feelings of distant por-
tions of country into an ANTON othcart.
presume there is no man in the State
who will pretend to deny that Col. .B. f.
PERRY stands second to any in the State
Tor sound, mature Judgment, stored with
facts intimately connected with the history
of his State. Take the coincidence of a
part of the first resolution, enhancing the
value of lands. He tells you the value of
land is $50 per acre, in Greenyille. Who
doubts it.? Now apply the rule to Pick
ems District | am confident, and / have
consulted with othar gentlemen, that, if the
road is stopped, FIVE dollars would be an
c&tmyagant average, Take that average
on 737 ,255 acres, then take Che average
at ten dollars por acre, (Which is one.half
less than it would be worth, ,ciM Me road,
and You have played Nero on US to the
amount of $3,7S6,275 But this is a
small matter with South Carolina b'hoys,
whose fathers have toiIed to mako their
real estates worth hundreds ofMousands o5
do'ta,s; but, gentlemen, you live in a
christian, civilized and polished State
You have sworn to your neighbors, and
your mothers have taught you the plain
Scriptural doctrine of restitution, that If
you have taken anything unjustIy from any
man, you $honla return .four toid I Did
the unmistakable public voice OF the State
send you upsto Columbia, as patch dogs Of
thc hcasuy, or were you not ,ent there to
logislate for the honor and prosperity of
every portion of the State Mote anon.
A DELEGATE TRoM PENDIEToS VILLAGE
TO TnE ksoxvILLE CoNvENrioS.
SUDDEN DEATu.-We regret toIearn
that Mr.; Nathan 4. Lyles, Of this district,
died quite suddenly OH Tuesday last. lie
was in the ei,ioyit,ent NJ nooI hoaitl, ~ a.