Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1859-02-05
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FOR THE COURIER.

1
Senators E. G. Palmer, Cannon, Mazyck,
and Representative Mullins, (of Marion)
Mr.. Editor: The public press, and a
very large portion of the people of the
State, think that you have perpetroted an
ctuf vandalism in defeating the Blue Ridge
appropriation. Thereby you have BET at
defiance, the concentrated voice of the very
first men of the State. When iii Conyen-
ton at Knoxville, in sc, with nine of their
sister States, the road was practicable, and
should be built; as wise men they put all
their facts and data in pamphlet form,
which should be read at the present day by
every school boy of 20 years of age in the
State, and though he be a wayaring man
on fool, he may run and read, and there
by learn the Importance, utility and bene-
fits that will be conferred ON South Caroli-
ma. if this magnificent work is completed.
The Legislature has lent her countenance
and aid to this work, at two different peri-
ods Of timst in giving charters to the Char
lesion and Cincinnati Railroad and the Blue
Ridge, appropriating funds. will present
to the opponents of this road some facts
that arc as incontrovertible as that two and
two makes four. The Charleston and
Louisville climate and soil and varied pro-
ductions, covering everything that the hui
man family cultivatcs, with the exception
of sugar cancand some of the tropical fruits.
If manufactures is to form part of the en-
terprise of Southern men, then take the
line from Henderson to Knoxville. and
compare the water-powcr running parallel
with and crossing the line of the road, with
its abundant supply of breadstuffs then
Massachusetts, and Rhode Island wouldn't
lave a place in the pictures. What has
God done for man in his wi$dom and kind.
ness in creating the Blue Ridge, and ALE.
gany mou,ttains with their fertile valleys
,fffncral deposits, and mineral waters, to in
vigorate and pfolong the lives of the human
famflS--cspccially the rice, cotton and SUI
gar planters, with all their wealtb-Ict as
haze the Blue Ridge R0ad, that we may
drink Che mineral Waters of Montvale
and associate With our friends from Texas,
Arkansas, louisiana aud all the Southern
States, that have made their millions and
cpm3 to MDntvllo to enjoy it, South
Carolina is the first Southern State Shat has
the prtriicgc of crossing the Blue Rid1e.
hope shat VIM. S. Mullins, Repre-
sentative from Marion, will have me brevet-
ed at she next Legislature for furnishing
ntofcrtdt for another Mrce hours spce,h.
Mr. E.G. Palmer, Senator from Fairfield,
| would like very much that in presenting
your facts and data, that yotf would make
them more explicit, and assign reasons
You say but ta,c of the railroads in Ga,olf-
ma Pay. Mr.. Stevenson, Che great Eng
lish Engineer, and the greatest of the age,
says, that si,ort railroads ne0cr dopoy, and
will be superseded By motk,s of transportt-
tions less e,rpcmSioe shan steam. As your
speech was very carsfHlly reported and in
tended tomeet che public eye at large, you
should have stated what the Charleston and
Hamberg Railroad had done for Carolina,
Georgia, Tennessee and Mississippi-you
could have stated what the Branchville and
ColHmbia Railrbad had done for your (pct)
/ the Chariostc EoaG. You were kind enough
to sef what Fairfield had done for that
road | can tell yotd what the people of
Pickcns and Anderson done for the Branch
vile Road, but they done it with firm
conviction that it would go to Kpoxvillc-
1T answered your purpose to stop at Colum-
bia. Why didn't you tell what the Erie.
Canal had done for New York?-increaseG
its wealth and produce, until 1t had not the
capacity to serve their wants, and they are
NOW giving sixteen million of dollars to en-
large it. would sny word to the Hon.
Alexander Mazyck. Prudence is said to-
be the better part of raloT. | fear that his
constituents are SO namcrous that they
might retaliate on lis with a vengeance, by
bWryirg us in the extensive excavations thaC
were mac$c with tlre nope that tho Blue.
Ridge Engines woald pass through them
on their way 10 Knoxville.
Senator GSabTicl Cannon, your speech
wears the marks of home manufacture I
see some parts of it arc itaicised / have
no objection to your speech; it is harmless.
Mg objections arc personal you are incon~
sistcnt, you do not practice the scripture.
commands~~.to Do unto all men as YOU
would have them TO do unto you" You
went to the Legislature suppiant for q
broken down railroad, and the Legislature,
filledyour bag with two hundred and fifty
thousand dollars-I mean the Spartanburac
d Union Railroad (lct me illustrate for YOU. :,
The Hon. Warren r. Davis, whose talentsa
and wit was the. admiration of all he wos
solicitor of the Western circuit, Spartan.