Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1860-03-31
From the Grccmvillc Enterprise.
The Blue Ridge Railroad

The necessity for finishing this enterprise
as far as Clayton, Georgia, is becoming more
apparent every day. If South Carolina will
push 1T forward to that point we are satisfied
that the people of Georgia will build the Hi.
waSSec Road to Cleveland, Tennessee, and thus
make 1t profitable at once to this Stlte If
necessary, let the Knoxville route be abandon
ed for the present, and Suild the Hiwnssee
Road as Tar as the copper mines in Tennessee
Whenever that Road is built, ii w.l enrich
the State, and make the Grcenville and Co
Iumbia Railroad, which is now in as GOOD run
ning condition as any in the South, as proGta-
bic as the State Road in Georgia. We shall
continue to advocate the building of the Blue
Ridge Railroad to Clayton, believing it to be
to tn" interest Of the State, and TO the pcoplc
of Grecnvic especially. South Carolina must
and will have Il connection with the Wcs;
If the Blue Ridge is abandoned, the Sport2n-
burg route will be taken up, and the people
OF Grccnvlllc are certainly not 50 blinded TO
their own welfare as not to see what their
condition would be, if the North Carolina
trade, which is now the very life of our busi-
ness, is diverted to Sparanburg, Union, and
other Districts east of us. The advantages Of
the lllwaSsce route are so fully and impartial
iy set forth in Gov. ,IohnSon's veto MESSAGE.
that we intend to publish that document next
week. 1t will be remembered that the bill
to charter this road was twice vetoed by Coy.
johnson, but it was afterwards sanctioned by
Gov Brown, and we have no doubt will be
speedily built after the Blue Ridge Road is
finished to Clayton.
As we have been prescribed BY a few for
our position on tlis subject, we publish the
following letter from a subscriber, in the east
crn part of this District, and less interested.
perhaps, in the Blue Ridge Road than hun
dreds of our citizens:
W. P Pace, ESQ Editor .Syuhc,n
Enterprise J have lived to the age of forty
SIX years, and have at this time, taken up
my pen, for the first time, to write for news
paper | saw in your paper week before last,
that subscriber had ordered his paper stop
ped, because you had expressed the opinion
that =" IN the present aspect of things, the
Blue Ridge Railroad would be built and tbe
sooner the better" | heartily express the
same opinion with YOU, and would like to see
editors advocating all such enterprises as that
! have been surprised to see men of influence
SIT still and do nothing about that Road, after
there has been 50 much money spent and
then to let the enterprise fail We'll, Mr..
Editor for every subscriber you lose by aGvo
eating that Road, Twill use my influence to
obtain another. now have one for you, i'm
place of the one you have lost So speak
loud for railroads. | have been taking your
paper for two years, and I'm not tired vet.
Yours, truly, GA SUBsCRlBER.S
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fuT1T DowN.-Never attempt to illustrate
the true character of a man by quoting his af
ter-dinner speeches. Any criticism is prefer
able to othat. i'm our time we have heard tbc
same men declare in many places, that each
was the "home of his heart, y and Of the mo
ment that then saw him upon his legs, that il