The independent press. (Abbeville C.H., S.C.) 1853-1860, 1860-09-14
VOLUME VIII.---NO. 20.

abandon the Blue Ridge road. If your
opinion respecting the Blue Ridge road be
correct, must not you, and all the people Of
South Carolina, have reason TO fear t5at
the light OF your wisdom my shine upon
The people Of North Carolina, aud that
they may adopt your opinion that their un.
dertaking is one Of the veriest humbugs
that cvcr,engaeed the attention OF a seusi-
ble t"t dcluded people!
But if we may depend on the continued
d"lusion Of the North Carolniars until
that re|icst hunibug, their road across tho
mountains to Asheville, shall be completed,
at this point two routes present themselves,
about which, to say the least, the people of
North Carolira are divided. Ono Gescends
the French Broad to Paint Lock, having
Morristown for its terminus, and forms
your Statewide connection with Knoxville
The other route proceeds, southwardy, TO
Ducktown. The latter would seem to bo
the route preferred, because the engineers
are now engaged i'll the survey and loca-
.ion Of it. Should this route be adopted.
it may be a long, time before the French
Broad roatefiis completed.
If the French, Broad route should be
chosen, your difficulties are not then ended,
How shall the road from Paint Rock 70
Morristown be made: know from the
oath of The President of that Company, to
a creditors bill, filled against the Stock.
holders for payment Of their judgments,
that that Company is insolve:t.
Under these circumstances, and with tue
opinion YOU have expressed respecting the
Blue Ridge Road, is it not deusion worse,
even than you think the Blue Ridge Road
TO be, depend on the Statewide connection
as substitute for the Blue Ridge Road,
and to urge the availability and sufficency
Of the former, as all argument for aban-
doning the lat,er9
The last Of your objections which will
notice, is expressed by inteIjections Of
amazemeEt. -.
You advise the people Of Edgefield Dis
,rict not to waste their energies upon one
Of the eetlest humbugs that ever engaged
The attention Of sensible but daluded peo.
ple;'' and thus close the paragraph : "Was
there ever before so monstrous folly at
tempted to te perpetrated by sensible
people" %.
The Blue Ridge Railroad Company havo
undertaken to connect, by railroad ltbe
only practicable counection) the State Of
South Carolina@ith4the navigabIe waters
and system Of railroads in the Mississippi
valley. The States of Maryland, Virginia
and Georgia, at n cost manifold greater
than what is solicited from South Carolina,
have effected that connection. In every
instance the completion of the roads have
been followed ~ cverAowing prosperity
The entire population Of those States, high
and low, rich and poor, wise and simple,
commend the wisdom Of those undcrta-
kings WHICH experience Of their benefits has
made manifest to all. Statesmen and pa
triots, whose virtue and wisdom are canon
ICED in the memory of the people of South
Carolina, devoted all their energies twenty
five years ago TO tbe accomplishment of tho
great national work.
II. the authority Of the multitude Of wise
and virtuous n,eh, who have exhausted their
energies in effeciing, or in the attempt to
effect, connection between the Atlantic
aid the Western States by railroads the
universal commentator OF SUCH connec-
ton when it has been completed-tbe ex.
periehce of lie benefit, which has forced
conviction 10 the most stubborn adversa-
ries--if all these things cannot persuade
yoa, nothing can. Itmay be that you are
wiser than all the wisdom collected of those
who carried tbrough'ihe Southern Atlantic
Railroads across the mountains. You may
be wiser than experience. But let mo
make suggestion. Whatever you think,
do not proclaim it SO publicly. ~
PosIrIoN IN SLLEP.-It is better to go
to sleep on the right side, for then the
stomach is very much in the position Of ,
bottle turn upside down, and the contents
aided by 'grav:tstion. If one goes to
sleep, on the left, side, the operation Of
emptying the stos6nch Of its contents is
more like drawing water from well. AZ.