Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1860-09-22
The Blue Ridge Railroad.

| TO tie HOnora6ie Eirard G. Palmer:
In the slow pursuit of your extraordinary
statements in your letter to Mr.. Gary. | have
mad forclbly Impressed on rIy uind the truth
OF the adage, that error dies wtn the swal.
lows fcetncss, while truth follows after mt
The pace OF tho tor toise 1t is as easy AS
thinking to put forth such letter as yon have
written, but 1T takes time to collect and array
the evidence for its refutation. Your letter is
without date, and WAS first brought to my at
tcntlon about ten days ago (by the kindness of
q trlend), in the South Curoiiniun of the 5th
Instant 1t was copied into that paper from
The slszSnns'.i .tt,'y1,ifs7y, wlerc :. a:,necre
without any date, and do not know how long,
and how far, it may have been in circulation
before received. the number of the South
Cdrotinidn in which | first saw it, For an
uncertain time, and to an uncertain extent,
your upfounded statement of the excess of
the actual cost above the estimated cost of
the Blue Ridge Road, and your equally un-
founded charges against the officers of the
company of,,a gross violation of the charter,
and OF bad faith, have been working their
mischief in the CANVASS for the election of
members to the Legislature. 1t has taken
so.po time, in consequence of the demands of
ether othcial engagements, to collect the evil
dence necessary to refute yonr statements and
charges, and thus / have slowly followed in
the pursuit and reiutation of them, which, be.
ing made by you without your. having taken
the trouble to support them by any evidence,
cost you no more time than the writing. They
were made over your own signature, nnd by
this assumption of personal responsibility for
the truth of them, you expected them to OBJ
tain credence, and q confident as we'll as rapid
circulation. When the election has been de.
termined under the influence of the most er-
roncous Impressions, an after correction of
them cannot repair the mischief which will be
thet past redress fb5.
The next inIthe order of your objections
after those have already replied to in former
articles, is thus made;
/" further object to any additional State
aid tothis road, because an fully persuaded
that the charters of Georgia and North Caro-
lima have never been secured"
.,i Since you mention only these two States, /
will consideryou to admit that the charter of
the road in Tennessee Is secured.
The right Of way through Georgia has been
granted or adjusted, and paid for. do not
know Of q single claimabs a9ainst the Compa-
ny for damages. You might see Ia the last
report Of the President aud Directors, that 10
lSo9 forty-two per nent Of the grading in tflat
Stste was finished, nearly three. fourths of tho
cnlycrt-masonry and bridge-masonry, twonty.
eight per cent. Of one snnpci and ten per
cent. of another No objection Is heard to
the charter from Georgia, On The contrary,
two yests ago She Legislature of Georgia gran
ted casFses 20 the Islwaasee RAILROAD Com
pepy % eoaasfleta railroad from Ducktown
70 Sleytenf This charter was violently CON.
tested II had been pasted ID she session Of
atie yeer before, ans vas vetoed BY Gororncr'