The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1873-08-21
EVENING SESSION.


At 4 o'clock precisely, the Convention re-
assembled General Samuel MCGOWAN in the
chair.
The Committee on Business not having re-
ported, at the request of the Convention Mr..
Lawton proceeded to deliver an address upon
the subject of railroads. bespoke intelligent
ly, and at some length, and suggested that the
people be united in an effort to further the
accomplishment of railroad project from
Port Royal to Cincinnati.
Col: r. S. Hill, of Anderson, replied with
great pith and force to the remarks Of Mr.
Lawton, and suggested that the gentleman had
got into the wrong box; that it was not the
Cincinnati and Port Royal road that was under
discussion, but the Chicago and South Atlantic
The Convention had assembled to discuss the
practicability of running line of railroad
from Chicago to the South Atlantic seacoast
and, while he was in favor Of liberality of SEN
tment and action, he did not deem it proper
to handy compliments with other routes than
that under discussion.
Messrs. Henderson and Sheppard were ap-
pointed committee to wait upon the Com
mittee on Business, and ascertain at what time
they would be ready to present business for
the Convention to act upon. They reported
that the Committee on Business would appear
before the Convention in the course of an hour,
which interim was occupied in hearing remarks
from R. NJ. Mckee of Greenville, Tenn, upon
the subject of narrow-gauge railroads. Mr..
Mckee advocated the system of narrow-gauge
roads, on the account of their economy and
cheapness, and presented strong array of
figures to sustain the positions taken by him.
The Committee appointed to look into the
charter of the Anderson, Aiken, Port Royal
and Charleston Railroad Company reported as
follows:
The Committee appointed to examine the
charter of the Anderson, Aiken. Port Royal
and Charleston Railroad Company, beg leave
to report:
That as to the availability and legality of
the charter, they are unanimously of the opin-
ion that it is good and valid. Your committee
find in said charter the names of one hundred
and forty corporators; with proyiso that
majority of them shall be present at the first
meeting of the company. Your Committee are
of the opinion that legal meeting of the
corporators can be had, as a majority of those
named in the charter reside within the coun-
ties through which this line is proposed to run,
and are vitality interested in the success of the
project.
All of which is respectfully submitted.
S. J. Lee, Chairman.
On motion, the report was received as infor-
nation.
The Committee on Business appeared and
made its report. First, on the resolution as
to voting in the Convention, and Second, in
three resolutions touching upon all matters
entrusted to its charge. The voting resolution,
as introduced, read thus:
Resolyed, That the voting on all questions
shall be viva voce, and that each county of this
State represented in the Convention shall be
county is entitled to in the Legislature of the
State, when sitting in joint assembly; as re-
ported on by the Committee on Business, each
county was to have but one vote.
This action of the Committee was the cause
of much wrangling, and the occasion of much
stormy debate. The intelligence and oratory
of the mountains were pitted against the sea-
coast, and the Chairman was frequently neces-
STATED to call for order. After a long and
passionate debate, a resolution was introduced,
by which the voting was done by the county
delegations in the Convention per capita.
After this question was settled, the report Of
the Committee on Business, comprising all
matters before the Convention, was read for
the action of the body, to which minority
report was submitted by Mr.. Wood, of Aiken.
The two reports of the Committee were read.
The majority report was as follows:
Resolued, That this Convention is deeply inn
pressed with the magnitude and Importance OF
the contemplated railway connection, between
the city of Chicago, in the State OF Illinois,
and the South Atlantic seaboard at Augusta,
and Savannah, Ga and Port Royal and
Charleston, S. C., by route that will include
by direct and parallel lines the cities of Indian
apolis, Indiana, Cincinnati; Ohio, Louisville
and Lexington, Ky., and Knoxville, Tenn,
and thence through Rabun Gap, in the Blue
Ridge mountains traversing the territory of
this State to the points before named, thereby
opening up the most direct, practicable and
economical route that can be suggested for the
exchange of the productions of the great
Northwest for the productions and commodi-
ties of the Southern Atlantic and Gulf States
and the West India Islands.
Resoired, That from the Blue Ridge noun
tains south, the most natural and practicable
route to the seaboard at the points above indi-
Gated is by way of the towns of Walhalla, PEN
dlcton, Anderson, Abbcville, and from thence
either by Dorn's Gold Mine and Augusta, Ga,
or by Edgefcld, Aiken, Barnwell and Allendale
to Port Royal, or both, depending on the
means raised to construct the same.
Rcsoircd, That the construction of railway
from Anderson by Abbeyille to Aiken or Au-
gusta, or both, whether any Northwestern con-
nections be made or not, is of the greatest
Importance to the people OF Western and
tLo coobo,rd ond IN tbo cities of Aupusta