Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1873-07-31
The Railroad Meeting, and the Rail-
road Convention.
The Railroad Maatinr to which WE

The Railroad Meeting to which we
allude, will assemble in our Court House
on Monday next. The Convention will
: meet in Abbeville on the 18th of August.
And we deem it our duty to keep this
al1-important matter before our people
until the work shall be done-or wretch
ed thoughtD until we shall have sunk
into the hopeless apathy from which
there is no awaking.
On Monday next, we earnestly hope
that the citizens, if not from all sections
of the County, at least from all sections
within ten miles either side of the pro-
posed Anderson and Port Royal Rail
road, will make it their duty to rendez-
vous in our Court House, and, after
weighing the matter very seriously,
choose Delegates to represent them in
the Abbeville Convention, and empow-
cred to pledge Edgefeld in the sum OF
SlO0, 900 at,least to aid in the construction
of the proposed Anderson, Aiken and
Port Royal Railroad.
AS we have said before, the bent OF
public inclination in the upper Counties
seems to be to run the proposed great
Road between the North West and our
Seaboard not to Port Royal directly, v1a
Edgefeld and Aiken, bat via Augusta.
In the latter case, the Road, after leaving
Abbeville, would steer forsome point on
the Greenwood & Augusta Road, thus
giving us the go-by, and leaving us for
the next hundred years, perhaps, out OF
wealth, out of progress, out OF the world.
This mast not be. Edgefeld and Aiken
must 60 into this Convention strongly,
and there do manly battle in favor OF
the route already chartered-shat from
Anderson via Abbeville, Edgefield, All
ken, and, we suppose, Allandale, d'' ect-
IN to Port Royal. Anderson, the starting
point, boldly sets forth the great advan-
tages of the connection with the Green
wood g. Augusta Road. Bear this in
mind.
And in closing, let us remind our peo-
pie of our experience-their experience
in railroad matters. It is this: That long
and wordy speeches, in connection with
flourishing resolutions upon paper, and
an innumerable array Of committees,
divided and subdivided, never did and
never will build one mile of railroad.
While we are not opposed to combina-
tons for the purpose of ventilating these
great questions of such vast Importance
to us as a people, and for the greater
of the natural resources OF
our growing country, yet we are per-
fectly satisfied that little will be done
for the accomplishment of the intended
object, unless our citizens all along the
line of the contemplated road, meet in
Convention, not for the purpose of talk
ing and passing resolutions, but subscrlo-
mg-subscribing moneg or landS-and
that literally, to the amount of stock
necessary to build road at the shortest
possible time. Unless course OF this
kind is at once pursued, we shall remain
as heretofore, the dupes of our own mis-
guided plans, shut out from advantage
ous communication with the outside
world; with complete stagnation OF all
kinds of business, together with such
depreciation of all real estate i'll our
country as will force us to abandon our
homes, and seek a redress for
DIR grievances Tor rather self-imposed
poverty and obscurity) in other parts Of
he world.