The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1876-04-06

given two million dollars, and are now
heavily taxed upon the debt. We can
not allow these benefits to be turned to
other quarters after having paid so much
for it in the past. Ladies, you must wake
up your husbands. 1 sympathize with
the man who wanted you here tonight.
He knows how it is to knuckle to his
wife, and he shows that he listens to the
advice of his wife. I know how this is
myself, also. Horace Greely wrote a
book called "What know about farm
ing" and many persons thought him
fool. If should undertake to tell you
what know about railroads might be
one myself, but khope you will be more
charitable than to call me one. Several
years ago I lived at junction where
several hundred trains passed each other
every day. Since that time the number
has increased to thousands. Then Lon
don and Croiton were thirteen miles
apart. Since then the intervening space
has been built up until you cannot tell
where London ends and Croiton begins.
This great growth of London has been
principally since the time of railroads.
Omaha, Chicago, and even New York,
are illustrations in our own country of
the powerful advantages of railroads to a
place. We have country as fine; why
may she not be as great and prosperous
as any in the world? No one can answer
otherwise than that it is by incidence
Wake up the menl We of Charleston
will act from selfish motives in this rail-
road movement, and we ask you to do
the same. Your first duty is to your
selves. I have heard Tim. Hurley and
other South Carolina legislators say this.
Do your duty to yourselves and we will
do our duty to ourselves in this enter
prise, and by so doing we will do our
duty to our country also.
DR.. w. L. Love, of Franklin, N. c.,
was next introduced, and said:
Mr.. PRESIDENT, LADIES AND GEN
TLEMEN: hesitate little to address
you this evening, and would not do so
but for the purpose of acknowledging the
compliment paid me by your invitation.
I am from franklin, North Carolina,
which town is directly on the line of this
road, and would like to make some state
ments relative to the practicability of the
Blue Ridge Road. / am aware of the
fact that men not in the habit of visiting
the mountains believe road cannot be
built across them without series of i'm
mense cuts and fills. This is mistake,
for there are roads going through these
mountains which select the gaps and
run through the valleys. One of the
most remarkable of these passes is the
Rabun Gap, where the intended Blue
Ridge Railroad is to one day pass. There
is not that great difficulty imagined in
the construction of this road. 1t is about
three thousand feet above tide water.
Before and behind it is level plain,
with waters few feet from each other,
running in opposite directions, while on
each side are high mountains. There is
no point at which this range can be
passed without tunneling except at these
gaps or passes, and at none Of them so
easily as at the Rabun Gap. When you
get to this gap it is level and lower than
the surrounding country. There is
swamp right in the center of the gap,
and you will have to run the road along
the side of the mountain some eight feet
above the level of the gap. The difficult
ties of the construction of this road lie
entirely on this side of this gap in the
mountains in this State and Georgia. If
it could be built to the gap it would be
but little time until it would be COM
pleted. AS have said before. I live in
the mountains, and am proud of my
home. 1t is in beautiful valley, which
must be seen to be appreciated. If you
think this country is rough, craggy
region without roads you are mistaken,
for such is not the case. There is in it a
clear stream, running through beautiful
and wide spreading meadows, without a
waterfall for miles, and then there is
fall with power enough to turn most of
the machinery in New England. You
have heard something of our fruit crop,
and may be surprised to hear that in a
year of a full crop not one-tenth of the
fruit is gathered or shipped. The re-
mainder is wasted and goes back to en-
rich the soil. The difficulty is, as have
said, in this State and Georgia, and we
hope at this meeting to take long step
towards overcoming these difficulties.
The difficulty of money is very great, but
it is not the chief one. five had capital
we could not build the road without
maturing our plans. The other difficulty
is the unfriendly look and the unkind
speech. This is very damaging to any
enterprise. Let the people all agree to
endorse an enterprise, and you will see
how rapidly it will move along, but let
one-third oppose any enterprise and two
thirds even favor it and it will drag.
Every one should endorse this road, and
this opposition should be met. I heard
once of an old bachelor who told his SER
want to prepare q goose for his dinner.
When he came to dinner he found that
one leg of his goose was gone. He in
quired of John how this happened, and
was told that the goose did not have but
one leg. For this falsehood his master
fogged him. On the next day they were
driving, and came across flock of geese,
which were standing on one foot. John
said to his master that he had flogged
him unjustly, for the goose he had cooked
the day before was one of that kind of
geese. When they reached the point
where the geese were standing the master
threw out his hand and said shoe, and of
course the geese put down both feet
John then said, "But master you did not
say shoo to that goose yesterday" Now
we have been appealing to the men, and
I want to appeal to the ladies, too. If
you know of any one who opposes this
road just say shoo to them. This will be
one of the best paying roads in the coun-
try when it is built. If your husbands
oppose this road just say shoe to them,
and by then you say this twice they will
come down in favor of the road. Young
ladies if any of those young men, who,
you know what you expect them to be be
this road Just say to them that it is an
enterprise which was inaugurated by the
patriots of South Carolina for the good
of your State. Just say shoe to them,
| and if you will make the young men and
old men come down with both feet in
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