The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1877-06-28

rangement your Board evidently had
no hand and upon other shoulders
rests the responsibility of suCh mani-
fest injustice and such discrimination
in favor of particular sections. Have
tho Commissioners the power to die
contine long established and impor~
tant public highway on the supposed
ground of no money! or upon tho
false assumption that only one man is
interested2 We take it the Greenville
Commissioners have q voice in this
matter, and, with oil your power, you
cannot deprive us Of it without their
knowledge or consent. 1t is o ques-
tion that goes beyond the jurisdiction
of tho courts for it's final solution, for
no power savo the Legislature can
discontinue a chartered road, nor can
that body without due notice, and no
objection must be made. Tho SEN
tonco across Saluda was incomplete,
and should have read "across Saluda
at the Bont crossing" tits presumed
wo all know that bridges have been
built since the terrible freshet of '76,
which swept them and the crops alike
in it's destructive march, and you
should remomber that this unlocked
for calamity docs not como once, per.
haps, in o lifetime, or once in decade
Of years, and this accounts for the OK.
traordinary outlay of money on Salu-
da, to which you have adverted. And
hore let me say if somo of your pre-
decessors had been moro mindful of
tho interest of the County, and moro
careful with hor money, that mon
strOus debt of$l0O,O 600 would not now
be In litigation, hanging like a dead
weight upon The shoulders of the tax
payers. Did tho County money pay
o certain firm for legal cousel when
the question was first agitated? Was
not the advice in the interest of the
psopleH And if hooded would not our
condition to-day bo infinitely better?
What authority had one man to as
sumo such responsibility, and to sad.
die upon people, violently opposed
to it, such heavy burden? The no
torious Bradley, of tho ever memora-
bio Electoral Commission, who barter
ed the sacred rights of his countrymon
and turned tho scales of justic9 IN the
interest of his party and tho fraudu-
lent President, was not moro culpable
and deserves no highor measure OF
infamy.
i Again, il some of your predecessors
had begun earlier to adopt n cheape,
| policy for tho County, much money
, could have boen saved, even in tho
, management of bridges. Doyou, MIR
: Chairman, or the people you represent
have tho remotest idea ofwhat it cost
70 build the Bent Bridge several
9 Iyoars ago. There is o little chapter
{ in the history of that transaction that
/ needs ventilation and exposure, mas
. much as it would teach Democrats
t that speculation and corruption among
, officials is not confined exclusively tc
0 the Radical party in South Carolina, {
q truth we, with extreme reluctance
must acknowledge.
Mr.. Chairman, we have written thi
o with no feelings of unkindness toward
r you or single momber of your Board
;. but simply to direct your minds Il
D tho consideration of a subject that ha
y; not been properly understood by tn,
\ commissioners of the County. If, af
D ter thorough examination of tn,
@ question, you determine that we dc
I serve no bridge, because of the Insult
fioiency of our tax, then we are done
and will bow gracefully to your de
o oroe. CITIZEN