The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1879-07-17

| link with the attiuent West, IS Just one
of the triumphs sufficient to awaken the
pride and gladden. the heart of any peo.
pie. a half century ago Hayne and
McDufie, with others, inaugurated this
grand scheme. What these men of gen.
erous and burning patriotism failed to
achieve in their day and generation our
Duncan and your Coleman and McAden,
! and Georgia's Austell, and Union and
Spartanburg, Henderson and Buncombe
have gloriously accomplished in our day
[Great and repeated applause. For,
surely, surely, citizens, what is so
nearly done now, with every difficulty
and doubt put behind US, will not now be
deserted in the moment of final triumph.
Your Governor has said that North Car
olina will not desert the good work, and
South Carolina will not be found want:
ing. Great applause. The Governor
then dwelt at some length on the great
natural sources of progress, agriculture,
commerce and the mechanical arts, and
insisted that there could be no true pro-
gress when these three factors of national
strength moved not harmoniously to-
gether. He then concluded in fine ap-
peal to the blessings of peace-saying
with fine voice and much fervor: If I
had the voice of an archangel and could
reach over these swelling mountain
ranges billowing up around us, would
proclaim it to all my countrymen in
every section of this wide Union, on this
the birthday of American liberty, peace
on earth and good will to man as the one
good thing above all others needful
amongst the sons of this great land,
where it is only to will it for our people
to be free and happy to their remotest
posterity, and where it is only necessary
to pursue the peaceful industries of life
with the ardor our people have ever ex-
hibited in the field to make us the rich
est as well as the freest people ever
known to history. The Governor sat
down in burst of applause, and his re-
marks seemed to have been universally
admired.
Ex-Governor Senter, of Tennessee, was
then introduced and made most bust
ness.Iike, sensible and able speech. He
said he had come 600 miles to reach
Hendersonville, little over eighty miles
from where he resided. He had come
from the daughter of North Carolina to
Join with the mother on this auspicious
occasion, when the men who had shoul-
dered this great work were casting about
for the ready means to push the whole
matter to final consummation. The
speaker said: AS the daughter of the old
North State we want you to take US back
to the bosom of our old mother. Jap
plause.) And we want you to do itnow.
It is useless to tell the men who have
achieved what ! saw, in coming here
through the mountain passes, how to do
it. They will find the way out of the
present snap. They will not consent to
stand still now, almost in sight of the
great objective point of all their efforts.
I came to tell you, he said, that we will
meet you at the border of Tennessee, and
that you may rely upon this as an accom-
plished fact.
When you tap the graneries of the
great West and make this, as it is, the
natural line of transportation and travel
between the South and West, new day
and a new life shall have come to you
and to us. We are here to-day to show
cur sympathy in the great work and to
assure you from Tennessee that our part
shall be done to meet you as you come
to us, and that you may accept this as
surance with perfect confidence. Judge
Moses will read certain communications
from important railroad men of our Sec
ton for which 1 ask a hearing. Gov.
Senter was listened to with profound at
tention throughout, and the practical
character of his remarks gave great
satisfaction.
Judge John L. Moses then came for.
ward and assuring the public of the au-
thoritatiye force of the writers read sew
eral communications.
Judge G. D. Fowles, of North Carolina,
was introduced and made an ornate ad-
dress, in which he paid handsome COM
pliment to Vance, Ransom, Hampton and
Butler. He concluded with a remark
which was cheered to the echo, that R.
Y. McAden might 60 to bed tonight
conscious of having achieved great
work.
President S. Y. Tupper, of the Charles
ton Chamber of Commerce, was then in
troduced. He was handsomely received,
and listened to with great attention. He
said: have come among you for the first
time to breathe your mountain air, and
gladly would I catch inspiration from
your bracing air and beautiful scenery to
speak in fitting terms of the wonderful
work you have performed. When you
raise an obelisk upon the mountain to
the memory of Hayne, McDufie and
Gadsden, Charleston claims the privilege
of contributing block in honor of the
living heroes Duncan and McAden, who
are pushing on the work they so nobly
began. Immense applause. We are
told that all Frenchmen, when they die,
go straight to Paris. AS Charlestonian,
| / may as we'll assume, therefore, that all
your roads, when completed, lead straight
to Charleston. daughter and applause J
| Charleston has much at stake in this
enterprise. regret that under her pres
ent embarrassments she can offer but lit
tie pecuniary assistance at this time.
The man who advocates railroad appro-
priations in that city, in the face of heavy
taxation, large municipal debt and the
millions we have sunk already in railroad
enterprises, must encounter some oblo-
guy, and the opposition of small politi-
clans and ofice-seekers. But will ven-
ture against that sort of censure. I will
go back to Charleston and tell the people
of this majestic spectacle among the
mountains to-day; Of the thousands that
have assembled to cheer on this work by
which Charleston is to be quickened and
built up. And 1 will then ask them to
make some sacrifice, and even part with
some of their possessions, if necessary,
to complete this connection with the
West. But I bring you now the hopes
and greetings of kindred people, bound
to you by ties of blood and common
destiny; a,People 50 lately impoverished
prosperity. They commend your energy
and nrav that this connecting link be.