Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1911-05-03

represented the coming
Which was right?

SO. was defenS1vei 10.
bind together the South. By all tha
rules Of warfare Calhoun was wrong,
He was a great man. A very great,
man. But he almost considered him
self omniscient. He lacked that great
quality, without which q man cam
not attain. to the summit Of great
ness, the capacity to justly recognize
the greatness OF others. He refused
to accept r. Barnwell Rhett's 4reso-
luton in 1885. That resolution was|
the Capitalization Of Calhoun's own
negro policy. Calhoun wished to keep
his policy in solution a little longer
to be cr~ystaliZed at some indefinite
period. l am not lamentjng the fall
ure of Rhett's resolution; l am ar
guing that Calhoun should have ac-
cepted it or altered his policy. The
hour had struck.
The suggestion that the completion
Of the Louisville, Cincinnati and
Charleston railroad might have pre-
vented the War Between the States
has excited the derision Of some writ
ers of more than average Intelligence,
and for many years to come this may
remain the way in which many will
receive such a suggestion; but with
broader views and wider knowledge
in years to ONE, the reason Of 1t
must become apparent to a greater
and greater number Of thoughtful
men.
1t is eve now beginning to be re-
allied hat wars are often won years
In advance of the first cannon shot
and the War Between the States was
in my opinion won when Calhoun de-
stroyed the great Western road in
1910. From that date closer and
closer grew the commercial interests
Of the West and North and the more
identified did they become in senti-
ment, and there in the West was
raised the crop Of white men with
which we we're conquered; while into
Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi and
the Lower Mississippi Valley we
were pouring, year by year, that
black flood Of laborers, which CAL
houn thought constituted "the best
substratum Of population in the
world, and one IN which great and
f1ourishing Commemorative may be
most easily and safely reared"
1t should be borne in mind that If
the region lying north of the Ohio
river had once been linked to the
South, commercially, all the region
west and south of that railroad must
have hung together and a linking VI
of Arkansas and the Atlantic sea.
board could hav& come later without
any great risk. Bot with regard 10
the region north Of The Ohio river, il
was in 1910, then or never,
The War Between the States was a
conflict in many features most en-
nobling. 1t was a supreme sacrifice
for principle alone; for the South Is
better off to-day without slavery than
she ever could have been with that
archaic institution; as she will be
better off without her hosts of me-
groes fifty years from now, than as
she is, with that unnatural and un-
national dead weight tied to her neck
to-day. But the war brought the
robber tariff and from the tariff
sprang the trusts and to operate
them cheaply comes that flood of OBJ
jectionable immigrants that do not
care five cents for our institutions.
My impression is that some Of those
who assisted in overturning the L.,
c. and c.. railroad some years later
undertook the task Of prosecuting
the route by the Stump House tun-
mel, in the sos, not long after CAL
houn's death; but | have not given
that work sufficient study to make
any positive assertions concerning it;
my impression, however, is that the
scheme was not suspended on ac-
count of the war; but that 1t per-
ished through hamilton prior thereto.
In the day Of the L., G. and G.. pro-
ject, Calhoun was enthusiastic con-
corning 1t, tunnel and all. See
Robert Y. Hayne and His Times"
page 413, and prior thereto, page
40S, where he advocates a survey OF
the two routes, the French Broad
Tuckaseege, in order that the best
might be selected.
My object in writing the life of
1ayne was to stimulate inquiry and
bring to light the truth, the whole
truth, and nothing but the truth.
Theo. ID. Jervey.