Alexandria gazette & daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1817-1822, 1818-05-30


nv dull foam, are here wanting, ard
should poet chance to rise here in some
future age, he must deck his muse with
something which will appear rev on
Mount psrnassus. The bowling IF wolves.
the croaking Of frogs, the extensive and
HOMOGENEOUS view Of praira and swamp
may deck and epic foam with novelty, il
not with beauty. But this kind Of labor
can be but the employ of few, and the
many will find much more advantage in
cultivating the choicest land of heavens
gift a land which will surely yield to
the cultivator, and where industry will
always meet with reward.
Yet turning from the natural to the mo-
raj contemplation of the place, where
blessings are literally bestowed, that it's
will have its concomitant ills, doubtless =
the land that produced Hambden produce
ed Cromwell and the evils of life always
keep pace with the good. We cannot
expect one hundred years hence, when
| this fertile tract Of country is covered
with cities, that the people will be more
happy than at present; but the pOsterity
Of the now industrious may reap the lux
uries derived from the soil which their
forefathers sought for as a comfort and
prop for old age. High ideas of inde-
pendence and self suficiency are as apt
to spring up in nations as in individuals.
as they arrive at the age OF matu ,ty, and
it has not been an uncommon saying in
some parts OF the western country for
some years back: owe can live ind.-
pendent Of the eastern states; our natu-
raj and most c0nveniet market is New
Orleans, and 4lleghany ought to be our
boundary" Had this country been op.
pressed, as their eastern brethren were
once oppressed by those across the At
lantic, no doubt they would have long
since put in practice what they now only
hold in theory. But fortunately the mer-
camille enterprise Of the state of New
York is about to put off this doleful par
turition to later period. Not that | sup.
pose the intention of the canal from Hud
son to Lake Erie, was intended for any
thing else but speculative scheme where
BY to send merchandise to the west with
more advAntage-yet in doing this it will
cement a bond of union more lasting
than that of patriotism. Imean that of
self interest; fer while finding that they
can make purchases more cheap in that
quarter than at Orleans. their interest
will be there, their hearts likewise.
A canal, on large scale, connecting
the aforesaid waters, MAJ, BY little ex-
nense, be made to connect the waters OF
the Lakes and those of the Mississippi;
pr at least a few additional canals, on
a much less scale. will connect the
waters of Erie to those of the Muskin-
gum, Sciota, Mama, &c. Those OF Mi
CHI gan, with the Illinois and Wabash
those Of Green Bay with the Wilconsn,
OF Pasconsin and so on with all the wa
tsrs Of these two great streams From
lake superior easv communications could
be made to the head waters of the Nis-
sissippi and the Lake OF the Woods, So
,ha, with fewer canals than are common
in some parts of the world, vessel might
start Il ON New York; and go by an in
land passage either to Hud,on's Bay or
N,w-Orlcans. The tnonied men Of N.
York, 10 doubt have sufficient insight into
the certain result of their profits to in
duce them to perceive in this undertake
ing, which equally concerns the whole
political interest of the union. as the
mercantile benefit If the state that has
undertaken its execution.
Silver Creek. Illinois Territory,
April s5, 1918
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