The Wilmingtonian., 1823-09-25
ron THE wILmINGToNIAN.
Gentlemen.-

FoH THE "ih"iN'ioNiNN' be
Gentlemen.- Ith
A writer from ST. Georges, A. q. CON- a,
plains that anonymous and prejudiced wri- I'll
lers have been endeavoring to show that the
lower route for the projected canal, is not Il
so good as the upper one. II A. Il. is sol
desirous Of giving weight to his lucubra- n
tions, byappearing in propria persona, why u
does lie write under an anonymous sig- h
nature himself? Is he afraid if he were to- D
do so, that he would appear, not merely a q
pre;udiced but an interested witness in his
own case, and that while he traduces the
motives of the inhabitants of Wilmington,
lin so liberal, so handsome, and so gentle
manly style, for their subscriptions to the
canal, his only aim in supporting the lower
route is, that he might have the chance OF
of parcel Of cripple or swamp
at better price, or rather, nosV at no price
lat all, with the mosquitoes, builfrogs whip
per-wils, and its other numerous pleasant
to some speculating simple
!, ton, and thereby get rid of what sticks fast
to him at present, so much against his I'M
I Iclination but he should have remember
ed first to have taken the beam out of hi-
|own eye, before he had searched for the
> mote in that of his neighbor, in his eager
lendeavors to scandalize and defame the
: sober and industrious inhabitants of Will
mington, who wish to thrive by attention
j.. to their own business.
4 A. y. says, the principal excitement tr
$ the liberality of the subscription of the ca
$ nal stock, by the inhabitants of Whining
e ton and Brandywine, has arisen frofn i
I desire to. detract from the trade Of Phila
y delphia, and not from any motive Of pub
!. |lic utility. This is really handsome abuse
$ not clothed in the language of Billings
J. gate to be sure, but not one whit the les
y dissraceiul to its author. And pray, wha
l. has occasioned the liberality of the sub
= scrptons Of the citizens of Philadelphia
=. Why. partly public. and partly private. t
Y be sure. A praise-worthy public motive
toto contribute to so noble an undertaking
e. and an equally praise-worthy motive,
i, promote the commerce and prosperity {
: their city, with their individual intere'
o. o. combined and if this is right and patrl'
he tic in the PhladeI phians, l should like
I'M know how it degenerates into selfish c'
th h|pidity in the Wilmingtonians, withe'
at one particle of public spirit attending
\ n most certainly, Wilmington, with pop
he he lation of 600O, and more than million
nm dollars invested in houses, stores, &c. ar
ra- with the manufacturing district of Bra
ms dywine, daily and hourly increasing in b
an siness, in consequence of public estim
n" ton, and with an equal amount of prope
@|ty invested in its mills and machiner
" I o may reasonably claim more consideratiu
- than swamps and marshes; more esp
~ |cially when more than one hundred tho
- sand dollars have been already expende
,ef in cutting the feeder for the Wilmingt
5th. route, which, reference to the clear a
re. lucid publication of Joshua Gilpin, writ
'l"ith MUM Souuoi, >, PAo'HhSSS ""N "St'i'
ou Iunquestionably shows, was not adopte
Z 'Ibut on the fullest and most mature de
tha beraton and after Mr.. Latrohe and
.ws, engineers had fully explored the low
nter route, and had unequivocally declar
dia- their preference for the upper one; a
therefore, as the pablic faith was pledg
or'g to prosecute this route, and as large ST
.pa ..a scriptions were no doubt made, in full ia
Sen. and confidence that it was fixed, eve
the principle of reason, justice and equi
isbal speak aloud, that it ought not to be
peo- turbed, unless it can be shown that p
c IN lic utility will be better promoted by cha
s"O .h;. ling it: and this case ought to be ms
IN it out by a very different process of reas
ing, than A. Z.has adopted, to be bindi
or any way satisfactory, to the holders
ad- the canal stock, although A. z. tells us
.n %e proprietors of the pestilent marshes
90 willing, with great disinterestedness,
give part of them to accomplish their o
'ople object.
were But suppose the Brandywine mills W
anu nn' to stop five hundred thousand bushels