Massachusetts spy and Worcester advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1823-1825, 1825-01-12

to complete our Maritime Frontier, for the
consideration OF five millions Of dollars, paid to
our own Citizens for spoliations on their Com
merce, was Of itself sufficient for the fame of
any one Administration. In addition to this,
the reduction of more than 81 millions of the
public debt, consistently with the preservation
and improvement of the National Establish
ments, will transmit, to a grateful posterity.
the able and faithful Administration of Presi.
dent MONROE.
Governments, like all other human institu.
tions, have their rise, and progress, and de-
cline. Ours has, in its progress, been marked
with unusual success. The wise Legislator
will seize this occasion to reflect on the 0romi-
nent causes of our prosperity, and to foster
them; at the same time casting his eyes
around him, he will discern, whether at home
or abroad, those evils which may lead to less
suspicious results. Rational Liberty can have
no permanent existence where the rights of
property are not secured. Our Ancestors, sem
sibe of this truth, founded all their civil insti-
tutions on its possession and distribution.
With these simple elementary principles, our
political edifces were constructed, and have
fourished, presenting us TO the world new
nation under the form of Federal Govern
ment, Soon after this suspicious event took
place, a flame burst forth in Europe, which
shook every kingdom to its centre, and opened
field Of speculation hitherto unknown to the
civilized world. Although the scene became
perious, the adventurous spirit, the activity
and enterprise of our Citizens found the means
of accommodating an immense capital. The ac-
QUESTION of this capital enabled our country to
assume an erect posture on its own basis for
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may be, an active capital, with a correspond
ing credit, constitute, in great degree, the
means of assuring her against foreign agrees
sions. Such has been the accumulation of
wealth, that if loan is now required by Gov
eminent, our own Citizens are competent to
fill it, and thus to become the Creditors OF their
| country.
| If we look to the Nation from which we de-
| rived our origin, we shall find that, seeing the
| folly of monopolies and restrictions, they have
lately appointed, for the administration of
their affairs, men of more enlarged views and
superior talents, under whose auspices their
| fiscal concerns have assumed an entirely new
face. They commenced by adopting, as a ba-
sis, the truly Just principle of fair COMPETE
ton in every pursuit, and by applying their
immense capital, the Fictitious aids of steam
and water powers, with the skill and steady
industry Of their people to their Commerce and
| Manufactures, and more especially to the last.
! By the fundamentally of these means, they
have been enabled to reduce a part of their
taxes, to provide for their annual expenditures,
| to apply balance of four millions as Sink
ing Fund TO reduce the National Debt, to be-
come lenders to almost all the other States in
Europe and in South America, and to con-
trout, in great degree, the views and opera
tions of other Governments.
| With all the light of this invaluable and as
tonishing stock of experience, in every Me-
chanical, Manufacturing and Agricultural Art,
laid open to the American People (unbGrthen-
ed by Taxes, test laws, restrictions or monopo-
lies) they will not fail to perceive that the
wealth and strength of Nation, is but the
aggregate of the wealth and strength of the
individuals who compose it. Every Citizen,
! therefore, DESTROYS of combining personal ad-
vancement with the public prosperity, will
emuIdte and second the spirit of the age. by
selecting and prosecuting, with perseVering in.
dustry, such objects of pursuit as are most con.
genial to his habits, capacities, or his terrific
rial situation.
| Next to the preservation of those Institutions
which have favored our prosperity, :. cultiva-
ton OF the natural advantages and resources
OF the State claims attention. This leads 10
the subject Of Internal improvements. The
numerous Rivers and Lakes, which ntersect
| and embosom our territory, are destined. at no
distant period, to be united by Canals. and to
concentrate the Agricultural, Manufacturing
and Commercial Interests of the State. While
other States are leading the way in improve
ments within their territorial limits, on great
scale and at great expense, the Citizens of
! Massachusetts cannot be Indifferent spectators
| OF their progress, or of the benefits derived
| theretrom. The experience, furnished by
works of this kind already constructed, favors
the execution of others OH reduced scale OF
expense.
In the year 1918, company was incorpo-
rated to cut Canal from Buzzard's Bay to
barnstable Bay. The Act OF Incorporation
would have expired, by its own limitation. 10
March last, but was renewed in February last.
An inquiry into the causes which have delay
ed the execution of this work, may afford in
formation which will enable the Legislature
to determine whether its usefulness will iust;-
~ their extending to it the aid of the State.
From the surveys and examinations which
have been made, there can be no doubt of its
practlcaollity OF Its ultimate utility there can
be but little doubt.
The navigation, of our coast from Cane Cod
to Cape Sable, and particularly that of Boston
Bay, is considered hazardous, and, in the win
ter season, from the prevalence of westerly
winds and currents, is a terror to seamen. If
the port of Boston could once be assured to
vessels by making Block Island, and stretching
over to the mouth of Canal through Cane
Cod, the risk would be totally changed. Our
lndiamen and other foreign vessels arriving at
that reason OF the year, instead of Newport and
New York, would make for Boston. -.
The apparent objection that the Canal will
be liable to be frozen in the winter, is removed,
in great degree, from the consideration that
IFS projection into the Atlantic ocean exernpts
it from the severe frosts to which inland Ca
mails are liable. A Canal through Cape Cod
is also to be considered as a link in the chain
of an interior water communicate. which,
within short period, will connect the north
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