Edwardsville spectator. [volume] (Edwardsville, Ill.) 1819-1826, 1825-07-30
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culture, il will excite into activity all
kInas oil productive and laudable INDUS
Try, ana d,ftuse a spiril OF emula ION and
power OF exeIuon, oi which nothlnE
but actual experience can tutnIsh an
ADEQUATE idea IL viii be great school
OF Ingenuity thai will produce eminent
nsineeis and mechanlcisns. l. will be
d guardian III morality, by rouslng the
human mind from slate OF Iorpldlly
and lnacti,ly. But mere are other cont
slderatlons which press with irresistible
force III estimating the merits OF this
great undertaking,
The history OF Ohio, from lis forest
state TO the present period, is without a
parallel IN the history oil manklnd. Her
existence, as con ederale state, does
not extend beyond wen,y.three years,
when her popula Ion did no. exceed fifty
thousand souls; and her FIRST efiec tive
settlement reaches back ln,le more Than
thirty years. She nov has population,
moral, patriotic and Intelligent, oil near
eight hundred THOUSAND human beings !;
and OF the twenty Ave millions OF acres,
contained IN her territory, perhaps not
one-seyeDIh part has been brought 10 a
staJe oil guilty ton.
To what has this great increase Of po-
pulation been owing? To the unsurpas-
sed fertility ofyour ,oiI; 10 the undoubI-
ed salubriy OF your climate; but above
all, to the mora! power OF freedom,
which animates all the energies OF man,
and furnishes inducements to activity,
that no other ,late OF things can exhibit.
With all u ese advantages, you have
Eel, the paralytic efforts OF the want Of
markets Tor your surplus productions
Cut out from almost all prof able com
munlca,ions with the great market towns
OF the Allanhc, your principal reliance
has been on he consumption produced
by emigralioa, and on be small profits
elected by distant, expensive and diff
cuh ransptrtalions.-Yo GU will now
have, not only the markets of New
Yrk, but Of Philadelphia, Baltimore
and Montreal The Canals oil New
Yok in Their conDexion with The Sus-
quehannah and Lake Ontario, which
mus, speedily be formed, will iurnish
almost all these vast accommodations.
This great work will also conhrn,
your PATRIOTISM, and NIKE you proud oi
your country. Every man oil ONO will
say, not III tone OF rhudomanlat AIDE, bu,
IN spirit OF temperate encomium: Sec
what my county has done III her Juye.
nile state! And il she has achieved thus
gigantic enterprise III Infancy, what will
she not thec, in the maturity Of he,
strength, wnen her popu Ia,lon becomes
eEhuberant and her whole territory IN
iuii cultivation i--And your sister states
and The c,vliizhd world, VIII be aslo-
nlshed II will exhibit spectacle, uu-
preSedened and amazlng-An infant
w iidins The club oi Hercules, and ma
naging he lever OF Archlmedes with IT.
res,ouo!e power. When the eagle, in
5 first flight from ,he aerie scars to the
IL avens, looks at the sun with an UNI
fading eye, and bears IN its taions the
thunderboIts OF Jove, who will not ad-
mire this sublime sight !.
But shall no longer engross your
nm, nhlch has been more prot abl,
directed to The very able and eloquent
hsconrse, JUS, DOW pronounced. Sui
ice II TO say, that all your energies VIII
be awakened---l hat al the expiration 81
ten years from The completion OF thss
work, a clear annual revenue OF mil
lion OF dollars will be al your dispusei,
which will OF course be applied to all
benetei al purposes; that every clt,zen
oi Ohio will ieei the eXal,a,ion oil his
country in the conduct Of his own lie
hat your fame will be CO eXl enslvs wi h
civilized man that The benediclIons oil
he most remote posierity will follow
you; tina, the wise and the good of all
countries, and OF all lines, will look
back to you with respect, and viii bG
ready to exclaim wiz, the great Legis
lator ofthe Jews: =! Blessed OF ,he Lord
be this land for the precious things of
Heaven, for HE dew and for tie deeh
that coutheth beneath, tor the precious
things Of The earth and iullness thereof"
LOUISVILLE, JULY l6.
DE WITT CLINTON, Governor
If Nsw. Ntrk arcouDauisd Nv his aids