American watchman and Delaware advertiser. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1822-1828, 1825-04-26
FOR THE Waterman.

ana ,ba ultimate intent the public good. o m
crease the facilities BY which the products OF the
interior country of each state, and oil the STATES
more vest may be brought to the place OF ultimate
sale and shipment, the lowest rate OF loss oy tue
exnense of transportation and if the Legislature
q, the later state can benduced to enter with spirit
into the MEASURES now contemplated by some OF
iheir more enlightened citizens, we may nave an
opportunity of observing what two great commune
ties are capable of performing in the bene race
Of improving their respective countries. ne" 10TH
has evidently the advantage Ct PENNSYLVANIA ~ TWO
important points. The localities oil the Ne" 1ofh
canal have the preference over Pennsylvania 10 con
sequence of the more level country through which
it has been carried and which has greatly Increased
the facility of execution to which We may very
proper,y add, the additional and important circuH
stance of their being able TO connect tina, canal win
the many small Lakes in The interior OF that STATE
and at small comparative expense oy @hich y
will be in effect doubled relates to the power OF
Furnishing business to the canal. Nor do sup
no.e that the committee who have bad the manage
ment of tha. great work. have, IN their recent re-
nor, estimated the profits, tols, too high al One
Million of Dollars at the end OF the succeeding ten
years II New York has had the advantage over
PENNSYLVANIA in the location and execution OF their
canal, they have also been IN possession OF announcer
advantage which has been OF immense importance
10 that sta.e-and that is, to have men at the head
so TO mould the passions Of the people, as to induce
them 10 begin that important work IN the right
place. and in right manner ~ consequence o.
which the whole will be executed IN an unexpected
" abort period of time we'll as that It viii pro-
baby exceed in real importance all that ITS most
ssnguine friends contemplated Not content now
ever. with the advantage thus obtained over Penn
sylvanla they now contemplate not only connecting
their great canal with the waters OF Pennsylvania
with hope either of drawing part OF the products
ag that state 10 it, or OF ofieing TO hetr ocn Litt
Sens the advantage OF double market, either by
the Hudson or the Chesapeake so that iet either
consequence follow the opening Of THIS connection.
the state Of New York will be gamer IN the tacili-
ties obtained by its citizens. This IS az enlit ,htened
policy, very different from that which ,eptS TO have
governed the state Of Pennsylvania for long time
There is, however, another Plan in agitation in the
state of New York, that appears to par'aks more %
the exclusive POLICY of PennsYlvonia: and how hat
state will relish ii, is yet 10 be tried alluIe e
the plan of carving iurapitp rydd a!o9e The
Northern side Of Pennsylvania, connecting it AZ the
end with the waters OF the upper Su'quehanDa
and at the other, with the waters o. The Hudson
This work. If well executed, may have an effect o
draw ~, only part o. the produce OF Pcnnsyisa
MIA TO the Cy Of New York, instead oil passing
down the Snsquehanna, hut it may also prevent a
part OF the trade from reaching the Chesapeake
BAY, that it was hoped might be derived from con-
meeting the waters cf the SDsqurhanna with some
Of the small Lakes in The state # New Yok k. II
ssers as if it might be happy c'tcpmsance in
respect to Pennsylvania and he great canal that IS
now contemplated from the waters OF the Delaware
TO those Of the Susquehanna. and thence 10 The
waters of Lake Erie, that it viii not be in the power
of Nav York, by means Of the road aforesaid. to
cut the Susquehanna belize the connection that the
Pennsyvanians have in view with the western waters
The business, hawever, will evidently be divided
between the two states. according 10 ;he facilities
which each may be ALE 10 offer 10 the persons carry
ing on the traffic from and to the interior country
and all hough New York appears to have obtained
The ascendency in some Important noints, and ex
hhits disposition to maintain, and, # possible, in
crease that ascendencv yet there others ii
which Pennsylvania has the advantage tn
other state, and which if directed by intelligence
may hnaly equalize those advantages or perhap
give Pennsylvania the superiority; though thi
latter seems, to the writer, at least doubtful
It now appears likely that If the Legislature Q
this last be induced to adopt The emile hten
ed views of the committee Who have lately reporte
to that body, they may have the merit, at length
(aiter having, for many years. FILTERED away thci
resources, and wasted much time) OF adopting
]udicious mode of proceeding and yet i, seem
to the writer, that even the report of their commit
tee parlaSes of the character Of the impolicy th;
has heretofore directed the measures of that S att
as regards her canal systemic or rather her want
system-but shall not attempt to enter into a
examination OF that report, further than to say Thu
from former experience it does not appear, Thu
men OF the proper qualifications to conduct sy
tenn of canal policy, embracing the interests OF II
whole of that great state, are common, or readi
10 be found. but that the appointing power mig
have been left at liberty, from the arhole communit
to select few persons competent to conduct so il
,eresing plan Of improvement. From the afor
said report it seems that the commiltee, at lea
are convinced that the most effectual mode Of pr
ceeding in order to commence their canal syste
advaniageously is, TO copy after New York in Il
appointment Of board of men of intelligence,
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