Delaware journal. [volume] (Wilmington [Del.]) 1827-1832, 1827-05-01

veyed from port TO another, from one State to
another, from the Atlantic to the Canada frontier,
so to concentrate, in case Of emergency, an eff
cient force on any one point where danger might
present ITSELF Those among US who Witnessed the
difficulties and disasters which occurred during the
last war, in the transportation of munitions; who
saw the prodigious expenditures necessasily incur
red the amount of arms and munitions unayoidably
lost, the delays by which the energy Of our troops
were paraly and many schemes OF high promise
were rendered abortve, will be best able to appre-
ciate the value Of an improvement by which the
military intercourse, so essential in time OF war, Will
be rendered at once rapid and secure from these in
furious contingencies. chain Of roads and canals
by which the intercourse between the different sec
tons OF the country be rendered more easy and
expeditions, Or to the expressive idea OF anoth-
er, by which time and spaCe may be conquered, is
one of the most powerful bonds by which the var-
rous States can be connected together. Through
these veins and arteries the le-blood of pros
perity may be conveyed to every member OF the po-
litical body. The extremities of the nation will be
in communion with each other. Literary and com
merclal knowledge brought from realms that he be-
You'd the ocean, will be transmitted from our east
cities through all these various ducts and chan
nels to the parts of country from which the retr-
ing forest and wilderness have not yet disappeared.
The comforts and luxuries of nations advanced
And when our distant States and Territories shall be
sufficiently maured for the purpose, we shall re-
ceye from them the superhuous products OF their
industry and ingenuity. The variety of local inte-
rests which are, of necessity, created by the DIVER
sites of soil and climate will be, in effect, ANAL
gamated into common interest, by the blending IN
fuence olthis system Ii is then the policy OF the
General Government, as far as its means will permit,
. and with view to the pernanence OF the Union, as
well its defence against alien hostility, to carry
" the operations which connected with this system
+
/, Aforementioned of a letter from gentleman
n, travelling in England, dated 14th February 1897 =
,e he engineer and myself having completed to ou
satisfaction, investigation of the Railways OF Thu
r. kingdom, he parts from me this day to embark II
J. one OF the frts packets for New York. Althoug
have peea for two months examining railways,
as am in greater state of admiration than ever abou
in them. AS to the phenomena of the Hetton railway
tn you can scarcely believe them true when in tn
IL nidst of tnem-t will look to you like RhodomQl
X tade to speak of tweny-tour empty wagons, wei2
lie ing more than thirty tons, being toIGed w bIls
ed the way by steam, at the rate of e. co.
ga hour, and this upon plane nil M.
he | came down the same plane, 4a1 IA
it, of the hindmost wagohpf "a ~, weigh!
, ,ss a aIass sv "a sed With !
solemn sort 3 Eambling 81 The acceler
ton gathers 8ead, it is d fearful as it is beau
full. They az 6e popular mode Of communicate
here. GEN 'tain will soon be covered with thel
our We COD ave constructed good one wtho
of coming III ine the defects of the existing on
will here, to the projections appear in the pu
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