Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1831-09-01
INTERNAL IMPROVEMENTS.

ting that q" Wheat, which twelve wears since.
was worth 81 cents per bushel on Lake Ere,
now briggs 10 CENTS, owing TO the Lrie and
Welland canals. Other produce. lands, sc.
have siMilarly advanced" And, as We were
aware that this was the natural tendency OF
opening and improving channels OF intefcom-
munioaton every where, asked, ." Is IL not
strange thai the thousand evidences, which
every where surround us, of similar effects.
produced by the same cause. have not been
sufficient to convince the people Of their true
interest Is il not strange that a single man
should be found, opposed to works q internal
Improvement, particularly in those sections Of
country which they must of necessity penetrate
and traverse ?"
The Washington Telegraph transferred the
foregoing remarks, to It's columns. and accom-.
panied them by the su1joned comment:
II is the misfortune of the age that partisans
are more anxious 10 promote favorite measures,
than scrnpulous OF the means by which they ar
accomplished. Thus, at prcsenl, internal
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even the sharp sighted editor OF the Vmg,nian.
attributes the pIlce OF wheat on lake Erie, 10
the UeHdnd tn1 Ere canals. We are not dis
posed 10 depTecate the advantages witch ilow
tIom me nal Improvement but II ~ lmpos
tant thai the public should not he led 10 a.
reneous conclusions, and II the editor oil the
Virginan win look TO the late colonial hlll pas
sgd ny the British Pa liameni, he will had that
our agricultural products a,e admit "a, free OF
duiy into anada and thai ihe d" trbeH on lake
Enc may he shipped direct 70 England. or the
West Iudl-s, provided il Oes IN BRITISH bottoms,
free of duty. The effect OF ,nIs a,ranle nent
upon the price OF wheat g. on lake E,t" IS pa J..
pabl"- O il the new oil oper At as a frp,al
OF the corn laws. The canal, facilitate the
transportation. hut lhe opening oil tue Brush
ports, or the repeal Of he corn laws, as 10 all
produce shipped from Canada, IN Brush bDt-
TOMS gives market, luis II Is that has inCtea-
sed the price.
. How lar it may become the interest Viz
gina 10 send her lloaI to + gland, 10y va, oil
the Erie and Nelnnd canals, ~ InaIlrr lor
mercantile speculaIons. Inc effect OF such
system oil direct trade, upon The revenue ol the
State OF New York aud the prosperity OF the
other States, cannot be mlsconcelged.
The imputation intended to be cast upon US,
mote favorite measures. than scrupuous oil the
means by which they are accomplished does
not cel tany, appIy-as zoe did not attribute
the rise oil flour on Lake Erie to the Ere aud
elsewhere, aud used II as an argument ia favor
of "a system OF improvements. The Editor OF
the Telegraph will find the fact, detached from
our comments, in Niles's Register of the 9th
uit as he may have seen ii in numerous other
papers, without being as " sharp 81 ghrej, even
as he is pleased to say we are We are not de.
sirous 10 promote the cause Of internal improve
mems, or any otLer cause TO which we may b.
attached, by any Other than fair arguments, lie.
duced from what We believe to b. facts ; and
If we shoald be at any time mIseI b, others,
we shall cheeftuiy afford 10 those better IN
formed every facility IN our power to correct
our errors. We therefore give the comments
ry OF the Telegraph AT length while we mus
be permided 10 doubt whether the admission
Of our agricultural products INTO Canada, free
of duty has been productive of the beneficial
effects ascrioed to it. The last No. of Mess
Register has an ricle 90 this sn jeGt, to which
We refer the Telegraph, III orler 10 correct rs
opinions. Il is true, GAYS Mr.. Miles, that
by the late arrangement, American Aour ma.
pass through Canada, 10 the British West In
dies, free Of duty but The value oil the whul, 81
our supply of these Islands would hardly pa,
tor The Leghorn hats and b9nnets that We used
to import" Surely, # our exports Of Il u.
through Canada, be thus unimpouant, /.
quantity, they uione could not have had the e.
feet OF increasing the price OF Wheat from B /
TO IS cents per bushel-end slhl less could rhe
beneficial effects of this new outlet for our o.
ducts have been confined 10 the particular sec
ton of country in which his more than dupi-
cation of value is said to have taken place
We are wiling 10 admit tho sagncity Of the
Washington Ielegraph-buf, IN TINS instance
we are compelled to believe that II has over
shot the mark for, although the admission OF
our agricultural products into Canada, free Of
duty may have somewhat enhanced their va
lue, yet the improvement OF the channels Of
communication by which they were enabled
to reach that and other markets, with incre ased
speed md at a diminished cost were not en-
trely imperative in producing thatresult. The
fact, therefore, is, we believe, as we quoted 1t ,
hui, W neither il be so or not the argument which
we predicate upon ito iUit, that the value
of lands and of agricultural products is IN
creased in the ratio Of the rspdlty aud cheap
ness with which the latter may be transported
10 ready marhet-remalns unImpared and
iTIefulable.
Vest india Tr0de.-The value of this trade
may be inferred from the fact, that of sewn
teen vessels which left the port of Philadel.
phia in the month OF July for the West Indies,
only one of them cleared for British port ; &
ii 10 stated IN Portland Maine paper that "only