Vandalia Whig and Illinois intelligencer. [volume] (Vandalia, Ill.) 1832-183?, 1833-10-02
PUBLIC MEETING.
ILLINOIS AND MICHIGAN RAIL,RoAD.

S"So. august tH, 1000, COi- : j f.. wv
RN was called TO the chair, and DR.. E. S
KIMBERLY appointed Secretary, when
On motion Of Col Hamilton, it was
Kesolped, That a committee of five per-
sons be appointed to draft preamble anC
resolutions, addressed to HIS Excclencv the
Governo- Of the State of Illinois, having FOL
their object ac0ageuti5l of Sire -egi-Itlu..
Tor the purpose Of considering ne b. daye
of the immediate eomneQQ- ~ lbe
RaiLRosd betwesA &c ma iSaid tsrs OF
the Iliaois and Lake Michigan.
Col. = = ilau.iltar-De r. u oIs Ma
Jor + : Anudp, Col ll Is 81. if1r1 IlJ
DR.. E. S. Kimberly were aype.n,~-, 4su
the meeting adjourned to meet again on the
Both day of August
At an adjourned meeting of the citizens
OF Chicago, or the 3ist August, Col R. l.
Hamilton presented from the committee APP
pointed for that purpose, the following pre-
1mble and resolutions:
The committee appointed to draft a pre-
amble and resolutions, having for their OBJ
ject cali upon the Governor of this State
to convene the Legislature the ensuing win
ter, tor the purpose of adopting some mea-
sures for The speedy commencement of the
Rail-Road from Lake Michigan to the navi-
gable waters of the Illinois river, report the
following:
Whereas, it is generally conceded fact,
that the Railroad from Lake Michigan to
the Illinois river, is work of great and vital
Importance to every portion of the State, but
more especially of immediate and direct in
terest to the northern and middle part Of it
your committee deem it entirely unnecessa-
ry to enter into any argument to enforce
these truths, as it is subject which has been
before the people of the State for the last
eight or ten years, IN all the various shapes
that II could possibly be made to assume:
And inasmuch as its nationality and impor
lance has been acknowledged by the Gen
eral Government, in making to the State one
oil the most valuable grants of land for its
construction tina, has ever been made for any
similar work of that character, aud has fur
,hermore made a liberal appropriation for The
commencement of harbor at Chicago,
which is but a link in the same chain Of
communication: therefore, in Justice to our
sister States that have made US these dona-
tons, and acted so literally towards us, and
IN good faith towards the General Govern
ment, it is duty, the faithful discharge Of
which Is lmperiously enloined upon US, to
commence the immediate construction Of
the work, and bring it to a close at as early
period as posslble; or say to our sister
States, your iiberaity has been improviaent-
ly bestowed. We have not the enterprise to
apply the means you have placed IN our
hands, nor the liberaIiy to suffer others to do
it for US:
And inasmuch as delay Of one year
might result in serious injury in impalring
public confidence in our intentions in rela-
ton to this all important subject And in
asmuch as 1t is confdentallv believed the
benefits resulting to the State from speedy
commencement of the work, in additional
and increased emigration, investments of
large amount of capital in the agricultural,
manufacturing and commercial interest of
the State, together with the additional
weight OF character and independence it will
give, which is already considered in fertility
OF soil, salubrity of climate, and CONNER
cial advantages superior to any of the west
ern States, would far out weigh any expense
that would attend a session of the Legisa-
ture of sufficient length TO effect the object
proposed:
And although it night seem to reflect upon
the political consistency of the Legislature
40 ask them in so short time, to adopt a
measure they have so recently rejected. yet
when we reflect upon the great change
which has taken place in the condition OF
that portion of the country contiguous to the
work, and the unparalleled influx of emigra-
aion which it is every day acquiring, and In
the astonishing improvement which has been
made since the opening of the season, and
which could not have been anticipated by
fhe most sagacious politicians, and the grea,
advantages that the portion of the country
before alluded to labors under. from withhold
ing the canal lands from market, and the ra-
pid progress which is now making in the
construction of the harbour at Chicago, un.
der the direction of one of the most expert
enced, faithful, and interchangeable public Off
GERS in the service of the Government, and
which work, SO intimately connected with
the construction of the Rail Road, has been
commenced since the last session of the Le-
gisature, and which when completed, Tin
connection with the Rail Road,) will render
entire the great chain Of communication
from the city of New York 10 the city of New
Orleans, by the way of the Lakes, present
ing work for magnitude and commercial
facilities exceeded by none in the world and
in addition to these considerations, when we
admit that there were IN all probability en-
cepIonable features & lmperfeciions attach
ed to the bill presented TO the last Legisla-
ture, and that epublic mind, for the reason +,
stated, is now more favorably disposed to the
work, your committee are induced to believe
that the most fastidious upon the subject,