Maumee City express. [volume] (Maumee City, Ohio) 1838-184?, 1839-07-13
MAUMEE CITY EXPRESS.
SATURDAY, JULY 10. 1899.
REMARKS OF THE Hon. JOHN REED,

VI MAssACHusETrs, AT THE LATE CELEBRA-
TON IN THIS PLACE.
On being called upon for sentiment, Mr..
Reed rose and said: rise, Mr.. President,
to offer an apology, and in so doing, am
imFelled to state the feelings that have
prompted me to offer the few remarks with
which | shall trouble you. came among
you, gentlemen, stranger, yesterday eve
ming, and but for an unexpected interposition
of Providence, should have left you this
morning. have to thank yourhospitalty for
the kindness with which you have treated an
entire stranger. whose only GLAZING upon you
were that he was thrown among you on
day ofNational rejoicing, when the bonds Of
love to our kind are drawn stronger by the
recollection of the signal benefits that have
arisen from the union of men, all acting in
good cause and influenced by :he same mo-
tive. My thanks, flowing from full heart,
you have, for that generous consideration
which has enabled me to participate in the
celebration Of day dear to US all, and es-
peclalIy for that cordially that has taken
away all feelings of strangeness from my
bosom, and identified me with you in social,
as strongly as have been attached TO you,
as part of the great west, in my national
feelings.
For a number fyears, it has been my lot
to represent the district in which | re-
side, In Congress, and it is with feelings OF
just pride, that ! state that during the time
no single member has given more votes for
the furtherance of western improvements.
| have watched the growth and improve
ments of the west for many years, and al
though this is my first visit to your land,
my spirit has wandered here much and often,
willie ! have examined your maps--traced
your great rivers, followed the meandsrings
ofy your mighty lakes-tracked the course ef
your canals and railroads, and fixed in my
mind the points where future cities are to
arise rich in the trade of people rendered
wealthy by the cultivation of soil whose
fertility can only be compared to ITSELF and
beside itself can find no parallel. Nor in
turning my eyes to the west, am alone.
Massachusetts-the whole of New England
is looking in this direction with an intensity
whchis the offspring ofthcir feelings of na-
tonal pride as well as of their interest,"
Thousands of the enterprising ofevery sort
are looking upon the luxuriant plains, and
rich valleys of the great west as the places
for the future homes of themselves and their
children; while thousands more look upon
this same country as the land from which
their bread must flow, and which will re-
ceive from the east in return, its Supplies of
those innumerable manufactures which have
rendered that country emphatically the
workshop of America, and, in many res
poets, of the whole world.
And this, gentlemen, leads me to the sub
jcct which called me up to express my feel
ings. One of the regular toasts of this day,
speaks of the great system of canals of
which the Wabash and Erie forms the east
ern branch as the cham that binds the for
tunes Of this place, with that of the great
states of Ohio, Indiana and Kentucky"
There is bolder and a broader view to be
taken of these great improvements, and one
that seems to me more consonant with the
spirit Of the day we are met to celebrate.
Ispeak of these great works as they appear,
in a national point OF view. We at the east,
look on them, not so much as the means OF
building up one particular town, as they are
the great chains that are to bind together
the feelings and the interests of sections
the most remote from each other. We, in
Massachusetts are viewing with feelings of
intense interest the progress of the great
public works of ihe western states. We
look upon this country as being to- us, what
Egypt was to Rome, its granary, und we
cannot, of course be Indifferent to the
means which are provided for the bringing
of your productions to our market and for
returning our productions to yours. Per-
nit me then TO offer as sentiments:
The Wabash and Erie, and Miami Ca
nals.--The chains that bind together the
interests of the east and the west, the north
and the south.
CIRCUIToUs.-lt is stated in a Cincin-
natl paper that corn is brought from the
Upper Wabash Valley to that city, and
is sent thence up the Miami Canal, &C miles
to Dayton, to be converted into whiskey.
This whiskey is doubtless in part sent to a
northern market by the way of the Miami
canal 10 Cincinnati-thence by the Ohio
river to observation-disclosures up the Ohio
canal to Cleveland. When the corn leaves
the crib in the field where it grows it is
less than three hundred miles, by way Of
our unfinished Wabash and Erie Canal from
the waters of lake Erie at this port; and it
might, if our canal was finished, be brought
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