The pilot and transcript. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1840-1841, 1840-08-31

road is now progress. Pennsylvania, by he
canals and railroads, has united Philadelphia
and Pittsburg. Ohio, Indiana and Illinois hay,
devoted large amount of capital, and hav
r completed some, and other works are in tn
course Of construction, intended to connect then
with an Atlantic market. Fortunately for Bal
timore, the enterprise and intelligence of he
citizens, have been equal to the crisis in which
she was placed In addition to the trade in gro
ceries and heavy articles, she has done larg;
businessin dry goods, imported and domestic. He
natural advantages for trade and manufacture
have concentrated manufacturing population
which creates an extensive market, and justife:
of itself the efforts they have made to preserve
her relative position. 1t is true that New York
the great States of New York and Pennsylvania,
have gone in advance of Baltimore-their pub
lie works are completed, and those cities are
enjoying the fruits of the system. But Mary
land is threading in their footsteps-she has COM
pleted her slide water canal" to tide water
she has completed her railroad' to the Susque-
hanna, thus uniting our city with the great val
ley of that noble river, and enabling us to par
ticipate in the benefits to flow from the public
works of Pennsylvania. In addition to these,
we have completed our railroad to Philadelphia
and to Washington. Thus these works, parts of
the great system, being completed and produc-
tive leave free to devote all our energies to the
great works which are to renew all our adyan
tages, and toput us as far in advance of Phiadel.
phia and New York, aided as they will be by
canals and railroads, as we were when we had
our Cumberland road, and they were thrown
upon the ordinary turnpike of 1917.
When the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad shall
be completed to Wheeling and to Pittsburg, and
the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal shall reach Cum
berland, and be extended to Baltimore, then
will we have laid the ground work of another
Revolution, equal, if not more extraordinary in
the commercial history of this country, than that
accomplished by the introduction of steamboats,
on the Ohio and Mississippi
Baltimore is that point on the Atlantic,
nearest to the great West, and furthest South,
at which strangers can safely make permanent
residence. 1t is also the point farthest South at
which many Of the finer articles of merchandise
can be safely kept;-which gives her great
advantages over other cities, inasmuch as
her lines Of communication will be permanent
and uninterrupted. Her canal will be open
earlier in the spring and later in the fall
than those of Pennsylvania or New York, with
the peculiar advantage Of Railroad on its bank
| or immediate vicinity, to which any articles of
merchandise may be transferred in case of acct
dent or frost
There is another element of prosperity,
which the present political canvass PRESENTS
much prominence-Baltimore is the emily great
commercial Atlantic city IN the slave holding
States, and may expect preference from the
slave holding population of the South, all other
things being equal With these advantages, all
that is required to make Baltimore the rst city in
the Union,is to exert her energies in the develope
ment and improvement Of her resources. AS we
have said before, ably conducted paper is ndis-
pensable to her Prosperity-it is required as
channel of communication, and the means ofcon-
centrating our own energies butit is more required
as means of developing and bringing into activiI
ty those great natural elements ofweatb individu-
al and national, which have been dornant for so
many ages, but which are destined to give employ
ment wealth and prosperity, to millions of inhabi-
tants.
Look at New England; see what Lowell and
other villages have done to multiply the wealth
of our Eastern brethren! The whole line of our
great canal will, in time, become continued
village of prosperous manufactures. We have
coal, iron, breadstuffs, and surplus population.
The mines of Allegany and Hampshire, and the
fertile lands of Frederick and Washington coun-
ties, in Maryland and Of the Shenandoah valley o.
Virginia, will create an annual trade-all leok
ing to Baltimore as the great mart CT Exchange
as Lowell new looks to- Boston and New York
When these great lines of Internal improvement
f shall have been completed, as completed they
must be, we may expect the steamboats, that arr
now employed in bringing merchandise up thu
river, to bling the cotton and sugar of the Soutl
to Wheeling and Pittsburg; we may then expec
very large part of the produce of Kentucky
Missouri, and the northwestern States, which
is now shipped to the Eastern and foreign mar
kets by way of New Orleans, to come direct t.
Baltimore, and then tkis city win become as i
once was, the great mart for the purchase of Topi
cal produce, and for the sale of pork, wheat
-four, bacon, beef, and the other agriculturalpro
ducts of the interior.
Il Ne one who has not traversed the great West
r whe has not seen the great extent of rich land
and estimated the surplus produce that she vii
send to market, can have any conception-or form
|. the remotest idea of the consequences to flow
J. from completing the improvements thatare t.
pour her treasures int the lap of this the
70 of cities.
m The increasing population, and the importan
tie bearing of Federal Legislation on the prosperity
to ofthe whole country, render itlmore and NOR
er important to the whole people that there shoul.
be atleast press, free to speak the TRUTH ant