The pilot and transcript. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1840-1841, 1840-09-01

lie works are completed, and those cues are
enjoying the fruits of the system. But Mary
land is threading in their footsteps"-she has COM
pleted her 'Etide water canal' to tide water
she has completed her railroad to the Susque-
hanna, thus uniting our city with the great val
lev 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 advan
tages, and to put as far in advance of Philadel
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
uponthe 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
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 whiea strangers can safely make a permanent
residence. tits also the point farthest South at
which many of,the finer articles of merchandise
can be safely kept;-which gives her great
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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 hank
or immediate vicinity, to which any articles of
merchandise may be transferred in case of acei-
dent or frost.
There is another element of prosperity,
which the present political canvass presents
much Observation-Disclosures 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 first city in
the Union,s to exert her energies in the develope
ment and improvement of her resources. As we
have said before IAN ably conducted paper is indis
pensable to her prosperity-it is required as a
channel of communication, and the means ofcon-
cent<atingou own energies ;butitis more required
as means of developing and bringing into activi-
ty those great natural elements ofwealth, ndividu
al and national, which have been dormant 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 a 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 Of
Virginia, will create an annual trade-all look
ing to Baltimore as the great mart of Exchange,
as Lowell now looks to Boston and New York.
When these great lines of Internal Improvement
shall have been completed, as completed they
must be, we may expect the steamboats, that are
now employed in bringing merchandise up the
river, to bring the cotton and sugar of the South
to Wheeling and Pittsburg; we may then expect
a very large part of the produce of Kentucky,
Missouri, and the northwestern States, which
is now shipped to the Eastern and foreign mar
lsets by way of New Orleans, to come direct to
Baltimore, and then this city will become as it
once was, the great mart for the purchase of Topi-
| cal produce, and for the sale Of pork, wheat,
flour. bacon, beef, and the other AGRICULTURAL
ducts of the interior.
No one who has not traversed the great West:
who has not seen the great extent of rich land
and estimated the surplus produce that she will
send to market, can have any conception-or form
| the remotest idea of the consequences to flow
from completing the improvements thatar tc
pour her treasures into the lap of this, the queer
of cities.
The increasing population, and the important
hearing of Federal Legislation on the prosperit,
of the whole country, render it more and more
important to the whole people that there shoule
be at least one press free to speak the truth, ant
deserving their confidence Such IS the neces
} sarv dependence of the press in the District
and so large are the rewards of party ser
vice. that it is not in the nature of things tina
any press there will continue to be faithful t.
the public interests. The patronage ofthe part!
in power is worth, under any circumstances, from
forty to eighty thousand dollars per annum; ant
# has been increasing and will continue to in
crease. The press there will be under the con
troll. and give its support to the party that pay
r for its services. If the government will not sur
render the power to corrupt the press, the psopi
e ought to build up one at least, that they ma
e have pledge, in its dependence on them, whicl
e will guarantee vigilance and fidelity to them.
n The undersigned is aware that in proposing
l. establish such paper-ih rendering himself