The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1844-08-31
THE CECIL WHO.

enough 10 pay more than The simple interest of the
whole cost of.said Canal"
On pages 33 in memorial to Congress
these words are found:
"We believe. ourselves warranted in stating to
your honorable bodies, that when this work shall
be thus far extended, ITO Cumberland,l the in
come of the company will not probably fan Shoft
ofretre per cent on The rhoie eIpenditure This
income must increase daiiy with the improvement
OF the country to which it will open commun-
ication, and every branch Of industry will be sli-
mulated to redoubed efforts"
On page 81 in memorial to the Leg
lslaIure Of Virginia they say:
SIN the construction of this magnificent work,
near four millions of dollars have been expended;
and it is ascertalned that near l,ro millions of dol
lars will be required to complete the canal to the
Coal region at the base Of the Allegheny noun
tains."
Again on page 39, speaking Of the two
millions which it was estimated would
finish the Caral, they say:
"The CORRECTNESS cfths computation has been pro-
red by an actual surrey, location and working tsti-
mate Of several miles Of the canal, preparatory to
contracting fer its construction"
And again in the same memorial page
43 they say:
'from careful consideration ofall the facts
brought to the attention of the convention, no.
doubt renamed that the revenue TO be derived
tiom the canal, costing six millions of dollars
-four millions had been already expended, i and
extending to the eastern base of the Allegheny,
could notJdH short 81 oar milton Of dollars, within
few years after its completion. No man, they
believe, who will take the trouble to investigate
the facts, can hesitate in concluding that the re-
venue would, in short tlme pau more than sir
per cent. on The rhOle cost fthe work. II, there
fore, il was conceived that in making the sub
scripton, your honorable body could be actuated
by pecuniary considerations alone, the Investment
'rould be profitable one"
On page "a in a memorial to the Leg
islature of Maryland, they say:
"The expenditure oftwo Millions more, ,rouId
complete the Eastern secton-make this pro-
dcftrc source n Rerenue, and dovclope mex
hansl'ble elem ents of boundless power."'
Again on page n we find
after four millions and q half of dollars have
been, with fidelity, expended in constructing To-
miles of its line, over its most difficult parts
and when 16 miles only remain to finish this
section, that might be constructed for tro millions
% dollars, the question has arisen whether Mary
land should not, by the use Qfher credit, at once
boidig push This work to,lcard, to the incxhausti-
bic mines of coal near Cumberland; In the soln-
ton of this question it is presumed that me light
which has been shed upon such subjects, by the
acts and experience of other states, will be rc.ar-
ded with some Difference, and may he relied
upon with greater safety and propri3ty than the
speculative opinions of tho theoretical, or the
aPprehenslons of the trnid, no matter how plau-
slbly these may be arranged"
We have made these quotations, citizens
Of Cecil county, to show you how You
were deceived by that convention and by
James Carroll in regard to the cost of the
canal. They declared to you time aflc,
time that S2,000,000 was oil they rcquir-
ed, until they succeeded in getting their
hands into your treasury, and The bonds
of your state into their grasr and now
you feel the effects of their Discrimination.
Instead oftwo m.'ions they succeeded in
wheeling your Legislature out of nearly
a dozen millions, and the Canal is still
far, far from being completed.
And when the voice Of warning was
raised 10y Thomas G. Pratt, and many
others when the cry went forth ~beware,
beware you are bringing burden upon
yourselves that will bear you down to the
earlh-thc canal cannot be finished for
two Millions" what said James Carroll
and 'his Convention? Turn to page 81
OF the journal, and you find them Geclar-
ing to you as follows:
Before they close Their report, the committee
doehl ii proper 10 remove from the public mind
the Ia lse impression, which has gone abroad, that
the cost oil the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal has,
SO lar, overtaken, or even nearly approached, the
amount OF the prior estrRate oil the II, S. Engi-
ncers; an error, which might affect the Judgment
formed of the estimates, here made, Of the cost
of the completion ofits Eastern section"
But the assurance Of Mr.. James Carroll
a.ii, his fellow members Of that convention
tina, so small sum would complete tbs
canal, was not the only way they deceived
the people. They assured them in the
strongest terms, that appropriations 10 the
public works could never bring about
direct taxation, or burlhen them in the
least. We quote farther from the journal.
Hear them. On page Sc they say.
"Werc this work to be now commenced for the
first time, there ought to be no hesitation. And
surely, after il has been constructed in the most
splendid and durable manner, surprising any
sim liar work in the world for moro than 100
miles on its way to the west shall it be suffered
to stop or anguish on its journey. Will its ear
ly patrons, the United States, whose scat of gov-
eminent It connects with the valley of the Mis-
slssippi, and the Lakes, constituting an enduring
bond OF national union, promoting alike the ma
t'onal defence in war, and prosperity in peace
will sh with her ample means, suffer this noble