American Republican and Baltimore daily clipper. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1844-1846, 1844-11-26
100000
The accumulations of interest
make our whole debt on ac-
count of the Canal about

make our whole debt on ac-
count of the Canal about 5000, O0C
And this is the great and unproductive load
that is now resting upon Maryland; deadening
her energies, expressing her land holder, af.
ticting her merchant, retardng, in their Ia
bors, her mechanics and artisans, and bowling
down her pride The debt has been incurred
under the influence Of very noble but indiscrcct
impulses of patriotism. The money has been
laid out in constructing great highway from
the door of the Capitol to the SUBMITS of the
Allegany, with hurrying destination to the
afilucnt regions of the Mississippi And all this
has been done by one of the fecblest members
of the Republic She has, by her own enter
prise and devotion, and with little countenance
or aid from her sister States or the Federal
Government, nearly accomplished great mea-
sure for the Republic, of which Washington
was the parent, and which can be equalled in
beneficence, and the blessings it will confer, by
no measure since the Union was formed, ex-
cept, perhaps, the purchase of Louisiana
That measure, which gave SO much renown to
the name and administration of MIR. Jefferson
was designed 10 open path to the sea for sew
eral States on the Mississippi. This Canal
costing no more than Louisiana, is designed not
only to break down the mountain barrier of the
he regarded with so much apprehension, but to
open a road for six States to the sea board
Tennessee, Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois
and Michigan, with the western parts of Vir-
gnia and Pennsylvania--the six States, COM
prising two hundred and fifty thousand square
miles Of terrtory-equal to France and Great
Britain put together,-wit a teemng and re-
duplicating population, very capable of SWELL
ing its numbers to fifty millions of people
And now that Maryland is sinking under the
colossal weight and proportions of this great
enterprse-when she has cried, in vain, to her
sister States of Virginia, Pennsylvania and
ONO for aid and succour, she turns to the pa
rental head. and presents herself for jus ice
10 her delegation in the two houses of Con-
gress she entrusts her cause, knowing that with
these simple relations of history and truth on
their side, their advocacy cannot want force
and that they will present her, not as sup
plant, but with the dignity of sovereign state
asking for Justice. She asks that the Federal
Government will assume the properties of the
Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, with its incum-
brances of debt, and relieve her citizens from
pressure of tax of uacxampled weight. 1t will
lend force to the reasoning, in support of this
proposition, to represent that in Maryland,
now, medium farm, capable of yielding
frugal support for family, and which would
rent for a net sum of five hundred dollars, is
taxed about one hundred dollars that medi-
um store or house in the city of Baltimore,
renting for about eight hundred dollars, is pay
ing a tax of about two hundred and twenty
dollars; that all other kinds of property, with
salaries and incomes are taxed in proportion
The Federal Government now have an over
flowing Treasury, with neither debt nor war tn
encum5ert. II might assume and perfect this