The Evansville journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1834-184?, 1844-06-20
WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENCE.
SENATE CHAMBER,|
ON June T. 1914 (
Enron OF TIE E~vANsvILLR InnRNAI

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To THE EDITOR OF THE EVANSVILLE JOURNAL.
the House to which our Indiana Canal bill
had been recommitted, made to-day "a ma
jority of them) an adverse report, viz: that
the bill be laid on the table. The House re-
fused to concur in this report, and commit
ted the bill to ga Committee of the whole
on the state ofthe Union" This is the most
favorable reference it could have had; for
being IN appropriation bill the rules require
its reference 10 the whole House in Com
mittee. 1t is now believed if the House can
be brought to a vote that the bill will pass,
which result, if its friends are active, / trust
I may venture 10 predict without leading to
disappointment. The passage of the bill l
regard as the success of the Canal, as | I'M
derstand responsible contractors stand ready
to take the work upon the pledge of the
lands, and government will be very unwise
if having gone thus far it will not SHOULD the
exigency hereafter demand i) add to the Sc
curity.
There are good omens ahead for Indiana.
Fortunately We have not been driven like
some of our n~eighbors to call upon the trans
atlantic Hercules for help. Our strength is
found to reside in our own locks, which
uncombed Tor a period of 35 years left US
ignorant of the energies of our own nature.
Who would have thought that the old trod-
den-down lands of the Vincennes District
were better to us than British capital, or the
much deprecated resumption ofthe FEEDER
al Government? Our spirited contractors in
Fountain, Parke and Vigo, have found that
they can build canal at par rates with "Blue
Dog,n which after all, by the help of clever
legislation is not so Uery blue. | think you
of the extension along the valleys of Pigeon
and of Ell will have to term your Scrip,(when
you get it) the "Grey Dog"-and though ii
seems rather lean at present, | have no doubt
it is good tor a long race and a swift one
| use the iocose vein, but | am quite in ear
nest. Oar Canal aciU be built, and oar
debt wiU be redeemed. Reputation has
even now been secuted from the land, and so
far as Indiana is concerned, bankruptcy will
soon be made to follow it. Already the
sixth State in the Union, We are soon des-
tined to march up in front of Virginia and
Tennessee, and forming the fourth side of
the square with New York, Pennsylvania and
Ohio, to assume at once the burthens which
our position imposes, of promptitude to our
engagements, and of the good example
which from our empyrean heights shall ope-
rate with electric effect upon the weaker
members of the confederacy. We have
learned valuable lessons since 1885; that
thrift, economy, and promptness are the tools
Of success; and that steady progressiveness
and not discursive flights are the best way to
reach our journeys end. There is scarcely
such a thing as calculating the amount of the
productive energies ola free people il they
are not too restless and diffusive. "You
haze a country; improve itG is a maxim al
once of prudence and of happiness. Let us
embellish our own homes, the State and
country of our early affections, and leave &c
those pilgrims who love 10 roam to search
elsewhere for contentment, if they cannof
find itwith family, friends, and familiar neigh
bors. 1t is in the advancing of arts and in
dustrv, and in the an%ticipatioDs to which
such employments give birth, that our hes
affections are evoked and our best efforts pu
) PORTLAND it is in these labours and sympa
thies that society finds its surest guarantees
and morality and religion their chief sup
port.
Respectfully yours,
ALB. S. WHITE.