American Republican and Baltimore daily clipper. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1844-1846, 1845-03-28

us of all surrounding sympathy, and utterly de-
stroy all profitable intercourse. We beg leave
to dissent entirely from the views of Councils,
Editors and individuals, who to all appearance,
because they cannot according to their own Pc
culiar notions, and upon their own terms bring
every particle of the mineral wealth of the state
to the door of this city, would let it remain
locked up in the mountain Businesses where ma
ture has placed it, Let our mineral resources
be developed to their fullest extent, and if we
enter into competition for their advantages
with Just and liberal spirit, instead of one in
all respects narrow, contracted and seltish--re-
ly upon it rich harvest will crown our ex-
ertlons.
We hold that an addition to population of
100000 souls, in Allegheny county, engaged
in the business of coal and iron, would be in a
great degree as important, and Immediately be-
nefical to the interests of this city, as the same
population would be, if similarly employed in
Baltimore or Carroll countless but we have no
expectation of making converts to this doctrine
of those who can see nothing in the completion
of the canal, but the downfall Of Baltimore
with all her diversified interests, the up build
ing Of the District cities in her stead, and who
would make their own peculiar opinions the ba-
sis and pretext Of opposition, if not of absolute
resistance TO all state law. But entertaining the
opinions we have advanced, which are amply
backed and confirmed by the opinions of 9TH
ers, whose judgments have been rpened by a
business experience in the interior operations OF
this city of more than quarter of a century, it
is our purpose to place them on record with op-
posing views, that their truth or fallacy may be
fully and fairly tested by the arbitrements of
time and the development of events-disavow-
ing all intention to overturn law and order, and
introduce in its stead the pure Mississippi sys-
tenn, because our own opinions may clash with
those of others, pronounced the Orthodox oil
the day. The alarmsts, not content with the
support administered by the disaffected amongst
ourselves, invoke foreign countenance and aid,
and many of the daily papers abound with ex-
tracts and articles adapted to the OCCASION
Thesage, ofthe Enquirer, at Richmond, who but
Yesterday was deemed but little better than the
spirit Of darkness, is by the magic of to-day
transformed into an apostle of light, and the
wisdom which falls from his lips and pen is pa
raded forth as evidence in our own affairs from
which there can be no rational appeal We
intend no disrespect in saying, that II the ''ue-
nerable editor' is permitted to manage his own
peculiar tactics, and we Of this city are left to
those of our own affairs, it may be quite as
well. But the most pertinent and interesting
foreign communication, which has been trans
cribed and adopted as sound and Orthodox, is
from the Alexandria Gazette, and runs as fol-
lows: "Now it Is known that the canal is des-
tined to perform the carrying trade, especially
the most cumbersome part OF it. Alexandria
will be the destination of these n. York steam
packets with Western freight, which will be
sent thence to Cumberland, and after a land
carriage of only 10 miles 10 Brownsville, will be
received upon the Western waters, and find its
,xtbnnt afhar land int IN tho
G,lf of yMerico, Lake Superior and the Missouri;
while on the other hand, Western produce will
find an Eastern market by the same route
Hence the passage of the Canal Bill was u-
dicious enactment for the State, the District,
and the country at large"
Thus we see that the enormous and engross-
ing commerce of New York, (and for any thing
that it said, that of all Christendom besides,)
with the Gulf Of .Ncrico, Lake Superior and the
Missouri river, to the Rocky Mountains as we
suppose, is to be carried on through this 'great
highway of nations" the Chesapeake and Ohio
Canal Well may it be said that the passage
of the Canal Bill was a judcious enactment for
the State, the District, and the country at
large. The prophetic vision and calm judg-
ment ola De Witt Clinton stands thus rebuked
and as it is not expressly stated how soon the
New York and Erie Canal, stretching to the
Lakes and bearing upon its bosom the cont
merce of an Empire, is to be filled up-or the
scores of lines of packet ships from the great
mart of commerce" to the Gulf Of .Merieo are
to be dismantled and locked, we suppose those
points are left to form another chapter in mo-
dern wonder working developments.
We had always supposed that the contem-
plated line of steamboats, from the city of New
York to the waters of the Chesapeake (if es-
fohl bod NJ III \ u,nnlI ha Of
finishing the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad to
the Ohio River, thus affording at all seasons,
not only cheap but an expeditions convey
ance of merchandise to the West and that it
would not be ventured upon in any connexion
where its operations would Of necessity be i'm
peded by ice for three or four months every
year-and where, in addition to that difficulty,
tedious and uncertain road wagons would have
to be resorted to for 10 miles at any season,
and not less than 100 miles during periods of
severe Frost
With becoming Difference to opposing opin
ions, we submit that the foundations of our
as to interior trade, and in all other
aspects are broader and more extended than
any limits merely embracing the Alleghanies,
rich and varied as the commerce of this region
may be. The trade of this section is an ele-
ment certainly, but as one amongst many that
our intercourse must embrace, II we are carried
forward in a career of active competition with
other cities; and this can only be achieved by
a direct resort, and steadfast adherence, to
first principles; and before we can hope to at
tain it, we must be true to ourselves and Just
to others--n short, we must be thoroughly
consistent and morally honest.
1t may be we'll for the henest and msled in
our community, as well as the knowing and
INSCRIPTIONS agtators of the times, to rscur
TO past events in the history of our public obi
cations, and mark the course in connexion,
adopted by our own city.
At the session Of the Legislature of lss4-5,
the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal and the Susque-
hanna Railroad were applicants for loan of
State credit to the amount of $4,000, 900, the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Co. presenting no