Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1845-05-20
THE TELEGRAPH.
SOUTHPORT, W. T., TUESDAY, MAY 30. 1916

~ The editor of the Racine Advocate exhibits
a wonderful degree of sensi,ivrness. couple of
weeks since, in general article, we said, Our
friends next north of US, although possessed of a
most commendabe spirit Of enterprise, have ye'
their primitive mode of receiving and delivering
freig hts to and from steamboats,, by means ofsma
beats and scows." If readers knew how we
'caugtt III" for this, they would conclude that we
had been guilty of making horrid msstatement.
What are the facts' We have passed Racine twice
this season, and both times our neghbors re ceived
what little freight destined for them by means
Of small boats and scows, and the Captain of one
of the boats declared that he would not 60 near
their pier if they had FIVE thousa nd passengers to
come aboard; and This was in comparatively calm
weather. We have conversed also, with others
who have passed at different times, and they state
the same thing. 1t is possible s,me of the boats
do 60 up to the piers the Empire did, and If we
not misinformed, come away with her wheel badly
shattered. The fact is boat cannot 60 up to the
pier there. unless the lake perfectly cam and this
the editor of the Advocate knows as we'll as we do.
We did not intend in our article totmake invidious
comparisons to the disadvantage of Racine in favor
of this place; nor We moved by an 'unneigb-
borly, illibera, envious' spirit Our article was
the subject of open piers stating the advantages
they possessed, &C., and abiding to their conve-
nience, even where they may be q good harbor.
We stated the fact that every town on the lake had
them except Racine, and the remark TO which the
editor takes SO much exception, was made to show
what ght be lost without them, even though there
were probability of harbor being completed at
some day. Perhaps the best commentary on all
this, may be found in the TACT. that on Thursday
last the Illinois could land neither reght nor pas
sengers at Racine by means of piers scows, or any
thing else, in consequence of heavy gale, yet she
laid at our pier with The greatest and safety,
discharging what freight was destined for this place
as also that intended for Racine.
The editor takes occasion, in Anew of the oppor-
tunity, to embark pretty extensive general puff
OF Racine and its advantages. We have never ell
Their by word or deed, sought detract from either,
and in what we may be impeed to say, we shall
not depart from fact 1t is very possible that sail
vessels with little more care than was taken by the
Savannah, may enter the harbor at Racine and per-
haps propellers and do enter it neverhel SIS we
know of more than occasion that propellers nei-
their entered the harbor nor stopped there; and at
least one occasion, when citizen. of Racine, even
through the pellngs of pitiful shower, sought this
port to take passage on propeller for Chicago.
The facts are simply. the harbor at Racine is an
unfinished state, and whilst it So there must be
more or less difficulty and trouble connected with
their steamboat commerce. Our piers obyiate tn,
difficulty here, and when our harbor is completed,
we shall have the double advantage of harbor and
piers; and this is the most have at any time said
or designed to say. But the sensitiveness of the
editor of the Advocate may be excused. He has
some reason for feeling bad, but we do hope that
he will use little discretion and not torture our
innocent Language, into such horrid meaning