American Republican and Baltimore daily clipper. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1844-1846, 1845-03-27
Qua CRY. 1t gives US pleasure TO COW the


following article from the Frederick Herald
Were similar sentiments more prevalent
throughout the State, the whole machinery Of
our State Government would move on more
tremendously. We perfectly agree with the
writer that q cross-cut canal will secure to Bal
timors most of the advantages which will arise
from completing tho Chesapeake and Ohio Ca
nal to Cumberland that cross-cut canal
will be made. OF that we have no doubt. 1t
has always been contemplated, and the Mary
land Canal Company was incorporated for the
express purpose, We think it probable, that
spthciency Of stock to effect the object, will
hereafter he subscribed by individuals; and we
believe it would prove profitable investment
BALTIMORE. If the interests of Baltimore
were, in oGr opinion, reallyto be in iured by the
completion of the Chesapeake and Ohio canal
and the trade to be transferred from the ware
houses of that city to other places beyond the
jurisdiction of Maryland legislation, we should
not only feel ourselves unauthorized to de-
nouncc that city for the iurtherance of its do
sires in frustrating the object of that noble
work, by opposing its completion, but we should
ulSO lhSlb 1T icdSJ III SOlilB IllGdSuTG luSll
fled for endeavoring TO advance their own com
merclal Interests by whatever means they could
do SO, without doing wrong to others. For af-
ter all, we must all never Cease to look upon
monumental Baltimore as the great emporium
Of our State-tlIe GROWING glory of its pride
its bulwark against reputation and disho-
nor-the centre of its commercial enterprise
and wealth-as fountain, gushing with prog
perty, the streams from which, flowing into
every channel Of all the counties of our State,
everywhere fcrtllize and improve our territory,
and increase and invigorate our resources
For, not only must we look upon this noble
city, as one OF our contemporaries has dsparag-
iDgly said, as the abode Of the merchant
princes" of our State, but also as the spring of
all that is grand and lofty in enterprise, as the
abode Of all that Is salutary and ennohling in
the mutual intercourse and dealing of men, and
in the steadfastness of commercial integrity and
mercantile honor-as the very home of all those
munlfcent and splendid institutions of modern
Christian origin, which give to social life all ITS
winning attractions, and tend TO alleviate. by
Christian benevolsnce, by the aid of skill and
science, by the ingenious hand of art, by tho
soothing Influence of judiciously bestowed cha
rity, or by any other mode whatever, the many
miscries that humanity is heir to;-not only !
must we look upon her as the metropolis, and (
very heart of the State, which, notwthstand- !
ing the occasional complaints and repinings in !
cident to the seliishness of human nature, sensi-
lively shrinks at the least touch of injury to
any portion Of our territory ia its remotcst bor-
ders, and feels throb responsive to every pull !
sation of interest in whatever extremity Of our
limits it may beat, but we must also ever look
upon her as a city which, in time of peace |
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means to relieve our wants; and in time of war. |
offers its soil not only as the rallying ground |
for its peculiar friends, but as the burial ground |
for our common foes. Accustomed thus to
look upon her, we cannot conserif lightly to
break that brotherhood of feeling which should
exist between the counties and the metropolis,
which should be bound to them by such inds-
soluble ties, or to denounce, in such unmeasured
terms, those who like ourselves, only labor for
what they believe to be necessary to their own
success in the great commercial rivalry Of the
cities of our Union. But, we cannot think
that the completion of the Baltimore and Ohio
canal will be such an injury to tina. city, but
rather think that when that great work is COM
pleted, and the cross cut canal is made that the
metropolis OF Maryland will not only embosom
IN itself the affections of all the counties of the
State, but will also become the shipping port
for the minerals of Allegany, as well as the
great mart of the West, iRto whose lap will be
poured the wealth of the ever-increasing mil
ions Of the most fertile valley Of the world. -
Let her not then denounced, or her people be-
come impatient of their burdens; for, after all,
she is city to be proud of, and when her bur
lens shall BIO removed by The favorable opera
ion of the Internal Improvement system, she
nay be made present help in every time of
need.