The Daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1845-1850, 1845-09-05
NEW YORK AND BOSTON.

We notice almost every day in the New York
papers, appeals to the mercantile community OF
that city about the vital Importance OF having the
Railroad completed from New York to Albany,
so as to keep up communication with the west
all the wear round and not have it closed two or
three months in the year when the Hudson river
is barricaded with ice Unless this is done, they
argue that Boston will secure to itself the great
bulk ofthe Western trade, in consequence ofhav-
ing the Western Rail Road. The Express of
Tuesday contains letter written by New
Yorker from Boston, in which he speaks of the
great prosperity of that city, its increase in trade
and the letter states that Boston is now filled with
southern and western merchants, and / am told
Che says) that the demand for domestic goods, and
for many kinds of foreign is greater here than in
New York. The writer then winds off with
the usual panacea so much in favor with the New
Workers, the everlasting cureall-ssthe compile
ton of the Erie Rail Road sLet New York
build it, (says the writer) and she may defy the
competition of Boston and secure to herself her
present advantages forever.''
1t does seem to us that there is about as much
deluson on this subject among the inhabitants of
New York as there is among the South Carolini-
ans about the Tariff. Give us the Erie Railroad
say the Gothamites, and we will take from Bos-
ton, all of her trade. Repeal the Tariff, says Nc
Duffie and the South Carolinians, and we will
write sBenoni'' upon the entablature of New
England.
All this is fancy, composed of such stuff ssas
dreams are made Of" Get your Erie Railroad
finished as soon as you please, and Boston will
still take from New York the great bulk Of the
Western trade. She has only began. Boston is
the central point for domestic Manufacturer
boots, shoes, homemade cottons, domestic prints,
SIC. New England is the great workshop, the
beehive of the Union, and Boston is its head
quarters. How is it, we would ask the writer in
Tho Evr1r thof ri
and Western trade than in New York, now. in
the month Of August, when you have the mag
nificent steamers on the Hudson to convey pas
sengers from Albany to New York for fifty cents?
How do these Southern and Western men get to
Boston Most of them, doubtless, pass right
through New York, and comparatively few come
by the Western Railroad. The trade of Boston is
vastly on the increase. Merchants prefer to trade
there they are better suited they like the Yam
kee way Of doing business best there is more
intelligence and better spirit exhibited in it, and
they find the goods they want there they can
buy domestics cheaper and better than they can
in New York. And, again, most of the business
men in the South and West were New England
boys, and when they come on to buy their spring
and fall stocks, they come home to Yankee-dom.
get look at the State House, Boston Common.
Bunker Hill and Nahant, drive up to Lexington
old Concord and Lowell, and thus make their pur-
chases, see old friends, warm up their patriotism
and get glimpse at New England industry and
improvement, all at the same time They return
to their homes, not anly with excellent stocks of
goods, but also wiser and better men. Had they
stopped in New York, they would have seen little
else than saucy cab and hack drivers dirty Streets
crowded sidewalks, pocket-book- suffers, mock
auction cheats and temptations to vice on all
sides. In fact, when business men visit New
York, they endeavor to get out OF it as soon as
possible; when they come to Boston they en-
deavor to stay as long as they can.
But we had no intention OF writing so long an
article when we sat down. We will only say in
conclusion, that the New Workers may build fifty
Erie Railroads, and so long as our business men
and our capitalists remain as they now are, and
they will SO long as New England schools and
colleges and New England notions exist, Boston
will go on increasing in business and in wealth.
LoaOeH Curier