Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1845-07-04
DElB PRRSS
From the Boston Daily Advertiser and Patriot.
OGDENSBURGH RAIL ROAD.

No person can have read the three preceding nun.
bers without being satisfied that the facts, however
iinperfectly stated, most clearly make out a prfmd
.Eacie case. Most readers have probably been sur.
prised that this project has not before been pressed
upon the citizens of Boston, and so strong is the evi.
dencc, that one is di posed TO look about and inquire
whether there may not be some mistake in the mat.
ter. There ls no mistake. The. whole truth has not
been told. Facts upon facts might still be stated IN
confirmation of those already adduced. while not, n
single objection Of the slightest Importance can be
brought forward in opposition to the proJect'-lh mere
is no way of getting AT the weak points oi q case so
certain as by applying TO it, opponents. NOW the
city of portland, and all Central and Southern New
York, consider this undertaking as dirsctly az war
with their Interests. Portland is alarmed lest it should
prevent the construction Of their contemplated Rail
Road to Montreal, and Central and Southern New
York admi, that the Ogdensbnreh Road, when com.
pleted, will draw from its former channel n great
amount of Western trade. II there was a defect IN
our case, these strong opponents would point 1t out
II our projec, was a wild and imprac,icable one, they
would CRY out against it and show its absurdity.--
They attempt no such thing. On the contrary they
are bound TO admit, aud do admit, that our case Is I'M
answerable. The Portland Advertiser, it is true, OBJ
jected 10 ttreniy miles navigation on Lake Champlnin
but the twenty having been reduced to an easy and
certain ferry of three, that paper is probably satisfied.
The Editor of the New York Courier 4 Enquirer, after
stating many of the prominent points and leading
w say cordially to Boston, both as to the Bur
iing,on and .ae ogdensbureh Rail Road. as We have
before said about the Western Rail lload-eo ahead
you cannot thrive without our thriving with you but
we say to the city of New York with even more en-
phasls-aronse yourself 10 the emergency-be up and
~doing-make your rail road TO A!bnny-make YOUR
Erie rail road-and that right soon, or be content 10
take the skim milk. when il Is within yonr own OPP
ton to take the cream, of the Western trade:"
There is, perhaps, no town in Central New York
that would be moio affected by n diversion of the
Western trade than Rochester. Situated West Of the
junction Of the Oswego Canal with the Erie, this CITY
has already been ANNOYED bv the Welland Canal, and
is clam,rous because the Legislature will not inter
foro and stDu The current now setting down OntarlD.
She will c'amor in vain. While our legislatures are
liberal in promoting works Of art, they will not be
hasty in DESTROYING those OF nniure. II II is cheaper
and better TO forward merchnndi. e by lakes and rivers
than bv canals, the people will never submit to n de-
priyation If such natural rights and privileges. II
would be expected that from such a source our PROJECT
would he assalled. II it posses ed a weak point, that
weak point would he ma lie use of To the best ndvan-
,age to prevent the completion Of the undertaking.. =
Yet the editor of the Rochester Daily Democrat, one
of the principal papers in that city. IN n leading aTtcle
on this subject after sialng the regiments in favor OF
the Ogdensburph Rail Road, concludes as follows:
"These are the principal m urged IN favor
of this new PROJECT. They are plausible-some ct
them; and. on the whole, make ont a pretty fair
case ;-sufi GENTLY so, NJ all events, to awaken the Mt.
tention of the people Of Western New York, IT not oil
the entire State.
policy in the management, of the Erie canal, It's com
merce will be seriously affected, and so VIII inc trade
of the CITY Of New York. If the line itom % lens
bureh to Boston was now in operation, and the tolls
upon The Erie canal were what they now are, one hal
of the produce which now comes down from Ohio, In.
diana, Michigan, Wisconsin and Illinois, would seek
that ronte, because it would not he merely the mos
expeditions but decidedly the cheapest. -.
But there m ist e n change OF policy. The people:
representatives will not be so insane as to drive Amer
lean commerce into a Brush channel, when its dou
BILE effect is seen TO be, not merely 10 impoverlsh on
own State treasury, but TO enrich the treasury OF
foreign power, and to make the commercial emporium
of another State, the great mercantile mart of tn
immense West.
We shall endcayor to procure statistics in a day O
two, to show
LIST. How much more it will cost to carry a ba,
rel of flour from Chicago 10 Ogdensburgh than fror
Chicago to Buffalo.
I'd. How much it costs to carry a barrel Of hor
from Buffalo to Albany and from thence to Bosto
and New York and
Sd. What it will probably cost to carry a barrel
-four from Oadensl urgh TO Boston.
These statistics will enable the reader to apprecia
the nscessity Of Il change of pulley IN fe'atio" TO OF
public works"
These statistics were given in our second nnmhe
which the Democrat has probably received by IN
time. In speaking OF the local and Cahiua CUISINES
the Democrat says:
alt is further urged, that the road would pay, b.
cause there would be a large local business done upo
II The coun,ies Trough which IL passes, contain
no,rI,,;on Of 100 900 The annual value # the ayr
rri,ur,I productions is Sc, down at $1,000 900, an
Their manufactures a, 5000 ono; IAN exagaeratiol
in our opinion. Great stress Is laid upon the iron or
lead, copper, marble, soap stone, dc. &c, found ihel
in rich abundance. The travel of the Upper Provin,
ofCanada is also referred to as an important source
revenue AMI properlV; tor there is no doubt, II n roa
was built through the Province, a great deal of fleigi
as well as travel, would seek this outlet; for the dha
ence IN time and expense between this route and Il
ST. Lawrence would be very great
Such are the views of our opponents. They adm
tina, our case is so strong that 1t should "awaken II
attention of the people Of Western New York, If not
the entire State" let the people OF Western, Cenir
and Southern New York quiet their fears. Let the
remember that the Western country is RAPIDLY increa
ing in population and in marketable products; tn
States are peooled almost MS fast as they can be estaI
lished on the face of the earth; that the business
that Immense territory must be done at the Fast ar
that Boston has a right to her fair proportion Of it,.
II Boslonls lrusl to herself she riH hare il.
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