The Evansville journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1834-184?, 1845-08-14
ERIE N OHIO CANAL.

This work continues TO excite great inter
est throughout the country, and in the East
especially. The Albany IN. ~ Argus, the
leading democratic paper in that State, pub
fishes copious extracts from the proceedings
of the Convention held at Terre Haute, and
accompanies them with some well timed re-
marks upon the duties of our present rulers.
We rejoice that the Argus has thus timely
come to our aid, and we hope and believe
that the suggestions addressed TO Gov. Whit
comb by a sheet of his own party, so ably
conducted, will serve to strengthen him in
his desire for the speedy completion of this
great National Work. The finishing of this
Canal we look upon as being the least OBJ
iectionable and safest plan that can be adopt
ed at present for the payment of the interest
on our State debt, and in this view of the
matter We are borne out by the superior in
telligence of every statesman and leading
journal thai has investigated the subjuct. We
have now the means to finish the work, and
all we want is that those means be we'll ap-
piled. If that is done we will soon be able
to place ourselves along side of Pennsylvania
as an honest, debt paying State. Our last
legislature passed unanimously a resolution
on the subject of our State debt, which was
approved by Governor Whitcomb, scouting
the very idea Of Reputation II. 1t is as fol-
loves:
"Be it resolved by the General Assembly
of the Slate of Indiana, that we regard the
slightest breach of plighted faith, public or
private, as an evidence ofa want ofa want of
that moral principle upon which all obliga-
tions depend: That whenever any state in this
Union shall refuse TO recognize her seal as
the sufficient evidence of her obligations, she
will have forfeited her station in the sister
hood of states, and will no longer be worthy
of their confidence and respect"
Commenting upon this the Argus says
"Whenit is remembred that in the last legis-
latue, the two great political parties were
nearly equally divided, the wings having a
small majority in the house, and the senate
being a tie, the adoption of such a resolution
by a unanimous uote, must be regarded as
indicating iairly the sentiment of the people
without distinction of party, on the subject
Of their public debt. Ii is manifest that the
people are arousing to the situation of their
finances and that there is a determination to
vindicate the honor and restore the credit Of
the state at the earliest moment practicable,
"The proceedings of the recent convetion,''
say the Argus canno, fail to give to this work
a mighty impulse, and the progress of it will
be regarded with deep solicitude, not only
because of lis undoubted bearing upon the
credit and finances of the State, but also be-
cause it constitutes one ofthe grandest inter-
nal Improvements of the age and country,
whether we regard the length of the Canal,
or the rich fertile soil through which it pas
ses. As a tributary to our own Erie canal,
our citizens have the deepest interest in its
speedy completion"
sit will be an honor TO be coveted,n con-
tinues the Argus, .by any administration or
party in Indiana. 10 be instrumental in effect
ing the completion of the Wabash and Erie
Canal through TO the Ohio river, and in re-
establishing the credit of the State, on terms
honorable and just-and though such meas
ures can only be effected by the union OF
good men OF all parties, acting with a single
eye TO the public good, yeti will devolve on
the administration in power TO devise and re-
commend the plan by which such results
may be effected, and to them will be awar.
ded the honor and glory of the achievements
by a grateful and relieved people. For our.
selves, we are gratifed with the prospect thai
this high honor will fall TO the lot of James
Whitcomb, and that under his administrator
the state of Indiana will be redeemed ant
Disseminated, and her public credit establish
ed on a basis of enduring honor"
STATE DEBTS.
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