The Evansville journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1834-184?, 1846-03-19
MEMORIAL.
TO THE SENATE AND HOUSE OF
THE UNITED STATES, INCON
GpUCC ACCEHPT I'm.

THE UNITED STATES, ILSsCON-
GRESS. ASSEMBLED:
The undersigned, citizens Of Evansville
and its vicinity, would respectfully represent
to your Honorable body, that occupying al
commanding commercial localon, on The
Ohio River, at the southern termination of
the Wabash and Erie canal, the productions,
as well of the cites above and below, as of
the country which supplies them. find their
depot and point redistribution through the
great and fertile States of Indiana, Illinois aud
The Southern portions of Kentucky, and
thence through the States bordering on the
Mississippi Valley, in the Town of Evans
vile; That Green River, navigable for three
hundred miles, and supplying an easy and
certain outlet to the productions ofthe coun-
try through which it passes, finds its best
and natural depot al the same location;
and that the Wabash, navigabe for five hun
dred miles, and watering country fune-
qualled fertility and whose resources, though
great, are YET comparatively undeveloped,
pours It's trade and commerce directly in
the lap of the aforesaid Town. In addition
. to all this White River-by iiselfand branch
es, watering an extent of country, equal 10
one halt the geographical limtsof The State,
i -swells TO large amount, the varied pro-
duclons which find certain market, at the
same point.
Your Memorialist would further represent
TO your HONORABLE Body, that by on Act Of
the late Legislature of the State OF Indiana,
based on the munifcent donation Islands
made to her, by the last Congress of the u.
s., for the purpose of enabling her 10 com
pIete The great work of the Wabash and EFie
/ Canal, the completion of that work, as well
las the restoration of the honor and faith of
the State, by satisfactory adjustment other
debt, is now placed beyond a reasonable
: doubt; That that Canal, when completed,
will afford direct and certain communica-
ton between the lakes on the one hand, and
The Mississippi, Valley on the other, and offer,
for its entire length, a highway free Of toll,
10 the Government of the u. s.; thus ma
king the Town of Evansville, as wellaby lis
natural as lis acquired faciliies,a point of
great, if not unequalled advantages TO The
commerce ofthe North, the South and the
West
; Your Memorialists would further repre-
1sent TO your Honorable Body, that as a con
sequence of these advantages, large numbers
of Steam and Flat Boats land at The wharf oil
this Town, depositing there, the productions
with which they are laden, and receiving
new stores for transportation 10 other ports;
t That TO the great number of those, who.
gaining their livelihood on the rivers ofwhich
your MemoraIiss have spoken, necessarily
suffer from the diseases 10 which the Valley
of the mississippi is exposed. no asylum is
offered in the region of country, the wants o.
which most imperatively demand one; and
that, at no point on the Ohio River, of which
, your Memorialists have any knowledge, is
such an institution more imperalively de-
manded, or could possess greater facilities
for accomplishing the end for which it is de-
| signed.
Your Memoralists would therefore pra,
5 your Honorable Body, for the passage of al
Act, declaring Evansville Por; of Entry
and Tor an appropriation for the erection of t
> Marine Hospital; conscious, that such actor
n on the part of YOUR Honorable Body, is no
more required by its already great & growing
necessities, than il would tend to foster anC
promote, the growth and prosperity of hi,
portion of the Mississippi Valley.
d And as in duty bound your Memorialist.
i will ever pray, etc.