The Evansville journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1834-184?, 1846-03-12
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up the citizens OF that sleepy city to exertfon
for its future advancement and improvement,
and the article we copy below, although not
Intended TO stimulate as to action, may, new
ertheless, proftably engage the attention OF
the people of this section. 1t must not be
supposed that because we have succeeded IN
Obtaining grant Of lands from Congress TO
complete our Canal, and made an arrange
ment with our bondhoIder 10 finish il in four
years, that we can now rest from our labors
that there is nothing else TO be done. We
have but only commenced in the race, and
| unless we continue we had just as well not
made the start. Evansville is destined to
be THE great city of Indiana, and second
| to none on the Ohio river, but it can
not be this without the exertions of its
citizens 10 make it so. The apathy of
our people, shown ON every occasion
where the improvement and growth of the
place is contemplated-the refusal to attend
the public meetings which are called upon
important occasions and for important ends
the little inclination they have to subs cribe a
few dimes, although by so doing they might
greatly benefit themselves and their neigh
bors,-all this must give wayto more lib
eral feeling to greater industry and activi-
ty. We must be ever watchul of our inter
ests and anxious 10 further them at ANY cost.
If we do our duly, the fears expressed by
our Louisville friends that Evansville will in
few short years sweep ahead of them will
be realized, and we shall stand among the
first of the great cities of the West
We recommend this article to the atten-
ton Of oar readers.
When George Canning, then prime min
lister ofGreat Britain, found that the Bourbon
dynasty of France had joined the other legi
timatesn of the continent in the principle of
earned intervention and French army
under the command of the Due d'Angouleme
had invaded Spain, under ;he pretence of
qualification" to reduce that country again
under absolute control of another branch of
the Bourborns, he directed the acknowledge
ment of the independence of the late South
American provinces of Spain, and the wider
extension OF British power in the East Indies.
| His policy was assailed in Parliament, for
supinely permitting the aggrandizement of
France and Spain. He replied in these men,
orable terms, TO show the iar-reaching poll
cy of the british empire:
''Was it necessary that we should block
ade Cadiz? No. looked another way |
resolve that france had Spain, il should
not be Spain with the Indies-I called the
new world into existence 10 redress the bal
ance of the DID,
Similar in emulation, though more honor
able in rivalry and more beneficial and truly
: ennobling in object and results, are the efforts
of kingdoms, states, or even small commu
mites, to equal or excel their neighbors in
growth, prosperity, and means of happiness
Ito call new world of business into exis-
= tence to redress the balance of the old.
> In 1873, Louisville was located by Col
Thomas BuIlitt, Sen, but his occupation be
ing abandoned, in 1880 it was laid out anC
E settlements commenced, under charte
from Virginia. In 1900 it numbered 600 in
habitants; in 1910, 1900.
Cincinnati was first laid our in 1899, bu
SO little was the future growth of the place
. anticipated, that Judge Symmes. the origina
: proprietor of the land, never selected it a
c the site for city, and located his expected
+ metropolis Ia miles lower down, near tn
mouth of the Miami, now only known b
/ North Bend, the residence OF the late Gen
s. Harrison, his son-in-law. In 1900, the sit
= of the future Queen of the Vest was onl
known as Fort Washington, from log for
on the river bank, and the late commander
= in-chief OF The army, then lieutenant station
= ed at the post, usually drilled the small gaI
: rison, on the first bank west of what is no.
: Broadway, and south of Third ST., then coy
= 81 cred with a stately forest, now in the hea
u of that city. In 1902 Cincinnati was nco
:, porated, and in 1905 the population amour
- ed to $50. Now, the population number
some 10000, while Louisville has less tina
- 10000. Canals railroads, and water powe
g have been brought 10 that metropolis, and tn
~ trade ofthe lakes and east is opened by tn
- Miami Canal, and the travel and transports
IL ton to and from central Ohio and the sci
board, will soon be secured by the SandusS
and Miami Railroad and the branch 10 Co
ne umbus
&c, Eastern Indiana pays tribute TO the pers
he, vering enterprise ofCincinnat;. The White
water Canal, like the Madison road, was ii
- work of Indiana. Its terminus was at Law
10 renceburgh. The citizens of Cincinnati, t
nd Selling The advantages furnished by it, wi
n no narrow State restrictions on their ente
prise, connected that cannal with the Oh
at Cincinnati, and now the Lawrencebu
ne terminus is forgotten. The trade goes