Wisconsin herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1846-1849, 1847-01-09


phia to adopt measures 10 aid the great
Pacific railroad, was held last night
Mayor Swift in the chair. Reso!u.
tons were passed approving Mr..
IWhltney's project to petition Congress
to set apart the land required, suggest
ing that the government cali their at
tention to the enterprise, &c.
R Extract from the Inaugural
speech of Gov. Bebb of Ohio, at Co.
lumbus Dec, 18th.
"Fifty years ago this great central
valley ofthe West was in all its prim-
eyal grandeur-its mountains, lakes,
and gulf-its rivers gliding over cata-
racts or meandering through vast allu-
vial plains-its boundless prairies and
herds of bufaloes-its forests unrival-
ed in extent and variety, and its great
tribes of aborigines, who, from time
unknown, had been the lords of this
vast domain. The bold outlines ofthe
scene remain unchanged and unchange-
able. The mountains are here, and
the lakes-the rivers still flow in their
channels, but the buffalo have been
hunted from the prairiessnd the deer
from the forest, Logan and Tecum-
sch are no more. The spirit of their
race is broken. Their children have
.sullenly retired beyond the Father Of
Waters, and buried the red scalping-
knife in the ashes of despair. The
yells of the war-dance, the cloquence
of the council, and the incantations of
the prophet, are seen and heard no
more; but, in their stead, halls of legis-
lation, courts of justice and temples
consccratcd to Christianity. The an
nails of Man presents no example where
the triumphs of Civilization, in so brief
a period, have been so brilliant and
complete.
Our own State Of Ohio, embracing
very favored portion of this Great Val
ley, stands out before the eyes of all
men, wonder for her progress in pop
nlation, wealth and power; for her me-
tropolis of near a hundred thousand
souls; her agricultural and mechanical
productions, her public works, her
colleges, asylums and schools; and her
population of two millions of people,
enjoying more of the necessaries and
comforts Of life, and enduring fewer
of its privations, miseries and wants
than any equal number Of men in any
age of the world.
Compared with the great resources
of The State, present and prospective,
even her large debt of nineteen mill
lions OF dollars is seen, at a glance, to
be entirely under her control. She
owns eight hundred miles of navigablc
canals, and is largely interested in
twelve hundred miles of M'Adamized
roads, beside her stocks in the chains
OF railroads which will ere long be
completed from Lake Erie to the Ohio
river. The valuation returned under
her new revenue law, shows that she
has over four hundred million Of ei0i-
laIS' worth OF taxaDIe property.
Ohio Furthermore claims the right to
declare that, by reason OF her great
natural resources for manufacturing her
superabundance of food and her scar
city of fabrics, her inland position,
whore the cost of the importation Of
foreign goods, and especially of the ex-
portation of her own agricultural pro-
auctions must, if continued, prove for
ever heavy tax upon her labor, she
has been induced to invest large sums
in manufacturing and mechanical pur-
suits. That unlike the older establish
ments of some ofher sister States, these
branches of industry are in that infant
state requiring Protection. That she
has no confidence in a foreign market
for her great staples except in seasons
of starvation abroad like the present.
That she must have Home Manufac-
lures and Home Market. That she
will never submit TO Free Trade and
Direct Taxation. That the people
were prosperous under the Tariff of
1912; and that she believes that not
only the revenues OF the country but
all her industrial interests demand its
Immediate restoration"
OF Volunteering in New York
State goes on slowly. Only 80 men