Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1847-10-29
The Ship Canal once more Bridging the
Lake.

Our readers will remember that we took oc-
casion, two or three weeks ago, to alIude to the
hostility which the projected Ship Canal to con.
meet the nayigablc waters of the St Lawrence
with those Of Lake Champlain had awakened in
what the n. Y. Express calls "thc Western
Canal region of New York We made some
extracts from the Buffalo Patriot anil .Jounai
wherein that paper, in somewhat less sum-
mary though no less emphatic manner than the
Commercial AdceHiser of that city, disposes of
the matter as ga humbug.'
We are sorry TO perceive, by later dates, that
our Buffalo contemporaries grow more and more
unreconciled to this magnificent project, the
more it eXcitcs attention by its eminent practi-
cabity, and discussion by the prodigous com
mercial results its accomplishment promises
1t strikes us as a little unfortunate that "thc
Western Canal region of New York. through
their presses, should not have taken better coun-
sci of their Judgment, than to commence their
opposition TO this really splendid enterprise BY
calling it a " humLug.' Their subsequent very
elaborate and vouminous arguments against i,
are in somewhat ludicrous contrast with their
own published estimate of its intrinsic feeble
ness. Men of business are not apt to waste a
great deal of their time, or to throw away a
great deal Of augmentation, upon schemes that
they honestly believe TO be wholly chimcrical
and absurd Our Buffalo friends must. there
fore, pardon us, if we assume that their conyic-
tons of the impracticabilhy and incxpedency
Iof the great project under discussion, are sharp
encd by considerations that have less respect to
the general business interests of the whole conn-
try than to the special interests Of their own
prosperous city.
But it appears, after all, that the whole OF
" the Western Canal region of New York
does not contemplate the projec. of securing an
avenue for ship naeigaton from Chicago (for
instanccl TO the Atlantic markets, in the same
light. We commend II the careful notice OF
our readers an article communicated TO the Ro-
chester On. " American by an intelligent and
sagaclous correspondent of that paper, in which
a portion Of the results to be anticipated from
the construction of tn, CaughLawlga Canal arc
very clearly and iorcibly presented The arl
Gle alluded TO will be found in another column
The citizens of Rochester perceive at once the
advantages that must accrue to them from thcil
having choice IF arel'nes through which Il
carry on their important trade with the Eastern
: markets. The Genessee river forms one of Tho
ineSt harbors Oh Lake Ontario, and affords oyel
n WcMy tet OF water to uiihm he Limits of the
y Guy OF Rochester II, therefore, a project car
De carried out that will open 10 the fertile agr
!, cultural region of which Rochester is the com.
:, nerc'ai locus, an avenue through which he,
. productions can be transported to market in
ships Of 400 tons burthcn, without brcakipo
bulk, it Is easy to anticipate that it must secure
: her ready cooperation. In any event. she
D would have, on the compile ion of such an ave.
nue., a choicc Of agencies for the transaction O
her carrying trade. Weagain commend to tn.