Carroll free press. [volume] (Carrollton [Ohio]) 1834-1861, 1847-10-29
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tined 10 bs, at no distant day. The rivers, ca.
mails. railroads, and lakes, Of this country, VIII
every year be taxed with the transmission ol con-
stantly increasing Producisi and us last as new
outlets and means Of communication with the
sea.boar1 and the great cities are opened they
will be crowded with the ever augmenilng urea
sures orthe country. seeking consumers.
To watch and report this wonderful growth OF
she internal commerce OF the nation, is one OF
81 ,hs interesting duties with which this journal
wfI charge lsefin future numbers.
And while the commerce OF the Valley is, as
we have seen, nearly double that Of the whole
Union, we find the population Of that region not
much more than one-hrd Of that Of the United
States; that is TO say, the population Of the VAL
lev is estimated this year At e25 sos. and that
Of the Union at the same time being computed al
qI,l74.557. IL is further TO be considered. that
nl this enterprise and commerce OF the Valley
has been cloggsd and hindered from expanding
by the newness Of large tracts ofils territory re-
ouiring all the preliminary labors OF clearing the
soil ofits forests, breaking up pralrles, fencing
its fields, together with all the hlndrances to M
Vigaiion in the snags and sawyers OF us nVers'
GO destructive TO properly "hch 'helr naVlga'
,ors have bsen obliged 10 encounter and over
come. unaided BY the government; 1or, while the
Ttn;,oJ S,s,es government expends, annually,
T,ors ,b,n SO 600 900 for the benefit ofits Allan.
,;c commerce, il has done next 10 nothing for the
navigation OF its internal waters.
NV we saw, when we look ut this most extra.
ordinary history Valley enterprise, in which a
nioneer populaion. even now lule more than
one.third ofthe Union. besides clearing the viii.
derness, preparing virgin soil for tilage, build.
inc their own cities, and the like, having actual.
lv created commerce double in value to the
whole foreign imports and exports of the United
S,ntss-.his. we may safely say, is history
which finds no parallel in the records Of com.
mercial nations.
When we contemplate an infant commerce so
quick in its growth, so gigantic in its proportions
and attempt 10 conjecture what it may hereafter
, become-when, bv the most rigid arthmetical
processes, we undertake TO ascertain the effect
which century will exert upon tive are start
led at the magnitude of the results. Facts show
that the increase Of population in the United
States advances at the rate Of 33l per cent. for
each succeeding period Of ten years. This rate
of growth will give TO the whole Union, in one
hundred wears from this time, total population
of sos. .I0l Sal. Oflhis number it is estimated
that $50 100000 will be found occupying the
great central region between the Ah2ghany and
Rocky Mountains, and between the Gulf Of Mex.
ico and California. Now, il, as heretofore, the
commerce of this great Valley shall extend and
increase anything like reasonable proportion,
the conclusion to which we must come respect.
ing it is absolutely bewiIderng, yet as certain
as figures, based on actual experience, can make
it.
Not in the spirit of selfgratifcation and natu.
raj vanity, so often charged upon US by Euro.
peans, do we dwell on these colossal anticipation
ofour counlry's greatness and grandeur, but for
the better purpose Of awakening, in the breasts Of
our fellow. .czens, spirit worthy of their des-
,iny. The men who are laying the foundation
of a counry's commercial history with such a
mighty sweep and range as the future promises,
should possess an elevation of principle and aim,
a Iaroeness and liberality Of comp ehension, wor.
Inv Of lha, future. The present race of mer.
chants stand connected with and related to the
merchants of l947; and it would be worthy am
hiion of the former TO transmit TO the latter,
,hrouqh all the intervening links, those princi-
uies of commercial integrity. honor, enterprise
and philanthropy, which dignity commercial
nursuts; so that, pointing backward their success
sors of future century may proudly say, we arr
American IN .rchanls, descendants OF long line
orexamples in every honorable feeling. in every
upripht prnciple-of men who. in their day,
have been the ornaments Of society. pillars ofIhe
State. Dromoters of truth and virtue and beneiac.
tors Of the human race.