Weekly national intelligencer., 1847-06-19
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| IMPROVEMENT OF RIVERS AND HARBORs.-Ihe meeting
called for the purpose of considering the popey Of urging
the Federal Government to furnish for the improve
men of rivers and harbors the West and to select Dele
gates the general Convention be held Chicago the
consideration of the subject attended yesterday by full
delegation of those who influential in community
The wealth and intelligence Of Boston both largely rep
resented The proceedings showed that every present
satisfied that prosperity could be advanced as much
by improving the communications with this city places
miles distant by widening the lengthenng the
sewers here.
| His honor the Mayor JOSIAH QuIscr, r called to
the chair Mess s. S. Le,ois and Nathan Hale, ir. were
appointed secretaries
Mr. QuINcr opened the proceedings eloquent address
He commenced by calling the attention Of the meeting the
proceedings in Buffalo, and by audng to the boundless
tent and vast fertility of the West He should leave it, how
ever Che toother to expaate the trade and produc
tons Of that region, and the effect that the facilities of in
ecourse must have the material prosperity of New Eng
land and devote his remarks view of duties Bos
tonians, men, and as citizens. ..,.." 49,, .-.
The West Che remarked) has peculiar right to look to
this metropolis. Boston is emphacaly The American city
It's population had foreign admxtue other cities
be larger, but they composed of of all lands
The Mayor of neghboring city, the commercial
porum Of America and destined be the commercial empo
rum of the world, might almost address his constituents (con
sderlng the of their number and the variety of their
the language oil BeshazZaT, son
ton and languages" And Philadelphia with all her wealth
and beauty holds thousands inhabitants who speak the
Anglo Saxon tongue And the other cities large portion
of the inhabitants hardly be called Americans they
JOY not the rights OF But Boston has always been Anne
rcan and will always continue for the agaciy OF its in
habans lets one but Yankee grow rich the Yankee
SOIL And there another claim the sympathy OF New
England there was time when under our original charters
extending from ocean, Rochester and Buffalo, and
Cincinnati and Detroit and Chicago much parts OF
the colonies of Plymouth and the Bay State the penn
.f
not then invented, and it is duty to bring them
back again and identify them in sympathy and interest with
the land of the Pilgrims
But it only citizens of New England, as men and
Christians have deep sympathy with the West II
is OF the remark bile in history that
there garden planted ''eastward" in Eden, il could b.
said Westward the of empire takes it way. 1t
in the Old Word--from Persia Greece Rome, Eog
landand il will continue until il culniBates West
ern wids And it is equally remarkable that while powe
travelled west men have in all ages turned towards the
for the dayprng of mota intellectual and religious wei
for natural light and that millions of fellow
like the prophet Of old this day bow with
wards Jerusalem And will be said that this b
!, the rule in America | think 1t human wis
dom that sent Puritan fathers New England instead
Virginia that planted them this barren soil and
them like the oak by conflicts with the Storm It that
their constitutions and their children might be the examples
and the settlers of the West And so leading
in all sections descendants of the Purtans and their
strongest hope that the churches and schoohouses of New
: England will grace every village Of the West.
But it is not only inhabitants Of New England and as
men that have deep interest the sympathy and
municaion with the West We have another citizens Of
this Union The remembrance of former kindness forms
bond stronger than adamant Should the time ever come
(Which Heaven in its mercy ob) when the question of dis
solution OF this glorious Union should be seriously discussed
what would be the appeal that orator. standing in
the Cradle of Liberty, would address to Rostonans He
would not tell them of the value of the cotton, the
ce the tobacco of other sections portray the obstacles
OF introducing manufactures under the restrictions and ia
riffs of aienated States No. He would carry back his
dence, in imagination to the time when their fathers stood
within those walls when the streets filled with the troops
and the harbor with the fleet OF the most powerful nation
earth He would tell them that nation bent annihl
atng Boston, and ha, she offered rewards and facilities to
the rest OF the country it would stand quietly by He would
tell what a response moved the cry from that Hall
How il echoed only by the White Hills Of New
Hampshire and the Green Mountains Of Vermont but
veberaed among the peaks Aegnes and the high hills
Of the Santa and swept back again by the shores of the
Potomac and the banks of the Hudson, how brought the
Wahingtons and the Mouries and the Putnams aid
Would Bosonians such appeal that, in
parson with the remembrance of assistance rendered to
fathers their hour need the value of the crops Of America
was but as the light dust of the balance
The time may when this question may be agitatcd al
the West And their orator may tell them that when their
crops nothing the ground for want Of facilities Of in
ercoue the people of New England their
and that whenever they have wanted experience capital
assistance, they had always turned the East and OBJ
| tained it,
Let then, (added Mr.. o. send delegation and send
large one, TO Chicago, and boast that man the
great staple production of New England, let take to
send a good sample of the manufacture.
After the conclusion of Mr. QuIScYs remarks the Hon.
THOMAS c. CARr read the circular letter of invitation TO the
Chicago Convention, in which this meeting originated and,
after appropriate and impressive remarks, offered the
following Iesoutions
ReSotced That heartily the desire promote
the Of the Convention be held Chicago, aud
daily accept the invitation send delegates attend
the part Of Massachusetts.
ReS0ired That the navigation of the Western and
lakes involves the prosperity Of all parts of the Unon giving
remuneration TO the farmer Of the West, while it reduces
the cost of subsistence TO the North and South and avoraby
affects relations with the world.
Roired That the interests of Massa chusetts and espe
cialy of the city of Boston, intimately connected with
the improvement Of navigation upon Western waters
ResoiUed That, by the Constitution of the United States
the power to regulate with foreign nations and
among the several States is granted Congress that the
removal OF distractions within and the making necessary
improvements upon great lakes and rivers
essential TO the development of immense natural
and to the internal resulting hereom and
that the duty OF making these improvements by the General
Government as clear and imperative that Of building
lighthouses, PIERS and breakwaers upon seacoast
ReS0tced, That - delegates appointed TO proceed to
Chicago and assist IN the deliberations the Convention
there, with authority to pledge support operation
in cicctng the object in view through the action of the
General Government.
committee was then appointed, consisting of Mcssrs
John p. Bigelow, j. W. Edmands and Stephen Fairbanks,
of Boston Linus Child, of Lowell and George w. Up
ton, ate Of Nantucket nominate list Of delegates to