Weekly national intelligencer., 1851-07-12

In respect the growth of Western trade and commerce.
few sentences from very valuable address before
the Historical Society Of Ohio, by William D. Gallagher,
Esq, lS50
GA few facts will exhibit as we'll as volume the wonder
full growth of Western trade and Previous to
the year 1900, eight ten keeboas Of twenty or
twenty five tons EACH performed all the carrying trade be-
tween Cincinnati and Piusburg In 1902 the first Govern
vessel appeared Lake Erie. In 1911 the first
steamboat (the Oresns) launched at Pttsburg. In
1926 the waters Of Michigan first poughed by the keel
Of steamboat pleasure trip to Green Bay being planned
and executed the Of this year. In 1892
boat first appeared at Chicago At the present time the entire
number Of steamboats, running tie Mississippi and Ohio
and their tributaries probably than under six hum
the aggregate tonnage OF which not short Of hum
dred and forty thousands larger number of steamboats, than
England claim, and greater commercial marine
than that employed by Great Britain and her dependen-
scies.' @ '
And now, fellow citizens, having stated to you this nfa
BILE proof Of the growth and prosperity of the naon ask
you, and would ask every man, whether the Government
which has been has proved itself alcton
to The country, or any part of it
of the South, Of all the original Southern States
what to all this Are you, any Of you ashamed
they who stoned the prophets and killed them They
among the prophets they Of the pophes they were
themselves the prophets. I,
Ye men Of Virginia, what do you say all this Ye
the Potomac dwelling along the shores Of that river where
WAsHISGToS lived, and where he died, and where his
mains rest! Ye, many Of whom may the domes
of the Capitol from your own homeswha do you say
Ye Of James end the Bay places conecraed by
the early settlement Of your commonwealth, what do you
say Do you desire, from the soil Of your State you
travel the North, thee halls vacated, their beauty
and destroyed, and their national usefulness clean
gone forever
Ye men beyond the Blue Ridge, many thousands of whom
this Capitol than the seat of OF
your State what do think Of breaking this great as
socaton into fragments Of States and of People know
Of you, and believe you ALL would be almost as much
cked at NJ
were be informed that the Blue Ridge itself would
tote from its base And ye Of Western Virginia, who
occupy the great slope from the top Of the Allegheny the
Ohio and Kentucky what do you propose yourselves
by dsunon If you /" secede,' what do you "secede''
from and what do you accede to Do you look for the
Of the Ohio change and to bring you and your
to the tdewaters Of Eastern rivers What man
in his suppose that you will remain part and par
eel Of Virginia month after Virginia should have ceased to
be part and parcel of the United States
The secession Of Virginia the secession Of Virginia,
whether alone in company is most improbable the great
est of all mprobabties Virginia, to her everlasting honor,
acted great part framing and establishing the present
Constitution She has had her reward and her distinction.
Seven Of her noble have each filled the Presidency and
enjoyed the highest honors Of the country Doloous com
plants up from the South that Virginia will not
head the procession Of secession and lead the other Southern
States out Of the Union This if it should happen, would
be something Of MARVEL certainly, considering how much
pains Virginia took lead these States into the Union
and considering too that she has paraken largely Of its
benefits and its government any other State.
And ye Of the other Southern States, members Of
the old thirteen yes, members of the old thirteen that
touches my regard and my sympathies North Carolina,
Georgia. South Carolina What page in your history in
the history Of any Of you brighter than those which
have been recorded since the Union formed Or through
what eiecrhas your prosperity been geae or your peace
and happiness better secured What has South
Carolina much dissatisfied what has she Of
which her intelligent proud than those which
have been connected with Of the United Staes
La revolutionary times, and in the earliest days Of this
Consstuiion there State honoed, de-
serving 10 be honored. Where is she now And what
fall is there, my counhymen Bu leave her TO her
reflections commencing to her, with all my heart the due
CONSIDERATION OF her own example in times gone by.
Fellow citizens, there diseases Of the mind
well of the body, diseases Of communities as well dis
eases Of Individuals that be left 10 their own cure at
least il Is wise to leave them So until the last critical
rnent shall arrive
hope is not everent and certainly not intended as
reproach when say, that know stronger expression in
our Language than that which describes the restoration az
wayward son-a he came to himself" He had broken
away from all the ties Of love- family, and friendship He
bad orsaken every thing which be bad regarded in his
fathers house He had quilted his natural sympahes af-
ons and habits and taken bis journey into far country
He had gone away from himself, and cut Of himself Blu
mserrunes overlook him. and famine threatened him with
starvation and DEATH No entreates from home followed hn
bekon him back no admoDton from others warned hin
of his fate But the hour Of reflection had come, and naur
and conscience wrought within him, until at length
came TO hmselfp
And now ye men Of the new States Of the South! Yo
of the original thirteen The rat lie had been ough
and won the revolution achieved and the Constitution es
tabhed before your States had any existence Sss Yo
prepared banquet, aud had seats assigned you
table, lust honorable fhnee which filed by ode
guests You have been and ary prosperous;
any should deny this, you would contradict hi