The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1852-02-03

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l. do present these measures, any OF them, as
substitutes or rivals to the proposed systems OF railways
nor do hold them up measures which VIII, ought
or should divert attention from the railways There
wi be ability enough in the convention TO treat all OF
these questions, and present each 10 the public IN
It's true bearings upon the veal, and there is
energy with enterprise enough in that region TO carry
them all on together
e. The drowned lands in the Mississippi valley have
been eeded 10 the States in which they lie, upon cond
ton that these States in retaining theu will conine
the river within its banks.
The reclamation OF those lands would improve the eli
mate OF vast region OF country and make IL much more
saubrous IL would add vastly TO the wealth OF those
States by giving value TO the lands that useless
and greatly increase the commercial oil those
States by bringing immense regions OF these vacant lands
navigation OF the river
An object OF so much importance TO the health and
prosperity OF 30 many States and people certainly worth
looking Alter and the work. when done. should be done
in the most thorough and efectua manner
Therefore lei us pray Congress for the appointment OF
engineer who shall plan the work, and for the enact
ment OF statute requiring the States to have the work
done according TO that plan.
This work is 10 last for all time. suppose, there.
FORE merely for the sake of illustration that of the
States above be unfortunate in the
adoption OF plan that. after having let the work.
copied it, and parted with the lands, experience should
prove the plan to be bad. the work TO be useless
Louisiana, then, overlooked in spite OF herself and
her works, which will suppose really sufficient,
are thus in danger OF being rendered OF no avail
The prosperity of the valley is TO be greatly effected
by this work Of embankment, drainage, and reclamation,
and therefore the best talent that the country affords
should be employed TO direct il.
3. More than fourteen feet wafer be count
ed in crossing any of the bars Of the Baze Vessels
drawing sixteen feet sometimes dragged through
the mud
As for the ability OF New Orleans, the people who
send their produce there on its way TO Market avail
themselves of the improvement in ship building long
the passes of the river obstruced by shallow bars
il is out OF the question. The sailing qualities OF ships
according TO their models their models regulated
by their draught; and their draugh controlled by The
depth of water the bars which they have pass in
order 10 reach their destination Therefore, the people
of the great valley OF the West-ihe men whose abors
and whose enterprise have placed the heart of the
try where il is, and who supply all those great staples
Of which the business of raises revenue for
the government say, those people must be
doomed to second and hrdrae ships TO do business for
them upon the great waters until the bar the Baze
deepened.
The people OF Missouri, Iowa. and Tennessee, of Maine,
Massachusetts, and Texas, much interested in the
matter those Of louisiana
4. Steamships the railways OF the sea. Nolwh-
DC HdNindOt btedUs gOOu Turn
pike roads leading by and into city, is found by
Pile experience tina, few railroads, well placed and
brought into the same city, will vastly increase its
business and enhance its prosperity.
What is singular about these railways 49, that they do
not interfere with the unpikes the river trade They
create a business OF their own.
SO il is with lines of steamships they do not interfere
with the coasters and the sailing packets which answer
TO the tunpkes and river craft OF the Interior But they
also create business of their Look what the Eu-
ropean steamers have done for New York and Boston
So far from interfering with the business under
from those cities, they have stimulated it and made
active Ever since steamers began TO ply between
New York and Liverpool, the New York packet ships
have been increasing both in numbers and size and it is
idle for of the South and West TO rest contened upon
the great commercial advantages which Nature has
youchsafed New Orleans and 10 that region of
try by OF her own geographical position and the
geographical position OF The Gulf Of Mexico II is idle,
say, for people rest quietly upon natural advantages
and expect the proper lines of steamers TO them,
has been for them quietly upon the
which the Mississippi river gave them, while all around
them were enterprise and activity. Other cities and sec
tons tapped the Mississippi vsiey, and sent railroads
there for their benefit and advantage They may
Also from the motives, send their steamships ply
about New Orleans
The people OF New Orleans have walked up TO The
reality OF their position in Of those respects The
wachfu are caught asleep twice and il is time
they were beginning be up and doing in the other |
need not the many good openings which the Gulf
ports have for lines OF steamships.
s and g. As soon there is commercial thorough
fare across the isihmus which will unload, handle and
transport the breadsiu with the other heavy produce OF
the Mississippi valley, the islhmus and put them
on board ship in the Pacific for less than get
them as far as Cape Horn the way around, that
ment is the Gulf OF Mexico raised to the summit level
OF this worlds commerce. All nations will then be
downh from the Gulf and the people who inhabi the
great Valley OF the West, and who pass its produce
down through the Mississippi river into the Gulf and de
liver there 10 the winds OF heaven the currents of
the sea, may then take their choice, and 60 with it
by down stream and fair. wind navigation 10 any
market.place upon the seashore in the wide world
Then New Orleans. instead OF New York. should glut
the markets OF California and Peru with breadstufs and
merchandise. Then the valley of the West instead OF
the coal mines OF England and Pennsylvania, should
supply the demands which the Pacific has, and
the far greater which il will have for Goals II will give
New Orleans the command OF the Costa Rca trade, and
better coffee marke, than any she has, and she can
then send coffee along with Louisiana sugar up 10 that
other mouth Of the Mississippi which Illinois enterprise
has discovered in Lake Michigan.
Wherefore LET the people Of the South and West take
time by the iorelock, and wake up Tennessee and Ken
lucky and other parts TO their duty in that great
featuring and mining region which Nature has fitted them
TO be.
The people OF South America and California and the
isles OF the Pacific will depend them for merchandise
for the ports and outlets market OF the western people