New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-06-07

Certainly you have sufficiently economical tine IN thu
your first visit But you have devoted to Il two days hl
day Of enc week when exhausted with previcuslbors You
perhaps unfit for further duty the capitol and th
day in another week when it is forbidden alike 10 those FOR
whom laws are made and those BY whom laws made
to labor at all And even then you have no, Travelled
through Western New York but have flown it AZ the
rate ofory miles hour from the Capital to the Niagara
Only think gentlemen how little Of al that 10 be seen
IN Western New York you have allowed yourselves time %
In order reach the Cataract you have M unnotcd
the beautiful though unpreendng falls at Cohoes and the
romantic cascades of Trenton whose loveness attracts
the tourist who s familiar with the scenery of SEtz
erland There is the river which Moore celebrated City
| years sgo In the lines,
I've the mighty Mohswi iun'
You have not only measured its banks throughout. its
whole length between breakfast and dinner time but you
have crossed the Oneida the Seneca and the Genesee
You did suffer yourselves to steal glimpse Of
ether the Otsego Lake the Oneida the Disco,
the Skaneatees the Onondags the Seneca or the
Csyuga and yet you would bind yourself TO pilgrimage
to either if it only lay in foreign land. Applause
New to pass from nature TO and his works you have
bounded with equal speed must not say with Indifference
over the meadows of Herkimer Montgomery and Oneida
whose diaries supply the markets of the metropolis and
the wheat fields Of Genesee and Monroe which sustain the
manufacturers Of Lowell and Birmingham. You have
kirted the Canal through its whole extent from dewater
to the Lake Did you pause to survey the arches upon
which the Mohawk the ScAohare and the Gen.
esee. Not you. Did you stop to look at the twofod
staircase by which rises from the level OF the Genesee
TO that Of Lake Erie at Lockpor Not you You cannot,
however have forgotten pay the tribute Of admiration
and of gratitude to the genius OF De Witt Clinton which
achieved that supendous work of physical Improvement
the loe genius that the State of New York has produced
What you think of the spirit and the intelligence of the
people Of Western New York who absolutely forced upon
the metropolis the execution Of that great work which has
lifted her from being provincial seacOast town to
be the center Of the commerce of the Western World
Did you stop to where the philosopher OF S,he
nectady educaes statesmen for the couay Orto look
the other institutions for the increase and diffusion
Of knowledge among men, at Clinton Hamilton, Gene
va Lima and Rochester Did you bestOw even
thought upon the charities Of Western New York Did
you offer the homage due to the memory of Bingham who
at Utica perfected the art Of the Of ruined minis
Applsuse Or that equally due 20 the genius and phan
thropy which conceived and perfected Auburn the melt
Grafton Of pententary discipline which has been adopted
since in every civilized Christian land the globe Ap
pause You passed by all these you passed unheedei
the right and left the cities of Uta Syracuse, Oswego
Auburn. Geneva Canandaigua, Rochester Lockpor and
Bualoces built without forced labor sitting in and
security without walls all the creation ola quarter ola csnu
ry Well gentlemen, considering the dispatch you make in
the examination of Western New York think your constit
may well excuse the Of your time in leaving
the Capital for it, Laughter And what is Western
NewYOrk Let us have understanding about that. II
that part of the State which has been added the terri
tory since It a colony. hundred years ago there
about the Governor laid petition at the feet OF tbs King
Of England the effect that this poor province consisting
chiefly OF Hudsons River and Long Island exceed
ngly annoyed by the depredatons of the French and In
dams on its western borders. Western New York i tn
addition which has filled out the proportions OF that huk
and scanty province into the dimensions Of empire,
reaching from the 10 the lakes And we stand
its western frontier in the very heart OF what then
New France. Applause. But We must not
waste precious time in boasing sstern New York in
deed New York herself leaves it to other communities to
celebrate their greatness She has been always the
most modest and the least exacng of all the States in
the American Union She seeks not greatness or glory for
herself by herself she boasts OF herself she
does reply those VINO unable to understand her ch
leDge her virtue while they wonder at her prosperity and
admire her power. She seeks greatness and glory only
through the greatness and glory of the broad Republic Of
which she is the social and commercial SOUL and Of which
as we trust she ultimately will be the political head We
celebrate this occasion as we have celebrated others which
have gone before it, not as the development OF any new
policy or the sonsummson of any achievement, but
as another advance in the old and essed policy OF in
ternal Improvement indicated to us by nature, aud 50
adopted from the earliest period by statesmen Wha
we have done now, have done not from choice but
provement which inheres condition in the very exist
euce OF the State That condition j. that the City Of New
York our social and commercial center mast retain an int
mate and vital connection with the Western region OF Amer
lea You all remember the first enterprise which was
achieved under that law Il was in the time OF the good
Queen Anne when that Western region hsd already extend
ed itself beyond the limits OF Communipaw, that the Legs
sture of New.York enlightened men, worthy of having
been your predecessors took prepare wagon
road from Nyack on the bank Of the Hudson, tn
Sterling Iron Works on the border OF Orange County and
appropriated from the public treasury in order to carry
that then great enterprise into effect the of 100 pounds
currency Laughter But that prudent as we'll as
enlightened Legislature for it stipulated that before the
money should be paid the road should be made wide enough
for two wagons TO pass and the boughs Of the trees should
be cut away high enough to admit the passage OF ci'sh
LAUGHTER Frem that time until now have had liberia
Legislatures and enterprng citizens, who have opened
not only one inland river through which the waters o. II
perior and even waters tributary to the Mississippi no"
flow and nierminge with the waters OF the HUDSON Ou'
also branching rivers through the valleys Of oneida Ons
mango Osweeo Seneca and Gsnessee which bringing Id
to one common tide the trade of the continent from regions
westward to the Rocky Mountains south ward 10 me |he
apeake and northward TO where cviza on palses 'ne
presence OF eternal Applause-l OeA'iehlh' W
have never been able at any period in our history to ann
cipate the necessities or the achievements OF the next
twenty years There we're those who thirteen years ago
thought fancful and prepos,erous when IN Ai'eni
ing to grasp the distant future stated that three INES Oh
railroads auxiliary 10 these canals would be necessary %
receive the trade and travel on the frontier Of the SAFE
and conduct them TO the metropolis Now NJ ouy
are all these projected railroads in successful oP'
.ra,;o, H., ,hra or. SOME others which WIN