Indiana American. [volume] (Brookville, Ind.) 1833-1861, 1854-03-24

yes, We think probable--that some
time or other, Cincinnati would find IL
TO her advantage TO be in the centre
between two large coal fields. and to
have Railroads on both. And is il
not a query worthy to be pondered
over, whether the western coal fields
are not OF more consequence TO Cincin-.
matt than the eastern ones?
Such is very rapid and very gen.
eral sketch Of the position which In
dianapolis occupies toward Cincinnati.
IL certainly needs but a very brief out
line TO show that no other city in the
Union is. in a Railroad point OF view,
of more consequence 10 Cincinnati
Think Of it reader. that by making
SO miles of Railroad, the Queen Of the
West may tap the Railroad net we
have described, and secure to itself
connections with Chicago, Hannibal,
Burlington, Springfield. Alton and St.
Louis, and an endless chain westward
OF those. The mind tires in trying to
grasp the multifariousness of the
scope.
And just as importantis our Rail-
road to Indianapolis. The Railroad
men OF the latter city may smile ut
this, but we beg them to restrain their
risible faculties long enough for US to
attempt, at least, to demonstrate to
them the fact. that all their Western
and North western Railroads, benefit
ted as they no doubt are by the roads
to Fort Wayne. Dayton. Cleveland.
Pittsburg, Madison, and even Law
reneeburg, will lack one chief element
TO their success. AS long as they are not
directly connected with Cincinnati by
an independents Railroad. A very
slight examination of Western products.
anu OF their wants, both prospective
and present. will soon bring conviction,
that the markets of Baltimore and
Charleston are necessary 10 give this
trade healthy tone; nor must Wash
ington City be omitted as point which,
for passengers, is important.
IL is we'll established axiom that
nothing renders the existence of cities
and nations more precanous, than a
one-sided tendency Of their industry
and trade. We should not rely too
much on the New York market alone.
The break in our eastern connections
at Erie, which occurred this winter
should be lesson to the West, since
from this or similar causes, that eastern
market may be cut off, with which
alone we may have our business con-
nections. Indianapolis and the entire
West will find. as our western connec-
tons multiply, and as our country gets
developed, and as its productions are
in greater variety, so should our cas-
tern markets and the means to them
be multiplied A southwestern route
to the Ono river, independent, both OF
the st. Louis and the Ohio, Indiana,
and Central routes, is essential to the
business of indianapolis, and Cincin-
matt is, that point ON the Ohio river,
which makes the policy We have indi-
Gated effective. The merchants and
the railroad men of Indianapolis can
calculate what advantage direct road
to Cincinnati would have been worth
to them this winter. They know how
rapidly thsir trade increases, and they
know full we'll, that none except a
straight line road to Cincinnati gives to
them that point on the Ohio river,
where they meet that combination of
wealth aud choice OF routes, which
gives to their business thrift and vigor.
We need not ampliiy this point, be-
cause the fact that indianapolis has,
compelled by circumstances which have
now happily disappeared, spent much
of its means on railroads terminating
on some point on the Ohio river, must
be regarded as the most convincing
proof that our views are correct. The
Lawrenceburgh and the Madison roads
were built brcause these two cities
prevented railroads from being built 10
Cincinnati; and we are very sure, that
If Indianapolis had had her free choice
she would have sought, first OF all, u
railroad connection with CINCINNATI
We ask every man OF sense, whether,
il the State line between Ohio and In
diana had been run u littlc east OF Gin
cInnali, and this Guy had thereby been
part OF the latter STATE. whether Law
renceburgh would have eoer been scri-
ously thought OF rs the point on the
Ohio river 10 which Indiana commerce
should be drawn by railroad? In
this era OF good sense, il is certainly
wise. in commercial point Of view. TO
act as IL there was no longer any State
line between Ohio and lndianal We
therefore urge upon Cincinnati and In
dianapolis, The completion Of that link
in their respective commercial policy,
which will bind them forever here af-
ter inseparably together. This is de-
manded By every consideration of pat
riotism and interest.
Cinclnnati's dangerous rivals. in so
much OF the western trade as legiIi-
mately belongs TO her. are those rail-
roads which run from indianapolis, eli
Their in due easterly direction. or
which, running in the same direction,
are tributary TO roads running north
wardly. These routes divert trade
and travel from Cincinnati. The ST.
Louis road is too far south to counter
act this tendency, and the Lawrence
burg road being a tributary TO this
same road, and having local interest
of its own to subservc, can not, and
will not do it successfully. The rail-
roads leading out of Dayton to Xenia
and Springfield, thence to Delaware,
Columbus or Chilicothe, are, rs they
havea right to be, allies in this general
nnlicv to denriva Cincinnati Of the was.