The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1855-12-14
From the ST. Louis Republican
The Future Of the keystone State-NeW
York and Pennsylvania.

York and Pennsylvania.
New York IS and long has been the Empire
State OF our conlederacy but there are causes
'at work which are likely to reduce her tlom
her present proud eminence. and elevate Sis
ter STATE 10 the imperial position, and character
she has heretofore enjoyed Pennsylvania is
the towering rival, whose portrntious crest IS
looming up out Of the shadow cast by her neigh
Dor, and reaching forth to snatch the sceptrp
which that neighbor thoaght would always be
her own
New forkers are a demonsrative people,
PennsylvauianS are the reverse. The former
are always in commoiion-holdIng meetings,
passing resolves, writing, speaking, talking, ira
ding and working noiSiy, and thereby impress
sing on their neighbors and the world bewil-
dering sense of their superior activity, energy
and enterprise The Pennsylvanians seem
slow and steady-going yet they are generally
earnestly and derSeverngiy at work for the ac-
compliShment of some great work, none the less
talked of. New York has greater population,
and more votes in Congress than Pennsylvania ;
bat this order Of things will be reversed in a
f,w years. Pennsylvania will be the first, and
New York the second star in the political fir
mamen; Pennsylvania will rise, and New York
Descend one step, thereby reversing their present
relative positions. Does any one ask how this
will b., and is being brought about? The an
sWer is easy.
New York has been binding railroads from
Que crntrc-her chief city-toWardS the West.
Instead of having 10 cat through, or 90 over
mountains, as Pennsylvania did, she coult' 90
round them. Her huge cana! and gigantic lines
Of rail, conversing at Manhattan Island, radia-
ted towards the lakes on the North, and the
opening between the lakes and the mountains
on the West. The enormous trade Of nearly
the whole west rolled along the Erie and Cen
trail Railroads, or coated along the Erie canal,
to be deposited for distribution in the warebou-
ses and on the quays Other chief city.
But while these railroads and this canal car
ried this foreign wealth through the State they
also bore home wealth oat OF if. The high pri-
ces paid within the last few years Tor the very
western produce which sought market at
New York CITY, together with the facility
which the railroad OF the State offered 10 emf
grants goin- west, has induced heavy eIaigra-
tlon from the Empire State 10 the cheap farm
ing lands OF the Northwest. The consequence
is, that Wide the stream oIifadr from tbe west
has Swolea the dimensions Of New York city,
the stream OF trade to the west is depicting
New lori: State. Thr farIrrt has been Built
Up 10 its present imposing proportions, al such
fabulous rapiditv, at the expense OF The latter.
In short, the internal Improvements Of New
York State were built with an eye to com
merc- alone. and not with view TO the dtvel-
opmgnt of her hidden clements of wealth. The
business they do is enormous: bat It is through
business whose benefits are not scattered ov The
wayside, bat deposited IN a lump in thr Golfers
Of the merchant princes and ship owners OF
glorious Gotham.
Pennsylvania, with all the old-fogyism charr
ed on her, has pursued wjs"r and more ois-
Greet poljcy. The AieghpairS long lay as
an almost usurmouutable barrier between her
aud thr west. The buildings of tunnels through,
and roads oyer them, was the work Of years
She could not run over the Alieghrnies, to the
West, as niublv and quicIiy as her rival could
around them. She had, therefore, to giv" up
the West, neaSurabiy, to New York, and look
to a less remote source for wealth. Shr turned
her eyes homeward, and saw coal veIns and
iron beds inviting labor. ard promising riches
to thoS- " hn would turn them up. She built
mills, factories and furnaces. and flied them
with the workers whom new 1ork sent abroad.
Sue built farming towns Ia her valleys, aad
manufacturing towns among her coal and iron
hl'is, and connected the two BY railroads tfat
the iarmS tni4at supply thF "''is With i"oe'
Wo'i' 'He mus sUPPnr' lhe farmers WIN man
"ia''tf'S. ~ sa'r' IF"'>y y'<''''a ','' f'&@S 70
serve as c"ahArS 'or 'he r'cProca' trace l' .'PF
own cH'zr'%' as wei. as '"F l'F .'op ''t'd'''h
n' i"Fr'SR lhFooSh trace ii'F INDUSTRY was
lhefr'orr ai'fr>iafd, charged ana ennaH'fd.-
one KEPT 0er citizens at nome 2y g'''oS i''Hl
work. 20 one can la'i 70 Ft'na'% the paoC',y %