The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1859-05-31
No. TX.
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T0THE MERCHANTS OF BALTIMORE
Your great thoroughfare has been made to wander
strangely out OF its track under the guidance of these
Diicy people, Cincinnati is the bright planet in the
commercial system OF all the Atlantic cities, TO which
their needles all point
The early founders Baltimore road planted their
compass and followed the point of its needle with
doubling steps straight out to this star of their
attraction Careless Of cost they struck bee line level
ling the mountains and bestrding the rivers until ex
haused by labor they paused for breath the banks of
the Ohio
COMPASS TAMPERED wITH-METALLIc ATTRACTION.
At this stage of Its journey policies super
vened and the needle of your compass been touched
with other magnets. 1t no longer plays free and points
direct upon the goal of your early exertions You now
hnd your commerce wandering fifty miles from its
sraighest course. This wrong visible ai prompt
redress is matter of commercial necessity
When such derelicton with the needle on ord-
nary surveys is at ascrbed to the existence of
metallic attraction thereabout Every man who ap.
and his foreign substance Pockets are searched for
knives and keys, and all are laid asidel
SEARCH THEM SEARCH THEM!l
The needle of your compass evidently has been tam
pered with 1t manifestly does not play true to your
'metac attraction in the direction the Central Ohio
railroad Let pockets be searched and let the persons of
such as have been saturated with III magnetic influence
De removed aar from your compass This is the usual
this the simple this the sensible remedy for the evil
Until adopted your vain wanderngs in search Of com
merce will be yet for an underlined time.
These policy men will hold with desperate grasp the
where of the success of their management These boasts
deceptive and designed to cheat attention
lhelr reasoning fallacious and absurd What
they, lis so miles for railroad Exercise is good your
locomotives! This circuit of the Central Ohio Road
they assure you, is all for your own goodS,!n -
YOUR GOODS AND CHATTELs TOO
1t happened once, that German princess fell heir the
crown OF England. She had the reputation of being
covetous and eXacng and her accession the throne
was very unpopular. On her arrival in London how
ever the usual honos of procession bestowed.
This future Queen spoke English language imper-
fecty and in addressing the multitude she them
she had come for all Of their gOOdS The crowd shouted
out yes and for chatteS tooN''
assured. Merchants DjtouSD ms
sage has been imposed on your commerce or all Of
goods, andfor your chattets too''
GREAT AIM PURPOSE THIS ARGUMENT.
II the argument of these numbers has any force its
whole power has been directed to revive in the public
mind the first and elementary purpose of this city You
claimed the commerce of Cincinnati because your geo
graphical position gives it you. With energy and cour
age you have expended S25O0O0OO to grasp it. Your
reach has proved little and very ttle short you hare
almost cutched it. But whilst you have rested the
banks of the Ohio and have slept recruit exhausted
nature, evil spirits have ruled.
Let this argument be the trumpet signal to call you to
great unfinished work In your heavy sleep this gilded
calf has been imposed upon you let the first effort oyour
and even as wi the sword of the of Levi fall
upon the doaters and smite them in their wickednes
APLAIN foUST1SG-RoOM TALK.
Dropping all metaphor and further illustration and as
suming that have succeeded to show these wicked
wrongs done on the commerce of Baltimore, my mission
is incomplete unless impress the imminent peril Of a
permanent nferiory the mart of Cincinnati which
threatens this city. propose to hold fresidea
cotnt'ng room tax auth y0uas property holders
payers and intelligent of personal interests
and willing to their efficient defence.
would hrst ask YOU by way of reminder, who is your
competitor for the Cincinnati market and that
market embraces the lower belt Ohio Mississippi
valleysS
STRUGGLE WITH PHILADELPHIA
on answer Philadelphia is our formidable competitor.
the Philadelphia he Baltimore Roads than over
their own roads Philadelphia is therefore, strongest
rival for that market
But Secondly, remind you that Philadelphia is a
larger city possessed of larger capital she has vastly
greater manufacturing and mechanical interests already
dave hal
ted States and sails (coastwise larger merchant
rne In these important respects she is therefore,
attractive market. / would ask YOU what constitutes
better claim upon the Lower Mississippi? In what
way and by what agency will you overwhelm all these
advantages of your enterprsng and inte ligent anita
gonist?
You are surprised at my question You have been
educated to think your city undoubted mistress of her
own latitude In reply, you point to the map and
claim a greater proximity your defence.
CLOSE .scRurINY-YARD sTIKc AND SCALES IN Re
QUESTION.
Now let us measure this superiority Let weigh as
in scales, this element of your strength In stru
gle with such rival you nothngvou aanst
preSme nothing. In this mighty collision of physical
effort for an imperial commerce. all glosses, all that is
mere pretension will stuff of Truth harsh unmitgated
Truth, will be evolved. There shetering from this
truhit will force upon you Better therefore to know
it in its ruggedness-to measure it with precision and
with Intelligent energy to provide for its unavoidable
eXgences.
Your defence in this struggle your trusted superi
ority is in the shorter distance of Cincinnati
BE not mistaken an efd Let us be of ats practical
truth Let us measure and see how much less of distance
as practical e"q"ry-and you must not be deceived by
linea measure of distances.
In the transport of tonnage, equated gives
practical distance Your railroad has higher grades and
many of them than the Philadelphia road Its dis
tances therefore for purposes much greater
than Its neal measurement indicates. will not fatigue
you with detail of distances of routes will give you
results.
DISTANCES COMPARED.
The lineal distance between Philadelphia and Cincin |
natl by the best route she tcH adopt 665 miles This
after the cut off from Pitsburg to Steubenvie, with its
bridge over the Ohio is in operation At present the dis
tance is 600 miles. This distance be reduced CSC
miles by adoption of the CHARTERS Valley Wheeling
roueor may be reduced to 643 miles by building
in addition short road from Greensburg Washingt
These shorter lines however, involve such sacrifices of
existing interests, and such large additional pecunary
Investment that state the ultimate distance of Phia
dephia to Cincinnati 665 miles with the off of6eO
as at present
The shortest inea distance from Baltimore to cncn-
natl is had from Parkesburg or
over the Hocki Valley Road lin point of distance
about the same,) and will measure about $50 miles
The two cities will therefore, compare in linea distances
thus:
P PPhii?dephia to Cincinnati uinealy.... es5 miles
Lineal advantage of Baltimore,.... .... S5 miles
EoUATED MEASURE EXPLAINED.
This, however, is only apparent advantage. told
that in transport of tonnage distance computed not
by linea measurement but by practical eqad measure
Two horses will draw burden over level road The foot
Of hdl-ten horses required draw the hM
mile of the Hill draught therefor practically equal
five miles of level draugh This Is what is known as
the equated distance. You the necessity of
taking in such elements in making comparisons of the
relative strength of the two cities, in this commercial
struggle.
PRACTICAL RESULTS.
If the better grades to Philadelphia be considered and
the great advantage of her bridge Ohio
taken INTO the estimate no practical man will Judge such
advantages equiv less than fifty miles of lineal
distance. 1t is thus that for practical results the
natural advantages of Baltimore frittered down
by the artificial superores of her rval-and when mea
sured by practical truth they give the your ad
vantage as only 35 miles of shorter distance .
lou must remember that this comparison based upon
he adoption of your shortest Cincinnati If in
teresed parties longer succeed YOU the
Central Ohio route and thus take your over 81
miles of additional distance, Philadelphia is thereby
made for all practical purposes l6 miles Cncn
natl than is Baltimore. Then, indeed will YOU lose all
your goods and yo'tr chdtelS tO,!i
1t essential that you comprehend these details of rel
atve advantage possess in this deadly struggle for
commercial supremacy There is safety for you an an
ignorance Of the utmost truth Blind trust in mere anna
rent advantage when for practical uses you have no a
vantage, will but betray and destroy.
CoUNTING-RooM TALK TO BE CONTINUED.
must not fatigue attention. will continue this
counting talk with you in another number 1pdrn
you to doubt to question: 10 lot ability to conpee
lo Philadelphia for the lower belt of the MiSsssipp In
that struggle there can be disguse assumptions
The rugged truth will rise up upon you. 1t may
hid-it cannot be blinded.
The city with the best appointments will prevail Be
not as the foolish vrgnsno yet he which buried the
one talent that given him. When the conflict comes
upon you have your lamps all trimmed your house
holds well ordered Trust not slothfuly natural
vanages, but improve them he did whom the
ten talents were given. A. J. VI.