The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1869-07-29
Baltimore and Boston.


The Boston Sunday Courier has an
article on the general view Of the posi-
ton Of Baltimore in connection with
the system of internal improvements
carried on by the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad Company, based on the re-
marks of Mr.. Garrett, president, before
his board Of directors in April last.
The Courier says;
"The progress of that city during the
last ten years has been very great, the
deserved consequence of the far-reach-
ing policy inaugurated nearly forty years
ago by that highly intelligent aud en-.
terprising community. We are not
like some of our northern cotemporaries
only just now alive to this great devel
opment, and ready to attribHte it to the
result of the abolition Of slavery, for it
is no new thing. Baltimore was large.
ly aud steadily benefited by the com.
pletiou some years ago of the Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad to Wheeling and
Parkersburg, and it was not contented
to rest there. 1t has pressed onward,
and is building a railroad to Pittsburg
on the northwest, aud through the Val
ley of Virginia toward the Tennessee
line on the southwest. At the same
time, by judicious arrangements with
the Marietta railroad to Cincinnati, and
the Lafayette railroad beyond that city,
the Baltimore and Ohio company has
through lines to St. Louis, Chicago and
the Pacific. Baltimore on tide. water
is thus placed nearer the west, north.
west aud southwest, than any city on
the Atlantic coast, and it is feeling the
full benefit Of its connections.
"a liue of steamships to Bremen,
established last year, has already been
doubled and the business increases fas.
ter than the shipping facilities. West.
ern produce outward, and foreign i'm.
migrants inward, gave profitable freights
both ways, while the fact that the cost
of coal is two dollars ton less than in
New York, enables their steamers to
run SO much the cheaper. Great ad,
vantages are anticipated from the OK
tension Of the Winchester railroad from
Harrisburg to Salem, which has been
provided for, giving an inland route to
New Orleans aud bringing the Valley
of Virginia into the most direct com.
munication with Baltimore. The great
value and productiveness of this region
is illustrated by the fact that it was the
backbone and sustenance of the rebel
lion in Virginia, and General Lee has
declared that in his advances northward
he had no idea Of invading Pennsylva-
MIA, or even fighting the battles Of
Antietam and Gettysburg, but only to
divert the Union forces from the Valley
while the harvests were being secured
and indeed to prcveutagricultural opera
tons from being disturbed there at all
"Thc direct interest that Boston aud
New England have in all this is, that it
makes Baltimore cheap market for
breadstuffs and provisions, whence they
can be brought to our wharves aud
ports, waterborne, much moro cheaply
than by rail, atfOrding employment to
our shipping, and giving inland trans
portation to our railroads.
"Do we not acknowledge Southern
superiority and show fear of it, when
we keep them in political subsection
and under all sorts Of disabilities And
should we not do better to make them
our co-workers in restoring our coun-
try's prosperity :" 80 "a