Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1900-02-08

ada and New York. From the South End
of Lake Champaign overland to Troy on
! Hudson River is (by land Carriage) sew
enty miles-thence to n. York by water
one hundred and sixty-fve miles. From
the North end of Lake Champlain at Fort
st. John to the River st. Lawrence below
| Montreal by locks and canals is sixteen
males. The country on both sides of Lake
Champlain is fertile and populous; it's
cultivation and population rapidly in
creasing Their exports and imports
are great and will be greater. and may
pass through canal to St Lawrence five
hundred per cent cheaper than oves land
to Hudson's River and New York The
waters of Vermont running into st. Law
romeo and the mountains of the South
nanifestly show that Nature never intend
ed New York as Il seaport for Vermont
The immense quantities of pine white
oak and other timber growing on rivers
which enter into Champlain, the pig and
bar iron the pot and pearl ashes wheat
-four, Hemp and other productions OF Yer
mont, cannot nrd market but through
the River st. Lawrence, by the help of
Canal, which cannot but create a friend
~ intercourse between both countries on
the most pcrmanent basis.
For tn O and similar rels ons your NJ M
orialist imploros your grace 70 take into
consideration the great and necessary ben
Gifts the said canal will produce 10 both
countries, and to order the said canal TO
be opened at the expense OF the British
government or 10 permit II TO De done
under n Royal patent by your Memorial
ISL, VINO taxes me liberty 10 oiter the
following proposals:
Your MemoraliSt will, at his own eX-
pense open the said canal in the best
manner aIter que examination ana Keep
II in repair subject to toll OF tfteeri
per cent upon the money eNrehd' ;--that
your Memorla1st may be permitted 10
shining N -
tneH durihg peace under BRUSH regis
tors ana clearanccs, according TO the nav
lSaloh laws OF England SUI IN tune OF
war between England and other NATIONS
me ShipillS 50 pullt pH your MelHoil''i.
10 nc registered ana cleared out at AZ
n"ls"' pott III vermont anu pei n''''' "
10 p'Ss tle Na'crs Oh Caiaua' as III tns
eailore--tbot VOW, ,tororiaIis, hs nermit-
ted to export from Vermont to and
through Lawer Canada, flower" Biscuit
par IRON, h1iioW ware steeh ie"u' C1ppei ;
nroi,,ne ~ .aid o,,.r,..-tbat M tax or
duty shall over be imposed on imports
from the British dominion into Vermont
vi On me eNpor Us Vi u 'hoiiC l""5n "a.
80 H., ,ho Ioaisio,,,ra 80 = 1r.or r.,,,d, =
that the owners and naviaators of shi,s
and vessels so built and owned by the
- -. t,.;,
ain MS the subjects Of Lower canada.
bounties allowed by the British Pdrla-
nent ony excepted
,ha ,f,.siIo,,ntior ~ ,o,,, c:racc ana en-, n
amendments as may be deemed proper,
On TINS important business. me prayer
w. ' ,i,taS ~ tai'a ,Ios' oiicnte mar
consideration and Lestow such favors as
may contribute to the peace ana prospect
~ u Nerio.i' onu w ' 49,, i" G'' -" ,
ahlc Won. Man,orialist soon TO return home
with joy and gratitude for royal indul-
sence.
l'' 90 10 -. ''''''' IDA ,fTISN
January 26 1896
Roceivinae no replv to his memorial.
Alton on rho Cd Of March addressed n
second letter to the Duke. covering the
same ground as the foregoing, with an
added massage in which he says that a
tract of land estimated at a hundred and
uftv mi,es SQUARE required a market on
Lake Cbamo,ain. that the inhabitants of
he greater part of these lands removed
in consequence of the war of 1897: that
their buildings were destroyed by fire
not an inhabitant or building in the
State. except tho garrisons at Dutchmal s
Point and Point au Fer. There were
now. he said. some $4,000 souls in the
region about Lake Chanpain. and the
ron,,1ation ,vould double in ten wears.
Thesa would want not less than 100 900
bushels of salt. and e3onOO0 worth Of
English Goods annually which they would
nav for in iron. hemp. not and pearl
,sboa ubeat hoaf nork butter cheese.
cash and hills of exchange and a canal
,,or,,i,ti,, vessels of ono hundred tons
,r NAV, womb ba advantopeous to both
cour4ries esnecioi,v when Great Britain
u.os at war wifi, other countries
,.;,b ,ba Duro Ala,
vac as,,d ~ tho intercourse NJ the YER
,,or,.-, and Canadians would not seduce
,ba Io,,.r N ro,olt from Great Rritair-
england and France being then at war.
.,,ar ro,,;ed TINT thera vas now free i'm.
that there would be less personal contact