The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1913-07-25

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K'ovt fhefn ilke gsnfteren ahile they
Are omr representative esve fhern
-GuxzpeseSsf powers for ain federal rns-
Eoses Support fhen 10 TIE Que ertr.
raAe tllerecf and, lastly. 10 compel
fhe1S 70 close attendance IL congress
starInx thesr celeeafion
Bat 2is Thoughts tn~k WIDER scope
es The raorths passed: ard nothing
ssniehnned them ra0re than hss uesterr
rrsp.
re nsw bow mueh q the future
Travelled Win those rlow wagon trains
~ lnmigrants into tha west. realsxed
AaDw thfy were leaving behind thera
whe ESTegE thAf ran to the Old ports
~ me aea and going down into the
valleys whca outlet sas the xreas
highway o. the Mississippi snd the
Eswts p fhe gaif. how me grsat ridge
- ne Akexhnnlea lay piled between
thesD arc the older seats nf settle
gne1st a9sh only here and there 4 zap
" ies road fArcneh. Only here ana
There twC rivers hing close enough
~ sheSr sc9rces 10 liak the eaet xith
ahe west. and the likelihood n sepa-
rxf5er betwesn the tw0 populations
xeerpFf fp him a. obvious al the TIL o.
1he ro1ntsins up0n eifher slope.
wcrcs Ct WIacsm.
There IL nofhinx which binds one
rcoaetry or cne state to another bu,
anirrext he said. Without THIS ~.
rnen1 re western inhabitants. whs
Encre than probah biz win be composed
En- greet degree of FOREIGNERS. can
have ~ prediction fof Ms. ard
ccrsgaFrcial connection IL the only tge
ne can have iron them
Tie western settlers he declared
white ssh fresh from the Ohio. stand
~ L we're Npon pivot The touch
~ = Feather would turn them any way
Gown she mississippi 10 Join their
8utwesfs Nlth those 81 fhe spaniard
or back 70 the mountain roads and the
neadwassrs Of the eastern streams. Ia
make for themselves a new allegiance
In the cast
ise Nas glad to see the Spaniard 40
ifgpolItle rs to close the Mississippi
assinst the commerce offered him. and
s'opcd ihat things might stand so until
there should have been "a little time
allowed 70 open and make easy the
~aya between the Atlantic states and
che western territory
To Open the Potomac.
The opening or the upper reaches
OF the Potomac 20 navigation had long
been q fayorite object with Washing.
ton: now II seemed nothing less than
\ necessity
V had been part of the orIgina!
scheme OF the old Ohio company 10
use this means OF winning way for
commerce through the mountains
Steps had been taken more than TWEEN.
~ years ago 10 act IN the matter
through private subscription: and ae-
tive measures for securing the neces-
,sary legislation from the Assemblies
sof Virginia and Maryland were stiii
In course when Washington was call.
ID 10 Cambridge and revolution drew
rncs's minds imperatiyely on from the
busIness
For an Empires Trade.
In ITO Washington had written 10
Jefferson Of the project as means OF
opening a channel for "the extensive
trade OF a rising empire" now the
empire Of which he had had a vision
wns no longer Britain's but Americas
own. and Il was become matter of
exigent political necessity to keep that
rsestern country against estrange-
fment. winning II by commerce and
close sympathy TO join Itself with the
old oclCnies IN building up free com
pany 81 united states upon the great
continent
Already the west was astlr for the
FORMATION Of new states
Virginia had taken The broad and
national view Of her duty that Wash
Fngtcn himself held. and had eeded to
che confederation all her ancient
claims 10 the lands that lay northwest
OF the Ohio river. reseTving for her,
relf only the fair region that stretched
south OF that great stream, from her
avn mountains 70 the Mississippi
North caroiira's Settlers Defiant
North Carolina would have ceded
ber western lands beyond the
mountains also. had tney been
empty and unclaimed like
the vast territory that lay
belond the Ohio. But for MANY year
settlers had been crossing the noun
taIns into those fertile valleys. and
both this region and that which yir
ginia still kept showed many clear
Eng ROW and many rude hamlet
where hardy ffontiersmen were max
ing new home for civilization.
Rather than be handed over 70 con.
gress. 70 be disposed Of By an author
fty which 10 one else was boBnd 70
obey. North caroiina's westerH So,
tiers declared they would form
etafe cf their Own. ard North CaSoilns
mad to recall her gif, Of their lands y
e.ae confederation before their plans
81 defiance could be checker ano d
gea1ad
vlreinia found her own fronilers
,us., ia less ready 70 take the isitsas
W. n 1a1teyer affair toseaed heir
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