Gen. Harper's Speech, to the Citizens of Baltimore; On the Expediency of Promoting a Connexion Between the Ohio, at Pittsburgh, and the Waters of the Chesapeake, at Baltimore, by a Canal Through the District of Columbia. Volume 17, No. 2 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1824 edition. Excerpt: ...their produce, and the greater abundance and cheapness of the sup'plies for the 'return trade, but also ot the greater healthiness of the place and the intervening countries, and of the facilities which the manufacturing establishments of Baltimore would afford them, for exchanging their raw materials for those 'domestic fabrics of which they would stand in need: all which circumstances furnish motives of preference for the Baltimore market, too strong to be resistedby the growing population of these fertile and extensive regions, if it were opened to them by the proposedcanal. '-Nor ought it to be forgotten, that to all the countries on the upper part of the Ohio and its highest branches, the_ market of Baltimore would be much nearer than New Orleans: the distance from Pittsburg to the latter city being two thousand two hundred miles, along the Ohio and Mississippi, while that to Baltimore along the proposed canal would not exceed three hundred or three hundred and fifty. From 'Cincinnati, neardthe southwestern extremity of Ohio, to Baltimore, the distance would be' much less than that to New-Orleans; and from Shawnee-town, the ' 'lowest_point o-fthc state_ of Indiana on the Ohio, not much-greater. From Louisville, at the t-a.ls_of Ohio, by the river-to New Orleans, is about fifteen hundred miles. To Balti more, by the.Ohio-and the proposed 'canal, it would he one thousand, or one thousand and fifty. And there is no reason to doubt that in relation to the country still lower down, and consequently nearer to New-Orleans. the additional distance 'to Baltimore would be more than compensated, by the superior advantages of the market; especially for the return trade: the investments...