Letters From the Hon. Abbott Lawrence
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Excerpt from Letters From the Hon. Abbott Lawrence: The Hon. William C. Rives, of Virginia I need not say to you, that these gifts of Providence are of little consequence to your people, or to our common country, unless developed and improved, for the purposes for which they were intended. When the Constitution of the United States was adopted, Virginia contained double the population of New York; and now, New York contains double the number of people in Virginia. I do not propose to inquire into the causes that have produced such a mighty change in the relative numerical condition of these two States. I do propose, however, to state to you some of the reasons why you should now set about doing something, to bring back that prosperity, which many of your people believe is forever lost. The truth is, that Nature has been profuse in her gifts, in behalf of your people, and you have done but little for yourselves. The settlement and development of the resources of the Western country, have brought into existence an active, and effectual competition with your people, in the great staples of your agricultural products, namely, Wheat. Indian Corn and Tobacco. Maryland and North Carolina, like yourselves, are essentially affected by competition from the same quarter; from Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Michigan, Wisconsin and Iowa. The great West is now supplying largely the New England, and other States, which are consumers of these agricultural staples, in quantity and value, to a greater extent than all the foreign world besides. The internal improvements of the country already finished, have brought Boston, by steam, within the distance of four days travel of Cincinnati, by way of Buffalo; and a contemplated rail-road from Burlington, Vermont, to Ogdensburg, New York, will bring us practically yet nearer to those fertile regions of the West. The expense of transportation is essentially reduced wherever Rail-roads or Canals have been constructed, and even the Mississippi herself bears down upon her bosom the products of the West, at less than half the freight that was charged a few years ago. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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