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Report of Samuel B. Ruggles, Commissioner Appointed by the Governor of the State of New York, Under the Concarrent Resolution of the Legislature, of ... of the Canals for National Purposes - Softcover
Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1863. Excerpt: ... one tier of tlie locks of the Erie and of the Oswego canals, to a size sufficient to permit the passage of mail-clad vessels adequate to the defence of our northern and northwestern frontier. Your memorialists are aware that the important subjects aboye referred to have recently received the full attention and careful consideration of abte and appropriate committees both of the Assembly and the Senate, whose official reports, just made to the respective Houses, are of the most satisfactory and comprehensive character. They embrace succinctly, but fully, the most important features of our lake commerce, and especially its present defeijpeless condition, and exhibit the necessity of the proposed Enlargement of the locks on our canals, with a force and clearness which leaves little for your memorialists to add They tf ill only express their earnest conviction, with that of the numerous body they represent, that the highest interests of the State and of the American Union demand prompt and vigorous action by the proper authorities to secure to the vast interests, bbth State arid national, at stake on our inland seas, that equality of naval defence, with that equality also of "naval access, which was the true and only object of the diplomatic arrangement with regardto the lakes supplementary to the treaty of Ghent. That equality of condition has been virtually destroyed, whether intentionally or not, by the construction of ship canals, in Canada, of dimensions far beyond the requirements of any existing commerce, and capable of placing powerful vessels of war. without a moment's warning, upon that undefended water frontier. As inhabitants of a city, to be severely taxed for municipal, State and national objects, it is gratifying to your memorialists to know th...
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