The making of the Ohio Valley states, 1660-1837 . Probably that war didmore to demonstrate the need of the canal, as a nationalhighway, than anything that could have happened. Butit had also left the national treasury empty. So againthat resource failed. The canal was then taken up by the State of NewYork alone. Funds were provided by laying a tax uponthe salt manufactured in the central part of the July 4, 1817, work began at Rome, the summit ofthe water-shed, and on October 26, 1825, the watersof the great lakes were quietly flowing through thecanal to the Hudson, and New York was b
The making of the Ohio Valley states, 1660-1837 . Probably that war didmore to demonstrate the need of the canal, as a nationalhighway, than anything that could have happened. Butit had also left the national treasury empty. So againthat resource failed. The canal was then taken up by the State of NewYork alone. Funds were provided by laying a tax uponthe salt manufactured in the central part of the July 4, 1817, work began at Rome, the summit ofthe water-shed, and on October 26, 1825, the watersof the great lakes were quietly flowing through thecanal to the Hudson, and New York was blazing withbonfires from one end to the other. In just a hundred ^^ears from the time the idea wasfirst advanced by Cadwallader Colden, the waters of thegreat lakes had been turned through our own territoryto the sea. It is true that the face of the country. 238 THE ERIE CANAL, 1825 through which the canal passed, was highly favorable toits construction, but from the very first it met with amost determined opposition, which required an equally. ERIE CANAL, LOCKPORT, N. T. persistent advo-cacy to De AVittClinton the canalfound its mostable advocateand friend. From the time he was won over to its sup-port, his clear head and strong will guided the project toachieved success, and so Clinton has won for himself theproud title of a public benefactor. INDIANA A STATE, 1816 289 To the New West the canal at once gave its greatestimpulse. An emigrant could now take his family therewith some degree of comfort. Valuable time was saved,and fatigue lessened. But perhaps its greatest func-tion was in providing an outlet for the produce of theNorthwest to the greatest markets of the East. Men arenow living who travelled over this canal to the West, lit-tle dreaming that it would so soon be superseded bysteam railways, except for the carriage of grain from theWest, or merchandise from the East. INDIANA A STATE, 1816 Two 3^ears before the war of 1812 Indiana had buttwenty-four thous
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