. Indiana and Indianans : a history of aboriginal and territorial Indiana and the century of statehood . evisinga plan for action upon the subject. A bill was introduced in the Houseof Representatives having in view that object. The bill, as originallyintroduced, was not such as met the approbation of the majority. Theobjection to it was, not that it contained too much, but that it did notcontain enough. And some of those who are now most loud in theirdenunciations of the system, were amongst the foremost in adding amend-ment to amendment until we had literally checkered the whole Statewith im
. Indiana and Indianans : a history of aboriginal and territorial Indiana and the century of statehood . evisinga plan for action upon the subject. A bill was introduced in the Houseof Representatives having in view that object. The bill, as originallyintroduced, was not such as met the approbation of the majority. Theobjection to it was, not that it contained too much, but that it did notcontain enough. And some of those who are now most loud in theirdenunciations of the system, were amongst the foremost in adding amend-ment to amendment until we had literally checkered the whole Statewith imaginary canals and roads of different kinds. That bill, sir, be- INDIANA AND INDIANANS 395 came too ponderous to be carried by its original friends; and those wliowere the true friends of the State and her best interests, by commonconsent, laid it upon the table to sleep the sleep of death. But theydid not abandon the hope of adopting some system that might, in theend, prove beneficial to the people. As yet no provision had been madefor the further prosecution of the Wabash and Erie Canal, which had. Judge David Kilgore been commenced some years before; and to the friends of that workother portions of the State looked for aid in the commencement andprosecution of a well digested system of improvements. And for thepurpose of securing that aid, we were unwilling to see that work pro-vided for alone. A proper feeling was evinced from that quarter to-wards other interests. * * * But whilst we were devising somesafe and proper plan for such a system, to our great astonishment, amessenger from the Senate announced the passage of a bill through that 396 INDIANA AND INDIANANS body, providing for the further prosecution of the Wabash and ErieCanal. This, sir, was unexpected, and produced that confusion in ourranks that might well be expected under such circumstances. All knewfull well that if that bill passed, it would take from us many votes uponwhich we had been confidently relying to
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