. Dulany's history of Maryland. st imposing procession ever seen by thepeople in Maryland. On the 4th of July, 1826, John Adamsand Thomas Jefferson died, and of all the signers of theDeclaration of Independence, but one then remained. Thisone was Charles Carroll of Carrollton, who seemed to standbetween two generations as the only visible link connectingthe living with the fifty-six immortal signers. He wasthen the only representative on earth of the Congress of17T6, and, more than ninety years of age, he still stooderect, transmitting unimpaired to posterity the blessingswhich had been transm
. Dulany's history of Maryland. st imposing procession ever seen by thepeople in Maryland. On the 4th of July, 1826, John Adamsand Thomas Jefferson died, and of all the signers of theDeclaration of Independence, but one then remained. Thisone was Charles Carroll of Carrollton, who seemed to standbetween two generations as the only visible link connectingthe living with the fifty-six immortal signers. He wasthen the only representative on earth of the Congress of17T6, and, more than ninety years of age, he still stooderect, transmitting unimpaired to posterity the blessingswhich had been transmitted to him. He formally com- 262 THE HISTORY OF MARYLAND. menced the work on this great raih-oad by the ceremony oflayhig the corner-stone with his own hands, in the presenceof a vast multitude. 3. I consider this among the most important acts ofmy life, said he, addressing his friends, second only tomy signing the Declaration of Independence, if even it besecond to that. 4. In 1828 Daniel Martin was elected governor of Mary-. land, and imderhis admniistiationthe lailioad a^isput in operationas far as EllicottsMills, a distanceof fifteen milesfrom Light Street wharf, Baltimore. Small passengercars, resembling, in many particulars, the old-style stage-coaches, were put on the track and drawn by horses. Thefreight cars resembled large square boxes on wheels, andthey were covered with white cotton material, similar tothat used for wagon sheets on the turnpike roads. Peo-ple came from widely distant parts of the United Statesto see a raih-oad in operation, and to enjoy a ride on thecars for the gratification of their curiosity. GRASSHOPPERS. 263 5. When the road was finished as far as Harpers Ferry,where the Potomac and Shenandoah Rivers meet in the BlueRidge Mountains, steam engines called grasshopperswere put on the road, in place of mules and horses, and longand heavy trains of cars, couj^led together by chains, Averedrawn along by the grasshoppers at the rate of fifteenor twe
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