The Northwest under three flags, 1635-1796 . the matter before allowing hisown mind to reach a decision greatly impressed Gallatinwith the force and strength of Washingtons from this horseback journey of nearly sevenhundred miles, Washington laid before Governor Har-rison of Virginia a great scheme for bringing the tradefrom Detroit and the West to tide-water by way of FortPitt and the Potomac, a route more than a hundredmiles shorter than that by way of Philadelphia, and threehundred miles shorter than the Albany CallingHarrisons attention to the fact that the fla
The Northwest under three flags, 1635-1796 . the matter before allowing hisown mind to reach a decision greatly impressed Gallatinwith the force and strength of Washingtons from this horseback journey of nearly sevenhundred miles, Washington laid before Governor Har-rison of Virginia a great scheme for bringing the tradefrom Detroit and the West to tide-water by way of FortPitt and the Potomac, a route more than a hundredmiles shorter than that by way of Philadelphia, and threehundred miles shorter than the Albany CallingHarrisons attention to the fact that the flanks andrear of the United States were possessed by Spain andEngland, he argued that unless shorter and easier chan-nels were made for the trade of the West, the stream ofcommerce will glide gently down the Mississippi;while by opening these new communications, all partsof the Union would be cemented together by common in- 1 Washingtons will. - Henry Adamss Life of Albert Gallatin, p. Pickells History of the Potomac Company, p. GEORGE WASHINGTON (After a painting by Gilbert Stuart.) PEACE THAT PROVES NO PEACE terests. By opening the eastern water communicationsto the Ohio, and by opening the Ohio to Lake Erie, wasWashingtons method to draw not only the produce ofthe Western settlers, but also the peltry and fur-trade ofthe lakes to our posts : thus adding an immense increaseto our exports, and binding these people to us by a chainwhich can never be In 1785 Washington be-came the first president of the Potomac Company, butAvhen he was elected President of the United States, in1788, he turned the office over to Thomas Johnson. Thecostly national road to Wheeling, and the Chesapeake andOhio Canal, whose crumbling masonry and still used butalmost overgrown towpaths are now more picturesquethan useful, were the direct results of Washingtons en-thusiasm for Western communications; while the Balti-more and Ohio Railroad trains now thunder along theCumberland turn
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