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intelligent population, with the inducements offered by the interest- 

 ing position she occupies in the Union, and by the high social and 

 political obligations which she owes no less to herself than to the 

 Union, and to her Sister States, and which plainly require that she 

 should at all times endeavor to maintain her relative standing and 

 character, your Memorialists are confident that the public sentiments 

 will sustain them in urging with earnestness upon the representa- 

 tives of the freemen of Pennsylvania, the immediate adoption of 

 decisive measures for commencing the work, and prosecuting it to 

 completion with all the energy of the State. 



And your Memorialists would fain hope that local wishes or 

 views will not be allowed to interfere with or retard the undertak- 

 ing; but that it will proceed upon enlarged principles, by the most 

 direct practicable route. They admit that whatever may be its 

 locality, the benefit will in the first instance be most felt by the 

 immediate neighborhood. This is unavoidable. But it is also true, 

 that whatever its locality, every part of the State will in some 

 degree feel its happy influence ; and in a little time other works will 

 be contrived -and executed for extending its use by lateral connec- 

 tions, through every quarter of the State from which it is accessible. 



Your Memorialists need not insist upon the influence which the 

 work will have in multiplying and strengthening our connections 

 with the States in the West ; nor upon its happy influence in uniting 

 more closely the citizens of Pennsylvania and diffusing more equally 

 the advantages of access to markets for every sort of commodity. 

 As to its beneficial effects, all agree; of its practicability, no one, 

 we believe, now entertains a doubt; of the power of the State to 

 command the necessary means for its execution, we think there can 

 be no question. Your Memorialists, therefore, again most earnestly 

 request your Honourable Bodies to take the subject into your con- 

 sideration, and adopt the necessary measures for giving effect to 

 their wishes." 



Appendix II. — Delegates to the Canal Convention at Harrishurg. 



The following list contains the names of the delegates appointed 

 to represent the various counties of the State of Pennsylvania at 

 the Canal Convention held at Harrishurg from August 4th to 6th, 

 1825. Those whose names are in italics represented the opposi- 

 tion. This list was taken from the United States Gazette of 

 August 12th, 1825. 



