312 HISTORY OF OHIO. 



This trade and commerce — this interchange of productiona 

 keep up, a constant intercourse between men, render them ac- 

 tive, enterprising and industrious, promote their health, com- 

 fort and happiness. This constant intercourse, is a bond of 

 union, which may no one, ever burst asunder. Mutual inter- 

 course produces mutual dependence, mutual profit and mutual 

 friendship. May these forever be continued to us and our 

 posterity, to our eastern brethren, and their descendants. 



This constant intercourse, trade and commerce, will require 

 all the energies, of ourselves, and of all our neighbors to be in 

 constant exercise to improve all the means of transportation, 

 now in operation; to create new modes of conveyance; 

 new roads, new canals and rail roads, passing through the 

 state, and to and from it, so as to make Ohio, what it should 

 be, the point at which, all the travel to and from the western 

 states, should centre. 



Our trade should be extended more and more, north and 

 south; to Montreal, and especially, to New Orleans and 

 Texas. The northern trade will build up our cities located 

 along Lake Erie, and the southern trade, render wealthy and 

 populous, our towns along the Ohio river. Canada needs our 

 beef, pork and flour, and we want British goods, British sove- 

 reigns and guineas. 



The amount of our productions for exportation, will for a 

 long time to come, increase annually, as our numbers increase; 

 and new markets should be sought for them. 



Foreign goods can frequently be purchased in Montreal 

 cheaper than in New York city, and our merchants should 

 visit Montreal, in the autumn, and ascertain where they can 

 buy the best and the cheapest goods. 



Canada will forever, to a certain extent, be a good mart for 

 our agricultural productions. So will Western New York be 

 one for our grain. 



All the lower Mississippi country will always purchase 

 their flour and provisions, from the people north of them. 

 Texas will soon open a market for our flour and manufactured 



