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Excerpt from A Memorial to the Legislature of the State of New York, Upon the Effects of the Passage: Of the Trade of the Western States, of the Trade of the Western States
A Convention of Delegates from several of the western Counties of this State was held in, the City of Rochester, January 20th, 1845 to consider of the effect of the passage of the trade of the Western States through the Welland and Oswego Canals upon the income of this State and the interests of its citizens. The Convention was numerously attended by a highly respectable body of citizens, representing the producing and industrial classes, and a mass of facts bearing upon the subject which occasioned the meeting, was submitted to its consideration. The result of the deliberations of that Convention are embraced in the following Resolutions, which were unanimously adopted as expressing the views of its members:
Resolved - That as the people of this State constructed the Erie canal as a channel for the trade of the Western States, and in reasonable expectation that the tolls upon that trade would contribute towards paying the expense of its construction, they cannot, in the present financial condition of the State, prudently permit such trade to use any part of the artificial channels made by this State without paying tolls upon the whole length of the line, originally constructed at great expense for its passage.
Resolved - That the construction of the Welland canal, by a foreign government, has opened a channel for such Western trade, By the use of which, and a portion of our own artificial communication, such trade evades the payment of tolls upon 155 miles of our own canals, to the injury of the revenue of this State and the interests of its citizens.
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