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Excerpt from The Necessity of a Ship-Canal Between the East and the West: Report of the Proceedings of the Board of Trade, the Mercantile Association, and the Business Men of Chicago, at a Meeting Held at Metropolitan Hall, on the Evening of February 24, 1863
In the debate, Mr. Stevens, of Pa, Chairman of the Commit tee of Ways and Means, and by virtue of his position, the leader of the House, participated. This scheme, the most important to the north-west of any that ever occupied the attention of the National Legislature, was characterized by him as a ditch, an absurdity, a preposterous sham, -a measure which no one seriously thought would pass, but might possibly command twenty or thirty votes. Illinois was denounced as grasping, - as making demands which no decent man could vote for. Such was the statesman-like argu ment addressed to the House by its leader, upon a great quee tion in which nine millions of people have a direct interest.
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