Germany, her cloths, and glass. Holland sends her gins, pins, and delf wares. Italy sends us her figs, carrants, raisins, olive oil, gewgaws and beggars. Sweeden and Russia, send their iron, cordage, and furs. Africa furnishes us ivory for the handles of our knives, and for combs. Central America sends her mahogany wood to make our tables, chairs and bureaus. We use the teas of China, her porcelains and silks. We have the wares of Japan, the coffee of Java and of Mocha-of Brazil, of Cuba, and the West Indian isles-their sugar also. We have the spices of the East Indian islands, and the cocoa nuts of the islands of the Austral Asians-their tortoise shell, and their pine apples.-We use the oil and bones of the whales of the arctic oceans, about each pole. We use the furs of the Northwest coasts of America. We use the skins, and fur of the seals of the far southern islands of the Pacific ocean, and the tins of Banda, and of England. We have in our Cincinnati Museums, specimens of nearly every mineral, and of every animal in the world. Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama furnish us with cotton and sugar. We import lead from Galena and Du Buque-furs, skins and peltries from the Rocky Mountains, and send them our productions in return. We import the manufactures of our own eastern states— glass, and the manufactures of iron from Pittsburgh-shoes and leather from all the cities, east of us-their cotton and woolen goods--their fishes, and all sorts of manufactured articles, either of wood, iron or steel. Paints, dye stuffs, drugs and medicines are imported. We feed our eastern brethren, and they clothe us, and they send us medicines to keep us in health, or cure us, when sick, so that we can furnish them with meat and bread to eat, and horses to ride on, or be drawn along by, in their carriages, on their roads. We build steamers for Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama, and they send us sugar and cotton in return. We send cabinet ware to the west, northwest and south-so of whiskey, flour, pork, dried fruits, &c. This trade and commerce-this interchange of productions keep up, a constant intercourse between men, render them active, enterprising and industrious, promote their health, comfort and happiness. This constant intercourse, is a bond of union, which may no one, ever burst asunder. Mutual intercourse 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 sovereigns 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 articles. This trade will be more and more valuable as that country fills up with people. Why do our merchants when from home in quest of goods buy in New York, domestic goods, which are produced in Rhode Island and Massachusetts? The New Yorker purchases them at the east and puts his profits on them. Why should Ohio pay these profits? The article of fish, a great amount of which we consume annually, should always be bought in Boston or even farther eastward. The savings in the purchase of these things in Massachusetts and Rhode Island, would in a few years, amount to a million of dollars. Why not add this million to our wealth? Why not go to Montreal and obtain our English cloths, and order them home, and then rapidly proceed to Boston and Providence and procure their productions, and return to Ohio, through New York, Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, and there complete the assortments? Our trade to the south is very important to us, and is daily increasing in amount and value. Our cotton, sugar, coffee and spice are brought to us from the south. When we have more houses established in New Orleans, Tampico, Cuba and St. Domingo, more of our productions will there be sold, consumed and paid for, in the productions of those regions. Steamers, such as navigate lake Erie, rigged with tall masts, carrying sails would best suit the navigation of the Gulf of Mexico. The people of Ohio can build and navigate them from island to island, and from port to port; extending our commerce, and enriching our citizens. Our coffee, our cotton and sugar should be purchased by us on the spot, where they are produced. Our commerce on the upper lakes should be increased an nually, and those seas covered with our sails. The fisheries on those lakes, ought to contribute at least a million of dollars' worth of fish annually to this state. All these extensions of our trade and navigation will increase our manufactures, and open new outlets, for our agri cultural products. They will extend and increase the number of our yards, for building ships. They will demand more iron, more founderies, for making machinery for steamers, and more men to labor in these factories. These men will need clothes to cover them, and food to support them and their families. The trade, navigation and fisheries of the Upper lakes, ought, at no distant day, to support one million of our citizens living on the shore, and near it, of lake Erie. Another million might easily be supported by the trade, navigation and manufactures connected with the western rivers. Ten millions more could easily find a support, and full and profitable employment, in the interior of this state, on their farms, in their shops, offices, stores and factories of all sorts. The valley of the Mississippi, the largest one on the globe, contains ample space in addition to the Upper lakes, for us, in which, to move about and act. In this large theatre, we should be the actors. On these boards the people of the East may be as they please, either the actors or the audience. Laying aside the figure, their productions will be very different from ours, and will not compete with us, in any market. Ours, consisting of food for the planter and his laborers, of hay and horses to eat it, of cotton bagging, and gins to clean his cotton, of boilers and steam engines, with which to manufacture his sugar, will not compete with Maine, with her ice and tripes packed in it, of fishes, either fresh or salted, of lumber, such as boards spars and staves. Massachusetts and Rhode Island may carry their cloths and their fishes, and Connecticut her wooden clocks, but Ohio will not be in their way. Name, place, and date. Loans and Due from Specie. Commercial Bank, Cincinnati, Jan. 4, 1836 3,103,461 501,847 666,787 Franklin Bank, Lafayette Bank, do. do. 1,195,414 142,861 204,628 do. 1,987,571 140,033 105,650 Ohio Life and Trust Co., do. January, 1836 1,515,952 357,116 268,984 7,802,398 1,141,857 1,246,049 Oct. 17, 1836 591,742 86,681 119,531 Miami Exporting Co., do. Franklin Bank of Columbus, Columbus, Urbana Banking Co. Urbana, Jan. 5, 1836 On or near Lake Erie: Western Reserve Bank, Warren, Jan. 9, 1836 |