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"It is said that Maryland and Virginia have acted liberally, by demanding no conditions. Maryland was represented, and had her interests secured. Virginia could not interfere with propriety, because Charlestown and Wheeling were equal to her. But her law exceeded the President's request. It authorised the road to the point agreed on, or hereafter to be agreed on, by the President, or Congress. A number of the Virginia delegates have petitioned the President to change the route, and pass through Washington. This they request on the ground of general expediency."

[Lancaster Four. Feb. 20.]

Bravo! Virginia could not interfere; Charlestown and Wheeling were equal to her; but a number of Delegates petitioned in favour of Charlestown, "on the ground of general expediency." What a rascally opinion these Pennsylvanians have of Virginia! She is indifferent. A matter of general expediency is of no concern to her. General expediency requires the road to go to Charlestown; but Wheeling answers the purposes of Virginia equally well. It is a great pity that the names and number of these patriotic Delegates, who petitioned in favour of general expediency, are not mentioned. Some people would like to know how many of the thirteen men above stairs were of the number. But quere, if the above is not the production of some Snyderite, who, greatly envying the happy state and condition of Virginia, wishes to bring her into contempt and disrepute, by representing her as governed altogether by local interests, without any regard to general expediency?

"To appoint a Commissioner at Chillicothe, from circumstances now known was just the same thing as to appoint one in the town of Wheeling.

Who made Chillicothe the extreme point? Mr. Joseph Kerr. And if another Commissioner resided on the shore of Michigan, that would have been the extreme. An appointment there would have been the same thing as an appointment in Charlestown."

[Lanc. Four. Feb. 20.]

So then, these Pennsylvania gentry, who were in favour of Washington and Charlestown, meant to extend the road to lake Michigan, in order, it is presumed, to facilitate the intercourse between this country and the British possessions in Canada. Is it not strange, that the President should prefer extending the road through the state of Ohio, toward Indiana and Upper Louisiana? This disposition on his part, maugre the Washington and Charlestown remonstrance, and the request of Pennsylvania, must proceed from his rooted antipathy to the English, and a villainous design to connect the western country with the other states of the Union.