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[38]_Public Doc.u.ments_ (1821), p. 403.

[39] For elaborate account of this celebration see W. L. Stone's _Narrative of the Festivities observed in honor of the Completion of the Grand Erie Ca.n.a.l_ (New York, 1825), and local histories.

[40] W. L. Stone, _Narrative of the Festivities observed in honor of the Completion of the Grand Erie Ca.n.a.l_, p. 321. This monograph has been used extensively in describing the celebration festivities.

[41] _Id._, pp. 320-321.

[42] _The Influence of the Erie Ca.n.a.l upon the population along its course_, bearing the imprint of the University of Wisconsin, 1901.

[43] Hammond, _Political History of New York_, vol. ii, pp. 369, 378.

McMaster, _History of U.S._, vol. v, p. 109.

[44] Freeman's _Journal_, Cooperstown, Otsego County, New York, September 20, 1830, p. 2, c. 2.

[45] Freeman's _Journal_, August 16, 1830, p. 2, c. 6. Seward, _Autobiography of W. H. Seward from 1801 to 1834_, p. 78.

[46] Hammond, _Political History of New York_, vol. ii, p. 396.

[47] Hammond, _Political History of New York_, vol. ii, p. 397.

[48] Jenkins, _Political History of New York_, p. 363.

[49] The following counties sent pet.i.tions to the Legislature: Tioga, Steuben, Yates, Ontario, Wayne, Cayuga, Seneca, Tompkins, Chenango, Broome, Madison, Oneida, Onondaga, Herkimer, Lewis, Jefferson, and Chautauqua. (_Laws of the State of New York, relative to Erie and Champlain ca.n.a.ls_, 1825, i, pp. 279-281.)

[50] This fact is supported by Mr. Jenkins in his _Political History of New York_. He says: "Mr. Granger received a very heavy vote in the sixth and eighth districts; and it is probable his friends had confidently expected that the Chenango ca.n.a.l interests would secure his election.

"The sixth Senatorial district to which the feeling in favor of the Chenango ca.n.a.l was mainly confined, gave Mr. Granger more than 2,000 majority. Notwithstanding it had given 6,000 the other way in 1829." The majority for Mr. Granger in the eighth district was nearly 13,000.

[51] Jenkins, _Political History of New York_, p. 372.

[52] W. N. Holland, _Life and Political Opinions of Van Buren_: Att.i.tude toward internal improvements, pp. 269-274.

[53] This is probably a reference to such loans as were authorized to be made to the New York and Erie Railroad. The New York and Erie Railroad was incorporated in 1832 and in 1836 the legislature authorized a loan of the credit of the state to the company for the amount of $3,000,000 subject to certain restrictions, some of which were that the route of the road should be through the Southern tier of counties in the state, one-fourth was to be completed in ten years, one-half in fifteen years, and the whole of it in twenty years. The road was to begin at Tappan, Rockland County, on the Hudson, pa.s.s through Goshen, Oswego, Elmira, and other towns and end at Dunkirk on Lake Erie.--Tanner, _Ca.n.a.ls and Railroads of the United States_, 1840, p. 74.

[54] Lossing, _Empire State_, p. 493.

[55] _Doc.u.mentary Sketch of New York State Ca.n.a.ls_ by S. H. Sweet (Albany, 1863), p. 104.

[56] _Laws of the State of New-York relative to the Ca.n.a.ls_ (Albany, 1825), vol. ii, pp. 13-14.

[57] Sweet's _Doc.u.mentary History_, pp. 198-199.

[58] _Id._, p. 201.

[59] _Id._, p. 207-208.

[60] _Id._, p. 204.

[61] _Id._, p. 205.

[62] _Id._, p. 210.

[63] _Id._, p. 213.

[64] _Id._, p. 326.

[65] _House Reports, No. 423, 54th Cong., 1st sess., 1896_, also, _No.

1023, 55th Cong., 1st sess._

[66] _Laws of 1898_, ch. 44.

[67] _Senate Doc.u.ments_, no. 23.

[68] _Laws of 1899_, ch. 494.

[69] _Report of the New York Commerce Commission_, Albany, 1900.

[70] _Laws of 1900_, ch. 411.

[71] _Historic Highways of America_, vol. xiii, p. 25.

[72] _Historic Highways of America_, vol. ix, pp. 213-215.

[73] "An act to provide for the improvement of the internal navigation of this state," pa.s.sed April 17, 1816. From _Laws of the State of New-York relative to the Ca.n.a.ls_, vol. ii, pp. 184-186.

[74] "An Act respecting Navigable Communications between the great western and northern lakes and the Atlantic ocean," pa.s.sed April 15, 1817. From _Laws of the State of New-York relative to the Ca.n.a.ls_, vol.

ii, pp. 358-364.

[75] Suspended. See act March 30, 1820.