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Little Short of
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A song by Chris Jennings
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Lockport, New York,
1825 |
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ÒÉtalk
of making a canal three hundred and fifty miles through a wilderness is
little short of madness.Ó President Thomas Jefferson, 1809 |
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ÒPresident
Madison thought that the canal would cost more than the entire resources of
the nation. Scoffers spoke of it
as Ôa big ditch,Õ in which Ôwould be buried the treasure of the state, to be
watered by the tears of posterity.ÕÉ Perhaps the only man who never lost
faith in the canal was De Witt Clinton; certainly he deserves the most credit
for itÓ (The Epic of New York, Edward Robb Ellis, p.224). |
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New
York City became Òthe mouth of the continent, thanks to the Erie CanalÓ
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