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| Boston answers tIS dtsCTlptIOh, ueHoe Neig


extensive and important coasting trade has lohs
been carried on between the District OF Name ahd
Boston. 1t mas also been extended 10 other ports
| 10 Massachusetts Proper, and the New-EnSiad


states. All this by our peculiarly fortunate local
| situation may be done, whilst Name is part oi
! massachusetts, under common coasting license


which is taken from the custon-house, once yeaIs
| ior very small sum; after which the soastef iS not
| compelled to visit oustom-house until Tue yea.
expires. The District vi Maine has almost mex


haustible resources for this trade for long time 10
| come, and our principal articles, lumber and cord
wood, must from the diminution OF those aft,cieh


III other parts OF the Country rapidiy increase 'i
,aiue. Dur commerce and eoasting trade are now
| hegiuning to revive after a long snmber.--ihs
ship owner employs the various ncch2aics connect-
| e with shippIns and there is also demand ior


tie various articles of wood used in the construc-
ton OF vessels. The farmer hGds the merchant


ready to receive hls surplus articles aud supply im
in turn the iumbernan and the wood-cut;er are


eployed, and the whole country, directly or indI-
| rectly, enjoys the advantages OF revNing Coll
merce.-1his Commerce, let II be remembered, re-


suits in great degree, from our Extensive coast


ing trade, favored il by our peculiar local Sit


ua ion part OF Mas achusetts Ii " aine were
| Il epdra,e state il would JOIN 10 no state in the


onion excepting New-Aampshire, which has but


one rort OF any consequences, and that not adapted
to the pui poses of our commerce. By the laws oi


Tue uned States a coastinS vessel. gong Ifom one


state to Another except II be an adjoining state,


must enter and clear out at the custom-house every


trip (as the coasters call it) both gong and com-
ing. ur sses must submit to tbs An going 10
Boston as much as if they boGad to Virginia.


IL has been calculated that, with present coast


Ing Trade the actual expense of money would be
thirty thousand doars year, but tins Would oe
next To nothing compared 10 the trouble, cost, de-


Jay ana dicnity OF going so oien and SO faf TO The
various eustom-houses, woGid be Gecessary.-
The consequence would be that extensive duur-
ishing Cosstiag trade and all the EMPLOY meuts and
profits connected tn it would be extremely dimin-
,sncd, aud in greai measure ruined. Connected


with this subject the stale OF credit existing be-
tween Jiaine and massachusetts Proper IL, VIII
moi be denied tndt young aud commercial country


may derive important advantages from liberal


aad easy credit il one possessed of more capital
5iaine has experienced these advantages from the


state Of their credit IN Boston aud other western
parts.-ii aiane were separate state, the dihcu-
y a1d expense of coliectins debts al such dis


taace, t9ge,her with .he uncertainty respecting
what laws might be made in the new stale would
| nearly annih.iate tle credit abdve referred 10. 1t
haa ueen said that Tor many years alter Ferm Jnt
became separate state its inhabitdnts Could not
CHI ain credit t. any considerable amount out of


that tate, and even this time, the credit OF those


who out oil this state upoh different foot
lFUui Ot thpst NbO ntntc,
gpyerued oy che same laws, and IL the constant
naDIt OF commercial intercourse.


Massachusetts is now great and powerful state,


lhe only one in the eastern section OF the Union-


IL has weiSht, and will have IT, whatever parry or


description o. men, may from time 10 time, govern


aion this State, but divide, and II becomes
! as nothing. suppose there should be proposition


to cut Virginia two states, large as 1t IS, aud
having none OF these coastns interests to regard
| ~, A nnt trrainu n h.a al


ibe same applies TO New \ ork, and to fennsyi-
| vania.-h hy do we not bear oil attempts 10 sH,de


those states They have too much regard To their
owu Interests.


Ii u well known that Massachusetts, Proper has
no interests distinct from those Of Name lbey


have the interests IN the uncultIvated lands III


te part OF the state, we have IN propor-
| 10 tue share which they hold in them, ana let
It be remembered that this land is public property,


and Old slassac husett is Interested IN them just as


iii the stale house. or any other pubic prop
ery. Here let il be observed that the longer we
continue connected with odd Massachusetts, the


greater viii be relative proportion OF tins and
| all other pubic property, because our increase OF
population IS greater iii proportion thah theirs.
Ii IS also worthy of remark, that IN process oi


time, the lumber and wood OF Maine Will be great
ly diminished, aud PROBABLY some place in Maine
viii have acquired sufficient capital tor that trade
but, at Preseat, there Is not sach place. Under
| exsiils circumstances, majority OF The people of
| Maine would, undoubtedly, prefer Boston to any


other Capital and considering thai .ie long travel


OF our memDers OF the Legislature is paid oui OF the
| State Treasury, IL cannot be thought burden on


,he people Of Maine that the Capital is remote from
some OF them


iEere was time when some good men favoured


separation in consequence of the great delays in
our supreme CourI-but since the changes as to


the modes of trial. and the addition OF Judges, JUS


,ice is promptly administered 10 Maine, ,as in any
part oil the state and every body is satisfied on
that head. On the whole, after hearing much said


upon the sub ect of separation, after reading much


OF what has been written respecting IL at different
times, and rejecting deliberately, the arguments
in favor of the measure amount to nothing conpar-
ed to those against ilt has not been thought ne


cessary to dwell upon ali the minor considerations,
| il IS suiicient that there strong and as many
| CONCEIVE altogether unanswerable Arguments a.


gainst tie measure. 1t is universally known that


Iane has long enjoyed perfect equality oirishts


and Of good government with the other part OF the
! etate, anu mas no sufficient reason To hazard
change OF to wish for a dissolution OF eonnexon
which has So long existed, and Is strengthened by
| 70 many strogg aud interesting ties. Notwith-


standing this there have al several times, been at


tempts made, 10 persuade the people of Maiae that


they labonr under such intulerahe grievances that


nothing bat a Separation can relieve them heir
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