CENTENNIAL GUIDE TO PHILADELPHIA, BALTIMORE, AND WASHINGTON

With Description of the Baltimore and Ohio RailroadN ot content with the mischief that they had already done the enterprise, they appealed to the people with all the venom and bitterness of confirmed monomaniacs, through falsely presenting the statistics of other exhi bitions of a similar character, which they claimed had been, without a single exception, a financial failure and a ruinous project, though under the management of more matured and wealthier governments, which failure proved conclusively that our Utopian scheme must in evitably end likewise. Again, they endeavored to deaden the undertaking by creating dissension among the orig inators and dissatisfaction among the rival cities - who were anxious for the honor, by claiming advantages for each in derogation of the others - thus pitting city against city, clogging the wheels and stopping the ma chinery, but by persevering efforts and convincing ar guments on the part of the active movers in the under taking, and by the power of a mighty press, the grum blings of the dissatisfied few soon ceased, and their prejudiced fulmmations no longer harassed the pro ceedings of the Commissioners, who were thus enabled to pursue their course in harmony and peace, supported by the popular voice, and encouraged by the notice taken of their efforts by foreign nations, who seemed to be affected as enthusiasticallv as our own people over the Exhibition i, embryo.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections th