The. or Great National Pike originally. a road planned from the Maryland frontier at Cumberland. Md.. to connect with the State roads and run to St. Louis (then just fallen into United States hands by the Louisiana Purchase). to open up the West to immigrants and provide for military and postal transportation. It was to le built at national expense. from the sales of public lands. as a fair counterpoise to the seaboard States ability to pay their expenses by levying customs duties. and pushed forward by section as settlement advanced. Henry Clay was its most conspicuous projector and advocate. and a monument to commemorate his services to it has been erected on its course near Wheeling.
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