Ypsilanti sentinel. [volume] (Ypsilanti, Washtenaw Co., Mich.) 1843-1900, 1845-06-25


This road would have an advantage over all
others IN the cost offresh.. having no interest Of
cost of construction to provide for MERCHANDISE
may be transported upon it, Tor less than half
cent per too per mile, costing from Oregon to
Like Michigan less than $i2 per ton weight. ono
ssu weigh, being equal to 2 to 2 IL tons meas.
arement Of teas or such like merchandise,it would
cost less than Sc for the transportation OF one ton
measurement OF teas from the Pacific To the Lakes
and would in,ke saving Of m,re than 8 Mouths
times "n all the business OF both England aud The
United States with China. &C., for instance, a
vessel salts frrm the United States or from Eng
land IN from March May (ia,er will not do on.
account Of the mousooas in The Chinese seas) ar
irving at China from June 10 September, aud must
wait 10 November or December f,r the tea crop;
return. arrive in Ans'and VI the United States in
March or May, absent ten or twelve monhs.-
Ihc sales English or American manufactured
goods take place in China in September to Jann-
aiy. so that merchandise or other funds may be
cent by this road To meet The market there, as al
so the tea crop for re!urn aud save six months,
often much more.
Again | say look At the picture, and where is
the Who can Withhold his assent from such
a work.
believe hat the granting the lands which
ask Tor, aud The commencing Of this work, will o.
pen such field for Industry aud enterprise as the
world has never known, the great benefits from
which must extend over the whole country. Here
is a vast region of country, wild, waste, with
a delightful climate suited 10 the people of the
0orth of Europe aud of our own States; much of
i: beautiful couniry, the soil rich and fertile.
Open thus road through it; and ii unites the two
great Oceans Of the world; it becomes the great
thoroughfaro Of nations, snbjeci to toll SO small
as 10 be almost free. 1t will be as new found
world. The over population of Europe must and
will flock 10 it. Let US consider that our present
population is 20 millions, having doubled in the
last pa years more will be forty millions, and we
shall SEQ that This mighty work though mighty is
small compared wuh what is already done. We
Lsve more than 5000 miles of railroad in OPP
GRAFTON, buit In the last fifteen years. besides nu-
merous canals, all built from means raised from the
people, whereas this requires no means from
them, but will of itself supply The MEANS. drawn
mostly from Europe. would add to- rather than
than take from our own people; or IN other words
that which is now worthless becomes the most i'm.
portant part Of the globe, yielding not only the
means, which creates aud sustains lis own lln-
portance and value, but spreads lis influence and
wealth over our whole country. We now have
the power and means, (means which costs moth.
ing, and will bs exchanged for valuable consid-
eralion an industrious productive poPulation) of
accomplishing work greater than has been done
sdy men or nations, the results from which must
TO. examine the subject. Put before you map
OF the world, you will see position COM
pared with the old world one side, that all Is
east Of us, aud is to be appropriated only Oy long
and dangerous sea voyages, that our position has
forced US to seek the commerce Of the old eastern
nations, distance forbidding their coming TO u.s.
But build this road and we are in the centre of ALL
aud all must come to Us.
The magnitude ofthe work may Brighten some
and prevent others from Investigating the subject
but Tor moment abandon all fear aud look calm
ay al 1t. We now have the lands entirely under
the control of Congress, and we all know that the
opening o! but an ordinary road through new
country, causes immediate settlement, and it must
be evident 10 all that railroad which will afford
q cheap and almost immediate transportation of
I'll produce to the best markets of the world, must
and will force settlement, Whom this road is built
and a city built on the Pacific, and which will
aot require many years to accomplish. and free
and frequent intercourse opened, with all the coast
Of Mexico, South America, with all the Islands in
the Pacific, with Japan, with China with Manila,
with Australia, with Java, and with all India, ii
will be- seen that the commerce of more than eigh;
hundred millions of people must depend upon it,
and upon our country. And We all know that a
free, easy, cheap. and rapid intercourse and COM
municaton inc reases and extends commerce far
beyond calculation, that it is by the exchange Of
the different commodities Of thst the different ma
tons of the world can continue commerce; there
fore the more extended the intercourse the more
extended will be the exchange of commodities
Ii now requires ten or twelve months to perform
a voyage 10 China and back, hence our commerce
and intercourse small and limited in the articles
we take from them and they from US. but build
this road and we are but thirty days from them.
When our commerce will be extended in the
same proportion as the time and danger are d.
mnished 10 get to hem. our frequent intercourse
will discover new articles which they can take
from US and we from them. And what must be
the moral and religious effect? The savage, The
barbarian and the heather must be brought IN
From this picture you will see the importance of
Oregon to Us, you will see that Oregon is yet to
be the most important part OF the globe and you
will see without this road il is lost TO US, and
MIst become separate nation. controlling the
most important commerce OF all the world. The
people of Oregon, and all ives, of The mountains.
from the Panama 10 54deg 40deg north, will claim