The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1849-12-02

Of the whalers in the Pacihc vessels that have been
worn out in the Atlantic trade There is man-of.wai
now IN the Pacific which, several years ago, was con.
demned unit aud unsafe to undertake the voyage home
The amount 10 be thus saved annually by the govern
ment, and which will be expended. with nothing TO show
for il she continues TO require our menofwar % re-
turn home round Cape Horn with their crews, would be
enough to the early completion Of railway across
ehuantepec, well Panama, provided suitable har'
bors can be had on the coast OF Tehuantepec
But suppose the canal built and the Pacific railway to
be in operation, let see the effects Up to the present
time Great Britain has had the advantage OF ten days
sail in all the markets around Cape Horn or the
Cape OF Good Hope. The reason 10 on account OF the
necessity under which ships bound there have hitherto
supposed themselves to be OF rs sailing across the AZ
anc in order TO get favorable winds for the rest Of the
voyage This canal will make II necessary for her ships
first to the Atlantic in order to get up with us Be-
fore the Pacific railway is completed may be supposed
that line OF steamers will be plying between California
and China
Now suppose rise to take place in the Chinese mar
with demand for any OF the staples that are 70 De
found in the American markets In twenty-five days
the China steamer arrives in California with the news
on board il is delivered through telegraph in Allan.
tic seaports the same instant; and happens TO reach
The American merchant loads his ship and dispatches
her across the isthmus; at the time he writes his
agent in China what he has done, and sends the letter
return steamer TO China. Twelve days afterwards his
rival in England receives the intelligence and thr;
y or forty perhaps sixty days after that his ship bound
arrives on this side Of the Atlantic Before the English
any other European vessel get to the West Indies
on her way to China, the American is there. and from
that time till the arrival Of his competitor he has the con.
troll of the market Could avarice cove any greater mo.
nopoy, any other advantages
The same would be the case with regard to the mar
kets OF South America, New Holland, Manila, any
OF the islands OF the Pacific. The intelligence OF rise
in them arriving at the isthmus would be brought by
steamer New Orleans, whence the magnetic telegraph
would spread i over the country; The people on the
lakes, in Illinois, Wisconsin, and Iowa could send down
their cagoes OF merchandise, and have them in the mar
kets of Chill and Peru weeks before the ships OF any
European nation could get there.
Besides the advantages Of time which the sthmus canal
would give American merchants, they could with the
same articles undersell the European BY the whole
amount Of freight and insurance which he would have
to pay to get his cargo OF goods across the Atlantic.
Thus this ship canal would make Atlantic and gulf
ports the entrepots OF trade between Europe and ASIA
and give complete free-trade monopoly in the
kets Of the six hundred millions of people who nhabit
the islands and countries that border the Pacific.
This ship canal will be the grave OF Great Britain's
completed will be witnessed the elimination Of her sun
the sea- for from that day the spendor OF her mari
time power and greatness will begin to grow dim,
surely day follows the night and night the day. has to
be fulfilled relates to the bringing Of "the ends Of the
earth together" and converting he islands OF the sea-
lantc island that inhabited by heather
Commerce, with its train, has accomplished its work
there. The Pacific, therefore, the sea in which these
isalus ol ne Duie are ii we ake ue IacnC ~ De VIA.
it really is or the Indian artificial division OF
it,, viz that great ocean which is west OF America,
south of ASIA and east OF Africa we shall find that its
islands and shores for the part heather lands II
is there that the great work of the prophecy is to be ac-
compshed At the time it was uttered Eastern Asia
and Western Europe, as far as human knowledge was
concerned, were "the ends of the earth"
This Pacific railway the country and this ship
canal the sthmus will bring these sends
of the EARTH together and hand the people there over
the influences OF commerce to civze and converts for,
wherever Commerce has spread her wings there the arts
of civilization and the blessings OF Christianity have fol-
lowed in her train As far the human eye reach,
the mind OF perceive, these two great works may
for aught that tell 10 the contrary be the means,
is be brought about and among the glorious destnes
which to be in store for the people OF this favored
and happy land the great privilege OF being instruments
any to the benghted heahen Of that may be the
least Respectfully, &C.,