Glasgow weekly times. (Glasgow, Mo.) 1848-1861, 1849-08-30
Number 2E

qucred countries under the care ofgreal
armies; but our own citizens. each one
possessing liberty Of action, and feelln-
sovereign authority within himself
move voluntarily to the occupation
and carries with him the subduinr
spirit Of the American Institutions
Nor doth a Roman road, stre,chn-
from Jerusalem to the wall Of the Ar.
TONNES, upon which armies marche
and dispatches were sped by relay
overawe us by the magnfcence Of
example. For US lightning annihilate1
distance; for US, steam reduces the "a
dy months of Roman marches 10 tn
speedy trinmphs of day.
TO stretch that wonder of moder;
science; the Electric Telegraph--;o Ia,
that great revolutiontzing power Of til
present age, the Steam Railway, 50 tha
by the one, thought shall fly with the
rapidly Of its own action, and by tho
other, men and merchandise shall pass
to and fro across the Moth American
Continent, from one great ocean TO the
other, in less than a weeks time, we
have but TO call into application tho
means and authority Of the United
States.
The consideration Of these great sub
Jocts, is the purpose Of the National
Convention to be held in the City of
ST. Louis, on the third Monday of. DC.
toOer next, and to which it is the design
IF the Address to invoke the earnest
attention Of our fellow citizens through
out the Union.
We feel assured that investigation
and discussion will demonstrate 10 the
world that the Pacific Railway and Tel.
egraph are practicable and attainabe
objects, That they will prove them TO
be above merely party considerations,
and exclusively ofNational import; that
their influence will be co.extensive with
the Republic; that they will tend to in.
crease its power, wealth and grandeur.
/ 20 elevate still higher its character among
I the nations Of The earth, to confirm anc
render indissolubly the attachments L
US of our most distant provinces, and to
strengthen and PerPetuate the bonds OF
our National Union.
We derive our Justification for these
Gn'icipa'ions from a multitude of req.
sons, military, political, social and com
mercial. which cannot fail TO suggest
themselves in every serious considera
ton of the subject, The effect upon the
public lands in promoting their settle
ment and enhancing their value; the If
creased security 10 be afforded to III
frontiers of the old States, and to II,
interior Of the newly acquired terri,or
les, in facilitating intercourse with tn
Indian tribes, in diminishing the ey
Pensc and quickening the transit
national forces and munitions. thereb'
increasing the efficiency of government
al authority over 4 widely extended de-
maini the opening of a new and avail
able channel TO valuable commerce
long pent up and hitherto of dificu
access; the development of the resour
ces Of a new country, vastly fertile /.
mineral wealth, the discovery of ne
sources Of commerce, and the openir
of new fields of employment for gre
numbers Of our people; the aid ar
saving to be afforded TO the whale ifs
cry, by offering to it American harbo.
on the Pacific in immediate communi
cation with those upon the Atlantic; til
binding together the people of the Al
Iantic and Of the Pacific, by adding t.
the lies Of kindred, those Of common
interests and sympathies, enabling US to
| say TO New Mcxicans and Caifornians,
i've are no longer strangers and for
, eigners, but fellow citizens;" the exhibi.
bilion TO the world Of the nearest route
to Asia for European, Brazilian, West
Indian and American travellers, bring
5 ing Europe and China within forty five
days ofeach other; the probability of
securing for the United States the trade
with India, China, Austria, Japan and
other countries upon the Pacific, and
of thus making the old American cities
of the Atlantic and the Gulf the entire
pots oflhe European, as San Francisco
| would be that Of the As!atic world; the
effect abroad, of carrying and diffusing
$ tue lights of American civilization 10