The Kalida venture. [volume] (Kalida, Ohio) 1841-1865, 1849-02-27

pedimenis. We can At once take our own.
course without stopping % mako terms or
inquiry Of any one.
The only thing 10 be done is to conciliaie
the Indians--io get their consent; and for
that purpose The bill proposes TO appropriate
4 sum Of mcney 10 be expended by the
President in procuring the assent Of the
Indians, and 10 The extNgsshment Of such
titles as may be necessary for tho purposes
Of the road, Cor the stations and settlements
no protect and support it. We have now
all The information that is necessary 10 fix
teraiiai eflhe road 1.-THE rest is matter Of de-
tail. The most direct and best route be-
twt en- the Terminating posts, Of course, 10
to be taken; and for that we have, and shall
have, when the present expedition Of Mr..
Fremont is finished, all the informotion
which is necessary to fix upon The details Of
the intermediate distance. His work is
lpublic; his journals are public property; his
maps are public property. He took no
copyright for anything which he did while
in the service Of the United States; and we
now have oil the information wanted for the
purpose Of locating this great road II may
bc assumed that no information was ever
more varie,l, more minute, more accurate,
than that which he has furnished. The
typographical map of two thousand miles
which lie has made is replete with nlorma.
tlion; is whole explorations Of twenty thou
sand miles can be laid downin the same
manner. t,a
The moans ofihe United States for this
construction are ample. Tic length Of
the road appalls sone persons. SIR, il is a
case in which the length in reference TO
the means makes no difference. II is not a
case in which money is TO be raised from
another source in order TO defray the ex-
penses of the road. l. makes itself. The
whole country belongs 10 the United States,
saving the mere extinction Of the Indian
title. II is all public land--o great belt Of
public land, equal TO the whole length Of
the Mississippi river, covering seventeen de-
grees on the Pacific coast, and as much in
the valley Of the Mississippi. Out Of that
The bill proposes that a per cenlum shall be
taken from all the sales, and that per cen.
tum shall be applied TO the construction Of
the road. Now, sir, in this point Of view,
the whole country being public land, from
The frontier of Missouri TO the Pacific Ocean,
every mile provides for itself. The dis
tanco of five or six hundred miles, right
and left, is public land, and this is put into
contribution for the construction Of the
road. All the sales are 10 contribute. II
| is, therefore, no more 10 make long road
than short one.
| | propose, Mr.. President, in view Of the
magnitude of this work; in view Of our
dominion over The public lend throughout
its whole extent; in view of the uses TO
which this road may be applied, not only in
our day, but by our children, asd for un-
numbered centuries TO come--to have il
projected at once, and up IN q scale COM
mensnrote TO its future destiay, be that as
great as il may.
The proposition in the bill is, that there
be reserved breadth OF one mile from the
frontier of Missouri to the Pacific Ocean
breadth Of one entire mile--for the purpose
Of laying down, at once, one track, one
road, reserving enough for as many tracks,
and independent Of each ether, as shall be
necessary, in all time, for all the varieties
of roads that are now in use, or which may
come into use in tho unnumbered genera
lions which That road 10 to benefit. / begin
with RAILWAY, as far as practicable and ad-
vantageous, leaving il TO practical mon 10
say where il is not. The difficulty which
presents itself 10 my mind is the deep snow
which continues for so many months in the
year, and lies SO deep among the Rocky
MOUNTAINS. Il is for practical men 10 say
whether the railway can 60 there, or wheth-
er il will be necessary to find SOME other
conference.-the sleigh. for sxample-for
that region, in the time Of the SHOWS.
Ipropose to reserve ground for all sorts
|of roads railway, plank, macadamzed;
more than that--rooin for a track by magnet
,power--according 10 the idea started, |
believe, by Professor Henry, and, 10 me,
plausibly pursued by Professor Page, Of the
Patent Office, if tha; idea ripens into prac.
|ticabiliiy-- and who can undertake 10 say
that any idea will not become practicable in
the present age: But Mr.. President, the
bill contains ano,Eer provision, that there
shall be margin reserved out of,his breadth
of a mile for plain old English road, such
as we have been accustomed to all our lives
"a road in which the farmer in his wagon or
curriage, on horse or on foot, may travel
without fear, and without tax-wiih none TO
run over him, or make him jump out Of the
way. l look forward 10 The time when this
whole continent is 10 be settled from one
end TO tho oiher-when there are TO be
towns and villages upon it-when neighbors
will want convenient road. They may
there find space for them in which they
shall not give way 10 the cars or anything
else--a road not TO be intsrlered with.
Tho lnndin N idoa fhan 10 that tua rnrarua