New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-06-18
rTIr PACIFIC RAILROAD.
,.s House 81 Representatives iron"
Repe" r ~ o. ROADS and CanH''

- n Isiay ms great prt:e
Ia< eo~s ,aunot bat feel that tine and
YOU ssodlv putting ia peril th,s g'es' pt'zs,
esem' 80 our grscJ. ant pushing l. = III o.'.e
10" VT where Il nsy - lo't 70 as 90, W
Of gah w r.erets be seized by o.her hands
sggraVH's.. USo seems capable OF execu'lng TINS
TIE g - no conceived II, who has ma'ared
graz $50. and collected and arranged ell neees.
vi n' !, s,ernstion o. gfeat eXpeass OF Tone ava
say hss been kn0cs'uc st oar door, some sew
mog ears. f,r perm's''n 20 90 on. AZ '""r ses
ere a congress hls PROJECT has been iavo'ao'y
s,.oS on and, e. th- las Congress By ths unaa-
see Of selec, Ca1n.,tees Of both braaahes,
f:.i wona doubtless have been passed into
W lat for the hurried pressure At the close OF
de mean time, the lands necessary to this en-
,.,r-ise ere being rapfy taken up and IN ances
n heinz able To carry 70 on greatly dlri'hfueH
M, u ltney retired from the last CONGRESS- dis
mai, 3D. and has oniy nyen persuaded by the ar
cent citations o. public meetings la VcrA
S5artc,s. and by the pr p'ings OF numeroT' IN
bent met Of the country. To make one no. eH W
nero. Ito is now here, probably for the tat Time
Danger G0m Greqt Britain.
Rut our COMMITTEE nave had Their atlet IN
arec, IN signals in the distance OF yery s'sai-
fcan, instructive character. The pr i's q,
move is Of @r. Wb-ney have been Dos re-
in Loo The London Times has FePca'e',y
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has d. ,rnced Mr. With 'y's conceptl,n thS li'1'
mat = scbenne Il t.. e. and Prefi'tst that,
II cariod out, it viii make America "ft' arc
The ,rorid" r,., -.
Sre unJ,ibtedy have Precsdence-eyeryt hin5 s
h o1r nover. Bat Let L bo known IN Loldon-as
n INNS, no by the figh, Of tee nrst steamer II the
=, .houId occur-that the American Cong
IN. r, lccted this proposal, and thrown G"ay tnls
splepdd prize and IS IL ~ be conceived tha!. win
.he cha acterstic commercial sagac,y Oh -ae Dn'~
isb nation with their capital with their enterprise,
with their love Of extenied dominion aud Poser,
and with q belt Of territory across this continent
immed atey adjoining ours, aud not less favorable
than ours FOR such wCrk-in some respec-s ln)re
eo--is A. " @ ask 10 be conceived thai they would
sleep on the receipt o. slch Intelligence, having
ahead appreciated fhe object with a InO-e lively
ipteTes' diam we ourselves have, aud rased it
highe-" And will they not mink OF the mar, " Csc
name !, already in their mouths, whose enterprise,
yylose talents, and whose admirable qIailca lions
for this great work have been 50 folly and 80 well
cispia, e. and whore pet-c,mn has b1en 50 per
reveria.iy demonstrated ~ his long aud patient
efforts L. thrust this great benefit On his cl01try
bat who after all is forced TO retire from tle led
disappointtd and dishosrtcued? is 1t t. BE- Goa
ceived .tat Great Bri,ain n suc' cireo instances,
would not be likely 70 say, This is the min 'o- az,
and the pixie is resigned % ous hands al, thai la
less the ,velve months aifer We shall have tram
pied il under our feet IL flag V.I have been car
Tied acfoss thecon,inen' he hand, Of Irish sur
veyors ~ British engineers on Brit sh ground
YOU Committee DO not krow that Mr. Whitney
tsIoseh 6es ever dreamed o. such & result bat all
must see that il is the most natura! thug in the
world al that it amounts - a moral Certa aty-
Civ TO Great Britain It's chance aud that last
anchored isle, with the island Of Vancouver On the
Pacific y aid command the commerce OF the World,
and make il tributary to her grandeur booming the
United States forever to secondary and subordi-
hate position even on the continent OF North Ane-
RIGA. For the command Of commerce commands
everything else. Then, ii never before, would
Great britain hold her North American colonies
with q Grasp as firm as the bond which chains her
domestlc empire tO the center of the earth. Al1
then, to- shOul9 feel the effects Of that treaty
Of boundaries in the Northwest which has confined
ps to tie 10Th degree OF North latitude instead Of
ndmittinG us to .fty JoHr, forty.
Your Committee beg leave to relcr 90 the BID
herewith ported, and 70 the documents OF the sp-
pcndix also, to Mr.. Whtney's pamphlet, entitled
" A pTc rel jor a RGiIr0ad n tie Pacific" 1872
iorthe nnount and variety of proofs which, your
Goa nistCF believe, will establish the position they
pccrpy this great question: and fully substanti.
ste the Nras presented ia this report In addition,
your Committee fully concur in tho views ex- |
pressed In the able report of Mr. Pollock on the |
I1bect, Chairman OF the Special Committee Of |
he Housr at the lst session of the 30th Congress-
and the report of Senator Breese on the same sub
|ed, as Chairman of the Committee Public |
Lands. LIST session of the Goth Congress