The Kalida venture. [volume] (Kalida, Ohio) 1841-1865, 1851-02-07

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con trolling position,- which now we are
far from doiDg,-and all nations will be
benefited and their progress accelerated
thereby. ..,
| For centuries great object Of national
ambition seekingfo dominion and great
ness, has been to control the commerce
Of India and the East. The present
maritime and commercial superiority of
England is dependent on her holding the
Eastern trade in her hands. The search
for shorter rou. for this commerce led
to the discovery Of America. The same
search has sent SO many brave and hardy
navigalors in quest Of North West pass
age around this continent. ...I.
And now il is possible TO make this
commerce ours, if we will. We may
reach forth our hands and grasp the su-
premacy in the world of Industry. In
peaceful power we may become foremost
on the globe, not by acquiring foreign
torritoiy, bu, by developing the resour-
ces Of lha. we already have; not by SEN
ding forth armies, conquering feebler or
stronger neighbors, and devastating States,
ou, by building Railroad! The shorter
route 10 India, that Columbus sailed for,
and the gallan. Franklin has Lid down
his life to discover, may be found in our
own territory. Build the Pacific Rail
road, and al once the entire trade between
Asia aud Western Europe most pass over
il. Then our own manufactures and
products will find new markets on tina,
Continent, whose teas and silks, and
spices and thousand fold tropical products
will be sen, in exchange for them, and
Europe will come to buy Of Us. Brought
into direc, and constant contact with The
rapid aud electric West, Asia win feel
western culture aad western ideas pen.
eua'ing her barbarism, and infnsing ne
life into her sluggish veins. Her rich
but unculiivaied islands will be filled
with cmigr,nts from her now overpopuIa-
ted regions; and activity, abundance,
public order and intelligence will gra-
duslly supplant s'ugnation, poverty, Ges,
polism and ignorance among her children.
This is no mere dream OF fancy. The
facts are palpable, the result certain.
And this result cannot he attained by
any Panama Railroad or Nicaragua Canal.
Neither Of these offers TO Europe a
quicker route to China and India than
that around the Cape of Good Hope, and
neither can draw TO itself the Eastern
commerce. Nor will either confer any
special advantage on this republic, or
exert direct and powerful influence in
favor ofrepublcan freedom and equality.
Nor-what is of most immediate conse-
quence--can either serve as that bond
uniting the st and west Of The Repub-
lie, for which the necessity is already so
great and pressing. aaa
Such arc the reasons why the Pacific
Railroad should he built. But there is
another reason why no time should be
los, in beginning the work, and that is
that England, our chief competitor in the
great contest, may do it before us. A
work of marked ability, written by Messrs.
F. A. Wilson and A. B. Richards has
lately been published at London with the
title Of "Britain redeemed and Canada
preserved,"i in Which scheme for buill-
ing Railroad from Halifax, across Ca
NADIA TO the Pacific is developed at
length and with great force of argument.
This route, say the writer's, is fifteen
hundred miles shorter than that proposed
by Mr.. Whitney. The work they esti-
mate will cost $4,000 per mile, or fl4.-
100000 FOR the whole. They would
have i, built by removing at first con-
victs, and then the paupers of Great Bri.
tain, and employing them in the work !,
the entire cost Of which will be less than
half the present annual expense of pau.
perism in The United Kingdom. AT the
same time Canada should be incorporated
with the Kingdom, not as Colony, but
as an integral part, the same as Ireland
or Scotland. And thus, as they antci.
pate, England would not only be relieved
of pauperism, but would open recipro-
cal commerce with the North East Chi.
ma and Japan by speedy and direct means,
and by the unlimited sway Of the Chi
nese Seas. thus extending the broad belt
of her power in the temperate zone
around tho globe, and taking into her
own hands and winning the game of the
world. Such is the plan and such the
language of these writers.
Nor is this all. We happen TO know
that gentlemen Of distinguished position
and influence with the English Ministry
have endeavored 10 induce Mr.. Whitney
10 90 10 London TO confer with the Gov
eminent there on the construction of a
Railroad through Canada upon his plan.
He has steadily declined such overiures
in the hope that Congress would at last
set this noble enterprise on foot and en-
trust him with its execution.
Il is true the Canadian route is shorter,
but from what information is extant upon
the subject, we think that ours is better,