Daily American telegraph. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1851-1852, 1852-01-19
From the New York sun

| The project OF steam communication with Chi
M, via the Sandwich Islands, is favorte one
with the commercial population of California /;
and it is one which must soon be put into opera
ton. American enterprise viii not be satisfied
SO long as new path or new field presents it,
self Already, number of American citizens
have obtained charter from King Kamehameha
to run line OF steamers from San Francisco to
the Islands under his rule but the difficulty Of
procuring proper vessels, and other difficulties
attending new enterprise, have prevented them
carrying out their intention as speedily as at first
proposed.
If King Kamehameha would retire from the
cares OF regal life, on moderate pension, placing
the Islands under United States protection, steam
communication with them would be Immediately
commenced and an extensive trade would spring
up on the Pacific. And it is said that parties in
San Francisco are, at the present time, anxiously
waiting for coup detat on the part of the King
and his ministers, supported by the emigrant adj
venturers from California, which will end in a
transfer of the sovereignty of the Islands. But
whether these expectations be soon realized or
not, steam communication between California, the
Sandwich Islands and China is becoming daily
more and more a necessity to the commercial life
and prosperity Of California; and therefore the
enterprise must be undertaken
In connexion with this steam communication
with China and the islands of the Pacific, rail
road to that ocean will become a necessity to the
Atlantic and middle States of the republic But
it will be asked How will line of steamers to
China be supported? In the first place, China is
overpopulated, and California stands in need Of
numerous industrial population. The Chinese are
proverbial for their peaceabe, orderly disposition,
as well as for their industrious habits, and bet
ter agricultural or serving class, for new coun-
try like California, could not be found
Again, the Chinese have not extensive ma
chinery for manufacturing purposes and there
are many Of the coarser fabrics which we could
supply them, at cheap rate, which would find
ready market 1t is only in the manufacture of
articles requiring much manual labor that the
Chinese can retain the advantage, and these arti-
cles we would continue to purchase from them.
AS population increases in the agricultural re-
gions of Upper and Lower California, and in Ore,
gon, the export Of grain and flour to China and
the East Indies will commence and grow to an
extensive trade.
Indeed the field for commercial enterprise
which begins to open to our view on the Pacific,
embracing the rich and fruitful islands-that like
brilliant gems stud its broad bosom-the island
continent of Australia, the ancient empire of
China, whose age is lost in the fctions of ira
dition, and the mysterious islands of Japan, is
one so vast and magnificent that language is weak
to express its greatness, describe the grandeur
of the results to be anticipated. Civilization and
Christianity will advance with mighty strides in
the wake of commerce. Steam will be stronger
than armies i'll breaking down the barriers of ig-
norance and heathenism, and more successful
than thousands of missionaries in diffusing light
and truth overregions where now debasing super
StitiOn and DEGRADING creeds preyail