Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1852-05-27
what is the value of Tehuantepee |.

What is the value of Tehuantepee
Let it be estimated the narrowest basis that sordd
interest limit and it is worth less the Union
will contribute less noble quota the general pro-
fits of the Federal family less generous aid the
cheap engagements Of the daily comforts Of each Of its
members. To-day will speak of the honor Of
flag, what is due the nsulted dignity of our
country since is said there are men who have no
for republican only they stamped
upon the currency; who if they had the power would
coin those dollars and trade them off change
for stocks suited their II is well enough
for the moneysect learn that even in their exact CAL
cuation of trade profits the Isthmus of Tehusntepec is
rare prze-such an one as has not offered itself TO
since Solomon and his eompeers held the lost
line to ophr. The adventurous doubling Of Cape Good
Hope and the cold circuit of Cape Horn were brilliant
and important but they compare dividends with
King Solomons account books and the short cut to the
Pacific. First preliminary its value a trade
Duct let the peculiar products, amazing fertility, and
admirable network of internal communication. of this
favored Isthmus be remembered 1t can afford give
US, from its rich plains under its cheap and easily fed
labor coffee aad chocolate oranges apples
and preserves, our cochinea, indigo and other much
used cooring materials, mahogany and other fine
woods with numerous other precious and well attested
products at much lower prices than has been known
in markets than be- while those fair tropical
climes kept and uncultivated by Of
PRECIOUS yrans. This lovely region, in which winter
is known and in which industry is rewarded By two crops
and sometimes three, year. with endless Succession
of fruits from January January again. amid foliage
that loses its verdure this peerless land
ia whose picturesque hills found the gorgeous and
eternal spring of the tropics combined with the elastic
health Of the temperate zone should be freely open
the occupation Of citizens by the explicit of
the Unnecessarily violated and naugat
by Mexico 1t is the work wish of the people of
Mexico. They like u.s. deeply interested in the
prosecution OF work whose completion will produce
millions Of annual profit and fill the households Of both
nations with undreamed Of abundance Of luxu-
ries This aggravated insult II the majesty Of the
American people, is the work of dozen two corrupt
and shameless ''dressed in little brief authority"
who hope make little personal account by dividing
among themselves the two three hundred thousand
dollars they are robbing from our citizens and selling
again the right Of way to English citizens. They ad
nit they tV not dare der the elish in the Oqy they
In this item of the right settle their region
build for themselves homes in its Wales of unadng
beauty and cultivate those products Of the tropics
citizens have been deprived of lands worth even as our
public domain is sold ten millions of dollars. There
not less than millions of of unoocuped lands on
the Coatzacoalcos and its numerous aiuents aud on
those lands which the Garay and the COLOMBIA
ton laws Of Mexico opened to us, American industry
could realize dollar acre. This is under
estimate in very truth both in the Of land and in
the value of its productions, but those who have not
thaa 1an nd
value Of her crops year. the double and treble
gains Of climate where there pause in work pro-
vision needed for winter that comes where native
labor is cheap and food almost spontaneous The Mex
contract breakers red from agricultural indus
try and less from their cutvators, millions Of
dollars in tearing from us the purchased and paid for
right bring these wild lands into the service of
Next consider the happy vicinity of this earthly Eden
our ports. 1t laid BY the wisdom of kindly
Providence under the especial care of the Union
rally and completely as the tender, unaedged chick is
sheltered under the wing of its mother. The mouth of
the Coatzacoalcos is little than hundred miles
from Vera Cruz and but three four days steam from
the Mississippi. Falling into the Gulf OF Mexico it is
safe against the world. We need not the formay of a
regular navy, mail steamers and the chiyary Of the
sons of the hundredarmed Mississippi its perpetual
and asulcent defence ms is not true oil the other
Isthmus routes A formidable circle of European colo
MES fence them in and they may almost be said to lay
under the guns the British Navy completely the
gate OF the Tehuantepec is enclosed by our American
sea and dominated by American steamers By this |
route the transit from New Orleans San Francisco
WILL present speed be made in fourteen days
and less whenever Mexico will permit citizens 90
and finish the Tehuantepec railroad, for it is 100
miles than the Panama route il is also shorter
by HOO miles, from New York San Francisco by Te-
huantepec than Panama and all things calculated from
twenty to thirty per cent would be saved, n time and
money by the passengers. Let bat the of fifteen
dollars be saved by each Of the hundred thousand
persons that go and come annually on the Ishmus
routes and there is the startling OF 81 900 be
sacrificed every year by this item alone. Wehave
condensed round numbers and made elaborate ar
to have snatehed from with insult we care not
for the hazard of this golden current being disturbed by
foreign interference. Yet this matter Of million and
half which is extracted from California emgrants in
extra passage money, is but sms matter in compare
with the general delay OF that system Of commercial
action which through the best road the Pacific, is
about to crown this Union the acknowledged first power
of earth Able and accurate investigation has shown
that Of the Pacific whaling feet Of 400 vessels with the
capital Of fourteen millions year involved in this pur-
suit would gain millions year by the opening Of
the short and home protected Of Tehuantepeo.
How much would be worth the control Of the trade
to China and India. Great Britain alone receives for
her USE and for re-exportaion other countries