The Sumter banner. [volume] (Sumterville, S.C.) 1846-1855, 1852-09-28
From the Ns'o York Morning !Siar.l
The Expedition 10 JAPAN.


Tho most useful, indeed the only,
NATIONAL enterprise that originated with
MIR. Fillmorc's administration, was the
Expedition to Japan; and had its pur-
poses and objects been carried out with
adequate force and yigor, it would
have exhibited in its practical conSe-
quences such effects as would have Civ
Ell lustre to that Administration. It
has been ingloriously abandoned or it's
execution procrastinatcd up to the
present hour. In tho first place, Com
modore Perry must take a trip to
saratosa,~an leave tho sA-AAiississippi
stcaII1eP swinging idly in tho harbor,,
n>she next place, he was ordered -ttTf
steam down to Newfoundland. for a
summer frolic with tho bIuc-noscs, in
stead of eating his dinner quietly on
board ship, OH his way to the Japan
csc. And now again. he has been
summoned to Washington, to give ad-
vice and receive Instructions about
again employing our Naval forces to
protect Spain's colonies, because of a
vague rumor OF new expeditions to
Cuba.
And all this has been done, too,
while all sorts otnovcltes and whole
museum Of curioSitics have been pur
chased for the expedition, with view
to surprise and ovcrwhclm the japan.
csc with wonder. Indeed, We arc not
quite certain that the President does
not contemplate the expectation OF the
Patent Office to Japan, including all
its models, patterns, wheels, locomo-
tIvcs, and multit;.rious nondcscripts in
the arts and sciences, and in Yankee
cummings generally. We have reason
for supposition of this kind, for so
far the Mississippi steamer has been
converted into Il modern Noah's Ark.
Even the electric telegraph is includ-
cd in the catalogue OF purchases, the
harness of the lightning stccds being
prepared with express reference TO the
imperial eye of the Japanese Empc-
rOr.
Our intcrcsts-vast and important
ones they arc-on the Pacific coast,
are of rapidly accumulating and cx-
panding character. They will and
must lead to the opening of trade with
Japan-and tho expedition properly
organized, might make the initiatory
movement to that end, alike so impor-
tant to the prosperity of California,
and to the whole of our territory north
of the land Of gold. Oregon will in
crease with vast rapdity, when the
first commercial treaty is made with
Japan, and n great northern highway
will he opened, through Minnesota,
from the Western to the Eastern coast,
increasing production for hundreds of
miles on either side of it, stimulating
industry, increasing the population Of
our territories, and bringing in to the
Atlantic cities Il new tide of p-ospcri-
ty out Of the very bosom of the wilder
hess.
1t needs no prophctical far-sightcd-
ness to sec that such will be the effect
of opening trade with Japan. The
immigration of the Chinese into Cali
tornia, is producing important results
there; aud direct communication
with Japan, will hasten the desirable
consequences thus family toreshadcw-
ed What, then, we ask, induces our
Government to suspend its action, af
ter having made the decision to send
an Expedition to Japan? Why the
sluggish will, that now paralyzcs it at
the very hour when it should complete
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