The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1853-09-19

mppi riys-. viii, however, at the same time exoress
my confidence that With company seeking of neces-
6ty the best route the advantages Of climate and the
insstDabls and upteveoped though not altogether
apprecia sd wealth Of The country must secure the
ap.1 srssG pass through the
saoud be exhibited in the reports shortly to be laid be-
fors But Il these advantages found with u.s.
We oou.d not tauly expect favorable decision in any
That the road and viii be speedily built by the
company we have q suicsnt guaranty in the fac, that
number Of eminent ananoiers, statesmen and cspita
lists Wiling to embark in the enterprise failure
VII result dsastrousy to them and to them alone, and
~ the they propose cannot POSSIBLY devove any
LOSS upon ths government viii venture to hope that
you will yourss at distant day. BY the exhibition Of
@ aIa bs ssssisIisv Of tba preisct bsvo5d
doubt and when IL IL demonstrated that the work be
scssys BY private enterprise the last vesge OF an ex
msy,d
as TO the advantages to be enjoyed by the 90
veE-msnf, a. government, from such con
which shs i expected simply 70 pay and for which
ne has the uiquestonabie constitutional power
20 psy-vth,ut going into any minute statistics bare
au3o, TO them viii suggest some idea Of their nagni
1z5s She is to have her Pacific mails transported which
already cos. her shout . million and quarter annually
snd which, by the vast increase in the population ADD
trade of the Pacific sesboarj and the invaluable 0en
raj Ads secured BY this road and Pacific lines OF steam
ess n connection with IL, will be immensely enhanced
N thsr importance and revenues. She is to have her
troops provisions, and munitions of transported
tas cost Of which porat@n time Of peace
IA and 10 time Of must be efec ted
foreign, perhaps hostile territory. through hostile
hsets or over route either imprscticabe, cut
ard tedious 20 be available for purposes Of defence
Bat II 10 perhaps upon this point sufficient to say IL
is evdsnty true that bel des all the other indispe
cable advantages. the would upon the terms
to which the company Is wiling TO sccede be able in
years 70 maks clear pecuniary profit OF no incon
eiiseabe amount from her mails alone.
For al t6sss reasons think I, fair to conclude do
that schsus for building the Pacific Railroad Ire
sessed b, the New York company Is the best If not
the only prsct able plan, by which any q hose nos
LIVING may reasonably hope to see that great woik
achieved.
IL su be perceived that have treated the subject
simply contract, in which the government as one
psry. has the power to and may with advantage con
tract With the other.
The probable effects OF this great enterprse upon the
TRADE, politics. religion Of this country and the
world, theme too stupendous for this modest letter
for ny feeble psn 70 trace There have been sotabs
epochs In ths past history Of hs world which events
81 great magnitude, apparently independent Of each
oey have yet oonspired 10 produce revolutions whose
consequences have endured through al succeeding
tulsa Al for sxampls something three centuries
sso ~ nyeptoa q printing, the discovery and settle.