The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1853-02-08

completed manner satisfactory President Of the
United States, he shall cause po rata payment be
50 completed he bonds d tho goyenment issued under
the provisions a dis act ard by grant Of ouhs Of the
may entlue said conlIact0rsh
Thus il viii be perceived iha, The contractors get the
money 10 which hy miles enlile them, and also four
Mr. DOUGLAS. Precisely That is to say, when the
hrst hy miles OF this road completed by the contract
ofs expending their own money, and Il has cost them
say 100000, they get about S5O00OO Ia bonds oil the
United States and they draw hihs OF The pubic
lands lying along this fifty miles. Then, with the amount
celyng, when they have completed them, The same
amount in money and land. The United States all The
time have lien the fifty miles Completed wnleh have
cost five times much as The advance we make Ihefe
is therefore, possibility OF loss on our part under
this bill But the says the contractors VIII stop and
not complete the road The monen. they do stop and fail
TO complete H. they make forfeiture Of the whole road
as they have gone and they forfeit their contract
which everts 10 the United States Suppose they should
make five hundred miles and then stop: should lose
anything by that forfeiture? We should then into
possession Of all the work which had been done by our
money and our lands and four times much work
done by The money OF The contractors; and we should
have besides all the materials, all the implements and
everything that had been prepared for carrying the
work and If the contractors would only make two or
three such toeiures before they got through should
gel the road at very cheap rate When forfeiture oc
ours, all that the government has TO do is 10 let The
mainder OF the road 10 company, and should
by the failure all that had been heretofore done
II The senator from Georgia. instead oil predicting that
tons for this road will take The ground that he will hold
the company TO strict compliance with the contract, and
insist on forfeiture The instant they al 10 comply with
IL, there will be no difficulty.
But sir, pass from that point. The senator says he
would like 10 this road made, provided can be done
consistently with the constitution did not understand
distinctly from him that il violated the constitution.
Mr.. DAWSON. said would do all could within
the pale OF the constitution.
MIR. DOUGLAS But il the measure ID within the pale
OF The consultation, oil course the litation amounted TO
nothing and 4 II IS not within The pale Of the conslu
ton, would like TO the objection It's constitutions
aity pointed OUT and will tell the senator that, when
it shall be pointed out, will undertake either answer
the argument, or will write an amendment 10 avoid the
force OF the objection. pass however, from that point
because am gong 10 argue the question generally.
The senator from Georgia say that this road
was 10 be through wilderness OF two or three thousand
miles. where there would be nothing to supply proyis
ions for those engaged upon II and that the travel and
commerce upon It when completed would not be suth
clent TO pay lis expenses He says dreams that
the road going pay fair dividend after made
presume he speaking in his usual beautiful, heto
cal manner without pnning himself down to what he
would expect us 10 regard as seriously The facts OF the
case There are men wha think that this road will pay
when i is made There are men who thiak they have
some data by which they arrive at that conclusion
Il have seen, within the last four years, road started
IN my own State through country where hardly
tenth OF the land was under cultivation and where the
predictions made that IL would pay, and
yet that road although only half done yields TWEEN
~ seven per cent upon lis cost And what is more, the
road to which refer was intended Tor through travel
between two great POINTS but when 1t was bali made il
found thai the local travel double the capacity
OF The ROAD, ana Inc company are now beginning uOut
BILE track al that end toT local travel before they finish
the through road.
| undertake TO predict to the honorable senator from
Georgia, that although the county through which this
road is 10 be constructed is wilderness, before IL
finished the line OF the road, and the country Tor wide
extent on either side will be more densely populated than
the Stale OF which he able representative this
floor. undertake 10 say TO The senator that am will
ling 10 put myself The record as predicting that when
you get this road half done the local travel along the I'm
ished portion oil will be beyond the capacity single
track to perform When you get hundred miles into
the wilderness, you VIII have shortened the distance for
the transportation OF your army and other supplies into
New Mexico; and who can count the number OF teams,
the number OF mules, aud oxen, and horses, that will
the end OF the road To haul supplies from that
points Who count the number OF leamsers that
will be employed, the number OF farmers who will be
qulred 10 supply productions TO the laborers The number
OF keepers and store keepers and shop-keepers
who will spring up at the end oil the road So, you
keep moving on each week getting two or three more
miles OF your track completed, the whole country will be-
filled up with settlers who to remain there per
naRently. Each hundred miles that you peRelrae
the wilderness you shorten the distance for hauling sup
Plies and greater number OF teams will be required 10
concentrate upon H. and population viii be swelling IN
upon each side 10 raise provisions 10 sell TO the men en-
gagged in the work
One OF the best markets that can be opened 10 the agf
cuurss anywhere will be along the line OF this road TO
supply your hye thousand workmen who will be employ
ed IN its construction Sorekeepers and shopkeeper
will be needed supply them with goods and other
teTials You will find mechanic shops growing up all
along lhe road 10 make and repair tools and implements
for the workmeR You will find the whole country
turning from wilderness into OF the densely.
populated and highly cultivated portions OF America
Such will be the natural result OF the construction of
this road That being the case do not the force OF
the genemau's argument that this work is 10 be con-
slfuced through vast wilderness
Again do not the force OF the argument that we
shall have 10 put military posts along the country, al
every twelve miles, protect the laborers from the In
dams. Would not military posts look well protecting
five thousand laborers along the line OF that road Why
SIR how TO those abOrers DO you think any hostile
Indians will APPROACH 10 my opinion, the Indians will
require protection against the abores than the Ia
boers against the Indians, and therefore, do not see
the force OF that Argument By putting this road under
contracts BY stretching your aborers along the line from
end OF 10 the other YOU viii have rendered travel
along that road for single man on horseback or
in buggy, foot and he will be free from The mo-
leslation of any Indians within hundred miles Of the
road That must Inevitably be the results and therefore
instead OF It's requiring additional military force upon
the line, The very aboers engaged in constructing this
road will furnish e6ecua protection for your SET
Elements in New Mexico, wherever else travel NAV
lead the continent than all The armies YOU have
sent will send there. Settlers will follow
the ine Of the laboers, and they will cultivate farms
and raise provisions 10 feed those laboers Mechanics
will settle there; settlements will grow M; they will
form kind of earned occupation" not only prepared 10
defend themselves hut 20 send parties 10 the relief of
others, at distance who may be threatened with attack
You will thus be enabled to withdraw your army and
Millions OF dollars expended that country in
sending provisions TO them and The country will be bet
ter projected by the quiet, silent occupation of these