New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-02-09
NETWORK DAILY TRIBUNE, WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 8 1879

Gus connection without the necessity o. ta1siipneas
or trensier az am points between the sr OF srce
on the Ateniic and the r a commerce n tie p
cifc, and not way Ike that Of TehlaniePec. where
Iorts at both ends yet N be artfc lly male and
whose route would be combination Of land and wa;fT
carriage involving the necessity Of breaking bulk MT
less than three times between the commercial post, IS
on the respective oceans. II TOu aiming a. AGA
Commercial eninence, you must get i ny laylng ne
foundations broadly 10 agriculture mining aut mlau
isc,Ures upon your OWE d0msln, and ~ the improve
ment Of the resources which it yields T. your
ptsssge across the continent must be tlrolsn
that domsin and not through the domain OF
foreign c0untry. Ii you expect 20 become The caFrefs
between Europe and Ais, the carrier IA your
own interoceanic commerce, you must receive, convey
and deliver passengers ana freight within the temperate
zone ard not within that zone which while is heats are
noxious 10 animal and vegetable productions, snt 80
most abundant and most essential 10 the subsistence 1f
MAD alec filed with pstence and destructive 70 nl.
man life You aretod the advocates Of thesetarred
deeteTious 10 articles of which are AZ once
resolutions that railroad across your own DOMAIN u
not fessibe and yet there IN your very presence
and in the hearing of this debate the men who have
trsversed more than practicable route, and emf
grants are annually passing upon them BY thousands
You told Of he great length, which u known VIII not
exceed 600 miles What are 300 miles OF RAN oad %
be nnde ty the whole people OF the United states when
through the action OF State snd citizens alone lOO miles
have already been constituted Tne Railroads OF New.
York if stretched cut in continuous chsin would
reach distance twoLircs great rs that wnca separ
that you cannot the Mississippi and san Fran
cisco through space Of 1000 les N the face OF the
facts that the Railroads already made within the Unned
States II extended in one continuous cham, would cover
distance as great as that which divides Liverpool from
Canton, and together with Railroads now constructing
would be sufficient 10 encirce the globe lou are al
monked ofthe cost Of such an enterprise That cost
s asceTtaLed by the safest induction need not excee
one hundred miOns-a very Little, Il az all, exceed
ing the revenues actually received and disbursed In
single year by the several States Of tie Federal
Government California cost Us no more than a hun.
bred millions, expended within two years, and the
country was unconscious OF the expense. Inc City
OF New-YoTk alone expended fifteen millions
TO supply herself with water, and grew all the more
rapidly for the expenditure. The state Of Ne~-i OK
alone hes expended nearly hundred million in the con.
sttuction OF canals and railroads. and has grown and
prospered all the time, no other state has ever grown
and prospered on earth. The hundred millions wnicn
the railroad would cost, even If no portion OF should
ever be directly reimbursed would be indirectly re-
placed within ten years by the economy OF the move
meut Of your army and the supplies Of your navy on
the Pacific 20 say nothing Of lis effect IN bringing tue
public domain into cultivation and in developing and re
allzing the mineral wealth OF California You ars told
OF Constitutional difficulties and dangers attending TINS
great enterprise. Does the Constitution authorize the
United States 70 open an nterOceanlc cOnnJhlcatlon
and inhb.t the opening for passage over our own 90
mln, and through our own terriioryf ls there less
political danger attending the opening OF passage
through foreign country exposed 20 the hostility Of
rival nations than mixing one altogether through
our own country beyond the reach Of other nations,
aud practically unobserved by them. But grant that
you allowed IN peace 70 open communication
through the l-thmus Of Tehusntpec, can you secure
that control and management Of It you will require
without securing also the Of the states Of Vera
Cruz and Osjaca 10 the United Staesi Can you take
hcse States and leave the other Mexican Satesi Can you
keep them out Of the Union 2. II Of the Mexican
States are be brought into the Union, have You set
tied and arranged the question whether they are %
come in slave States Satesi Can you admit them
as slave States Can you admit them free States Can
YOU adjust a balance between slavery and freedom :
II YOU cannot adjust that balance you cave the
Union Itself from CONFUSION These SIR are questions
which must and win be forced upon you when Mexico
exhausted whether by faction, IN defending herset
against your violence shall impore TO be aimtted
into this COnicdeTacy. That time y sure enough 20
come without Fastening it, Is there necessity Of
htsening IL now Have you not more passages from
the MISSISSIPPI and the Gulf 10 the Pacific than you can
open. with all your present capital and enterprise In
quarter Of a century and more land already than you
can cover with inhabitants in half century, and more
gold and silver than you can extract from the earth
in whole century These dangers are the only
real dangers Of precipitation Tine will speedily
I'll the regions you already possess with homo
eenous population and homogeneous States and yet
even long before that time the nation VIII have taken
such magnitude, such consistency, such unity, that
Mexico with her million OF Spaniards, her Two mil.
lions Of CreOee and her five millions Of AZtecs, be
received and absorbed in the Union without disturbing
the national harmony Disturbing the national vgor.
Wisdom justice and magnanmity combine in recon-
mendng 10 US the moderation to which Mexico, ex.
haueted Ia her efforts AT once 20 initiate political
touchngly appeals and which faith, pghted over
the ruin OF her most precious hopes, sosnIny en-
joins
Mr.. UspERwooD replied to some comments
by Mr. Seward on Mr.. Letcbers proceedings in Mexico
Mr.. HALE obtained the floor, and after va
rous times being mentioned 70 which the subject ouyhi
TO be postponed, it was postponed TIL Tuesday next.
Adjourned.