New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-02-11
THE PACIFIC RAILROAD.
Advantage Of the RoIte across the Continent
OVER Telnanfencc


ture you must lay your foundations broadly in ssrcu
ture II mining and manufactures and use the resources
which God ami nature have given 10 yo and not those
which Providence has bestowed upon your neishbors.
And you want, for the same reason passage scross the
continent Of your own, net shared with sav fore IN
power and through your domain and no, f,rp "a
domain. II you vi be the carriers of Europe ami cf
Asia you will be the carriers IN your own inter.
oceanic commerce you must receive you mus; convey
you must deliver merch sndse within your temper.
zone within that torrid zone whose heats
noXiou. TO sninl and vegetable productions and whs
deeteTiOus - the articles most abundant and most
essential Ia the subsistence OF man. presidential also To
human lie itself THIS is the communication across this
Continent which you want But shall be told as have
been told by the advocates OF these stsrred resoa'
tons, thar railroad across our own dOmain u not Tea
sible shall give bu' brief answer 20 thst-an answer
in the letter Of illitsrSie msn. whose experience
enables him 10 bear conclusive testimony.
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shall be told that if il be feasible the length of the
roSd i great 10 deer from attempting Il WHAT
/ ISM Two thousand miles What are twp thousand
miles OF railroad for the people of the United States 10
I make VINO, within eighteen years past, have male
twelve thousand uesi The railroads which have been
made in the State of New YORK alone have aggregate
length OF two thousand three hundred and miles,
exceeding the distance from Lake Erie 70 the Paclnc
| Ocean and, If you add the canals. the chain would
reach from the banks of the Hudson River to the shores
g ka al a,
the United States Il drawn out into lsngthcned
chain would reach from Liverpool ~ Csnton. The
railroads which have been male, and are now being
made in the United States II stretched continuously
along would more than 6ncirce the globe. Again.
shall be told of the cost of this rroa1 And what VIII
be It's cost One hundred millions OF dollars cost
not exceeding the revenue OF the Government OF the
United States for two years onya cot not exceeding
the revenue Of the Federal and state Governments for
one year. One hundred millions OF doarsl Why, we
have offered that sum for island "a the Caribbean
Sea- One hundred millions of dollars Why New
York City spent onesNth of that IN supplying itself
with water, and grew al the while One hundred ml
lions OF dollars The State OF Newlo-k has already
spent in making canals and railroads, hundred and
thirteen millions and prospered while spending !, as
state or nation prospered before That one hun
dred millions of dollars II should never be directly re-
imbursed, will be indirectly replaced within ten years
by the economy which u would enable US 20 practice IN
the transportation Of the Army and OF the supplies OF
the Army and Navy over H. speak Of the stl more
important BENEFITS Of bringing tue public domain into
rapidly the mineral wealth OF California, which can be
only mp@iectly realized now, because labor on that
side of the Continent is worth four dollars day, while
! il Is hut one here.
shall be told there are Constitutional difficulties AMI
political dangers attending the opening OF this railroad
stretching own country 10 San Francisco.
Does then Constitution authorize va 20 make canal
railroad through foreign country end inhblt such
n work in II there is right under the Con.
sttution for that why is there not for hsl What new
gloss of the Constitution the resolutions OF l19o In
vests with the power and depryes of the other
Political dapgcr Is there less political danger in open
ing passage through foreign country exposed to the
hostos OF armed people and OF rival nations than
in poaceabiy opening passage throug our own pos
sessions beyond the reach of any foreign power AMI
unobserved by them But grant that railroad
| can be made through the Isthmus OF Tehuanopec;
you manage and control that road as you demand thai
Mexico shall permit you 10 do, without oyerturnng
or later, the States Of Vera Cruz and OaNaca
/ through which il will psssi Can you do that without
breaking your treaty obligations To Mexico No, sir
the national power which controls and manages that
road, with only the small States OF Vera Cruz and
OaXaca on The route. will soon overcome them IL you
take those two States will you leave the remaining
twenty States Of MeXicol VIII the other twenty CON
sent TO remain out of the American nation when you
have taken the two principal states and have cut of
their communications with the Caribbean Sea and the
Pacific Oceani Not day. WA you consent that any
body else shah have themi Noyou whitley consent
that nybody else shall have them Not they. SO you
viii have Mexico
Well before you conclude upon this important mat.
ter consider well whether you have settled the prem
nsres and prepared the for receiving the - States
oiMexco Hyou have, pray enlghten me WIN they
come In Slave States win they come in Free states.
Can you admit them Slave Satesi Can you take them
in as Free states Can you adjust the balance between
Slay cry and FreedOmf II not, you the Union
from co4ylson And If you plunge the Union in
yulsion, you tell me whether you can bring out
in safety Well, suppose that these preiminaries are
all seticd Those States cannot govern themselves
they govern Themselves better after they
ere annexed % the United Satesi No. WIN you gov.
I them pray Tell M how Nv admiltlu4 them
equals by proconsular power II the one you must
have army perpetualy there 10 suppress nsurrecnon
II the other you must have standing army IN the prov
nces ultimately 10 come back and open the same dlsas
trous drama Of anarchy, civil desolaOn and ruin
home which the armies OF Mexico have enacted there
II you bring them a a. States, have you settled the
question whether you are 30 govern them, whether
they are % exercise self government and govern
youl Have you reached that point in yOT charity that
you will be willing to be governed BY six millions Of
Indians IN MeXicOl
Thee are no idle questions. They are coming upon
US and they will be here when Mexico exhausted by in.
ternal factions and by resistance TO your own aggres-
siCns shall mpOre you 10 give her rest and peace and
SAFETY by admitting her 70 your Conederacy az before
long in any event. she surely must and will do That
time Is coming soon enough without Fastening L. Why
hasten il You answer that you want passage across
the continent by way Of Tehuhntep0c. Have you not
passages already across your own domain TO open
than you open In twenty i've years Have you not
more land already than you people In htty years
Have you not more gold and silver than you can dig Ia
en- hundred yesrsi These dangers are real but only
real precipifaied Time will speedily MI the regions
which you already possess with homogeneous popula
ton and homogeneous states yet even long before that
event so soon TO arrive shall have come this nation wi
have occurred such magnitude such consistency such
strength such unity such empire that Mexico With her
one million OF whittier her two millions Of mixed races
and her tive millions OF AZtecs and other sborgnss can
be received and absorbed without Disturbing the
tional harmony imparing the national yigor
checking icr day the national progress.