New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-01-28

changes OF Mails tedious, fnIfeluehi sho uh-
certain. II would remove our Pacific States
70 the present distance Of China or Australia,
and render it the dictate OF prudence, almost
of eefpreservatiOn. that they cut loose from
connection involving them in Infinite peru AMI
calamity without securing them any comPea-
sstiDg advantage.
And DOW is the time TO ACT. We are a.
peace with ali the world, and have only to stop
FdlibustieriDg TO remain so. Wehave an ample
Revenue. q liberal Surplus, and a moderate
Debt. Every mile OF Pacific Railroad We con-
strnct will increase our Revenue aud diminish
our Expenditures. IL would swell our datiable
Imports and secure q ready sale for Public
Lands now utterly without value. We hold
that our Country would be not only imm ensely
stronger but millions richer to-day if the Psci-
fic Railroad we're finished and the Government
in debt for its cost Our annual Revenue would
very coon be swelled by at least Five Millions,
and ultimately by Ten Millions, and the debt be
rapidly cancelled while (aside from deserts)
arabic lands equal in area to France, Spain and
Portugal, or TO our Eastern and Middle States
would be opened thereby to rapid settlement
and facile cultivation Here is boodless con-
quest inviting US, Of far greater importance and
true glory than the subjugation of all the Con-
tineut. The fame Of Napoleon or Wellington
would be unenviabe compared with that Of him
who might justly claim the credit Of having
caused the construction of the direct Pacific
Railroad
The enemies OF this noble enterprise will not
attack il in open, manly combat. Theirs will
lie guerilla warfare, and its immediate object
the instgatiOn ofrivaries and hostilities among
the friends Of the work. They viii not take
their stand on the position that the Road ought
not to be built, nor even that Congress ought
not to dit. but their leading question will be,
Where do you propose to construct it , What
is your route
Now we are in favor of the Road on any
route, and at the earliest practicable day.
The shortest route is that from Lake Superior
and the Falls of st. Anthony to the north
branch Of the Columbia, and so down to the
Dalles and to Puget's Sound. The most obvi-
GUS and best route is that from st. Louis TO
the Platte, and up to the South Pass; thence
by Salt Lake 20 Sacramento. The third or
southern route is longer, and encounters great
engineering difficulties through New Mexico,
but il enjoys the great advantage Of compare
tive exemption from snow. There may be
still other routes, or notifications of these, 70
be discovered hereafter; but it is probable
that one Of these must for the most part be
followed
We trust Congress will not separate without
decreeing, l. That the Road shah be built ?.
That ample and competent engineers shall this
year traverse zach of the possible routes, and
report on their practicability and probable ex-
pensiyeness. 3 That on their Reports being
received, the most feasible and advantageous
route shall be selected, and the work pressed
forward as vigorously as possible. For all be-
yond these points We must trust TO the future.
The question Of location is Important not
where you will, there win be perfected lines of
Railroad communication from the Eastern
terminus to all our great Atlantic and Gulf
cities before the main trunk can be completed
and so on the other side. Passage or Freight
for San Francisco or Oregon City will be taken
indifferently in Boston, New-York, Philadel-
phia, Baltimore, Charleston, Mobile or New
Orleans, as well as in St. Louis, Memphis or
Chicago. We will warrant New-York to Sc
cure her share Of the benefit, run the Road
where you will aud so with other cities It
will soon be much the same with Railroads as
with ordinary highways, which men take
Wherevertbey happen to be, and are carried on
them to wherever they want 10 be-
Men Of action, East and West let us one
and all resolve and insist that the Pacific Rail
road must and shall be built BY the present
generation There vii still be abundance of
good work left for our children