Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1853-02-19


bring conjunction to your heart. Here il is Mexico
has not only offered you this very right the condition
that yon would renqush the Garay grant, but she has
onered To indsmnfy-ay to indemaisythe assgnees Of
The 6aray grant f.a pee Ilia!y osNe,i
In suggestion two hni TIL 1or i, ,sr
understood his ENrsiloney Iy many ird, - ,r
der 70 avoid all difficulties that may probably arise in
the treaty shall bc rejected, Mexico is willing indemnify
the holders Gay grant, and also the New Orleans
pany for the money they have heretofore expended the
terprise
In despatch of the 10Th Of October mentioned that
the Minister had used this remark, in substance Mexico is
prepared to stand all the consequences that may result from
rejection OF the treaty pretty well satisfied he
meant pec4"iary consequence and nothing more"
Letter Of Mr.. Lstcher.
Senator'S behold here the fundamental error in all these
ansactons-the error which might have BEEN and ought
to have BEEN perceived private speculation with which
the Government had nothing to do, combined mingled
confounded with great national enterprse-a private
speculation undertaken on public account great ma
onal interest brought down to the mre and polluted by
contamination in association with private speculation
Now, ask is it not about time separate this private
speculation from this great national world wide impor
tant concern! Sir our dignity well interest
quires to review position, and not to ask
Mexico to reconsider hers to own steps to
dissolve connection with this New Orleans Company
to dissolve the connexon Of Government with specu
ntorsspecuators whether upon the levee upon the Mis-
sssipp upon South street the East river to dis
miss them to the remedies afforded by the nation with
which they have contracted which remedies the only
they have right to expect in making their
could have contemplated Then prosecute this great
design of nteroceanic communication Mexico by
fair open handed single diplomacy The
sthmus of Tehuantepec will be opened in good time 1t
cannot long remain closed against the spirit Of the age
The advance of country and Of civilization
this continent that it win be opened.
But you want it opened now-you cannot wait. There
is urgency there is haste for Tehuantepec You
want first and most communication which shall bind
New Orleans and Washington and New York on the At
lantc with San Francisco the Pacific The safety Of
your country the safety Of its Pacific possessions demands
Ruc n AYno N all M
tons and through foreign territory occupied by dis
contsnted aggreved and probably hostile people, but
inland, and altogether through you country. You
want for your for your commerce. and for
the of ASIA road which shall have the advan
age of the best Atlantic and Pacific harbors which
be obtained with continuous connection by land,
that there shall be necessity for reshipment between
the Atlantic and Pacific ports way between ports
yet to be artifcially made on the Caribbean and
the Pacific coast, with changes from land to water
carriage requiring breaking Of bulk at least twice in the
course of transit.
If you aim to erect high commercial structure you
must lay your foundations broadly in agriculture in mi
ming and manufacture and all these within your
domain; and the resources which God and nature
have given to you and not those which Providence has
bestowed upon your neghbors. And you want for the
same reason, passage the continent of your
own not shared with any foreign Power and through your
own domain, and not through foreign domain If you
will be the carriers Of Europe and of Asia, if you will be
the carriers in your neroceanc commerce. you
must receive must convey you must deliver merchan
disc within your temperate zone not within that
rid whose heats no1ous animal and vegeta-
BILE productions, and, while deeterous the articles
most abundant and most essential to the subsistence of
man, pestental also to human life itself This is the
communication this continent which you want.
But shall be told have been told by the advocates
Of these starred resolutions, that railroad
domain is not feasible shall give but brief
to thsan in the letter of terate man,
whose experience enables him to bear conclusive testi
mony:
WASHINGTON, Fen. 4, 1858.
SR have the honor Of replying follows to your note
of the I'd Instant making certain inquiries regarding the
praccaby building and the best location for the
posed Pacific Railroad that think it is perfectly practicable
and the BEST route wi be found by going into the valley Of
the Rio Gande at Albuquerque and thence crossing by
the Moqui villages and Little Colorado river Walkers Pass
in the Sierra Nevada and from there down the San Joaquin
valley San Francisco.
have crossed from New Mexico to California by four diff
erent routes namely Cooks Sonora route tho Salt river
route that recently followed by Capt sitgeavess party and
the old Spanish trail; and the have before described
Capt Sitgreaves) is in my opinion decidedly the best
shorter direct and has timber and level country
fewer mountains cultivated and perhaps more cult
vatable land than any other route
have trapped nearly every stream between Cooks rout
and the Great Salt Lake and well acquainted with tn
4 region Of country between these places
Very respectfully, your obeden servant,
Hon. wnLnx H. SEWARD.
shall be told that If it be feasible the length of tn
road is great deter from attemptipgit Wha
is it? Two thousand miles. What two Thousand
miles Of railroad for the people Of the United States
thousand miles The railroads which have been made in
the State of New York alone have aggregate length Of
thousand three hundred and miles exceeding the
distance from lake Erie to the Pacific And you
add the canals the chain would reach from the banks
the Hudson river to the shores Of the Pacific The
railroads already made in the United States if drawn
into heightened chain would reach from Liverpool to
Canton. The railroads which have been made and are
being made in the United States if stretched contn
uousy along would than encircle the globe Again.
shall be told Of the cost of this railroad And what will
be its cost! One hundred millions Of dollars cost
not exceeding the revenue Of the Government of the
United States for two years onya cost exceeding
the of the Federal and State Governments for
year One hundred millions Of dollars why we have
offered that for island in the Caribbean sea One
hundred millions Of dollars; why New York city spent
Of that in supplying itself with water and
grew all the while One hundred millions Of dollars the
State OF New York has already spent, in making canals
and railroads, hundred and thirteen millions, and
prospered while spending it State nation
prospered before That hundred millions OF dollars
il should be directly reimbursed will be indirect
~ replaced within ten years by the economy which il
would enable us to practice in the transportation Of the
army and Of the supplies Of the army and navy it.
not TO speak Of the still important benefits Of bring
ing the public domain into cultivation and into increased
value and developing rapidly the mineral wealth Of Cali
fornia, which be only mperectly realized now, be-
labor that side Of the continent Is worth four
dollars day, while il is worth but one here.
shall be told there constitutional difficulties and
political dangers attending the opening Of this railroad
stretching across country to San Francisco
Does, then, Constitution authorize to make canal
railroad through foreign country, and inhbit such
work in ovnf II there is right under the Cons
tuition for that why is there not for this What new
gloss Of the Constitution the resolutions Of invests
with the power and deprres Of the other Po
tcs danger Is there less political danger in opening
passage through foreign country exposed to the hos