Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1853-09-30
nh. pacific Railroad.

The Pacific Railroad.s
The Greenyille 6 Southern Patriot has come up
tn the aid of the g Mercury in the cause OF q
Government Railroad to the Pacific. Il thinks that
the opinions of Col Davis are beyond doubt favora
BILE to the measure and that they are IN accordance
with those of President Pierce We do not beheVe
that the President will favor any such undertaking
by the Government and we strongly doubt whether
the loose expressions which have dropped from Col.
Davis can be fairly construed as committing nm 20
the scheme But whether or moi, we pin our pollti-
cal faith to no one we believe that government
enterprise such as Railroad to the Pacific, would
be the most mighty lever wherewith to crush the
mower and independence of the States that consoll-
dation could possibly invent. We further believe
that it will be sternly and almost unanimously OPP
posed by the leading statesmen OF the states hiehts
school The delega.io ion from this State VIII not
probably be divided upon it, nor Is there any reason
to apprehend that the Senators and Democratic KEEP
resentatives of Virginia, North Carolina, Georgia
and Alabama will be less unanimous against It, Ii
the House were to pass such bill, Butler, Hunter,
Mason and their oadjutors, would surely arrest It
in the Senate PROSTATE themselves In the effort
The result may be to raise up new parties ana
the old fight against internal improvement and its
kindred may be boldly renewed under different lead
ers and different auspices, but the true conservative
party, battling against all splendid schemes for
exaltng the few and enslavlng the many, VIII TIL
umph in the end The Patriot comedies with the
Mercury in sustaining this road as a military mea-
sure and, in addition, necessary work OF inter,
nal Improvement. Thus. step by step. we would
soon learn to acknowledge the power OF the Gov
eminent to do everything. If it may build and
hod in perpetuity railroad two thousand miles
long. thus entering into a magnificent carrying
trade for the whole continent, it would be dt1cult
to imagine any limit of it's power. The right to
hold such road would, Of necessity, carry with 1t
the power of every imaginable species OF contract
and as a royal contractor with thousands, including
its agents. mechanics, and aborers, and holding in
its power the vital interests of every branch road
connected with its own, the power of the govern
ment over interests, people, and States would soon
become irresistible. Not so when the navigation OF
a river or road through the wilderness is opened
to the public. These petty schemes of Internal I'M
provement may be unwise and unauthorized expen-
ditures of the public treasure but that ended the
mischief ceases in all but the precedent. The river
is opened the Road is finished and there's end to
Government mismanagement, power or corruption
in that quarter Blu; this Pacific road tire items a
mighty mischief, with a Continundo perpetudt-no
end to political scramble. misrue and corruption
a hone that forever picked and gnawed at, would
still forever be worth the fighting tor 1t In times
past the quiet citizen has turned with disgust and
sickenng from the spectacle of noisy patriots
scrambling for the spoils, how much more may he
now start back in horror from the idea OF struggle
for hundred millions MORE with It's indefinite IN
stalments in reserve? But, fearful as may be the
corruptng influences of this heavy increase in the
spo Is of party, these not only danger
Let it but be settled that this great work is to
be understood by the Government, and soon the sea
begins to cast up her dead. The Seat of Govern
ment is not now, once, the headquarters tor the
crusade against the Slave States and so long as the
Federal power is confined to the management of the
affairs entrusted to it by the plain letter of the Con-
stitution, we may hope for security from such at
tacks But once give way to the allurements of a
magnificent Government Railroad, who tell
where the end shall be? Are any deranged
enough to hope that the non-slaveholding States,
with their overwhelming vote, would ever con
sent that such road should pass from slave State.
through slave territory, to California Do we
take our enemies for shorts GIFTED idiots, that we
should suppose them blind insensble to the inc
vitable consequences of such an enterprise! Veri-
ly, most ncorrigitle smpetons: if the lessons
of the past have enlightened US in this respect.
The free States will vote for such a road as
would surely convert the territory through which it
might pass and California with it, into slave States
The road they desire and will have, if any, must be
north of sc deg 80 mn commencing in free State
it pass through free territory. and begun car
ried on and finished by free labor-no slave would
ever be suffered to fire up engine, attend a
break. work pump, upon any part of its route
Every laborer upon that road must he voter, at
least in prospective and the tendency of every in
fuence there would be in favor of power already
| too grasping and arrogant.
Such are the consequences must expect in this
splendid rush to the Pacific. What untold good
shall allu to risk them, is yet locked up in the
mysterious brain of its advocates When this good
have all the glory it can bring them We consent
that it be recorded and forever, that oppose
bitterly oppose this dangerous scheme. We see in
it evil, and only evil-mminent danger to the States
/ bOated corruption to the General Government-anC
another occasion of and degradation to the
slaveholder.-- Charleston Standard.
| Another $ Hunter of Kentucky Dead.''
We have heretofore neglected mentioning the re
cent decease of a veteran pioneer and solder-Be
noni JImeson of Harrison county, at the advanced
age of 80 years not, however, through any want O
respect for who among the bravest of thu
early defenders of our Commonwealth
| The deceased born in Green Briar county
Virginia. and emigrated to this State with his father
in the autum ofl786-siXtY- seven years ago. Wher
but eighteen, boy in age but man in the strength
and ltheness of his we'll knit frame and daunties
hero in heart he entered the army serving undo
Gen. St Clair. During portion Of his service ht
was stationed at Fl. ashngton, the present site
Cincinnati and saw the first struck into the for
est then waving in its native grandeur where now
the Queen City bustles with it's teeming mullitude
and wonderful commerce. A fall from his horse
compelled him to return home where he remained
engaged in the peaceful pursuits of agriculture un
til the renewal of Indian difficulties in the North
West, when in 1897 Kentucky was called upon fo
troop of fifteen hundred men Mr.. Jimeson ioinet
the company of Capt Gray of Bourbon. and wa
present at the battle of Fallen Timber, fought Au
gust 90, 1897 1t was there that Mad Anthony
the familiar sObriquet of Gen. Wayne won his las
and greenest laures. From this victory ensued tn
direct benefits to the entire frontier country
and in sacred remembrance should ever be held the
names of those gallant men who there braved will
foe to ensure safety to later generation.
: For third time in 1918, Mr. Jimeson volunteer
: ed in the ranks and entered Capt. Thomas compan