Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1853-08-26

One lawyer TOOK tile upper mn,
The lower mill the other.
The Great Pacific Railway-"The Road to
India"-Early yerifcation Of our Predic-
tions-Our Future Greatness!
The Cincinnati Gazette, in writing on
the subject of Christianity in China, says:
"Not the most sanguine dreamed of liv-
ing to see this consumation of his hopes"
We beg the reader to review our article,
so frequently republished by the various
papers of our country, in our Book of
Bank Note Plates, ON the subject of "The
Great Pacific Railway-the Worlds
Grand Highway, that shall fill the cup of
our Country's Prosperity" in which we
said" The people of Asia, long egotis-
teal, and indisposed, from the nature of
their Government, and long adherence to
ancient customs, shall, by their facility of
access toward us, have that opportunity
to investigate the beneii.s we enjoy under
free and liberal laws, that marks our
country as the most progressive of the
agr, and the grand harbinger of freedom
throughout the world. Nearly one-sixth
of the people of California are Chinese,
who become daily more pleased with our
customs and laws, which by their willing
ness to participate in, the more ready to
appreciate they become; and are pioneers
from their own land, for an entire new
order of things, which it gives them much
pleasure to communicate to their own
countrymen, for the amelioration of the
condition of the masses there, which can
not fail to be crowned ultimately with
success, at this day impossible to form
conception Of
This article was written before any
news of the Rebellion in China, and we
predicted with moral certainty this
great change; for we further said in that
article: ssAsia shall be walked from her
lethargy; her masses shall be enlight-
ened, and the present contracted views Cf
her people be supplanted by love oflib-
erty, congenial to the prosperity and hap
piness ofnations. Most writer's thought
centuries must elapse before this mighty
change. But we never acquiesced in
these opinions. We saw in the dim vista
of the future a bright talisman-the &C.
Mus of Liberty-that was to bc seen fairly
by the Chinaman, schooled in Eastern
ethics and prcjudices, so as to determine
his course of action. Republican simpli-
city, the grand lever of power, shall shed
her beauteous lustre DER Oriental fields,
long benighted under the influence of that
despotic power that has kept the masses
solong chained in gross ignorance, where
by they were so long welded to ancient
prejudices, to uphold in power the despot
on his throne, and vile, idolatrous priest
hood. This has given way to an entire
new era and the contracted views enter
tanned by the Oricntals for centuries have
been dispelled, and are superseded by
those of more liberal character. And
future associations forming shall found on
the Pacific and intervening country,
mighty empire and vast cities-larger. by
far, than our Atlantic ports, and populate
far more rapidly. Let the grand links
be connected by this great Worlds High
way, to bring these vast oceans together
through this vast Republic as centrally as
possible.
The most sanguine writer has failed to
describe the immense business of this
road. With what exquisite beauty does
the eloquent Benton, in letter, speak of
huge rock in the midst of the plains,
when he says:
"But that Huerfdno Bmte,-solid
rock, three hundred feet high, sugar loaf
form, visible twelve miles; that column
built by the hands of Nature to receive
statue of Columbus, pointing to the
West, and saying to the magic car as it
flies along, That is the road to India"
Ard shall the eindomitable energy of our
race enrol on Fame's brilliant tablets a
work of such transcendant greatness -
And great as its completion may be, it is
but a faint emblem of what shall trans
pire when the citizens of this great Re-
public shall have such facility of access
that travel shall greatly multiply; and
they shall influence, and totally change
our benighted and long oppressed Orien-
tai neighbors. When the prejudice of
nation and caste shall be buried, and bril-
liant commercial and civil greatness shall
be the handmaids of reciprocal kindness,
and this mighty nation, the dispenser of
magnificent gifts to her grateful people,
shall find this glorious land FLOWING with
milk and honey'-be developed in her
mighty power, and teach the despot that
respect and care for the rights of millions
has, in the structure of our Government,
erected a ''mighty column" illustrative
of her grand philanthropic designs: rear
ing, thereby, indeed, statue of her
mighty founder that shall exist in the
hearts of generations after us, when the
projectors of this glorious enterprise shall
gently repose meath the cypress, with
the thanks of millions yet unborn-and
to whose energies they are so deeply in
debted for such glorious accomplishments,
which previous generations were made