The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1853-11-30
For the Register.
Our New York CossssponAence.
New Yonk, Nov. %, 49,

take ground on the subject OF a railroad
to the Pacific. and if SO, qehat ground
The probability seems to be, that the
Message will declare that the Admin
i.tration is disposed to favor the con-
struction of the road in every Legitimate
and constitutional way, but the Prcsi-
dent will avoid discriminating between
the different plans suggested, leaving
Congress to make the first dcmonstra-
ton Of the preferences, and rcscrving
his opinions until called on for them, as
he possibly will lie by a resolution ask
ing for all information on the subject in
the possession of the Government. That
the road will be built somehow, cannot
be doubted.
The immense and rapid growth Of
population in the United States is fol-
lowed up, as rapidly, by constant i'm
provcments in social condition, and by
all the means of physical wcll.bcing
for whilst, in almost every other coun'
try, the population presses upon the
means of subsistence here how they sur
pass our wants; and VIC are thus furnished
with the surcst elements of successful
trade. We cannot, if we would, live up
to our means of support and the ac-
cumulations of industry furnish us with
a constantly augmenting capital that
must seek for uclc channels Of employ
mcnt. One great contest with England
for the commercial supremancy of the
world. is to be decided on the Pacific
g. Ocean. 1t was not without some pow
/; crful motive that she resisted our claims
to so large a portion of Oregon. At
: that time, she did not suspect how soon
5 a "manifest destiny" would confer Cali
= fornia upon us and she desired to con
t fine us to as narrow limits upon the Paci
. fc coast, AS possible well knowing that.if
| the migratory spirit of our people should
ever lead them to form any considerable
}, settlement there, the struggle would a
once commencc-a struggle which, aim
ing first at supremacy upon the Pacific
+ coast, must end in asserting it on tn
whole Oriental trade
u The events of the past five years at
ford very sufficient and satisfactory in
dications of what is certain to cnsuc
4 great commercial mart has sprun
= up, as if by magic, in San Francisco
III 1851, the latest year for which
have full official returns, the duties co
| octed at that city in imports amounte
, to upward of two millions of dollar
= (2,l20,ss4), which sum is within a frat
e ton of that collected at the port of NeN
Orleans, and the exports Of San Frai
cisco exceeded in value the exports
the port of New York. San Francisc
and New York arc the largest expor
, ing cities in America Imagine thcl
connected by a railroad and c%onceiv
if you can. how immense will be I'll
traffic thus conduc tcd between then
The extent to which commerce wit
China may be pushed is unlimited. III
whole of western America is within Il
grasp of California, and will soon
made subsidiary to its devolopemer
On the Pacific, she had no rival-Chi
is already long distanccd, When Il
!, great Pacific Railroad is opened, 81
: Francisco will become the entrcpot
he the China trade for the whole Unit
M States. and will even be the medium
lis a large portion of European intcrcour
ia with the Cclcstials.
ca 1t is not it'll China only, but wi
~. other parts of Asia, with the lndi
nd with all the islands of the Eastern \
no chipclago, and with Japan las soon
III Commodore Perry accomplishcs !
~ mission) that our Pacific Empire is
IN. sustain its commercial relations. L
Dr.. Importance of this trade can scarcely
DID, oycrcstimatcd. 1t has been coveted
!" every nation that ever aspired to CO
'Lc mcrclal greatness. Tyre, the first c
nd porium Of this trade, was made by 1t
cv- richest aud %proudest city of the wor
NJ, Alexandria, Constantinoplc, Genoa, '
nice, Lisbon and Amsterdam, have ca
ra. successfully, risen to the pinacle OF co
his mercial grandeur, almost exclusively |
S II Oh the wealth derived from the ia
"v A great part of the supremacy OF lac
vii don England has been drawn from I
en- same source. We come last, to enj
alb this lifc-inspiring traffic and we
OK doubtless to reap a richer harvest til
they all, in the deiuge of spices, sill
ion precious stones, porclains, teas, and Of
ace or products. The conclusion is irrcsl
'w- able that a railroad between New Nc
and San Francisco-the great mart
nc. the Atlantic and the great mart OF
ing Paci6c-will be the most successful,
N it will also be the most colossal, OF
human enterprises. 1t will bind
Union topether with a yeritablc belt