Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1853-08-20
PACIFIC RAILROAD,

This grandcst physicalprojcct of theagc, direct,
speedy communication between the Atlantic and the
Pacific, is probably, like every thing else to he
mixed up with slavery and controlled by slave
holders. At least, desperate effort is to he made
for it. According to the following extract from the
Washington correspondent of the n. Y. Frccman's
journal, slavery has already won President Pierce
to its side on this question, Of coufsc no difficult
task General Gadsdcn is the newly appointed
Minister to Mexico, and the following says the cor
respondent above alluded to, the instructions he
has received ON this subject. lie says:
Having obtained an authentic outline Of tho
instructions given to Gcn. Gadsdcn, ! find the
method of solving all these questions, well of
promoting the railroad to the Pacific, adopted by
the Administration, to bc as follows:
Gen. Gadsdcn is instructed to ask for and insist
on the grant by Mexico to the United States. of II
free right Of way for railroad along tie 32d par
alcl Of latitude. Tho United States, in return,
agree to rclinquish all claim to Tchuantepcc; to
give Mexico u certain sum indemnity for Indian
dcprcdations, and to share with Mexico the advan
tagcs and of the road. This arrangement, it is
hoped will practically annul the tn article of the
Guadaoupc llidalgo Treaty, rendering the keeping
up line of military posts along the Mexican border
no longer necessary.
THUS our Cabinet hopes to settle the conflicting
interests respecting Northern or Southern route
for the Pacific Railway. The South will not find
here the northern terminus for the road that she
dislikcs; and on the other hand, the anti-slavery
men can find comfort in the fact that most part Of
this road will lay through free territory. Mexico,
our cabinet hopes, will find in the advantages her
northern States will reap from this road, and in
the prospect of speedy grant of indemnity money
for Indian dcprcdations, motives powerful enough
to induce her to accept the proposal held out to
her"
Another compromise, according to the well cs-
ablished American meaning of the word, viz all
the benefits to slavery and all the costs to freedom.
General Pierce and the Democratic fllibustcrs
may be satisfied with this location of the road,
and this new annexation of Mexican territory
1t may suit them to build road for Mexico and
slavery, but ant-slavcry men will be anything else
than satisfied. If the execution of this plan is
attempted the peace measures will not prove very
effective upon the next Congress.
The Tribune, which has heretofore exposed this
plan for the aggrandizcmcnt of slavery, speaking
of the above item of news, says:
ave exposed the true impulse and drift of this
new demonstration some days ago. Briefly il is u
Slavery Propaganda dodge intended to secure II
row of Slave States from the Rio Grandc to the
Pacific, half wrestcd afresh from Mexico, with the
Pacific Railroad running through their center, and
rendering them the focus Of the Worlds Commerce
lhe North Is to be told Yes, you can have u
Railroad to the Pacific; but only ON condition that
it shall run along our extreme Southern border
| partly through Mexico, and render necessary II
further Annexation then consent to divide Cali.
fornia make the Southern half Slave Territory !:
let two more such be established on the Giln and
the Colorado, and the Resolutions of '0S shall get
out Of the way of your Pacific Railroad Such is
the tobedu to be presented on the ringing up of the
Executive curtain next December; such is tho
meaning of JEFF. Daviss intimation."