The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1853-01-16

Our exhausess SOIL under the toilng hand nj ind,.
wi pour Ioh ITS cereal treasures suite ent moi onl
TO support 40 abundance our own people but N iced ~
iam,shed millions oi Europe and Asia,
WIN oVefhowiDg gfanares shall our farmers be left
WIN theif Immense surplus 10 perish their hands
when py This project the producer and consumer will be
brought IN proximity 10 each other. When completed
he valuable manufactures OF the East. the mponalons
OF our nch ioregn raic VIII pour into the interior The
luxuHes OF HE. and all the eleganoies and rehnemens OF
civzailon IN exchange Tor the treasures OF the earth
enrehins every class OF our citizens and quickenng all
The elements OF human industry.
Ae aDecng our Joyesyn commerce and trade confdet
10 Inc special care OF Congress by the constitution this
measure OF The highest concernmeu, and this re.pec
deeply affecting The States fronting the Gulf of Mexi
CO. and 10 OF traascendent importance TO The people o
California Look at the commercial position she occu
pies IN esPeci TO The other members of the Union and
ASA the japanese Islands soon 10 be uHseaed and ope
10 our Trade 10 Central and South America and to The
sandwich Islands, (Which six hundred whaling ships
visited % s'dge year) besides other islands OF Ocean
cas With auriierous regions thai defy exhaustion with
agricultural wealth. (he foundation OF man
more valuable even than her Rounain ridges of sitterng
gold, with hatbors unsurpassed the world with mop
ulalon uil OF enterprise, energy, skill and activity 10
every department OF the business life, California by
me laws OF her geographical and commercial position is
destined TO dIa" within her golden gates the trade of
Central and South America, with the rich traffic of the
East to hold The supremacy there and be the great seat
OF commercial wealth and power on the Pacific ocean.
lsshe TO be left disconnected from the Atlantic slope
and Mississippi valley and isolated from the eastern and
western States by an immense unpeoped terrtoy-a ter
nory capable Of supporting two hundred millions OF
the government, OF the United States panses hesitaes
or neglecls an obvious remedy Is she be iorc,d
to keep up her connexion with the elder sislerhood
by a double sea voyage, and land passage through
foreign country, either by the lslhmus OF Pana-
ma, or Nicaragua, or Tehuantepec ard that too, by
vol lent detection from natural route, and at the
which at any moment may blaze out in Europe, and
threaten and disturb our existing peaceful relations with
ina mat continent, Win the government. OF the United
olaes iorgeunl OF the admontion of Washington take
40 precautions against the evils OF war, which may come
upon us when least expected, and by which California
and Oregon may be bockaded and devastated by hostile
fleets, and our trade cut off and destroyed Shall our
Pachc coast be left unaded and alone to battle single
handed with common enemy, with the apprehension of
being severed and permanently separated from The Union,
were not The vaor and patriotism of people
nal guarantee 10 the world that they would rally to man
isolated though they may be the Pacific shores to up
hold ana defend our national integrity supremacy, and
indivsiblity I.7.7 49,. ..
Does not the troubled aspect of European affairs ad-
monsh us OF The necessity of instantly providing against
these apprefenied evils And doas our great COM
merc,a interests demand that every facility should be ex-
tended TO enable to avail ourselves of tie advantage
kets OF Asia, and establish claims full share at
least OF the trade OF the eastern hemisphere .a
Contemplating too, our position politically, does il not
behoove every of whatever party, Law hi sec,
ran principles aside and to this great work as
an Amsrcan, with sing leness OF purpose scorning all
sectlona'i,y, and looking at the common good of our
common country, with fixed determination that il shall
be completed, and that too rapidly unrestricted
means and human energies accomplish i, Then
add lis great adjunct, the electric telegraph, by which
our people, with The rapdiiy OF thought, will hold con-
verse by the lightning from ocean 10 ocean, and there
VIII be established chain binding together each mem,
Der OF This confedeTated Union, every link OF which.
whether IN the social business, political
iiie, Will be united and welded together by a common
interest," unity of purpose and deep-seaied attach.
men, To our institutions, which will defy the
OF war either 10 weaken or impair Then this might,
political fabric, resting upon the basis of human rights
and The solid aHeclIons OF people. in all noble and
majestic proportions, commanding the admiration of the
1Isin nra. It,r,.
monument OF the wisdom of form of government,
and oi the lrumh ot popular sovereIgny.