The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1853-08-15
TIE Pacific Railroad and tho Integrity and
stability or the Unlon.

Stability OF the W Ion.
ION the IIoaooa Ne rs, July 271
Our active American relatives arc in q state Of
great eagerness about new enterprise, in the exc.
cuton OF which all the civilized world will wish them
well. They are not now sounding the trumpet and
marshaling their forces for var against dweers on
their own continent, but promising the shrek of the
steam whistle, and proposing to open q highway OF
peace III the form Of railroad which shall unite
the commerce OF the Eastern and Western worlds;
which shall run from the Atlantic to the Pacific. 1t
vas remarked, with some curiosity, that while the
CoIventioD-held at Memphis few weeks since
could agree On none OF the immediate objects Of their
conference, they came to decision one point, be-
fore supposed collateral to support with the whole
strength of the South the project of railway to the
Pacific. And the North and the West show them
selves now no less ready and eager. With the usual
rapidity Of their national purpose, they are bending
their wills to people the deserts where the buffalo
are browsing In innocent security, and to bridge the
rivers Which have hardly yet heard the minging OF
human voices with their own roar Land surveying,
with its league boots is bestrding the prares,
and making no more OF the passage OF the Rocky
Mountains than if their precipices were flight of
garden steps, leading ito fresh fields and pastures
new" The foot prints OF the geometricsl giant mark
the spots where stations are presently to arise and
sigbalposts to lift their warning fingers, and plat
fotms to be laid down, whence the doctrine and ex
horiation will day aud night be practically given
forth, to Ego ahead" The Indian and the buffalo
WIN hide themselves aiar off, and be equally at n loss
70 know what 1t all MEANS The prairie dog will
burow deeper, and the herds of wild horses will
scaprer more wildly with the wind, when the steam
horse snorts and pants and shrieks after them from
behind. Inc Mermons viii appoint day OF fast
find the ends Of the earth any more than the Jews
the end of their wandering. The whales Will sink
away from the Pacific shore, and on the opposite
ccaet the Asiatics will come down to gaze and
heaiken from the Russian in his furs to the MALAY in
his cotton scarf
VIII it be done Can it be done' Why not ask
the Americans The only wonder to them is that it
was not done long ago. The Englishman who once
saw Pitt and Fox and the first number Of the "Edn
burg Review" says that he remembers the discovery
Of that American interior, and the noise that was
made by the travels Of Lewis and Clarke, who dc
scrited such region of wlldness as 1t Is preposter
Gus TO suppose can begin to support habitation
and trafic for q century TO come. The American is
saying meantime that his nation is growing as
lazy any Of the Old Word peoples; that Lewis and
Clarke had told all about the interior Of the con-
tinent so long ago as before his grandfather died
The whole thing should have been at work before
this time. and he cannot imagine what the world Is
wailing for. The work will no doubt be begun.
When and how IL will be finished Is a matter OF more
doubt, though it is probably ,nly question Of time.
The last Congress made an appropriation FIR
the purpose Qt kiple survey Of west.