The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1853-01-13


Governor Austen A. King has transmitted his last
annual message to the Legislature OF Missouri The
Governor enters largely upon the different topics OF
State interest and the works Of internal improvement
receives his especial consideration. In relation to the
great Pacific Railroad he says -
In view Of the agitation of the public mind in rcfe
renee 10 u national railroad TO the Pacific have con
siderei Of The very rst importance that the Legsa
should give its energies to the road from st Louis
terminating Al near the mouth Of the Kansas For
when completed have q road three hundred miles on
direct line TO the Pacific and viii afford argument
potent than words that at its terminus must com
mence the central national highway.
Make the Pacific Railroad terminating ut near the
mouth of the Kansas; let the Hannibal and St. Joseph
Railroad be built and also the Southwestern road with
the aid Of the land grant, together with the two
other rosdsthe North Missouri Railroad and the Iron
Mountain Railroad, and upon the hypothesis that
these these roads TO be completed II Is most ma
nifest that the State viii be greatly advanced IN all hat
appertans TO her interests connected with the welfare
The Ieg-ture has by It's action determined that this
road I've made without the aid OF the land grant and
the Pacific Railroad Company sought the late disposition
of the land to aid in the construction of road, term
mating at some point on our western boundary south OF
the Usage river upon the on their part that
the road to the mouth of the Kansas should be built
without the aid Of this land There is to my mind very
good why there should be general acquescence
in the disposition Of this land If it had been applied
TO the road terminating at the mouth Of Kansas then
should have had but road, for conem
plated making the road to the southwest without the aid
of the land.
/ recommend to the Legislature to.memoriaize Con
gress the subject Of this great national highway and
70 extinguish the Indian title TO territory west OF
and through which the road must run; and finally to
bring about the organization of such territory, which
will at once, open up the way 10 American enterprise
and American industry in making still further advance
TO our Pacific possessions.
Another consideration should induce the people OF Mis-
souri, and indeed avery American citizen, to press for.
ward this great enterprize 1t wiz Pe the highway OF
nations-the key to the Commerce of the EastunA com
which has been sought after for the last thirty
centuries, and which, from the days Of Tyre Queen Of
cities down TO the present time has enriched cities and
built empires and with the loss Of it they have
| ished.
road to the Pacific win be road to India 1t will be
the first practical demonstration of the idea conceived
more than three centuries ago by Columbus of going
west to arrive the East Indies. His mission the
eastern coast Of Asia, but failed in his errand by the
intervention of the American continent Let the Amer
people carry out the grand conception OF Columbus
by road 10 the Pacific and brings in contact with
upwards Of six hundred millions Of people who would be
proud by exchange OF their valuable commodities to
receive beef pork -four grain and breadstuGs of all
descriptions Let this road be made and in few day
reach the ports of Asia Then, not only the
American people but all Europe viii abandon the route
travelled for than three centures-sailng more
than thirty thousand mles-doublng formidable cape,
and Drawing all the dangers incident to SO perous
| voyage.