The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-06-14
MORNING EDITION WEDNESDAY, JUNE H. 1854


estimate to that her present expenditures 1,
TINS are ninetix millions Of dollars being abou
onesxth Of the whole railroad pt invested In tn
nerupons hcsn her way through msuntan. Sorn
their bases OF sond rock bridging streams for the
ne and overcoming dcuIes not to be met with either
pitous range Of the Cascade The people q the Jnsd
States have expended six hundred millions OF dollars
and western they have been literally aided BY doaatons
in every direction within their own limits, which human
want could suggest They have crossed the Mississippi
Pacific railroad 81 ~h.e,ss SeS .s w,,n os the
starting point Look at the extent Of country east
Of the Mssssipp and that portion west Of IT, and you
will find that the individual landholders of less than
twohs Of our territory have done the work Of inter-
sectpg the country In such manner to revolution
Of improvement. The great landholder, the United
States government the undsputed proprietor Of pub
lie lands in more than three-Hfths Of our terrific
rial extent lying between the Mississippi and the Pacific
Ocean. Within that region there million
nine hundred and ninety thousand square miles com
posing the greater portion Of Minnesota Territory and
Ms.sippi tori.-lo.s Missouri Arkansas Louisiana sas
Beyond and adjoining is the State Of Texas. Then we
have Nebraska and Kansas, the Indian country and
the Territories Of Utah, New Mexico, Oregon, ana
fornia, by which it is proposed to bring us IN
easy and rapid intercourse by the road under consdera
tinguished statesman the other side Of the capitol
and not materially different In the aggregate from
proposes To
every alternate mile within twenty miles each
side OF this road through the whole extent Upon the
square miles for each inea one Of route we have forty
thousand miles of six hundred forty acres
81 @ q mSn hrn
than the quantity already granted to individual Staes
for purposes certainly not more important than the
work proposed The reason which prompted the grant
one win deny that the present, as domestic tic
tions. Over the breast of the continent thou
sands Of our countrymen have toiled their way for
Ss as na Of and mot
future travellers Nothing, sir check the onward
march Of settlement 1t is law Of this continent
sistless as destiny 1t s but justice to people to
smooth the for settlement in that vast territory wa
tered BY the Missouri the Columbia the Arkansas asd
the Colorado This region equal in extent to empires is
soon to emerge from the darkness of centuries Its fea
lures and natural characteristics singular gran
Of that chain OF mountains forming the spine Of the
North American continent running from the Isthmus
ps,en our thousand miles to the frozen ocean bears
with us the Sierra Madre and Rocky Mountains On the
one side the Columbia takes its RISE perces the Cascade
SIX hundred miles to the westward, runs Of
thousand miles, pouring it's immense volume into
ciac. Couips its stream within mile Of the Colum-
bia,, rises the Missouri and traverang three thou
sand miles it drains extent of territory three times
floods with the Father q watsrs The Rocky Noun
miles, rises with gradual elevation The traveller sur
from their summit the waters Of the Columbia and
in contrary directions. Standing upon eminencs Of
from seven to twelve Thousand feet above the sea- yet
of Of those vast NJ heavngs of
nature where instead Of and regular ascents and
slopes and dwindpg hills his Imagination had apreared
The reverse Of ell such impedmens Is every day becom
ing apparent to our Western people and travellers
graphy. In fact, the hand Of civilization has al
ready begun to scatter its seeds valleys, plains,
and mountains. Science instead of hesiiating, now
mocks and denes all difficulties She has encoun-
tered, tine and again, greater obstacles in my own
rremacy The American eagle, now perched upon
tain heights watches the advancing pioneers OF the west
Emerald Isc, Of Germany and Holand-from every clm
Of Europe Hither have they come, to become with
one people nssmilated in al things and prepared to
advancing Of settlers whose win change the
face e hoe western M sotuds, and whess nsogsss VIII
Of land proposed to be given for this stupendous work
allowance is to be stipulated for ing the United
| tions of war. TO this certainly there can be no
just grounds Of exception. It has been prastised
total expenditure from the public treasury for
| such purposes may be counted by the hundred
ored thousand miles the last year was at an outlay OF
between four and Eve millions Of dcllnrs The enormous
annual expense for mail carriage to the Pacific BY water
and other Incidents to the public service suggest that
the proposed road may in the end not only be measure
of safety but Of economy Time will not allow me to
the subject in its pansyeness There are pro-
minent considerations that will address themselves to
this House and to the country connected with our de-
ftncesdonestic and exterpal-the ncursons Of the
wages in Territories and frontier statcs the dan
gers from without should peaceful be inter
rupted by our interests clashng with the European bei
| gerents The great purposes OF trade-nternai and
foreign-and the effect this measure win have upon
us, of minor importance Our new geo
4 graphical position, fankiDg the great Western
Ocean, may lead to results which cannot easily be
estimated in the change it may effect In our rela
pres The maritime powers Of the fifteenth century
realized their most sansuine dreams when the Indies Of
discovered. The Portuguese doubling the stormy cape
of Africa, sought, watery waste OF seventeen
thousand miles; the land Of opnir and the mnss 2, Col
they realized the magic power Of Aladdin when they
touched the Of wealth and prosperity opening
subject If there is any portion Of the Union emnenty
Of this projected road the great State
the country. Sir she holds within herself resources in
every department Of human industry or want ample
enough ati.fy the highest desires Of man In the by.
grandeur and immensely Of her outline Within her boun-
dairy Of fourteen hundred miles In length she has terri
toria surface Of forty six thousand square miles,
twenty nine millions four hundred and forty thousand
Though only seventyf part Of the terri
torsl extent Of the conieseracy Der real property Is
valued at one thoufAnd hundred and twelve millions
of dollars than eighth Of the value Of all
tie property Of the Union In 1890 New York held the
afth rank among the States Of the Union-now the first
Neither the State her great commercial capital
sy a &c a.
worio within hersef recrle Of every nation, kindred
and tongue, engaged In every puraat and profession
known to man, its Inhabitants churches Of every
persrason people Of all creeds institutions Of every
imaginary shade. and in all his phases and In every
condition areaembled within the empire city of the
world" She has grown within later years. as she has
risen in her developement in ratio to which there no
precedent. At the Declaration of Independence
her population twenty three thousand at the open
ing Of the present century, IL sixty thousand four
hundred and eighty nine in 1910 IL had reached three
hundred and twelve thousand seven hundred and ten
AM for AZ 0voh h,ul~
thousand FIVE hundred and forty II mar now bc
| set down at three quarters of million The next de-
cennia census win give beyond million. What will
II be At the close Of the present century Looh At the
causes which promoting her growth in population,
wealth. and power With real estate Of three hundred
and ffty millions, under increase within the past
year Of eighty millions Shipping line her quays for
miles in distance from every maritime station Of the
globe They to be counted by thousands and move
- things Of life in every direction, under the wonder
ful motive power Of the present age. Her press
there h-bshoM u. The moral, vital princi-