The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-06-30

deeply interested In all the social moral and soiitics
movements of society In every part of the giote
Is complete while rests on the ground OF ia ,u
IoItance to the ope OF California and Oregon Hsp
ply however Is easy to show that in this case
most others the local sectional inter- involved
inferior to the general interests The Union We have
habit Of discussing questions Of territorial enlarge
ment aid of the extension political and commercial
influences and connections with as much caution and
anxiety as IL We enjoyed always free choice make
prvveDi control national movements in that dreo
ton ! grant that do wisely when we refuse to
commit ourselves b Ddly to the guidance OF those who
in'erret to us what they pleased to call
lest oestipy and, yet sir con'ess that sometimes,
when AXE outside position and review the thcky
recurring changes through which we have passed 1t
seems to me that our course has been shaped SO
much by any self guiding wisdom Of our own as by q
law OF progress and deyeopement, impressed upon
by na'ure berseh whsn we consider the resist
less impulses to expansion which have acted on
the PEOPLE Of the United States during the last half
century, together with the broad and tempting field
which, ut the beginning OF that period stretched out
from beneath their feet; and yben consider in con-
motion with these how the creole popu-
iaton who asserted claims to possess that which hoy
had become pny sic4y and intellectually unable to de-
fsnd, and how France consumed by anarchy, and yet
engaged in deah struggle with despotsm, unable
10 hold Louisiana; while SPAIN enervaed by selfindul
eence sustained herself only by of foreign aid
and was therefore Obliged to relineuish Florida and
much longer avoided the extension which has given
broad region, whose surplus productions way
through many channels, to Western well Eastern
foreign marketa extension that has only broush
the Antilles under constant surveillance, but has
also brought us to compass the island and the Of
Asia and obliged to passages to them the
territories of friendly powers while preparing mike
the direct and important our own broai,
but as yet imperfoctiy explored sdomain To what
end has this expansion tended from the begin
ming? Whittier does it tend IL not com
and to influence the islands and continents
which lie between and the setting sum- Beyond all
doubt this is its tendency, If have sufficient
and adrGsass vg@r % and energy to justify Us IL
tam largely mon0polizes It, and yet while her territory
scarcely equals that Of one Of our largest States Her
nat 10 IN nf .f
Pennsy yania of Missouri Of Texas of Calitor
mia alone To speak Of no others, Pennsylvania
which promises hundred eighty millions of dol
lars for the production Of the year 1870 When refer
whaling fields under either pole and when we fad that
our aggregate tonnage employed in is already
ten millions six hundred Thousand tons, and ex-
ceeds Il at OF Great Britain proper is it not manifest
that our energy and vigor have been proved beyond
dou IT and dispute. The same tendency marks the poll
tcal events which occurring the other side o.
Pacific Within ten years, China before closed against
us has opened to us five principal ports various pa
revolution occurring there doubtless the re- ut Of her
departure from her ancieh policy Of exclusion which
likely to give to free to every port Of
the empire Even while we have been engaged here in
annual labors, the to Of the opening
Of three ports with the addition of convenient stations
for repairs and refDg in JAPAN and that messenger
is his way, who brings a voluntary and unre-
strice0 cession of the Ha waan Islands The conclusion
the policy which the Atlantic nations have pursued SO
long, although unsteaoily is on the Of it,
summatonthat the thousand years be fraternal
ly united There is power but ourselves likely to
either cooperate compete with Great Britain In effect
ing that consummaton 1t Is the proper work not
of only but Of both the branches Of that great
family, which Is spreading everywhere freedom and
free religion, with the capacouE and prehensiv
language of the British ialands. If we abstain
from such cooperation and competition, the trade
ana intercourse Of the two hemispheres will pass
around US, leaving to US only incidental benefits
adopt the policy which has dictated this measure aud IL
carry it out by extending railroad postal e
ega system through Territories to the Paci
&c coast then shall only open ali citizens
and States the ipestimabe benefits Of LIBERAL active
own. ports, and ON our own Territories, las If 1t
were a fertzing river the exchanges of the world
ess oe saa cs
smaller outlay than that by which acquired Loui
sisns California. If the whole expense to fail
the treasury it would consume but milion Ave hun
dred thousand dollars in five years; but the freghts
passage money aDd postage would in the beginning yield
two hundred thousand dollars, and ultimately the mails
would become a means Of revenue. We might perhaps
wisely consent 10 delay the enterprise
we're not already in the Pacific ocean 1t is toere and
because there have already found necessary
send naval squadron to secure its protection. Ma
tiona mails everywhere equivalent to armed force
for the purposes of protection Show me place 10 the
United States whore the mails arrive and depart regu-
lary and frequently, aud will give you place where
band secluded region where the postmaster seldom
or never penetrates, and will show you the United
States barracks and garrison 1t is just at You
had mail intercourse with Japan; therefore you
squadron the sailors from being driven
shore in dstress-from being exhibited in cages through
the empire. You have postal with Af
rica therefore you maintain squadron there to pro-
tect seamen and prevent the slave trade
clude with practical illustration Here is letter and
here newspaper the written and the other printed
at Hong Kong in China. They brought us the frst in
tegence Of Commodore Perrys great treaty with japan
They bear the post mark Of Hong Kong and but for the
want Of native mail they would have reached u.s. not
by conveyance the Pacific and In mails
India and the Ishmus Of suez and over the Mederra.
Sea- and then after being stamped in the Post Office
at London they come to us over the Atlantic Ocean.
California and Oregon by two thousand miles to
Hong Kong, and very deeply interesting got the same
nearly month after it reached indebted for it
to the mail steamers between New York and San Fran
cisco.
When Mr.. Seward got through.
Mr. HUNTER, (dem) OF Va, asked the Senate to take
| up the ten million bill.
Nr GwN, (dem) Of CAL, said that the bill could be
disposed Of after while the steamer bill could be acted
| cutive session In the ten million bill
The steamer bill then laid aside.
Mr. HUNTER moved to take up
Mr. BRIGHT (dem Of Ia, said, with the exception Of
the ten million bill he would resist taking up blu
until the veto and the Homestead bin had been disposed
| Of
Mr. suxsEn (free soD of Mass, by consent WAS al
lowed to present memorial from the of Pepperel,
Massachusetts,, the home Of Prescott, who comm ,nded
AZ Bunker Hill praying for reees Of the odious inhu-
gentleman who declared himself be bunker demo
crat of the olden time. He moved 1t to be referred
Mr. ADAMS, (dem.) OF Miss move to lay it on the
| table.
Mr. srNyFR--I ask the yeas and nays that motion
| (seyeral Senator's exclaimed s'Let It go-'wthdraw
| ID, motion.
Mr. bpaus withdraw his motion aud the petition was
| referred
br sHIAlDs, (dem) Of i'll. demanded an exclusive
| sion On the motion to take up the ten million bill
Mr. ChYrox: (whg( Of Del offered the following re-
solution which was Adopted -
keeoved That .bs President be requested IL compatible
with the rubc ine est to communicate 70 the Sente ali
tle GO between the department Of State and
The Hlit npsters rcdiDc this Ia
s49 and 1880 relative Co reciprocal
y. he odo ctionf OF the United and British orth
Ameiissr possessions the fisheries the fec
Of The 1t. Lawrence sldt Woiiand and Rdout canals
| TIE rEy MILTON BILL
Was again taken up and by consent was read three
! times on its passage.
Mr. SEWARD asked for the yeas and nays which we're
1 ordered and taken.
The bill passed by the following vote
YRs Nts:rs Adams. Allen, Atahison, Badger sayArd,
bright Brcdhead Brown Cass Clay, Clayton Dodge Of
Iowa, Douglas Evans, Fisk. Fitzpatrick, Geyer Gwin,
Houston H nter James johnson Jones OF 10 Jones Of
Tom, Mallory Massn Noir Petit, Rlsk, Sebastan,
5 ideIl Toucey, Weller, willams-H