The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1854-06-17

people ssmilated in all things and prepared to stand
The symbol Of the Union They will swell the advancin
army of settlers whose career will change the face of hos
western sotudes and whose progress viii only be arrte
by the great Pacific
Besides the grant OF land proposed 10 be given for th
stupendous work. an allowance is TO be stipulated TO
carrying the United States mail public stores troops
arms and other munitions OF war To this certainly Their
be no just grounds of exception has been practses
IN other sections Of the country TO this hour The tota
expenditure from the public treasury for such purposes ma,
n be counted by the hundred millions The mail carriage
between two and three hundred thousand miles the las
year. was AT an outlay OF between four and five millions
dollars The enormous annual expense for mail carriae,
70 the Pacific by water and other incidents to the pub,
service suggest that the proposed road may in the end
1 not only be a measure Of safety but Of economy
Time viii not allow pursue the subject in its ex
pansveness There are prominent considerations that will
ADDRESS themselves TO this House and to the country con
nected with our defences domestic and externalthe in.
enrsons OF the savages in Territories and fontie,
States or the dangers from without should our peaceful
progress De interrupted by our interests clashng with the
European beligerents. NJ
The great purposes Of trade internal and foreign and
the effect this measure will have upon u.s. are OF no ino,
our new geographical position fanking the
great western ocean, may lead to results which cannot
easily be estimated in the change may effect in our rea-
tons with the Japanese Chinese and Indian empires The
powers Of the fifteenth century realized their most
sangune dreams when the Indies of West and the new
route to the Indies of the East were discovered The
Portuguese doubling the stormy cape of Africa sought
over watey waste OF seventeen thousand miles the land
Ophir and the mines of Golcona Reaching the shores
Of the Indian peninsula they realized the magic power Of
Aladdin when they touched the of wealth and pros
pery IN opening the indian trade But do not propose
TO pursue the subject II there any portion of the Union
eninenuy independent Of this projected road il the
great State whose interests represent part In the
CHS OF the country Sir she holds within herself
IN every department Of human industry or want ample
enough TO satisfy the highest desires of man In the hy-
typography OF the continent there is nothing to excel the
grandeur and iTnmepsiy Of her outline Within her
boundary "a fourteen hundred miles in length she has
territorial surface of ortysix thousand square miles or
twenty-nine million four hundred and forty thousand
IN unnae
rial extent Of the conedercy her real property valued
at one thousand one hundred and twelve millions of dol
lars or more than oneeghh of the value all the prop
erty OF the Union foreign traveller within her limits
spoke with establishment of the splendid opuencs which
everywhere met the eye villages eemng like hive with
activity and enoyment and struck with the elegance of
her haptaons where vestiges of penurv appear he
supposed them built as places of for per-
sons OF fortune and fashion since much taste elegance
comfort and neatness are displayed in the design appear
ance and arrangement of the houses that compose them
In 1870 New York held the fifth rank among the States
OF the unlon now the first in population and power Es
tmatng her importance by the intelligence of her people
IN their commercial enterprise their spirit of progress and
improvement everywhere appearing in her noble valleys
and along her gigantic mountains she stands in the fore
ground OF many OF the prncpalites or kingdoms of the
Old World and throws in shade tho republics of Mexico
and Central America
Neither the State her great commercial capital needs
this work to contribute their prosperity or interest Sir
New York city has been Justly described as world within
herself People of every nation kindred and tongue
gagged in every pursuit and profession known man.
OF all
creeds institutions of every imaginary shade and man in
all his phases and in every condition assembled within
this empire city OF the world"
She has grown within later years, she has risen in
her development In ratio TO which there is prece
dent
At the declaration Of Independence her population
t-three thousand at the opening of the present
tuy IL was sixty thousand four hundred and eighty
in S40 had reached three hundred and twelve thousand
seven hundred and ten The for 1850 places
live hundred and fifteen thousand five hundred and forty
OF a
million The next decennal census viii give us beyond
million What viii IT be at the close of the present centu
ry Look at the capses which promoting her growth
in population wealth, and power-with a real estate OF
three hundred and fifty millions under an increase within
the past year Of eighty millions Shipping line her quays
for miles in distance from every maritime station of the
globe They are to be counted by thousands and
things of life in every direction under the wonderful
iye-power of the present age Her press-there il is
behold it!the moral vital principle the soul that i'm
parts energy TO the body-pocthat purihes the public
noras-that guards the defences OF public libertytha
strengthens the nerves Of industry and points out new
channels OF trade and prosperity. pours forth the light
intelligence from It's hundred sources and by its annual
distribution OF hundred millions guiding by its wisdom
the march Of n9rrovement i prepares the public mind
vldtoate Poaiar rights and those Institutions which
the bMk Of strength and the security Of present
and fuf1 prosperity.
Sir When California bad bet. conquered by our arms 4
Is mrtter Of history she nte for period without
even <e forms of territorial proect There she remain
ed, before her entrance into the concrley, helpless
cast-oa orphan upon the Pacific shores Dss period q
fleets Of her merchant ships bearing food raime cap
ita Yes sir she did more; she thither hcr "a peo
Pile her gallant sons, native and adopted 10 aid the
energetic pioneers Of that distant land and to establh
the s,ronghods Of political power Her public spr
encountered the sthmus which had stood barrier and
obstruction for centuries TO the maritime nations Of Eu
rope aud, shifting down all impedments, made the chair
Of connexion from the Atlantic to brethren The
I Pacific complete
Should the Congress of the United States determine upor
the construction Of the road highway Of inercommn
nicaon New ork viii be among the first TO lend hel
capital and enterprise for its accomplishment Sir sh,
people Of the old Thirteen before the constitution had
is,ence The same high purpose impels her She i
forever identified with the republic in all It's parts by tie
OF common origin, ty principle and sympathy which M
political convulsion can ever disseyer. In her fuur
growthn her advance under the quckenng elements n
her bosom to that eminence Of grandeur which is be
fore horshe viii dse her prosperity aeyery step Of he
progress every member of the American family b
the Union she stood from The beginning In the hour
peril and darkness she with il her loyalty and devo
ton ltering and with IL her destiny Is linked for
ever
The proclamation Of President Pierce in another column
viii arrest attention or the propre,y and necessity fo
this paper do not pretend to opinion.
enough for TO say that entertain for the Presden
and cabinet very exalted opinion and have great con
dence In the discretion and ability In their management
of foreign affairs Rnmor is rife and have reason
for presumne that organization scale most formi
dable exists the Gulf and Atlantic coast with direct
ing bead or New Orleans That material aid in
amount is not wanting we quite sure and that th