The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1855-01-10


tween the two continents. Why should not similar
changes be effected in the Pacfcp The great OF
the Chinese and japanese people are better educated
within the whole Celestial Empire, missionaries tell
US, q MAJ wh6 cannot read and write, and
the Chinese are, besides, an inqurng, imaginative,
ventures people, confined and restricted merely by
their government and that government lettering TO It's
foundation When the Chinese called all other nations
barbsr.ns they evidently considered only ,ns. 4 t.
hine.e had right TO boast Of their superiority They
understand political economy, and all other sciences,
etter than any Of their Asatic neghbors; they are
bore enterprsng, industrious, more civilized and
bore literary than any Of them, and they are, wthal
,peope brought in close communication with our own
nth Thousands Of their numbers In California, al
ready corresponding with their friends and relatives at
home, cannot fail to undergo great revolutions which
will change their moral and social relations, and throw
large portion Of themthe debris Of shipwrecked pot
cal and religious partes-on the western shores OF
continent Nor win il emily DO the trade enterprise and
deveopement Of thought between the two continents
which win be stimulated and promoted by the esta bsh
ment OF this line All the benefcent influences have
described win equally extend TO the Pacific isands-to
those floating paradses that only require to taste OF the
for the dsiicous cares Of higher and nober existence
The hardy OF our six seven hundred whaers
in the Pacific win no longer be cut OF from regular and
quick communication with their friends and kindred
but made TO feel that they have home the western
shore our continent, from which their voices may be
heard their wants sna en Ah mo
meets the youthful energies OF the newest born
when the slowly gathered experience OF forty centuries
meets the frucfyng influence Of general ideas II cannot
be avoided IL must be met and It is better that we
should meet It, with al the peculiar advantages OF our
civilization and position completely within our control
than that should procrastinate or suffer events
control our resolution Our civilization, our society
our political organization, must stand the Asiati
test ~ they stood the European and control remode
and assmilate the elements. have no doubt, Mr.
Chairman, but that the passenger trade from and 70
China and the vast correspondence TO which IL VIII lead
with that reading and writing empire win more than
compensate the government In q pecuniary point OF
view, for the establishment Of the line Of mail steam.
ships contemplated In this bill I have doubt but
that win be the frst great step toward entire revou
ton In the worlds commerce-that 10 will change the
complexion and political conhguraton OF Asia and give
impetus and direction to the enterprise OF
people In behalf then, OF the great interests OF hu
manty and civilization Of commerce. and navigation Of
our great national deveopement and the individual hap
piness and prosperity OF citizens Dependent on the
passage Of this blu beseech the committee give II
the attention Il deserves, and support commentaries
with the parsnount considerations Of statesmanshp,
which have already secured for II the appreciation Of the
country; for be assured that its passage BY this
House viii 30 hailed the cementng Of another link
in the rerpetuty Of the progress power and grandeur Of
the American government.
when Mr Latham concluded the House adjourned;