The Kansas herald of freedom., 1855-01-06
] NUMBER 2--V0LUME |.

/ Wood, WATER stone, ceal, iron rich soil
10 build up settlements and cities, to give
local business and travel all along its
course, as well as at the great terminating
points-and to protect il without govern
ment troops Add 70 this, picturesque
scenery, and an entire region of unsur-
passed salubIity. The whole route for
the road between the States of Missouri
land California is good-not only good.
but suprcmely excellent and it IS helped
out at each end BY water-lines of trans
pertation. now actually existing, and by
railways, projected. or IN progress. At
the Missouri end there Is a railway III
lconstruction TO the line of the State, and
steamboat navigation to the mouth of the
Kansas, and Np that river some hundred
miles at the California end there Is the
like navigation, up the Bay of San Fran
cisco. and the San Joaquin river, and a
railway projected. And thus, this cen
trail route would be helped out at once
by some three hundred miles at each end
connecting it with the great business pop
ulations of California and Missouri--at
which latter point ii would be in central
communication with the great business
population of the Union.
And now L hold it to be i'm order of
human eyeits--in the regular progression
of human affairs-,hat the road will be
built, and that soon not by public, bus
private means-by Il company of solid
men, askin. nothing of Congress but the
} right of way through the public lands;
land buying the way if not granted. Such
an enterprise would be worthy of enlight-
5 ened capitalists, who know how. to COM
bine private advantages with public good;
; land who would feel laudable desire Ia
. connect their names with monumental
enterprise, more useful than the pursuits
: of political ambition, more glorious than
t the conquest of nations, more durable
a than the pyramids and which being fin
: iishcd, is to change the face of the com-
(, mereial world--and all to the advantage
: of our America.
5 The road will be made, and soon, and
by individual enterprise. The age is
d progressive, and utilitarian. 1t abounds
c with talent, seeking employment, and
c with capital, seeking investment. The
e temptation is irresislible-to reach tho
/ golden California, and to connect Europe
e and Asia through our America. The
st country is open to settlement, and invit-
/, ing it and receiving it. The world is in
d motion, following the track of the sun TO
N its dip in the western ocean. Westward
II the torrents of emigration direct their
II course and soon the country between
1f Missouri and California is to show the
W most rapid expansion of the human race
" that the ages of man haze ever beheld
D. 1t will all be settled up. Settlements viii
s promote the road the road will aggran.
q die the settlements Soon g win Be !
S. line of towns. ci,ies, villages, and farms
e, and rich will be the man who may own
it some quarter section on Its track, and
u some squares in the cities which are. 10
d grow up upon it.
e But the road beyond the Mississippi
a IS only the half of the whole; the other
&C half is OH this side. and either in pro-
o gress or completed. Behold your own
o extended iron way departing from this
city, 10 reach the Ohio-crossing it 10
: join the western trunk through Cincin-
II nati,, SiBeennes, St Louis--there TO find
5 the Pacific road in progress to the west
: ern limit of Missouri. Behold the lateral
: roads from Pennsylvania, New York,
: New Englnnd. all pointing to the west,
) and convcrgin. to the same central traek
: And behold the diagonal central road of
l Virginia TO traverse the State from its
0 finished beyond the Blue Ridge, and its
: advanced pioneers descending the Ale
4 giiafy, to arrive at the mouth of Big
2 Sandy, in the very latitude of 81. Louis,
! San francisco, and baltimore and tllere
tO Join the same great central western
, trunk. And the Blue Ridge road Of
r South Carolina, boiiHd upon the same
, destination; and the roads of Georgia.
: pointing and advancing 10 the northwest.
, What is the destiny Of all these Atlantic
4 roads, thus pointing To the west and con-
: verging upon the central track, the wholo
course Of which lies through the center
Of our Union, and through the center of
. lis population, wealth, and power--and
one end Of which points TO Canton and
: Jcddo-the other 10 London and Paris?
What will those lateral roads become, in
f, addition 30 their original destination -
I They will become parts Of system,
: bringing our Atlantic cities nearer 10 tbs
{ Pacific coast than hcy were 10 the Blus
) Ridge III the time " canals aud turn.
: pixies. And what then The great idea
{ OF Columbus will be realized though
; in different, and more beneficial FORM
: Eastern Asia i reached, by going west.
b aud by n road Of which we hold the kew
$ and the channel of Asiatie commerce,
e which has b.,cn shifting IT, bed from tho
K time Of solomon. and raising up cities
: and Kingdoms wherever it went-to
d perish where il Ieft them-changing It's
a channel for the bust titnc-.o become
r fixed upon its shortest. safest, best. and
!, quickest route. .Ilrough the heart OF our
d Ameriea--and TO revive alcBg its course
$ the Tyres and ssidons. the Baibecs. Pal
r myr.s, aud AIexandrits. once the seat Of
it commerce and empire: and thslruias Of
il which sill attest their ferTner magnif-
II eenee, and cxei.e The wonder Of the on
q ,cu.al trayeler.
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