The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1856-05-24


the necessity upon them think IT. indeed due to
dor and also the best way avert event that we should
all so deprecate and depore Offer TO the attention Of
rejecting these hints Of the causes that tend to that
result a##
The feeling of loyalty to the Union and attachment TO
the Atlantic States which peryade the popular sentiment
of California is well illustrated in the mammoth memorial
of seventy thousand of her citizens for only the small ac
commodation of a WAGON TO unite them with the
common family, and give them feeling of national iden-
ty This petition could have reached the seat OF gov
OPPORTUNITY the attention both Of the egs
ature and the Executive being necessarily turned to the
precarious tenure by which communication Is maintained
through the exranatonal transits alone used, and
the tremendous blow dependence them would en-
able great naval power in Of hostes to inhict on
the country merely by blockadng them War not an
occurrence looking for expect but 1t Is liable to
happen and apart from the circumstances connected with
the ishmus that may at any moment precpite IT.
the very fact of dependence on those routes and on
communication for intercourse and commerce with
portion of own empire is encouragement to inso-
the part of foreign States and temptation TO Oa
it presents point Of attack obvious and where
80 hurfu wound could be so safely and cheapy infic
ed road therefore, through our own country, and thus
safe from interruption not only necessary in case Of war
but would also tend to prevent and to lessen the provoc
tons and inducements to war.
In whatever view of the that can be imagined,
the prayer of this great petition ought to be granted
and the road it asks for at once be built Moreover
believe this is the fttest moment to press it. and that
this Congress is in disposition to take the necessary
steps. Let have the wagon-road, then. 1t can be
finished in year or less settlements will go with it, and
make continuous line of human habitaons from one to
the other ocean 1t will bring the States of either side
into contguity If not identity. mail can be carried
over it at the OF hundred and fifty miles day. in
coaches and by expresses the whole distance made In SIX
days The barbarians, we suppose hem of Peru
anil Mexico forwarded their dispatches to the distant
parts Of their empires the rate of hundred and fifty
three hundred miles day. and that without the aid OF
the feet horse any mechanical contrvance only by
ners Let u.s. them have the wagon-read the quickest
and feasible 1t is not all that want nor all that
is required but it will be the pioneer the consumma
ton we hope fora railroad and magnetic telegraph
1t ought not to be supposed, however, that these i'm
solely even mainly want OF California
To California they great social want for means
of quick and direct communication with relatives
friends feow-countrymen, and ellOwbeings They are
also commercial and political want but in these respects
not nearly SO much want to California as to the Atlantic
States The political bond dear is to and earnestly
as we wish it maintained is not OF nearly as much conse
ouence to California the Atlantic States In respect
of commerce. that of the PacfcAsia India the coasts
North and South isles of the sea- and of the great deep
itse-w under all circumstances, find its centre in
harbors and thence be distributed to the world. For
due participation in that trade the people of the Atlantic
States can only look to railroad from our doors to
theirs and hence pecuniary they more interested
than the Pacific side. But it is mutual want patriotic
want national want for all alike desire to see the
era parts of the Union drawn together by the ndssoube
ties of community of interest and community of rights
I'm suggesting whether confederation is capable Of this
as amongst the painful doubts apprehensons that
the circumstances of the times cannot but sometimes arise
the doubt is not yielded to- but the means sought by
which it may be dspeed. shall not anticipate separa-
All. stnrtao frnpo fhnoa
of the Atlantic look forward rather to the partition
of California into three States and that the Pacific Dor
der of the Union shall add FIVE stars to our ag and
hold the national councils an influence that shall keep
in propriey the contentious sectional factions of the At
| lantc.
tits to the vile sectional disputes which dominate the pol
cs of the Atlantic States and which only hope to
see cured by the potent conservatism of six seven
States beyond the Rocky mountains that we are to at
tribute the neglect of the to have engaged in
these enterprises necessary for the Union and the gene
raj defence and welfare II is reproach to the American
character that long before this time line OF electric wires
had not been completed between the Atlantic and Pacific
and that railroad for highway Of nations connect
ing the great centres Of population in Europe with the
great centres of population in Asia through the great
centres of population in America is not well under way.
How the position Of continent between the farsepa
rated nations Of the Old World, invites to such work,
and asks that the discoveries and Of these times
be applied bring only the divided parts Of
empire but the families of mankind, together
As long as we omit these, not very arduous but
supremely important amelioratons we are not fulfilling
our obligations ourselves to the world or TO poserity
we are negectng the advantages and consequent duties
that Providence has given falling far short of what
ought do and be- of reputation and infinitely Of
the character we assume to.
| Very respectfully, your felow-citizen,
| WIN. CAREY JONES
! WASHINGTON May %, 1866.