The Panola star. ([Panola] Panola County, Miss.) 1856-1857, 1856-10-15

Gulf of Mexico and elsewhere which
packets, north and south, would keep
up ceaseless train of travel day and
night, as they now do on the Missis-
sippi river, by the railway, pouring q
golden current into the Golfers of the
owners of the road.
This trure1, with the freight
which it might divert from the
river, together with the domestic
travel along the line, added tothe
freight arising from the transperta-
ton of produce of the country
through which the road will pass
which would be immense-even
beyond calculation, would make
it altogether one of the most
profitable roads in the world-an
investment of capital which would
realize the golden dreams of the
most enthusiastic lover of money;
one that even an Astor or the
Rothschilds might envy. What
could prevent the stockholders,
like the merchants of Venice in
the Middle Ages, when they con-
trolled and monopolized the rich
commerce of the East by the
Mediterranean, and caravans across
the Desert, from becoming "prin-
ces In fortune." Turn to your
map and take comprehensive
and philosophie view of the sub
ject; look on the chart of our own
country, and more particularly of
the great basin Of the Mississippi
the BFiaras of rivers with his
fifty heads and hundred arms--see.
how, giant-like, he stands with
one hand on the Handicapped
SUBMITS of Virginia, gilded with
mornings earliest beams, and the
other ON the snow-crowned speaks
of Oregon, where evening sheds
her parting ray, having the great
American Mediterranean, in the
burning, zone, for pedestal and
Tiara of lucid lakes-the bright
Canadian sea-forms his glittering
diadem. He stands confessed the
Monarch of Rivers, crowned by.
the Almighty's hand. He cuts the.
parallels of latitude and descends
from mountain heights thro' sun
ny walls and dewy meads, and con-
meets, as it were, the frigid, temper
ate and torrid zones, by a watery
chain, and hence every variety of
production floats upon his BOSOM.
Who can calculate the value of
such a river-passing through
such country--owned by such. a
people, and connecting, as it were,
the Equator and the Pole? And
who can count the trayeE or esti-
mate the trade, which annually
passes it, even at the present time
the future, we leave to the
strongest conceptions and anticipa-
tions of the most ardent ilnagina-
ton, which we are persuaded will
not more than do it justice. Look
on the map and trace it from its
mouth to its source. Look at it
philosophically, and say what
, State throughout its whole course
occupies the most important and
} commanding position. The. eye,
: guided by reason, rest upon the
State of Louisiana, which COM
! Emands its mouth. Soppose> that
State, when she entered the Union,
could have retained the right
claimed by her former owners
France and Spain-of taxing all
the travel and trade of the Mis-
: sisslppi river, what an immense
source of revenue it would have
been. She would long since have
outshone in wealth and splendol
g any State of the eonfederacy, and
= even rivaled in glory the poetic
t, magnificence of .'Ormus or of Inc
e OF the East, which, with rich.
d est hand, showers on her king,
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