Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1858-1859, 1858-09-04

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tivated men dwelling in overlapping
by flashes of electric magic, the vast expanse
of waters which for three thousand miles roll
their eternal pillows between them-levelling
thereby the old barrier interposed by Time
and Space to the Egualisation of the Business
and the Politics of Mankind; forming bond
of union by which two kindred nations imme-
diately, and the nations of the world univer-
sally, are brought into nearer alliance; while
Christianity's great purpose and aim, Of pro-
claiming: Glory to God in the highest, AMI
Peace and Good Will amongst men, is advanc-
ed by it to the Threshold of fruition and
accomplishment.
The mode, fellow citizens by which the lay
ing down of the ocean cable will tend to pro-
duce this millennial reign of "peace and good
will on earth," can easily be conjectured by
every mind that is at all practical; for it is
not result which requires imagination or
fancy to forshadow it. So far, especially, as
the millions of this country and the millions of
Great Britain are concerned, you can see
plainly the mode in which the Geographic cord
across the ocean will happily work to produce
concord and harmony between our nations.
Thus: who doubts the desire of both our peO-
pies and their governments to do exactly that
which each considers is fair and just towards
the other? And who does not see that there
are vast international and business interests
In common, which alike forbid either going to
war against the other? But still, who can
| deny that with all this desire to be mutually
just and with all the mutual interests forbid
ding warlike conflict, we have several times
III latter years, and in one case quite recently,
been on the verge of an insane endeavor to do
each other terrible sight of harm through
war occasioned by demonstrations of subor-
dlnates, and misconceptions by rulers, grow-
ing out OF wrong impressions as tofacts trans
| piring at remote distances. All this, however,
tho Ocean Telegraph will essentially change;
! for since It's successful operation, the two ma
tons are, in fact, no longer at remote distances
apart
Non, when in the course of human events
such cases do arise, the quicker transmission
of intelligence through the means of this cleo
trio wire, will admit of the adjustment of mis-
understandings and difficulties, in manner
honorable to all parties, without waiting until
angry controversy has prepared the hearts of
the people for war. And thus, literally, using
partly the language of the great poet of the
Anglo-Saxon race, will all the clouds that may
lower DER our nations, be g in the deep bosom
of the Ocean buried as this cable is
1t must, moreover, be manifest that we
have an additional guarantee for peace and
inducement for international harmony in the
conceded fact, that the rapid interchange Of
news between the Continents must contribute
immensely to the prosperity and substantial
growth Of Commerce, well called the Hand
maid of Peace. In giving certainty and a
positiveness to the operations of Capital in
trade, you encourage it to venture upon new
fields and unknown investments, which re-
mOteness before discouraged. Now, however,
a few hours between the rising and the setting
sun will give the needed information upon
which commercial ventures are made-in lieu Of
the tardy interval of weeks once indispensa-
BILE; and on this account, likewise, we NAV
reasonably anticipate, that Commercial Crisises
and unreasonable Panics, such as we have
Just experienced, will hereafter be almost I'M
known; for prompter knowledge will insure
greater trust; and for this reason, as one of
the results of the Ocean Telegraph, think
that we shall not probably soon again behold
the Commercial Machine, without any radical
defect in its construction, coming to an instant
stop, while the world is rolling in gold and re-
plete with teeming production
And, felOw-citizens, it appears to me, and
perhaps has occurred to you, that we may
already note one result from the laying of this
cable: one not likely ever to be noticed again:
tlilu tlllS Is tllc clcClTlc MUcH WHICH IL seems
to have given to the whole of the stagnant
Eastern World Of Business-imbuing it with
fresh life and reriUing ene,yies-as though it
had been a full formed human body, with all
the requisite amount of flesh and blood, bones
and sinews, muscles and nerves: not a parti-
Gle of the physical organization wanting but
waiting in torpid state to have breathed into
it the breath of life, and to become living
SOUL" as though thus had lain the CONNER
cial World in quiet waiting, its sinsws of cap
ital, its muscle of money, its blood of enter
prise, its nerves of skill and intelligence, its
bone of Industry, all complete and moulded
and .jointed together just ready to start-iust
ready for the penetrating shock of life-iust
ready for the Promethean touch of fire-CoN-
FIDENCE-tO set all the cylinders of thought
and business-activity revolving again, under
full headway-when, suddenly flies the news,
permeating the whole land, "Me AUantic
Telegraph IS hM;" and as suddenly the
spell of torpidity seems at once to be dis
solving; light appears once more to be break
ing in upon our monetary and business chaos
and businesscontidence and business-indus-
try to be surely succeeding the previous
stand-still and do-nOthing condition of the
world This one incidental result of the At
lantc Telegraph, would alone pay for all the
ital in its construction.
But, fellow citizens, profess to see, beyond
these general results, other advantageous con-
sequences more important and almost excu-
sive to Minnesota and Minnesotians, and
which, if we acted merely from selfish con-
siderations, would alone fully justify our join
ing heartily in the worlds festivities this dav
and by which participation we show to that
world that Minnesota properly appreciates
her position as the North Star State of the
American Union, in the centre Of the North
American Continent, and hacjng bounddry
for scUerGi hundreds Of miles IN common with
one of the dependencies of that great power
in concert with which this work has been per-
formed.
In support of my fluctuations of peculiar
local advantage which our State will derive
from the successful operation of the Ocean
Telegraph, would refer to the recent declara-
ton Of the London Times, the principal
mouth-piece of the British public, that g the
laying of the Atlantic Cable has done more
for the consolidation of the British Empire
than the wisdom of its statesmen, the liberal
ity of its Legislature, or the loyalty of its
colonsts, ever could have effected; that in
truth distance between Canada and England
is now annuled,' and that for purposes of mu
| tual communication ana SoOu UNDERSTANDING,
the Atlantic is dried up, and the two countries
have become in reality Oner'
1t is for us of Minnesota, as contend, that
this new tendency to a more intense unity
between the Canadas and the Mother Country,
produced by this last engineering of the
electric fluid, possesses an important interest
beyond that which will enurc from it to any
other member of the American Confederacy.
! To I h,,f If tbat
on the other side of the northern boundary
of Minnesota lies the region known as the
HUDSON Bay P0ssessioas; that the Red Bivcr
| of tho North hnundnd on oiiInr hand hV q