The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1858-06-17

Pacific Railroad Surveys.
The peculiar manner in which the
South are constantly buffeting the North
is aptly illustrated in the action of the
| House ,relativeto the Reports of Surveys
for Pacific Railroad. It seems these
surveys, ten in number, were intended to
lbe embodied in twelve volumes, Of
which eight are already published, and
the ninth and tenth nearly completed.
The eleventh volume was to comprise
the report Of the " Stevens Route,'
the most northern as well as the most
practicable Of all the surveys. The
preceding nine volumes are. all for
southern routes, beginning on the Mis-
souri, River and at points south of that
river. The Stevens and Noble Routes
are the only two which have the east
ern terminus north of the Missouri.
On the 29th ultimo, the Committee of
the House made report in favor of
suspending the publication of these
two last volumes, and the previous
question. was sprung and the resolu-
tons adopted! The reason given was
economy! These volumes, $4,000
copies of each, cost an average of
slOS,OOO per volume. Thus ss24,OO
have been expended to publish infor-
nation of the advantages and resour-
ces of these ten southern routes, and
Congress deliberately refuses to expend
$2O6, 900 to give the people information
in regard to the two northern routes
for the Pacific Railroad. Three or four
of the southern routes terminate in
Texas, which has not hundred miles
Of railroad, and not connection with
any great market. Three terminate
in Arkansas, which has not foot of
railroad and no money or energy to
build one. One terminates on Red
River, and might as well stop in the
center of the Dismal Swamp. The
balance stop in Missouri. Not one of
these lines will connectwith any of the
great lines of Railroad leading; to our
inland cities or Atlantic metropolises.
But the two northern routes are only
combinations of lines ALREADY built
from Boston, New York and Philadel-
phia, through Detroit, Cincinnati, Chi
cago to St. Louis and St. Pauls on the
Mississippi. But these routes are of
no account to the South or Demo
cratic Congress. The surveys must be
suppressed-the people must know
nothing of them. Of what use was
the enormous expense of survey and
exploration, if the records are to be
piled away in the. old vaults of the
Capitol and left to mould and rot there.
1t is simply a stroke of policy of the
South, one of many of the same sort,
and which they never miss an opportu-
nifty of springing upon the North. A
Democratic Congress is the fit instrn-
I ment to give effect to such picayune
exhibitions of spleen-having no re-
spect for themselves or sympathy with
the development and growth of the
North, they wear the color and vote
the scarlet decree as often as the "nig
: ger drivers" spring the gag. Vive Ia
Hunabug! We are glad to see that
Mr.. Walbridge, of this State, seized
an opportunity to expose the true char
acter of the move, and made a few
pungent remarks that made some Of
the doughfaees squirm. The Republi
cans as body voted against the reso
luton, and in favor of printing, but
were overpowered by the South and
their northern Democratic allies
Thus is the prospect of northern
, Pacific Railroad again temporarily
strangled bya pro-slavery Congress
. But these things will not always last.
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