New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-09-22

society. And this already great nation ann-,..I"
true CONDITION Jusi n PrOPor;ion - each mar i -
placed IN rclaton Ia others that barrier .t.,s.o
tween him and his se,l-sppssn,ei life. worl s-
prevent bis filing That place IN the StS,. .I.h 20
tends To- his own hapiaues. and the public 49," me-
Who are the parties interested IL the ,e,..r,-e,.
If TIN. great question Grant II Won DL.~-SSa
ou the one SIDE are al the ship ovuers Al - es
owners srd inn keepers az Troy and Albany .s,
the merchant. everywhere wtp MAINTAIN ,.., 81
in these porfs above the ste 81 this pro.-. ~.
They are reia'ivel! an .noons.deIabe Number. p'
ticaly every bushel ~ corn srd every f-,, ~ - ~
tlst IN the abseic Of the bridge ps.Se. r~.Ieef
street will in the event 81 IL erection --.1ne.-s
market lust soon, aud without ada.;o.i 40
perSe only some existing srran-f Inenis II ,r-i "a
be siurbcd ard reed 10 b. resiius;ei n VI
see On the other side, the City 81 Nsw-Yo,s he
tienily waiting the arrival OF the country -
every interior city, town and village, and on ~ na
hand tie manufacturer IN he factory sud t. .t
in his field waiting for the coming .. the M. S-ss
OF HE fabrics and hi- productions Can v SnaSs
tie losses the pecuuary l,rsSsS, rich NAV rsnae
tie accidental delay for day an hour - nom
drcd or a thousand ncu on The way 70 r., " euh-
destination Car Won estimate e MIST - 'l"ss
oriug the entire course Of hie that may follow .
dis ppontmorts
Wt.1 We thus enlarge the field II inquiry n. A..
,iou whether The projected improvement siaI h -
o.ns up before " ia all the proportions Il 49,
irsituiicn-an institution for tie Use and b.nes, 49,,
CLASSES and conditions OF men; al institution sss -
a
defense in war and for relief in seasons Of ianr a.
D silence.
Ike the usefulness If the cotton-gin when TIA, =,
y.ution was new or Of The stcali-''u lre or II N.
Ere Canal or of the railroad o the tccyrsuh H.
b. tit If the bridge the Hudson River al th,a,
are To- be discovered and determined, not by ns.,
scopic examination of existing facts OF even BY Anil
cia Ching speculative opinions but BY that arr,
and irtultiye saCacity which groups and eassSe,
elements and uiarceS INTO the future. MAY il ue,~.
l. lax l.aff al.
and entered the halls ~ legislation You mus, ksya
your aim and iwiuklinc lights and Use the al,
one that legislators have. II We apply as
segacity, cunnot fail to notice that this PERIOD
Of move ment Of mankind from the east ALWAYS ves
wsri-that through the seton If that movements.
eu.pir, uf free. educated refined. emulus, seax,y-
,rniug men- the rrst ofsuck empires that the serH
has kuowu-is forming itsef here 70 cover the cst.
rent ard even To ovcrshadow other continents; that
is financial commercial social ard political cebtes
on the banks of the Hudson, Che very spot vhers
we stand: that the State ct New-Nork, although il
politically an equal constituent member II this risng
empire is nevertheless the chief architect II the whos
sysiem. She il ~ who, awaiting hersef IT that sub
sidcno, # III. Allegheny Mountain barrier which oe-
ours Only within her own domain, ir,m the Hudson
River through tie Vale. of the Mohawk has stretched
cut ard stil goes on stretching ont, artificial high
WAYS of water and artificial highways over band all If
which practically rs,iate from tins one great cen,r
and extend ~ a. To grasp and conduct through this
valley the trade and travel of the Continents system
# highways that VIII not be- let incomplete, but VIII
at 20 distant day connect the Pacific with the Alar-
tc coast.
the gate where these great continental floods Of trade
and travel reach the Hudson River and separae-ths
one Ia descend by the relatively tedious pFoees
Of steam navigation, and the other to hurry imps,o
ousy onward with the uninterrupted speed Of the logo
motive engine to the great commercial metropolis.
The projected bridge at Albany will be no ISOLATED
structure but part Of whole system appointed BY
the Legislature of Newlork to relieve the pressure
upon that important gate-G system which combines
four several outlets of the Erie and Champlan Canals
with as many termiu nf the railroads the several
ferries at Albany and Troy. with the bridge at that
place-a system yet inadequate and incomplete only
for the want of the structure at Albany which tbs
tribunal is invoked to condemn and abolish.
AZ the bridge at Albany is not Ia be local insta-
ton, so II will not be merely temporary one. 1t wi
be an Institution not for lives but for cent?
RES for ages for that indefinite period which human
iorcsigh calls forever. The numbers which are
passing the site Of the proposed bridge annr.y
Outnm.ber the armies of tie Persian invader, OF
those If the Grecan conqueror olte East the armed
missionaries Of TIE Koran, the ciyalrous crasss-
ers. Who then, shall eat innate their future nuuber,
when society shall have been consolidated upon the
American continent' What. now, does the State Of
New-York owe 10 those hosts Of living men that she
il thus drawing aside from old ard accustomed ways
and destinations To the ways aud new Destinations
that she has appointed She owes passage across
tie Hudson River at Albany, quick, safe, easy aud
&, miUrtablc, by night and by dsy, in Winter
and in Summer, in peace and in war, for the
young and the old, the male and the ielnle her own
citizen ard the stranger within her domain. Howese
can she yield and this facility but by arcbsg
TIE liudson'
NAV il please your Honors, there is nothing new q
this heal resistance 10 great and benefcent improve
mout. Tiere il scarcely bridge across the TnaDs
that rot opposed IN It's erection because ii woni
diminish the gains of navigation or derange systems
A. 4 4 =.
passing simplicity and beauty the bridge on the TYNE
connecting Gateshead with Newcastle wa erected III,
sioTt-sgbted caVIlers responded 10 every stroke o
the hammer, There goes another nal into the cofu
of CAT shead The railroad iDpro yenient has hal to
contend long and at great cost with interested local
resistance If every kin IL proves the strength and
power of the navigation interest that rivers cannot be
spLnned until after valleys filled up and mountains
either tunneed surmOunted. might fear that THIS
lat obstace would prove upsuruountgble. But see
already tie Savannah the Susquehauna tine Delaware,
the Connecticut the Merrinsck the Ohio the Illinois,
and tee Mississippi, spaBned with railroad brdgea
When remember these structures, and when, mole
over, contemplate the cosy and most difficult one,
that even amid the desolatIOus Of civil war; srose
over the Danube az Bnda- Pcsth or that simple
yet majestic arch that, stretching the surges o
sea, nnts the Island Of Angisea with the main land
Of Wakes; when standing on tue writer's edge In the
chasm l look above and see as if in The
upper air the ponderous railroad trains which
bear International commerce pass from
cliff to opposing cliff OF the deep Niagara upor
platform upheld by cables Of woven wires
above sn, when j sac the ST. Lawrence
the broadest, most turbulent and most dangerou,
of al tie rivers Of the earth yielding ii
leutly 10 the yoke e the Victoria Bridge a
Montreal, 80 that British North America may bs
brought only little nearer to the fa;herand fee
quite assured that the commercial ceLter u the Uated
States is not for the want Of bridge over the HUDSON
10 remain separated from tue regions where proiac
tive industry dwels, and virtue, liberty and order
reign.