The Washington union. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1857-1859, 1858-12-15


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hundred aud fifty dollars for each grown person, and
for family including the parents and Ave children the
aggregate cost would be $3.50 Nov, OF tho Iaboring
classes including most of the mechanical pursuits not
head Of family out OF hundred Thousand possesses
but few OF any other class, II they had this capital TO
pay their pas1ss, when they reach the Pacific coast
would be left for the purchase Of farms tho
expenses Of preparing them for cultivation The
failure of the government TO aid In the construction of
railroad the Pacific coast ID equivalent 10 decree pro
hbtng the sales of the public lAnds in these vast
ons and this demonstrated not ony by the
statement of the expenses OF emigration, but ny tbs ex
Bnt ii is only as regards the finances Of the gov
ernment that should derive vast advantages, but
those accng to this people of the United States would
be still greater Our population would be increased our
resources developed and the continent covered with
pie and States from the Atlantic to the Pacific Our
wealth would be than doubled would be our
products. A new impulse would be given to sgri
cultural, manufacturing, mining, commercial, and nav
gang interests, aud, above ALL the Union secured and
perpetuatet The very passage of the BILL In advance OF
the construction Of the road, would give new impulse
from augmented and prosperity thcre would
be- all statistics show throughout the world large
increase of native population flood of foreign
emigration would also be thrown upon ns. They would
not to nger In large cities, but would pass into
the great interior TO cultivate SOIL to work our mines
aud factories 10 purchase the products of industry.
to augment exports and TO increase our imports and
up American families devoted to the constitution
and the Union. From the Atlantic to the Pacific the
great ateria industrial current would flow, and the
great central valley of the Mississippi the heart Of the
nation would puste from ocean to ocean with renewed
power s
Besides the increased domestic consumption, should
find in Asia, containing twothrds of the population Of
the globe markets for most of our agricultural pro
ducts How could Europe compete with us for the mar
of China and Japan, If had railroad from the
Atlantic the PacitcY In those dcnscly ypopuatsd
gions millions perish every year from insufficient food or
clothing Give this road, and could supply these
wants cheaper than any European power whilst they
produce most Of the very articles that we desire In cx
change.
So also, MS 80 manufactures Our new farms and in
creased population would furnish an augmented home
market for manufactures; and Of many OF these,
especially of cotton could supply Asia cheaper than
the factories of Europe Besides, charge duties
upon the teas of China whilst the burdcsone debts and
costly governments of Europe require them to impose
heavy duties this article, and thus give Ills great ad-
vanages in the exchanges with Asia in agricultural i'm
plcmcnts and engines we arc also now supplying many
foreign markets and, when extended intercourse with
Asia shall substitute these for the barlnroB and anti
quaed articles in use and vast markets viii be
thus opened for our benefit. HH H s
Our commerce, both foreign and domestic, would re-
ccive new impulse Our interstate commerce would
reach the Atlantic to the Pacic and with Asia
pccially it would be immensely augmented. Not only
would this be the regards the exchanges of our
products and manufactures, but America being lo-
Gated between Europe and Asia with the nearest and
quickest route of the world ntcrcommuncation, we
would become the house and carrier of the worlds
products and manufactures, command the routes and
traffic of the globe, transfer here the control of its cx-
changes and realize for ourselves that yus tribute which
England cxacts from her almost universal com
merce
To the statesman it must be apparent that from the
great commercial changes and advantages which viii re-
suit from the English and French with China, as well
by recent treaty with that power new impulse must
and will be given to commerce Shall we not prepare tor
it, and afford every facility whereby our enterplsing
ship owners and merchants we'll manufacturers and
agricultursts, may be benefited Can we not easily
oresadow the trade TINT must necessarily spring up with
hitherto exclusive japan And who can foretei whas
commercial enterprise is to be infused among the thou
sand isles of he Pacific by their intercourse with Caior
nia daily becoming greater and greater Turn your
eyes the Aoor river and the boundess tracks which
1t drains abounding in mineral wealth. and containing
millions of inhabitants who need and will our manu-
actures and breadstufs and say, in view OF all this
whether the Of all those countries shond not
pass territory and therefore, Tor these
alone il other cxisted q fnroad Is oI Paih
mount import to
Commerce is power and empire. Its ccnqucsts ars
greater, universal, and enduring than those OF
arms. lt Win IL peace ana pentyt nstcsu "a
death and desoation 1t marches States and nations
supply their and receive their products In ex
change Its dominion is peace its victories are those
of labor and industry National preudiccs and prehib
ons dynasties and dcpotic institutions crumbie be-
fore its progress Give us, this railroad would, the
controls of the and exchanges Of the
world and in the progress of time and the advance OF
civilization would command the institutions OF the
world-no like the colonies of Rome by the sword and
vassaage but by that irresistible moral power which
would ultimately carry institutions with our com
merce throughout the sphere inhabit.
Either England the United States must in the end
control that 1t must centre in London, Ca
cnta, and Bombay in American cities 1t must COM
mand the ocean and the land must be secondary
to England, or England to America. Now, at this very
moment England is preparing to grasp this commerce by
continuous railroad through Halifax Quebec, and her
territories continent to the Pacific This Is al
ready formally announced in her Parliament by her cnb
net ministers and gigantic company, aided by British
credit British lands and capital and government aid
advancing to snatch from grasp this greatest OF all
earthly prizes She has practicable route through her
American territory from to route ten de-
grecs south of of the Russian railroads. and which
she will construct if do not Immediately perform our
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