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miles away, which viii do nothing towards giving
us a toerable means Of communcationy Ii viii
come TO understand that. with genial climate and
soil capable of every product. aud mineral wealth
embracing nearly the whole mineral Kingdom it has
no necessary dependence the american Union;
that its vast and growing commercials hampered with
the American tariff without any adequate return,
and that separate national existence would cost
little more than the present system Of State gov.
ornmept; that with absolute free trade, exempt
from all imposts, it could monopoze the commerce
Of the Pacific, China, Japan, and the islands.
The people on the Pacific are not 80 blind as not
to perceive that their peace and security are con
stantIy jeoparded by the foreign policy and ambition
Of the States east of the mountains, They undo
stand that a war about Cuba or Mexico with France
or England would fall at and mainly upon them;
that their ports would be seized blockaded their
commerce broken up, their seacoast invaded, and
the richest mines fall into the hands of the enemy
They have therefore, just right to look for the in
auguraton of a work which will connect them with
the more populous States, and give thcm the means
of defence and protection, especially when that work
is to advantage every section of the Union much
as the Pacific
The people on the Pacific national and conser-
vatiye in all their tendencies They are neither
tiona nor rrow-minded. They feel an utter con
tempt for this miserable struggle the object Of which
is to convert African wool into the fair hair of tho
Saxon, and have evnced it recently by their pott
cal action in a not to be mistaken. South
ern politicians ought to remember this, and not
ALLEVIATE country that will shortly have half dozen
potent conservative States in the confederacy If not
driven out of the Union or into the arms Of their
enemies.
All that the Pacific requires to become formida-
bic rival to the Atlantic slope in commerce, agricu.
ture and manufactures is cheap labor, and that lies
at her door ready-mado to her hands. She has only
to reach out and gather it in. The Chinese mauda
rims have at this moment system of foreign slavery
in California. They bring their countrymen to the
mines under contracts for labor, and enforce it spc
officially according to the laws of China and without
any reference to the government laws, tribunals
Of California. The legislature Of California has only
to egaze this actual condition of things, as to
| tracts for Asiatc and Indian labor; give law re-
quring their specific performance, on the ground
that their violation is fraud, and which the consti
tuition of California will authorize, and thereby
tend its advantages TO its own citizens and for
fourth of the annual interest African slave Che
Californian may have laborer Who will answer all
the purposes Of the negro. This subject is now ag
tated in California, and if tho people Of the Pacific
are thrown upon their resources, must commend
itself to their favorable consideration This cheap
labor would enable them TO open vast mines now
unproductive, to embark probably in the growth
of the great staples, including tea and to establish
manufactures which would supply the whole Asiatic
demand to the exclusion of eastern and British fab
rics The Pacific is no poor province, dependent
upon this government and Union. If it is not want
cd by these States, it provide for itself sep
aratc existence upon the shores of the great
that will be felt by the nations of the earth. How
long it will submit to be snubbed and buffctcd
like step-child, remains to be seen. Tho attach
mont of its people to the American name govern
ment and flag is very strongthe affection of tho
daughter for The mother-but in The nature of things
there is a limit even to this. With tho plains Of
Mexico all before her, crying out and take
me, with great separate interests of her own, and
absolute neglect by the federal government tits
somewhat hazardous game that our statesmen
playing with the Pacific
There is class of politicians in this country with
whom nothing but the dyspepsia is constitutional.
! With them it is vain to There are others,
like Jefferson Davis alive to their constitutional OBJ
legations and at the same time not unmindnl of the
vast wants and great destiny of this country. At
| this time the people turn their eyes on them as
alone worthy to conduct our foreign and national
policy basis at within the powers Of the
constitution, and adequate to the grandeur Of the
position to which the American people aud govern
| ment have arrived.
Senator Gwin deserves the gratitude of California
for tho able and mastery support which for years
he has given 10 this great measure with talent
| ergy, and viii that deserve and should command
success, whatever may be It's fate. He has done his
duty TO The measure American senator in
manner worthy the best days of the Roman republic
and which cannot fail to command the warmest com
| mendation of his noble State.
| A MEASUREMENT IN THE HOUSE
| Mr. Burlingame, the member somewhat notorious
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