The Washington union. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1857-1859, 1859-02-27

skill did their full share but they did make the cir
cumstanoes which accomplished the desired end
The Mississippi no longer hens ,s IN but that very
France, which, prior 90 this day hundred years
matured the project of oonfning the Anglo Saxon do
mnion TO the eastern slope of the Aeghanes. has fur
nsbed 10 the Of the Saxon empire extending
10 the summit OF the Rocky mountains The States OF
louisiana Arkansas Missouri Minnesota, and Iowa. and
the Territories of Kansas and Nebraska are but part
OF the vast possessions. How much how little the
capture of Fort Duquesne had to DO with destiny here
In Nebraska wnot stop calculate 10 enough for
To believe aud TO that Nebraska rs result however
remote from that inst great result which has dedicated
20 everlasting memorial the 10th of November HOS. So
by lineage and by love- claim for this beautiful and
abundant Territory the sympathy and good will OF West
Pennsylvania. Our future is your future and in
that final aud absolute which awaits Kansas and
Nebraska there is much that you and the whole
country.
Poor and oircumscrbed our utmost bound at the first
seemed to be but the Ohio the Mississippi. But now
sour large aud great dominion extends westward until
extension stops at the From the Atlantic TO
the waters OF the Pacific, worship one God and live
under one constitution.
This has ali come in the course of events not OF It.
SELF but under inevitable direction, "Ihere is Divinity
that shapes ends TO accomplish the ends and pur
poses of His own will in His own way plan OF Asiatc
conquest which did not enter into he great Napoleon
dream, begins to unfold itself But it is to be
quest of peacea triumph OF commerce, civilization, and
Christianity What is plain to everybody now, was fore
by the great inelIects of the country long MIR
the Columbia with the view, amongst other things, "to
communication for commercial purposes between the
Pacific and the Mississippi and TO send the ghts OF sci
and religion into Eastern Asia.o The communion
ton for commercial purposes will be opened hs only
icay--across the continent The light of religion will
arise from the West and shine into the heart Of Eastern
Asia Over the land and the sea, hand in hand
Commerce and Christianity will so together.
God does great things by railroads well ms by ships
The highway of the great East is here in .'the Great
West and you and may live long enough to see the
trade of China and Japan, and 'the riches of ASIA =
cross our continent from the Pacific to the Atlantic until
the European mother shall become tributary to the
American child.
wish possessed the power to persuade you of Penn
syvana how close your connection is with us and how
vastly you are interested in all that this great and
growing country.
You celebrated with Examinations and great Joy the
first cry of the speechess cabe--we enough in its
way, and well for the celebration that it off
But doubt whether you called single town meeting,
in all the State take notice the successful establish
and operation of John Butterfelds overland mail
from the Mississippi to the Pacifcpermit to say,
a matter of moment to you at Pittsburgh than the
Atlantic cable if it had not refused to The
overland mail is the accessory before the fact to the
great Pacific railroad
Now, you may inquire what has put 1t into your head
TO write such letter answer your excellent and
comprehensive letter of invitation started If all /
have said is not logical conclusion from the capture
of Fort Duqucsnc is remote inference and not farther
off than many deductions that accepted as sound.
Respectfully SAML w. BLACK.
Linn, colleague The Senate later period but
still long ogo lorcsaw forcod prophetic speech
the very things which day have He died too
his and the which he engaged
Oregon (arcady halfway tho the Unn) his
ment, aud makes his memory immortal.