Dallas herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1849-1873, 1859-11-09

suundinss 10 see whore we arc have shown IN
the two proceeding numbers of the Republican
lst That the charter is out OF danger OF being
seized.
I'd That IL is no longer tho subject OF eontFo'
yersy between rival companies.
3D. That tho company is now free FROM onerons
contracts, Is ont of debts, and its property rn'
leased from Judgments mortgages. nnd leins,
4th. That the charter sold for SdOO,OOO of bo-
gus stock has been recovered hack,
9Th. That Walker, King, Post, and the old
managers, are out Of the way In n word have
shown that by the purchase organization under
the shcrii"s sale, We have in legal cAeo, aer
!. charter,
/ 9th With this new charter, Wa are invited
to bring in Relp men, TO administer its affairs, and
to make our own choice at tat,
II 7th. You are not called on to associate with
DIR. FOwlkes, Edwin Post, Mr. King, or Mr..
Walker, if prejudice against Them be any lmpc'
dment; or to endorse their 'pts or adminiStra-
tiOns,
Sth. You have survey, ndt only across the
State. bu; over the Rocky Mo'ptuins, to tho Pa
ciic ocean.
9th. You have road located with II profile
and engineer s estimates of work to hc donc, for
no small distance and ut no small cost,
10th. You have twcnty-seyen miles of road
completed; some additional iron, lcross.ticS, and
grading; and engines, and rolling stock enough
for building purposes
llth. You have charter, perpetual in its du-
ration, and aa liberal in its provisions as gov
ernmcnt ever granted.
18th, You are offered the ownership and profits
of all the road you may build
l3th. You are offered belt of ricAand choice
land, sixteen miles wide. and eight hundred long,
for completing the road across the St'te or one
mile wide and sixteen miles long, for e,cry single
mile completed.
14th The State, to encourage and elGblc YOU
to build the road, has offered to loan you six
thousand dollars mile, on ten years time, and
Ut the low rate of six six per cent intere,t.
18TH The road once completed, will lc to the
railroads west of the Alleghanies, what the Mis-
sissppi now is to the rivers of that rcgiof.
10th Crossing, Mt right angles, every river
draining the vast and teeming west, Ike the
"latAcr of waters" it will lay the wholc(region
uuder contribution,
18th 1t will unite and control the commercial
and political destiny of two empires. bounled by
two oceans, and fuse into one, the Atlantf and
Pacific States.
! 18th. 1t will he the grand central highwE for
nation of thirty millions Of freemcn whosA All
nual productions amount to four billion, land
whose number and resources double in tlirty
years
l9th. 1t is projected in an age remarkable COr
its energy and industry; remarkable for the dcNe-
| lopmena of the arts and sciences and remarkable
for its vast wealth and physical resources.
Goth. 1t is n national, political, and commeN
| cial necessity, and its certain and speedy cOn-'
struction, and ample support the manifest desti-
ny Of the age.
2lst The road can be built throughout Texas
for twenty thousand Il mile.
22d 1t will penetrate and develop vast re-
gion Of boundess resources.
Now icllow-citizens, for the practical question
of the age-,cW ii pay?
Wnuld thn ioht tn low, ~ +ov nr, ovarv cto,n
that ploughs the dark bosom of the far rolling
"lather Of waters ''-pause and Consider-would
such right pay? Own every steamer, number
the passengers, estimate the freight, fix your
prices, and answer me, would an eGcEusiOe right
to navigate the Mississippi, in the hands OF II
single company pay
Just so, and to the same extent, Will the navi
cation Of this great highway, by the steam cars,
pay. The travel between Europe and America,
including cmigrants, and counting both ways, is
equal to half Il million OF passengers; would ten
dollars head, clear profit, pay2
Our government derives from sixty to seventy
five millions II year duty on imports; does that
pGy?-(the government us a body corporate re
cciving the revenue, mean.)
just so, will the profits, Of the carrying trade
after deducting expenses on this road. Europe
sends he's half million of travellers, and her hun
dreds of millions of fabrics over watcry waste OF
three thousand miles, beset with fogs, hidden
rocks, storms tompests, and dangers; but what ls
that compared to the am unit and value OF the in.
ternal trade and travel of America! Not SO much
Us the travel and trade of Red River is the Mis-
sissipi and all Its other tributaries combined
Along the line of this road we have single
artice-cotton, worth, III its crude State, Daied
up at the gin, two hundred millions a year (iour
millions at $50 per bale,) and when passed
through the various manipulations Of the MAUI
facturer, worth in the markets Of the world, sew
en- times that amount.
We have a nation OF thirty mliious of souls
and Judging from the swarms that throng our
cars and stages. and crowd our steamboat decks,
one would say the American people were al ira
rclers. Mark you, from the natural causes the
number of these travellers is doubling every thirty
years. Mark you, the natural development and
physical resourccS-the commerce of the nation,
is outstripping in its growing magnitude, by ma
ny degrees, the proportionate increase OF its in
habitants. Mark you, science too is on the in
crsase, and in nothing 50 much as the improve
ment OF the engine; they are made to run luster,
cost less, and carry more, than at any former pc
riod, and are doubtless capable of further i'm
provement diminishing the running cost by in
creased speed, and greater burthen.
On the Atlantic, we double in thirty years; but
on the Pacific we have "a nation born in day.
If we are to double in thirty years, California
and the Pacific States must quadruple in twenty
If there is a need for the road now, the damand
Will be more than doubled in thirty years. If it |
would pay a profit on it's cost now that profit
will be doubled and trcJlcd in thirty years
The allied forces, English and French,) have |
to the surprise of all, just suffered defeat in Chi
ma. They cannot afford to stay whipped, cost
what it may. Reinioroements must be sent out,
and the sooner they arrive and retrieve their loss
es, the better. Suppose this road were through
to the Pacific, what route would many of those
reinlorcements take Would they sail across
the Atlantic west, to catch the trade winds, beat
their way around the Cape Of Good Hope, cross I
ing the tropics and the line twice in their yOyases
Or would they steam at once for Portland (Ms.,) |
mount the iron horse, and shoot like n meteor for
San DiagO, and thence steam the Pacific
to the mouth of the Peiho, where their brethren |