New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-01-02
uENICO.

mout ard We would have our readers consider !,
dispassoDatey from every stand point. Having
duly considered The Times's article, We ASK them
to lock thOUsbtfuly at the following exceptions to
its leading positions:
! l. We DO certainly object To Mr.. McLan,'s
| Treaty that the transt-rouics across Mexico which
il proposes 10 buy are worthless 10 us. and that the
whole affair is tainted with barcfaced ard most dis
credable jobbery, but for still grayer reasons also
We are opposed TO any purchase of trcnsit.routes
across Mexico or any other country by our Govern
ment If any company or capitalist, American or
! foreign. sees 1T to buy tie Nicaragua, Chirqui,
| Honduras Tehuautepec, or any other proposed
| tansit-rOute across the narrower portion Of this
continent ard construct canal, railroad or decent
turnpike thereon we have not the least objection to
their so doing but shall be quite likely TO wish
tie enterprise success. Not so With any similar
undertaking BY the Federal Government We
question its power to do this, and we hold the pol
| cy OF so doing unques.ionaby bad. A company or
capitalist may possibly make money by opening a
transit route even though he BE- constrained to pay
for privilege which ought to be- freely and CRATE
fuly conceded: the Federal Government, it is per
lectly notorious, vii be- called on to pay pay, at
every stoee OF the transaction from the outset until
its final washing its hands of the job. Experience
viii show that it is far easier TO keep ont than to
get out Of such business
H. We object To- 81 Government dabbliug in
foreign transit routes as inevitably antagonist to
the true and manifest policy cf opening q great
National Highway from the Atlantic to the Pacific
through the heart of our own country. Had it
been physically impossible to cross Mexico or the
ISthmUs of Darien for the last fifteen years, vs.
should have ere this been enjoying the blessings of
daily Overland Mail from St. Louis to San Fran
cisco in fifteen days at furthest, st smaller cost
than the aggregate of the halfdozen circumambent
routes we are now supporting which only profess
to carry letters twice per week and newspapers
once "A fortnight. We're a Daily Overland Mail now
passing from ST. Louis to San Francisco aud rice
rJSa in fifteen days, We believe the amount of rev.
erue thence accrUiDg would be treble what is now
received, ard rapidly increasing. Nor is this all:
Such Mail would ere this have thickly dotted
its whole course with stations, settlements,
facilities for general travel, and wherever practca-
ble) farms, and would have insured the construc-
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this time, and of the residue within few years.
Daily Overland Mail from the Missouri to the Pa
cfc on the very quickest route is, in our judgment,
an urgent National necessity; and We regard all
Government dabblng in transt-r0utes through
Mexico and Central America as inevitably hostile
TO such Mail. A Mail to ard from California
twice per month is utterly behind the requirements
Of the age; nor is it right that the Government
should be running half dozen rival mails to CALI
foma on different routes. Give US one mail TO aud
from the Pacific coast let il be- run on the quickest
route, and.run every day. We protest against any
new contract for carrying a mail 10 California
other0;se than directly through our Own country;
and we INSIST that direct Overland Mail be con-
traced for so soon may be, TO supersede all our
present roundabout ones
Ill But The Times AYERS that il would " be wise
" for us to pay the pary sum of four millions of
dollars into the Mexican treasury, TIE pockets of
speculators or even info the sea, if By SO doi>g
~ we can secure the abolition OF bgotry and bad
government throughout the republic Of Mexico"
&C.. sc. This opens up pretty wide horizon,
and involves considerations not TO be disposed Of in
a fiippant paragraph Let us pause aud consider
In what section ef the Federal Constitution is
found the right of our rulers to pay out even so
"patrv" sum as -, 1000, 600 from or empty and
likely .tO-remain-empty Treasury in order to " Sc
cure the abolition Of bigotry and bad govern
sment' in foreign country, We cannot even
guess. Nor is il necessary to ponder me matter
very deeply since We deny utterly that such mag
Djfcent results are 70 be- attained By any such pay
ment. The disorders Of Mexico are toodeep-seated
and chronic to be cured by payment of ~, 100000
from our Treasury, especially when at least half Of
it il to 20 ''into the pockets OF SPECTATORS" The
plaster is not 20 patry" an affair as The Times
would represent it; but il j. not broad enough TO
cover the ulcer, much less cure It. And, though it
seems q needless labor, We will quote from the
Presidents recent Message sufficient to prove that
he has no idea that this 100000 is, as Tie Times
asserts, to put an end to growing diplomatic
and political imbroslo, which, if suffered 10 run
" its course will in!alliby end by invoking us in
desperate wars, and drawing MS into an expendi-
" ture Of fifty times SiO0O,00o.' Mr.. Buchanan
Eve quote only bis more weighty and pregnant sen
tences) says:
Mexico ought be- rich aHi prosperous, snd powerful
Republic She possesses an xen territory ertlc soil an
irrsl..tIe tore Of mineral vash She o.,ipe m uorart
position the Quit sud the Ocean transit routes and
Tor i it p9Esi5o that ach country this
cT ts ard is safety VII the commercial uaifous o. the
wholly naeren, % .uou resg Can the United states es
pecSy waich ought share most largely IN it, oonpeis
Intercourse. allow their neiKLbC thus 10 destroy
and is1re them Yet without ,uppor ron ONE quarter,
mpo,sloe perceive how heI'o Tesane Dor va
among nations and erter upon wheh promises ,n
results The aid which she requires and which the ny eps,