Weekly Trinity journal., 1861-01-12

direction from the lawless and hoste panuS VI
Indians already spoken or
A considerable portion of this Missouri route
from the beadwaters of that river to oregon
masses through country capable OF sus'a'nlnga
large popuation 1t is mountainous, puC t"e
climate is salubrious and the soil Is wen adap'eu
TO grazing. There are good grounds 10 oei'eVe
that the mountains abound IN rlch veins Vi pre-
cous metals. -,
The march of troops through this region keeps
in suhordination the Indian tribes upon the route;
and this is a matter of great Importance 10 the
northern settlements of Washington territory
now rapidly increasing, and where the Indians
are numerous warlike and powerful"
This comprehensive expose of army protection
also shows large expenditures the object nave
/ in view in quoting it.. .ooo
But am probably reminded that the S2'3Z9,-
G32 worth of imports during the last year, with
the S4259.449 of exports during the same PERIOD
and the number of vessels employed in transpor-
tation show an importance and magnitude not
to be overlooked. Certainly not Added TO
these figures, and Congressman Burcbs imagIHa-
ry advantages" the following grandlloquent
strain on the subject of paper money in conneX-
ion with California, in Hunts Merchants Magaztne,
and at once the Pacific Conlederacy stands Pl~o'
like before us
1T is upon California-despis neglected,
oppressed and injured Californa-the State which
has enriched every other State of the COnedera-
cy, and impoverished herself in so doing-Call-
fornia, which has saved the country ten times
over from bankruptcy, and furnished every drop
of healthfu circulation which now flows through
the veins of the body polite, which has raised
the country from financial poverty, and placed it
in position of wealth and strength before the
great powers of the eaIth-it is upon this State
that the bighting curse of paper money comes
with teu-fold fury.
She is now
losing under her reduced impOrtati0ns. which
are estimated at S34,000,000 annually, at least
half this sum say Sf7,000,000 per annum.
Was there State on the globe, with pop
uIatiOn of only 650,000 which could pay an an
nual tribute Of 81 900, in gold, without any
consideration in return?"
If from the Custom House books the figures
show two and ii half millions of dollars worth of
importations during the year-Oct. lst, '59, to
Oct. lst, '60-whpre does the Magazine writer
get his S34, 600, 900 from; aud how lose SIT 000,-
000 annually, in exchange? Echo asks
This Asiatic and Island trade certainly does
show the imperative need Of line of steamers,
on which subject the Marysville appeal thus
speaks so ably
''Such enterprise, connecting with a rail
road across the continent, would not alone
vastly increase a commerce which has already,
unaded, and despite powerful rivalry, but it
WOulu strengthen Ine DOnnS which aItacn LDIS
State to the cOnederacy, silence those whispering
conspiratOrs who dream of a Pacific Republic,
and do more to insure peace than standing
army and navy. Once establish intimate trade
relations between different sections and countries,
and it win be almost impossible to make them
hostile and belligerent Commerce is the great
pacifcator of modern times Her interests are
all in peace, though sometimes, through a mis-
taken policy, men have sought to promote them
by war, as England, scorning the wiser policy Of
America, did in the case of the present Chinese
war, and as our own seeding brothers in South
Carolina are now trying to do. The railroad,
the line of Chinese steamers, and the great com
merce that must result, will surely strengthen
and harmonize that glorious confederacy without
which we should probably have neither railroad,
steamers, nor commerce"
The "prosperous, happy and successful Pacific
Repu Llic" of which Mr.. Burch speaks, with
its incomparably superior condition." (D and
the Magazine grandilOguent writer. very forcby
reminds me of the story Of the boy aud the hun
dred foxes:
90, mother | saw a hundred foxes fighting in
our yard" 80, you're mistaken. my son, said
his mother. No, indeed mother | certainly
saw .ftty," a. think you were deceived my
son." replied his gentle parent. "Well, Pm
sure there was ttcenty, or at least ten" Now
are you confident? BE careful to speak the
truth" "There surely was tsso, mother, for
If our worthy Representative had for an hour
reflected on this subject, or made the smallest
analysis in figures of it, he could but have seen
his egregious blunder. A part of his closing
paragraph is sensible:
''The people of California and her neighbors
are one in interest and feelings their pursuits
and institutions are not incompatible or nconss-
tent with each other. We must then, in order to
preserve these elements of harmonious action,
unite our fortunes"
"This joint 4" interest" and " harmonious ac-
tion," shall bond and bind us with sympathies
and love to our old god-prospered Coiun,bia-
Scott and yourself to the contrary, Hon. Burch
With Senator Latham, we emphatically repudiate
the visionary spectrs and conformity with our Pa
cifc Putnam and Marion-Senators Baker and
Latham-wlll carefully watch and nObly defend
our glorious legacy. We'd rather enlarge the
base arteries, and feel the thrill of Revolutionary
herOism, and kindle the fires of purer patriot
ism by the memories of Lexington and Bunker
, Hill, Mount Vernon, Ashland and Marsbfeld
than ever TO dream once of so suicidal an act
What sunder the blood ties of patriot sires and
childhood blood baptized land, and forever after
to be as Laban and Jacob, and for what Sla-
very's perpetuatOn! Raise as our symbol OF
nationality, your miserable, roaming Bruin p
instead Of the Stripes and Stars? Heaven forbid
it till every drop of patriots blood shall feel the
death-chill
by the memories or the great dead freedom
martyrs, and the love e-bonds and life interests of
the living by the cOnsecratonS and blood of the
Revolutionary battle fields ,and the daring to sign
either their creed Of human ri ghts or death war.
rant. In the sublime closing words of Hon. Rev
erdy johnson, before the nations supreme tr
bunal
"God, in his providence, and for our sins, may
in his inscrutabe wisdom, suffer the folly and
wickedness of this generation to destroy the
fairest noblest fabric of constitutional freedom
ever erected by man. Its whole history, from
the first movement of its operation even to the
present hour, bears evidence of its unrivaled
excellence. Our country, our whole country
has from the first, prospered under it, and becdaS
ofH, with a rapdity, and in a manner, before
or since, unknown to the nation. That prosper
ity vndicates the wisdom and patriotism of III
good and great founders. Is this prosperity nov
to cease? Is it now TO be dashed to the earth
Are the hopes of civilized man, the world over
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