The national Republican., 1861-10-22
Tuesday, October %. 1851.
81 Reading Matter on every page.-Ss
INTERESTING FROM COLORADO TER.
KITORY.

On our first page will be found the first mes
sage of the first Governor of Colorado Terri
tory, and for these reasons II will be read with
increased interest Governor Gilpin is man
of great sagacity, and 10 the beginning of our
present difficulty demonstrated his loyalty and
patriotism Immediately after President Lin
coins first war proclamation, the Governor Of
fered his military services in any capacity, but
as he was in position to do more good a.
Governor Of the new Territory, his patriotic
offer was not accepted.
Governor Gilpin's views upon the great i'm
portance Of securing the Rocky Mountains
against rebel force and invasion are new and
important, and we have been permitted TO pre-
sent them, in the following extracts from
private letter, received few days ago by an
officer of the Government. He has also, a.
will be seen, settled the question Of the prac
ticability Of a Pacific railroad.
"In the beginning of this contest, antici
pated conflict of nine years duration, to be
finally ended around the city Of Mexico.
Since the Manassas affair. the fires of civil
war have burst out here. Here is conflict
for the possession of the great mountains the
passes of the continent, and the connections
with the Pacific ocean.
This has suddenly become a strategetical
point of superlative Importance. Remember
what little importance attached to Gibraltar
before the expansion of recent modern times
upon the Atlantic. So now, the immense growth
Of our affairs on the coast of the Pacific ocean
and beyond tog gether with the growing dangers
Of the sea connections, make this key of the
Posses Of the Cordillera, and the possession OF
the great mountains, the most valuable strate-
getical point upon our continent, and prospec
lively the most valuable to the whole com.
mercial world.
An exploring party sent by me in July, to
mature minute examination of the topography
between Denver and Salt Lake cities, has re-
turned, and solved forever the problem Of q
Continental Road The route passes all the
mountain chains under the fortieth degree, and
continuously, without obstacle.
GOLD WITHOUT LIMIT.
The condition of this Territory is especially
Interesting. Inc dUuuuuuCc vi Soiu 10 tuc
same as salt in the sea- but economical methods
Of extracting it are not known or practiced.
Science and discipline, labor and capital are
wanted. Ten thousand soldiers, robust, healthy,
and in the palmy prime of physical perfection,
are here; but neither arms, ammunition, pro
visions, clothing, or horses, to put single reg
iment in the field Money is wanted.
TUE sorTH DESIRE THE MOUNTAINS AND MEXICO.
Again, ii is in the programme of the south
ern policy to invest these mountains and Mex
leo. The North is not awake to this.
The war waging on the Potomac does not
menace the permanent prospective overthrow
of the Continental Union. The possession of
the mountains does. Who has ever displaced
the people of the Alps, the Tyrol, Hungary, Or
the Caucasus? Let such people hold this
mountain system, its passes and its parcs, and
the hope of Continental Union, the oracular
inspiration and mission of our race, is quenched
forever. 1t is policy to anticipate and con
auer results"