, 1862-09-06
&b1' Gritt1rt6*
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER G.. 1869.


A0N EA@AEAN Hke&H4AEAVANs
The commissioners Of the Pacific rail-
road have well and faithfully performed
the duties required of<5em 81 Congress,
and, We dstipt not, met al, TIC expectations
Of their fellow citizens. In the expakence
and high character o, the officers, chosen
to inaugurate the work; the nob1sand pat
riotic ground assumed in the resolutions;
the able and comprehensive speeches from |
these careful, shrewd and far seeing states
men and capitalists, the country aud the
civilized world have the best possible
assurance that the Pacific railroad, mag
nifcent as the project contessedly is, can
and will be built. And still more, that it
will be built as fast as the resources Of the
country, directed by the Lost consummate
sagaci1y and untlinching energy, will per-
nit. Long before the child now ga1ly
sporting his mimic sword and drum, shall
have reached his majority, the splendid
eoneention Of the late Senator Benton, in
which he proposed to hew one bluff Of the
Rocky Mountains into statue Of Wash
jrgton, and its opposite in another Of Co.
1umbus, while at their feet the commerce
Of the world rolled East and West on the
great central railway Of the Continent, will
be fully realized.
In work 50 vast and 50 potent in consol-
idating our ocean bound Republic, let our
people disregard the snee1s which our ma
lienant enemies upon the other side Of the
Atlantic will be sure to heap upon us. In
great commissions great people achieve
great and glorious results for themselves
and for the race The philosophers Of the
Sir Edward Lytton Bulwer species, whose
7ision-to borrow the Illustration Of judge
Ruggles, in a speech before the Con
yention, which we hope soon to pub
lish in full, "bounded by littls
tWopenny Island torn from North II
Europe, can discover in our natona
troubles good for mankind only in the di
vision Of our great country into at leas
five petty nations, will 1ndi:e bonlbastit
columns to prove the absurdity Of com
mepcnr such work when the nation i
cynvulsed by civil war. Their highes
achievement will be to show their own su
prone fully and intense malignity. z
use tie forclble image Of one o
thtir oWn statesmen, for such men a
IulHer to direct the Affairs and Judge Q
the necessities Of great continental na
ton, is like the anxious guardian Of
rabi. warren presiding at the CESSATION {
Tie elephant While they are babling, til
American people will both crush out til
rebellion and build the road.
What is now needed is for the people i
every part Of the country to CANVASS the
duties IN relation to this great work, s
that when the books are opened in N
ycmbcr every man will be prepared to q
lis part Let the millionaire take his tW
hundred thousa: d dollars, and so on
the vay down to the man who subscrio
only a thousand. The unwise pr
vision Of making thousand dolla
the price ola share of stock will double
be charged as soon IS Congress opens
December, and men who have only hu
d,cd dollars to spare will be permitted
contribute their share towards this gre
and patriotic enterprise. The question
profits though many far.seelng men belle
they will be ample, need not be hi
discussed, The road is q necess
to tie commerce Of the country and OF
world; it will bind the people OF the
1antic and Pacific coasts together IN T
pctua1 union, aud therefore 1t must
built. The capital and the patriotism
the nation are equal to the task, and he
it can and it must be acc 1mplisbed in
shortest possible time. We trust that e1
member OF the late convention may liv'
see it, and to be members of the first p'
that crosses the continent on the great
ciic Railroad.