The Smoky Hill and Republican union. [volume] (Junction City, Kan.) 1861-1864, 1862-09-13

The Pacific Railroad Convention.
IN the second days proceedings Of this
body we 6nd the following: =
The Business Committee made . report.
The committee was composed as follows:
Maine, John NJ. Wood; New Hamp-
shire, Jas. A. Gilmore; Massachusetts,, Ed
R. Tinker; Rhode Island, C. F. Fletcher !;
Connecticut, q. S. Bushnell; New Jersey,
G. II. Harker; New York, s. B. Ruggles ;
Pennsylvania, G. W.<Cass; Ohio, Amasa
Stone; Indiana, Samuel Hanna; Illinois,
W. B. Ogden Michigan, C. T. Gorham !;
Wisconsin, j. Catin Minnesota, David
Blakely Iowa, W. P. Coolbaugh; Mis-
souri,, j. Corby; Kansas, j. c. Stone ;
Nebraska, Alvin Saunders; California, D.
o. Mills; Colorado, John Evans. At
large, S. ]. Tilden.
The report is as follows:
The Commissioners of the " Union Pa
ci6c Railroad" incorporated by act of
Congress, approved July l, 1862. assem-
bled at Chicago, in conformity with said
act, on the I'd Of September, 1862, deem it
proper and necessary to declare the motives
which have induced them to accept the trust
committed to them by the act, and the pub
lie consideration by which in their judgment
those who direct the affairs of the company
should be exclusively guided.
They do, therefore, Resolre, ss..ai
First.-That the speedy completion thro'
the territory Of the United States from the
Atlantic to the Pacific of a railway commu
nication affording adequate means of transit
for persons and property, and especially for
the mails and military forces of the govern
ment, has become matter Of urgent public
necessity, not only in facilitating and aug
mcnting the commerce, and developing the
agricultural, mineral and fiscal resources Of
our continental Union, but in providing
for the public defence and perpetuating the
public unity of the Atlantic and Pacific
portions of the Republic.
Second.-That the Eastern divisions of
the great continental chain, extending from
the Atlantic ocean to the Missouri river,
having been already completed BY the capi
tai and enterprise Of the companies incor-
porated by the several States, it was
eminently proper for the United States to
incorporate national company for complet
ing the residue reaching feom the Missouri
river to the Pacific, with such aid from the
National Treasury and resources as seemed
necessary, and that the country may rely
on the same wise and paternal policy to
expedite the efforts of the company to com
plete the work with all practicable dispatch
Third That it was peculiarly the duty
of the nation, which had assumed and ex-
ercised the right greatly to extend its
original limits by annexing the broad con-
tinental area between tho Mississippi and
the Pacific, and that too for the avowed
purpose of protecting the commerce and
territory Of the Union from foreign inter
ference, to exert gil powers to secure tn,
completion of a chain of communication ST.
vitality important to both.
Fourth.-That the denationalizing and |
the reasonable efforts now in progress t.
separate the slaveholding portion of the |
Union from the residue, could it be success
full, would inevitably be followed by at
tempts still more Aagitious, not only t.
letach the States of the Pacific, but even
to separate the States on the Lakes and |
Upper Mississippi and the Missouri from
hose on the Atlantic, and possibly from
each other that this audacious and abom;
,able attempt to demolish the fabric of our
National Government is secretly eDcourag
ID, if not openly approved, BY at least
portion Of the European world and that
he American people are now impelled BY
every motive of interest, duty, pride and
honor, aud every instinct of respect and
to avert from themselves
md their posterity calamity so enormous
Fifth.--That the peculiar character of
be pending rebellion, involving, if success
ul, the utter destruction organism and the
consequent reduction of our hitherto DOW
rful republic to the fragmentary and feeble
Of Central Europe, and entailing
n our continent for centuries to come
internal strife, if not interminable
var, imperatively requires not only the
Utmost exertion Of the military and naval
'ower Of the Government, bui the immedi
te adoption Of every measure of civil
for Strengthening the bonds
{ our existing Union, and that nothing
'ill contribute more permanently and effect
ally to that object than the binding
'ithout delay BY an adequate chain Of 1
our Pacific coast and the
ich metalliferous regions of the interior to !
he large and powerful group of food-pro- ,
ucing States around the lakes and the ,
'aratime States, on the Atlantic seaboard,
nd that such channel of interoceanic :
throu6e this central portion ;