The Cleveland leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1865-1865, 1865-09-26
TUESDAY, sEPTEMBER 26, 1865.


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Our English guests.
J. From flying trip scross half CONT.
neat from a hassy glance at the metropO-
lis of our New World, from explorations
into the realms of PetroliA from feasting
at Mesdville, from ovAtions at Cincinnati,
from bAnqueting at St. Louis, from re-
newed festivities at Chicago, At Toledo. at
Detroit from brief scjourn at Niagara
listening to the unceasing thunder of its
famous fall, from hospitsble entertain
ment st Buffalo, the English capitalists,
whose journeyings through the country
has seemed almost triumphal progress,
come to-day to receive the welcome and
examine the resources of Cleveland, now
one Of the termini of the railway which
their capital has constructed. In but little
less than three weekp,with celebrity which
generation sgo would seem but little
short Of the miraculous, they have travelled
from the Atlantic thousand miles inland to
the banks of the Mississippi they have
visited many of the larger cities of the
country, from New York to St Louis and
Chicago, they have examined the internal
commerce of the country, upon our inland
lakes and our mighty rivers, as well as over
our lines OF railway they have crossed our
prAiries, rich with golden grain which will
freight their trains, they have noted the
spirit the growth, the energy, of the coun-
Try and the West. They are welcome to
our Forest City-heartily, cordially well
come --
I,he party of Englishmen who visit US
20 day -eP-esent tho class -AieA- hore
always stood by the cause of Union in
Europe. While the symPathizers with Sc
cessiOn in Great Blitsin were investing
millions of pounds sterling in Confederate
loans, these true friends of America
we're giving substantial evidence of
their faith in the righteousness of our
cause and the stability of our institutions,
by carrying on to successful completion, in
the midst of our civil war, one of the most
magnificent railway enterprises which the
country has ever witnessed. Had the gov
ernment fallen, it can easily bs seen that
railway interests would have suffered
in the common ruin, and we can but won
der at the sublime faith in our success
which these foreigners testified, in the
midst of opposition and prophecies of ill,
by the most positive of methods. We can
not wonder that they have chosen this pc
Rod, when the success of the Republic and
the commercial triumph of their railway
are both accomplished facts, to visit the
railway which they have built, snd the
country in whose success they have trusted,
in the crisis of Its existence. We can ap.
preciate the pardonsble exultation with
which they will compare the success of
their investment with that which other
Englishmen have made in rebel bonds.
But the visit of these English capitalists
is not made simply for pleasure or
for triumph Il has its business objects.
What they have accomplished is go far
satisfactory to them, that they are deter
mined TO push their American enterprises
still further. It is intended, as the first
STEP to double-track the Atlantic and
Great Western Railway from Salamanca
to Cincinnati This will necessitste, in
order to render it effective, the double
tracking of the New York and Erie, and
Ohio and Mississippi railroads, and it is
understood that these English gentlemen
intend, If necessary to secure this obiec.,
to purchase the entire stock and equip
meuts Of these two roads, thus securing q
broad gauge, double-srsck failwsy from
New York, on the Atlantic to St. Lo uis,
on the Mississippi Magnificent as is this
enterterprise, it is not all, or hall, of what
is contemplated. These gentlemen, per-
ceiving at once the boundless wealth and
capacity for growth which the imperial
West possesses, in tend to build ard double
track branch railway from some point on
the Atlantic and Great Western (ssy
Akron or GAlion) to Chicago, thus afFording
another outlet for that ma gniicent ware
house of our prairies. Nor is this all. It
is the ultimate intention of these gentlemen
to complete their road westward from st
Louis, through Colorado, Salt Lake, Ne.
vsdA, &c, TO San Francisco and the Golden
Gate of the Pacific. The continent is to
be spanned by one unbroken line of rail.
way, and the course of commerce round
the world is to be changed. This
project more magnificent than the wonders
wrought by the lamp of Aladdin, is coolly
contemplated by these practical business
men as an unromantic reality.
We hope that no narrow prejudice will
induce any one to look upon these schemes
with suspicion or GOODNESS because they de-
pend for their realization upon foreign
capital That the commerce of the West
is, as hiss been well said by Sir Morton
Peto, literally starved for want of outlets, is
manifest; that such road as is proposed
would be mcss important accession to our
prosperity as individuals and as q nation
is no less clear. Why shall we question
whence the benefit comes2 The fact that
these men have already invested their cap.
ital in our railways proves them friendly.
Let US not object if they enlarge their
work 10 completer and grsnder one.
Nor let us forget that every railroad iron
laid is another bond of peace between our
country and Great Britain; that every spike
driven binds together the two great
branches of the Anglo-Ssxon race; that
every mile Of track completed Strengthens
an alliance, which ought to be perpetual in
which England and America unite to fur
ther The civilization, the intelligence and
the prosperity of the world.
Grand MASS Meeting at NOrWaIk.
q. grand Union rally of the citizens Of
Hur On county is to be held at Norwalk to-
fE It will be sddessed By General E.F.