The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-11-24

| not be reached under other circumstances; but
that is not the question now; we have TO deal
| with facts; We have to take things as they are
| and make the most OF them.
| Under all the circumstances we conclude
therefore, that 1t is best for Congress, soon as
| 1t shall assemble to legislate for the entire and
| complete reconstruction of the Southern States.
| The President has tried his plan, from the best
| motives, doubtless, andit has failed. The peo-
| pie have not accepted it, Now let Congress
! begin anew at the foundation. Let an act grant
| ing universal amnesty and universal suffrage be
| passed under the war power. Let the Southern
! States be Immediately reconstructed on this
| OASIS. Let the whole machinery OF Government
| spring into action upon It, and then let the mem-
| bers and Senators from every Southern State be
forthwith admitted TO Congress. This would be
practical, early, and complete restoration. Our
political troubles would be at an end. AS far
as the South is concerned, that section would
| have larger number of members in Congress
than ever: 1t would control the negro vote for
years, and IN time to come the white population
would grow so largely over the negro that there
would be no danger from negro SUFFRAGE. The
most levelling radicals of the North would be
dlsarmed III their hostility, and, the cause of
trouble being removed, we should have peace.
This is, we believe, the most logical. safe, and
prompt method Of restoration under the cir
cumstances. We hope Congress will adopt it,
and let us have a thoroughly restored Union
before next March. II will save the South, and
give universal prosperity to the whole country.
The Worlds Highway.
From the Tribune
The phenomena of growth in America now
the most cheering study OF the economist, were
one time rudely marked by the building of new
country roads between what now appear
only as pioneer towns. The frontier of civliza-
tion seemed in those primitive days, ere Fulton
had conquered the waters with their own
element, just as we may have yet to suo odue the
navigable air, a very remote hating-place to
numbering teams and Conestoga wagons That
early boundary defines very ordinary business
journey in these brisk tines and our in telectual
travel over the same route would be incon-
ceivably brief to the people who got late news
OF tulton's invention, though 1t is now such a
matter OF everyday vitality to the many-mlnded
multitude VINO receive news by lightning from
London without wink of surprise.
The muscle of man and beast once counted for
much; but mans mind, with steam and cleo
tricity, have wrought wonders. The tracks of
national growth were once marked out by the
hoot; later by the railroad, steamboat, and the
telegraph; recently, by q vast addition of all
these, the latter invention, acting as no other
can, as the mercurial, inspiring spirit, of all
new marVels OF enterprise. Thanks TO the tele-
graph, we are building a swift passage between
two ,seaboards, thousands of miles distant,
which otherwise might remain comparative
strangers Tor generations. The continental
undertaking OF great railroad TO the Pacific,
urged and lnspirted not more by Watts steam
than Morse's electricity, will make the remote
seaport OF San Francisco known to New York as
brother is known to brother.
| Here progress, it seems might reasonably
! pause, II only to recuperate. But the journey
o. civilization is never done: the world never
| rests. New York and San Francisco do not
complete the story of national growth; it has
| threads in spinning by which the sea must
! know new Cities new communities new peo-
| ples-such magnifying OF his discovery as
! christopher Columbus never dreamed. Per-
| haps Norfolk and Chicago Will know each
| other better than San francisco will know New
] Viror1 10 hoI INro,
! cably end irresistlbly In the plot, and the pro-
! blem of complete and perfect union between
! North, East, South and West solved more by
! railroad reconstruction than by any other.
Make worlds highway between San Fran
! cisco and New York, and all these things may
! be added unto us and the world.
We yesterday received our mails from the
| extreme continent OF Australasia for the third
| time, by an American route. Heretofore, Aus
! italian news has reached us by way of India,
Suez, and London, after about siXty.siX days,
or more than two months. By the Panama
route the mails may arrive in New York in
| thrty-eight days, or three weeks sooner than
they could come by way of London. Though
| the telegraph on the Suez route has shortened
/ the news journey to London, and the Atlantic
cable has brought the great continents nearer,
/ We hold that the advantage derived from the
/ American route is signally important in respect
. to news. But the gain, in u business sense, has
! far wider significance. We know that New
! York can communicate with Australia twenty
! days sooner than can London, and that England
! can reach her distant possession at least a week
/ earlier by way OF Panama than by way of Suez.
! il takes about sixty days voyage to London by
! the route OF Suez and India, while it Can be
| little more by the Panama route than fifty days
Here is mammoth prize of Llme-saving which
| the commerce of America ought 10 know low
! TO use bountifully.
The geographical superiority of this continent
| in respect TO commerce with both Australia and
| China has been long appreciated; butit was only
| with the recent opening OF the golden gates of
| the Panama route that an actual glimpse of the
near-broueht EldOradO was given to our COM
merCial eyes. Through this portal we see China
nearer 10 us than it has ever been, and can look
! upon Australia as in commercial prospect more
! an American than n British possession. The new
! line OF steamers which leaves San Francisco
| hencetoIth direct for China opens path way OF
enterprise as interesting, in many respects as a
| discovery. Without further help than the
| knowledge of its new highway to China aud
| Australia, the vision of commercial supremacy
| over the Old World seems to be planned for
! realization. Through Panama or Tehuantepec
! 10 the Pacific, thence to San Francisco, and then
| 10 China and Australia, our way seems plain.
But there is a still shorter road for the trade of
| America and OF the world
| We refer, OF course, to the completion of the
| Pacific Railroad, which, IN its importance to
| trade must be considered twin with the Allan
TIC cable among the great works of the age.
Connect New York ana San Francisco by the
| locomotive, and China and America will be
| brought together by commerce which may
| make San Francisco as great in its day as New
| York England cannot reach her distant pro-
grander and speedier highway than through
| republic whose position, at some day, may
make it the great medium of the worlds mind
and trade, and the arbiter OF continents and
sy-tems.
Viewing the marvellous growth of freedom,
step by step with population and commerce, in
a country that counts few centuries of civil-
zation, the future does not seem too vvidy