The national Republican., 1868-12-22
The Pacific RaiIrOad-Industri
Progress I'm the south-ArkansRs,
Mary land and the Proposed Addi-
tional Amendment TO the ConstI-
tuition.
DEC EMBEH q, Isl

DECEMBER 81, l5G5,
ToTHE REPUBLICAN Not long since wrote
you concerning the national and internation-
al importance of the Pacific railroad, illus
trating It ss far as I could In the brief space
1 felt at liberty to devote to It. have now to
add another very important fact bearing on
the same important subject, viz; that It will
shorten the time of the travel between Lon.
don and China from ifty-two days, by the Eu.
ropean route, to thirty.hve by ours. This
goes TO show that my anticipations Of the
wonderful industrial results (smong us) oil
the construction OF this new highway for
the worlds travel and commerce to and with
the East, are surely to be realized. Our
(American) Pacific steamship line are already
running, In connection with their Japan and
China line, a branch line to the Australias
and the Feiee Islands, and are said to con-
template extending 1t to the Sandwich and
other South Pacific islands, more or less Of
which, when thus connected with our western
coasts by steam, will sooner or later afford a
new commerce as valuable, quite, as that Of
the West Indies.
For illustration OF the beneficial effects of
the war on the future OF the South, may
mention the fact that some OF the largest
operators 10 grain In the West-Mr. Highly, of
the st. Louis Elevator Company; Mr.. Tucker,
of the Illinois Central Railway Company, and
others-are preparing to send immense quan.
titles OF wheat from Chicago, from the farthcst
parts Of Iowa, and other remote Western
points, to Liverpool direct, via New Orleans.
They will probably ship more wheat from
that city next year direct for Europe than
was SO shipped from there In any ten years
before the war. To one who comprehends the
benefit to labor at New Orleans and on the Mis-.
sissippi and its tributaries, the immense slim
ulus the enterprise will give to the labor mar
ket, and the heavy disbursements In that
quarter that must attend Its operation, II will
be evident at glance how much 1t will sub
stAntially accomplish for all interests at New
Orleans and invested In Mississippi steam
boating. Such elements Of "reconstructIon'
are not to be overcome or opposed success s.
fully, either by the Ku'Klux or those who slgh
after the late associations and influences o
slavery.
am inclined to believe that shortly after
the holidays Congress will take Arkansas Ia
handi 1t being evident that human life ant
rights of citizenship are no safer there at THU
time than when, during the reign of the Con
federacy, Gen. Hindman managed Its affairs un,
der the code OF Zimour, the Tartar. The ques.
tion In Issue there is, simply, shall the negro
be permitted to exercise the rights accorded to
him under the reconstruction laws OF Congress
and the new constitution OF the State. The
ku'kluN decree that he shall not, and carry
out their decree by recent murders at the rate
ofperhaps dozen day. We hear OF these
murders Of whitesin accessible quarters OF the
State, but not of one murder of negro In ten
perpetrated by themj nine tenths OF them not
being reported In the newspapers. They take
place In localities, in great part, where there
are no Union newspapers to report them
where nine tenths OF the whites approve that
manner of settling" political" questions, and
where 1t would be almost certain similar
death to any non'sympsthizing white to be-
come known as one who desired to bring the
murderers to justice,
While the administration OF Grant will do
much towards holding Arkansas mlscreants
in temporary check, 1t cannot so change the
Arkansas popular mind aud heart as to make
the change in the Arkansas practice aught but
one wrought by temporary fear OF justice.
1t will require the adoption Of the proposed
amendment Of the Constitution making uni
yetsa suffrage the fundamental law OF the
land to obliteFate the induoement to this state
Of things in Arkansas,
The success Of this amendment 10 also the
only radical cure for the existing condition
OF things In Maryland, whose new state con.
stitutton is not more In consonance with tn