The national Republican., 1868-11-25

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To rae RkrUBLIcAsf Our Pacific railroads
are destined to revolutionizs the commerce Of
the world. I refsf especially to Europe's
commerce Of more than 4 thousand years
growth with the iusxhaustibie East. Airesdy
has our occupation and development Of the
Pacific coast greatly affected the carrying
trade between Europe and Asia and the South
Pacific coasts and islands. Tho Panama rail-
road, natural result Of the Amsric anirsiion
Of the North Pacific coasts, Is the channel
over which hundreds Of millions Of the com
msros Of South America, China, Japan, and
the Polynesian islands has already been d.
vertsd from The ruts In which, since the days
Of Augustus oWAr, n wspdsd its way East.
Steam on the ocean and steam on land has
proved more powerful In the work Of chang
Ing the habits ID customs Of the peoples
Of the world In this matter than the arms Of
the millions on millions who, since the birth
Of Christ, have periodically slaughtsred each
other along and adjacent to the routes Of
Burope's commerce with the East, as they
were almost sxsiusireiy used up to our occu
patton Of California.
Much Of the slaughter referred to above wss
to the end Of directing and controlling that
commerce. Whore deserts now exist along
those ancisnt routes were formerly myriads Of
population, and the arts, sciences, learning,
and wealth as they rarsly flourish at this dsy
anywhere on the face OF tho globe. The am
bition of rulers, the gresd Of commercial spso-
aiation, and the fausticism and bigotry Of the
multitude have desolAted the ancient routes
so Is to make them perhaps less available ss
trial improvement then they were whom Con-
stantine founded the Byzantine Empire, They,
therefore, give way before the progress Of free
principles (of mind and things materiaD in Q
land the existence Of which was for some thou
sand years after tho period Of their most con-
spicuous use utterly unknown to the civiliIa-
tion Of the world.
Our Pacific railroads are destined to be the
highway for the transportation Of the most
precious articles carried to aud brought from
all the eastern ports. Mos. Of the European
travel incidental to the western European
!, commerce Of tho east must inevitably take tn,
same route, II but from tho fact that 1t will b,
, better accommodated through tho better &c
commodations of our. American methods ant
modes. No other nation possesses steamboati
that compare fsyorsbly with ours In any one
respect. Indeed, nowhere out Of tho United
States is river steamboat accommodat to bs
found that compares with ours.
The travel BY rail elsewhere, on long jour
noys, is hampsrsd with oustOm-hou,s and po.
spec.ivs Governments through whose terrific
ries long railway competitions pass These
restrictions arc becoming more odious a. lib
srslism In governmental Affairs progresses.
Restrictions which, two hundred years ago.
were regarded as absolutely necessary for the
public safety, are now held, more especially
by those Of all countries engaged In commerce,
rs insupportable relics Of the ideas prevailing
in barbarous ages. Oar entire exemption from
them will surely multiply European and
Asiatie travel across this continent, BY rail,
as though by magic. European and Asiatic
immigration will naturally follow on Its trail.
The other continents will thus pour their en-.
tsrpriss, industrial skill and capital into our
laps rs the natural result Of the superior ad-
vantsges for them growing out Of the liberal.
ism Of our Government and tho ertiro freedom
and safety Of labor and capital in our midst.
Our immense undeveloped national resources
will be made known TO the rest Of the world
through this approaching enormous foreign
travel, rs they can be BY no other oonesivabis
means. As wonderfully as our country has
progressed since, and as the result Of our late
civil war, that progress will prove but as
drsp in the bucket when compared with thai
8 which is to grow out Of the change in tn
, route Of Eastern travel and trade to b,
, wrought by our Pacia, railroads.
Already Is public attention nIel upon th'
( absolute necessity for so changing the Gov
, srnmsnt Indian system as that the ssvag
Z may not prove q stumoling block to the sue
= cess Of the great railroads. In very short
time the Indian will bs swept from along ths
0 route Of the iron horse. Humanity calls for
0 adequate provision for his immediate future
( amid new associations. and for. such cosrciv,
measures for his improvement as have never
yet been es'ayed, because their necessity was
never before SO pressing. He must now be
forced into the school.house, the cornfeld
and the workshops or he must bs ertermin
atsd with ten.fold greater rapidity than ever
before. His vested rights may no Longer
bea bar to our national expansion and the
utilization Of a thousand hitherto almost uu
, used elements Of national prosperity. The,
, must Be consigned to the fate Of the chivairy'
idea Of State rights-the right Of non progress
ing communitiss-wsak in nearly everything
that goes to iRoroase fhe general intelligent
wealth, freedom. and progress, to destroy th
unity and prosperity Of the State only Il
, secure immunity for tho principle Of retro
erosion.
Your neighbor, the Mtsligsaeer, Is rsally
unfortunate In Its efforts 10 throw little sal
on General Grants eoattail. las intimation
this morning, that he had written Genera
slocuu, congratulating him on his election Il
Congress, and making advances to the mod
crate" Democrats, turns out TO have beei
manufactured out Of whole cloth" Thea
, that General Grant to-day stated, througl
) General Dent, that he has written nothipl
, whatever to General sloeum.
, Q. EATON CREcr. ESQ, for several year
past the head Of the Appointment Bureau o
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