, 1869-05-10
THE PACIFIC RAILWAY c0MPLETE-T0
DAY.

lN1h'TfAEt tTIEt N0lcO mas yet mnfkcd the |
History If our city-thc completion of the
lin, Pacific Railn,ad. Other railroads to
,ir pcite will lnllow this, and Of one cf
tltm-the Northern l'acifie-Chicago will
.,.>a ic practically the eastern terminus.
N@t there c.,n never he, in the history II
ra1lryad enterprise On this continent, nm
uther occasion su full Of ca,,se Tor triumph
and mutual congratulation as that We cele-
h.atc to-day, The completion Of the rsea-
cnt Pacific Railroad is the climax of tho
rhilwuy enterprises, not only uf the past, but
.f the future. It marks IN epoch such as
,l1c building Of St. Peters Cathedral at
T.cme forms in sacred architecture or
tile painting Of Raphaels Last Judgment
IN sacred art. Like the printing press, the
,4ta1n engine and tho telegraph, 1t opens up i
4 new era
For sixty centuries the white-faced, pale
i1rowed. intellectual races Of the eaEth have
Leea couqueting their waJ westward geo.
! t1ophica1ly, and upvara intellectually, from
their fa1-away cradle in the mountains Of
Gancasus4 through cultured Greece, iInpc-
rial Romc and modern Europe and America,
wL:1e the slower Children Of the Sun, who
s,,rc@d eastward from Tie same birthplace,
were Cling China, 1ntiin and Japan with
ytnltitudiuoua and wonderful peoples At
ia., the Caucasian rice has made the circuit
d the world. FIuu the mountains of Hin
t.ostan, under English supremacy, it looks
down upon the Celestial Flowesv
Lanl. From the heights Of
Tartary its advancing Russian hosts
laugh nj tho Great Wall. The ndvance
guArd Of the grand army Of civilization,
moving westward, have already reached our
pncihc alope by the water route, md have
stretched out their hands in fr.endly cum-
mercc and encouragement to the Orientals.
hut the ma1u army Of advance and oecupa-
tiuu, which should unto tho eastward mud
westward movements Of the race in one
continuous circle Of Caucasian nscondcncr
cncompaAsing TIC globe, have waited until
they could noyo forward by rail, with a
raridity, case nnd comfort in harmony
With tho genius .! ouE taee anu the nnture
Of iss civilization. They hare waaied,
tLereforr. for to-lay-
To-day tho Last rail in this nnrivalled
masterpiece of engineering industry will
la' lui,i in the solitulcs Of ut.l.'s plains but
tho event will he heralded throughout tue
world, wherever civilization has lifted its
standard. III one fraught with the most in,-
ls1.aut consequences, not merely to CHI
csso mud San Francisco, but to America and
I" As,a, to rrpublicanism and to Christianity
indeed to ali mankind 1t is no freak Of
l'usbaric pEudigu{tJ which suggests TO the
ls"llr If our Western EldorAdo that the
Last spike which nails down the last
ruii i'll this great enterprise sh,ll tx
cf solid Californian gold, and he driven
h,n,,s with n hn,nmcr of Earnda
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e ,ho r,oet uncisut cl,anne1s of coumerc.
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.Tnc wealth Of oyn,us:sud OF Int
tho rearls, diamonds, silks Of Hindosta,
the teas Of China aud the coffee, spices an
Uthe, ,uo.s compact md precious goods
The East Intlies into this country, for dists
hut;pn l,,rc. md ultimately through Au1s
ira m thar vay to Euronc. The emit:
,,ncaf,l in th1se G,es of trade will era
rally concentrate a, the point where 1t ca
must prohtah1y and extensively lie carrie
IN, Eut ppart fr,m these more tlnxxlin
III, distant, benefits, the i1nmcdia
effects uf the completion of II
great work, as ueans Of 81
plvinc emigration with prompt access to Il
prra, Rocky Mountain region. wlege, in
few vc11s, will bc built up gigantic Stat.
like Ohio, Indiana md Minois, will be wnl
untold wealth to our CITY and State. @
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