The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-02-04
TIE TEXAS ROAD TO THE PACIFIC.
Cali for the Projectors Of the Texan
Pacific RnilrOad-Wherc Are Thcy:-
Now La Their Time.

Cali for the Projectors Of the Texan
Pacific RnilrOad-Whcre Are Thcy:-
Now Is Their Time.
To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD
Where are the people or the Texas ana Pacific
Railway Company, and what are they doing
What has become OF Colonel Thomas A. Scott and
his European loan for pushing through and COM
pleting this great and in all respects truly national
public work II Is time to ask these questions and
to have these questions answered
The termination in Texas OF the dismal inter-
regnum of fraud and violence and chicauery under
which several years past the resources OF that
magnificent Commonwealth have been lying PROS
trate and iallOw, ought TO be the commencement
OF an active prosecution OF the enterprise which IL
to link the Gulf OF Mexico, our American Mediter-
ranean, with the Pacific. SO long President
Grant and the radical majority in Congress
chose to keep the nations armed heel
on the neck OF the great Southwest 1t was Idle to
expect that capital would dow In that directions.
1t Is not the natural resources OF country which
make 1t prosperous and attractive, else were the
vast savannas and the superb forest lands Of
Brazil to-day stronger magnet for the savings
Of Europe than the sandy Darrens OF Northern
Prussia or the submerged OATS Of Holland. IL u
the vigOr OF law and the life OF liberty which make
stony ground fertile. 1t is the absence OF that
vIgOr and that life which condemns the richest
acres to lie idle and undeveiOped. No one has
questioned the resources, the literally mex
haustible wealth, Of the noble region which
stretches between Louisiana and the Rio Grande.
due north. When Texas gave herself to US.
ana the instructive common sense OF the Amer
lean people accepted and ratified the contract
she proposed despite the bowls Of fanatics and
demagogues, she brought to our national domain
E.ov
lying under attitudes more genial even than those
which smile over the fair land OF Scottish Mary.
and possessing within Its single borders a.
most all the resources for the support and enrich
ment Of mankind that are to be found scattered
elsewhere through the derent States Of the Union.
1t Is land OF cotton and land OF corn, land OF
cattle and q land OF coal In Northeastern Texas
an area OF territory larger than the whole state Of
South Carolina, O well watered sandstone region IL
filed with noble forests OF white and yellow pine.
and the valuable pitcn pine which makes
North Carolina famous in all the Biographies
for star pitch, turpentine and lumber" grows over
millions of acres In this region and in the con-
terminous region Of western Louisiana. Excellent
iron ore, red hematite, abOunds In the State, and
coal has been found in many diGereDt parts Of it.
needing only capital and system OF communities
ton to bring 1t actively into the development Of
the wealth OF the country. During the civil war
Texas was comparatively from the evils OF that
dreadful conflict When the national forces began
thousands Of planters and small landholders at the
South, growing alarmed for the stability OF their
grated with their household gods to Texas In
this way 1t came to pass that Texas alone,
OF all the Southern States, emerged from the
and more populOus than she had been when she
entered 1t. The pacifcaton Of such State ought
to have been, and with common prudence should
have been, work not OF years, but of months or
weeks. 1t IS disgrace to the nation that nearly
the las, shot WAS nred in anger between I'll" the
soldiers OF the North and the soldiers OF the South
before the people Of Texas came into the lawful
AFFAIRS without which no commonwealth can COM
mand, or ought to command, the confidence Of the
has begun to be done at last. President Grant has
publicly washed his hands Of the carpet-bagging
rascahty of the Southwest. Flanagan must still
and sumner and Thurman and all the
own lofty standard OF intellectual aspiration In his
capacity OF chairman OF the Senate COMMITTEES on
Education. But that will be small matter If only
the people whose business 1t is to do 50 will but
resolutey take mold OF the magnifcent railroad
work which lies before US to be done in Texas.
well begun is not half ended. line Of nearly or
quite 1.500 miles needs to be carried out to the
Pacific before the nation can fairly begin TO avail
itself OF the enormous advantages OF our great Ter
ritOres of the southwest. That line will carry with
IL Wuen COmpleLeu I'LL IuduHcE VI NeAd.lOuS quco-
lions and drop them comfortably into the Pacific
Ocean to be heard or no more. 1t Will make every
cattle owner and land owner from the RIO Gransi0
the Mississippi direct partner In the prosperity
of New York on the one side and OF San Francisco
and San Diego on the other. Instead OF compel.
ing WITH the line, in proper hands, will really aid
Immensely In developing and strengthening the
existing lines to the Pacific TO talk Of injury to
the interests OF tfe Central Pacific Railway from
the completion OF the Texas Pacific Railway il
ike talking OF injury to the New York Central
Railway from the Baltimore and Ohio. Does any
man IN his senses suppose that Buffalo Is mpOver-
ished by the development Of Cincinnatis Even
Chicago and st. LOUIS, which are perpetually
as Pisa and Genoa used to fight each other with
galleys and cOndOtturie are realiyif they had but
the sense to see Italics, AMI not rivals.
The Indian question, that perpetual fOun-
tain Of squabbles and extravagances OF
iurther advanced towards national settlement
In a single day by the fine locomotive which shall
traverse the Continent through Arizona than 1t
could be in decade by the combined forty pars0u
power Of all the Peace commissioners in the Union.
commerce OF Southern California through san
Diego would give to the AmerlcanizatiOn OF North
ern and Pacific Mexico would guarantee us against
any future difficulties in that quarter, while 1t
our power on the Pacific coast generally. Where,
then we repeat, are the men who have under
taken this colossal enterprisey Let the nation
hear from them as to their plans hopes, purposes
resources. Let them come forward now tnat their
hands are clear, ana let US see what can be done,
and how it can best be done. to facilitate and Sc
cure the doing of work absolutely necessary to
the glory as well as the greatness, to the CONSOLE
datiOn as well to the development, OF the Re-
public. ".
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