The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1875-09-10
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ayaIiag themselves Of their power, ,ua'ue ,s
Iocst,one .nf the Pacific read " hieh Souto
NEVER have been made.i the. southern ola.es
nod at fine time been represented 10 Son'
uress The secession robbed st. LOUIS OF, nef.
na,nral advantages Ia regard 10 the iocaL'ob
of the Pacific road, and inflicted an lnJury
nnon ST. Louis that can never be fGlly over
come, and an injury upon the southern anu
central States that cin only be remeoled oS
the construction Of the Texas Pacific roao,
with an arm from st. Louis to 1t BY the At
lantieand Pacific. Will not magnanlnlous
North concede this justice to us? VIII they
hold on to an advantage obtained under suc0
circumstances when TO do so inures to tnelf
Injury in perpetuating ,exorbitant rates, ana
puts them 10 the position of not being VIII
ing to copceGe to other sections OF the coun'
Observation-Disclosures with their oWnT"
Such, an appeal cannot fail, backed by the
central aud southern States. The position
OF the great city of the Mississippi valley is
the position of right and of clearly wise com
mercial policy. She stands for national
rights, ard opposes grand monopoly that
oyersbadoHs the trans.continental and the,
Pacific commerce. It Is monopoly which
tue nation cannot afford to submit 10. IL
would be a stigma upon the national cnar'
acter, as we'll as restriction upon nationa'
energy and enterprise, that would be ma
tional disgrace. >&t
MFR. STURGEON in brief sentence SHOWS
the wide contras. between what was uone
for the present railway, and what Is asked
for the Southern Pacific:
..Connress. in aiding the Omaha Pacific
and Central Pacific roads, granted the pones
at tho Government to them, and then looks
SECOND lien for BOTH PRINCIPAL AND INTEREST
rhe Texas Pacific company asks the no,
yernment simply to guarantee the anteresl
mot the principally and offers FIRST ileh
mot second liep) upon the lands anu all the
oropcrty Of the company 10 protect tne 10
verpmenL in its guarantee. Could anything
be more fair?" '.. ....
And vet the pet of the war, that got such
nvors. stands in the way, endeavoring to
defeat the southern line, which has now be-
come necessary to a fair distribution of the
mower and favor OF the Government and the
| protection of the nation from the greatest
monopoly that ever existed on this continent
We look upon the present railway as in
ureat part defeat of the glowing expecta'
non of Colonel BENTON (the "great Mis-.
sourisu''. lis monopoly and its iGefficiency
ut long seasons, from climatic difficulties,
render it unfit to give that animation and
volume to the grand commerce with India
which Colonel BENTON prophesied as in the
near future. Although not Immediately
pertinent to this article, we cannot resist the
desire to print paragraph or two from his
grea. speech in 40. Colonel BENTON was
speaking of the effec. Of central railway
TO the Pacific. Said he:
"Tbe track of European commerce will
quit the ocean route on the establishment OF
the American road just as suddenly as the
commerce Of the desert and the camel quit
the laud.routes upon the discovery OF the
Cape of Good Hope. All the commerce Of
Europe with Asia will 60 through our
country, the carriage Of it enrIchlng our clti'
zens. while transit-duty will put money IN
our treasury, and the necessity tor It's use
will put all Europe under bonds to our
America for its peaceful behavior. Nation'
ali,y, be repeated, and with great empf ash
was his polar star in his labors upon that
road: and if all national considerations
brought it by St. Louis and through the
heart of Missouri, it did not belong to any
part of the Union to repine at the result, or
to opoose the road on that account.
"We live in extraordinary times, and are
called upon to elevate ourselves to the gran.
deur Of The occasion. Three and half GEN.
turtles ago the great Columbus-tbe man who
was afterwards carried home in chains from
the New World which he had discovered
this great Columbus, In the year 1882 de.
parted from Europe to arrive in the East by
going to the West. 1t was sublime con-
ception. He was in the line of success,
when the Intervention of two continents not
dreamed of before arrested his progress.
Now, in the nineteenth century, mechanical
genius enables his great design to be full
filled. = = We hold the inter-
yening land. We hold the obstacle which
stopped Columbus. We are in the line be.
tween Europe and Asia. We have it in our
power to remove that obstacle-to convert
it into a iacility-and to carry him on to
the land of promise and OF hopes with
rapidity, precision, and safety unknown
10 all ocean navigation. A king and queen
started him upon his great enterprise. 1t
lies in the bands Of republic to complete 1t.
1t is in oar hsnds-we, the hands of the peo-
pie of the United States, Of this half of the
nineteenth century. Let US raise ourselves
up. Let US rise to the grandeur of the coca.
sion. Let us complete the grand design OF
Columbus by putting Europe and Asia into
communications and that to our advantage
through the heart of our own country. Let
us give to his ships, converted into cars, q
continued course, unknown to all former
times. Let us make the iron road, and
make it from sea to sea. Let us now,
in this Convention, rise above everything
sectional, personal, local. Let US beseech
the National Legislature to build the great
road upon the great national line which
suits Europe and Asia-the line which will
| find on our continent the bay Of San Fran.
cisco at one end. st. Louis in the middle, the
national metropolis and great commercial
emporiums at tue other, aud which shall be
adorned with its browning honor, the colos-
sal statue Of the great Columbus, whose de-
sign it accomplisbes, hewn from. the granite
mass of peak OF the Rocky Mountains,
overlooking the road-the mountain itself
The pedestal, and the statue a part OF the
mountain, pointing with outstretched arm
to the western horizon, and saying to the fly.
ing passenger, There is the East there Is
Iudia!"
Yes, "here is India!" But you can
never see it clearly until you look towards it
through the Southern Pacific railway.
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