CALIFORNIA AND THE NATIONS.

Southland Times, Issue 963, 5 June 1868, Page 3

CALIFORNIA AND THE NATIONS.

Under this heading Mr B. J. Dorsey, in his San Francisco Market Review, grows ' religiously poetic over California's present and future in this wise : — California presiders at the banquet of nations. They come to the feast of good things, of corn, and oil, and wine, and are filled ; and besides the cover of each guest is placed of her gold wherewith to pay the expense. Bread, and wine and gold — by which we mean all the precious metals — are her offsprings to the world. To the frozen-up millions of the East and the North, she says : Come and sit in I the splendor of our sunshine. To the i enervated people of the tropics, she holds ! out the invitation to partake of her cool i and equable temperature. Neither the ice king, nor the monarch of torrid heats presumes to invade her hospitable domain. To the industrious poor she extends her benevolent entreaty, inviting them to settle upon her broad, green and fertile lands ; to explore and occupy her rich mines ; to develop her illimitable resources ; to enter upon the enjoyment of her vast natural wealth. To the merchant and his helpmate, the mariner, she says : Behold, and judge whether or not I occupy the central position for commerce. Have not my sisters of the East tacitly but emphatically acknowledged my greatness by building the most wonderous and extensive railroad in all the world, by which to connect themselves with me ? Am I not the unrivaled mistress of that vast Oriental commerce for which all the maritime nations have so long and so desperately struggled ? Is not the great whaling business of the Pacific my inherent right ? Am I not geographically sovereign over the largest ocean on the surface of this globe ? la not my climate the most genial, and my soil the most generous ? Are not my political institutions free and liberal ? Do 1 not provide munificently for the cause of popular j education ? Does not the greatest amount of tolerance exist within my borders ? Seeing that all these things, and many more, are true, why do ye tarry, O, Nations ! and why do you delay, 0, Peoples ! to enter into this fruitful vineyard and enjoy the produce thereof? And the nations answered, and said : Wait a little, 0, California ! until the railroad shall have been finished, and then will we come unto you in masses, even as the quails and manna came unto Israel in the desert. And we will cultivate your fields, and make your waste places to blossom. We will explore your mines and bring your gold and silver and other precious metals to the surface. We will enter your forests, build your ships, and visit the uttermost parts of the earth. The sea shall be made white with the number of your sails, and long lines of smoke shall mark the tracks of your steamer?. Your broad domains shall be netted with railroads ; your dry fields made moist with canals. In your capacious harbor, O, San Francisco ! will be gathered the fleets of all nations. Thither shall they go for bread and for gold ; for wine and for silk; for fruits and for health. There shall reside the merchant princes of the earth, and from their abundance shall good be done unto mankind, and not evil. Lift up thy head, O, California ! and be comforted, for even so shall it be done unto the. From the North and from the South, from the East and from the West, we will gather unto thee, and make the strong in the land. Wisdom, and riches, and power shall be with thee, and thou shalt wax mighty. Selah !