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Title: The gate of the Pacific
Year: 1863 (1860s)
Authors: Pim, Bedford, 1826-1886
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Publisher: London : L. Reeve & co.
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antic terminus of the new route,would speedily attract a large population to its shores,and I propose to make it a free port, open to the com-merce of the whole world, and untrammelled by anynarrow regulations calculated to restrict its full use-fulness. With the commencement of the town-buildingsa church should be erected, and schools established, then,with the blessing of the Almighty upon the undertaking,there can be no fear for the result. By spreading outthe basis of the project in this manner, and foundingit upon a rock, to what may it not aspire % Every milethe iron road penetrates into the country will be apositive gain to civilization; while those strong moraland religious feelings inherent in every Englishman,and which more than anything else have elevated GreatBritain to her present pitch of greatness, would be fos-tered and encouraged, instead of, as is too often the casein foreign lands, dying out altogether. Thus, by be-ginning in the way I have indicated, there would be
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IMMIGEATION TO NICARAGUA. 341 every hope, from the example of the new-comers, offorming the new community upon the best and purestprinciples and of thoroughly reclaiming the aboriginalIndians, instead of irretrievably demoralizing them. Iam as morally certain as man can be, that the misfor-tunes and misery brought upon all connected with theGreytown Transit resulted entirely from their densemoral blindness and utter want of truth; and I think, withsuch a lesson before us, it would be an act of insanitynot to take every precaution to prevent the proposedsettlement falling into a similar Slough of Despond. To make my railway project succeed beyond themere twenty per cent, which it will return to theshareholders, it is necessary to encourage immigrationto this favoured land by every legitimate means. Therepublic offers land to the colonist on easy and advan-tageous terms ; and besides, when a Company is formedto carry out the transit, it will have many extensive al-lotments to dispose of

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