Iowa news. [volume] (Dubuque, Upper Mississippi Lead Mines, Wisconsin Territory) 1837-1841, 1838-04-21
JOHN FOLE Y, Chm.
JOHN PLUME. Jr. Sec'y.
DU BUqUE, WISCONSIN,
ADril 10 1879

Apfll ~, 1898.
| To tho edos tPit burgh saturday Eve. Visitcr''
| GENTLEMEN:---l hope you will pardon a to-
ial stranger for thus unccrcmonIously address,
ing you. having no apology 10 offer for the lib
erly, excepting what may be found IN The cl-
feet Of sympathy produced between individn-
ais warmly advocating The same vital principle
recently noticed. with no little surprise,
the 'lickspl'te' remarks Of Alexander's Week
| ~ Messenger Thila.) touching your paper.
had supposed that 10 say The Ieas. Of it, the
Messenger was possessed Of more selfrespcct
than to have made use Of so ungcntIemanIy
term.
have since had the opportunity Of reading
your very courteous reply 10 the said article,
as well as your editorial in the Visier Of Eth
March, and continued 10 The succeeding No.
under the head Of The Wes,-.-Iis Prospects
Literature" &c. and permit me to say, not
without much pleasure. As TO the Messen-
gers having Thirty Thousand and you but
lone" subscriber as an individual, have
deemed this allegation alone Of the former, a
sufficient reason for Withdrawing my name
from its overgrown list, and now requesting
you to add it to yours. Bot have other and
important grounds for making the exchange
grounds which should like to see every man
who glories in the prosperity and general ad
vancement Of the MIGHTy WEsT---carefully
examine, and then govern lis course accord
ingIy.
/ wish to exert my feeble influence, as well
by preceRt as example, in supporting by all
honorable means in my power. The characters
of the WESTERN Pass, which has hitherto
allowed itself, or rather been allowed by the
people, to be smo,hered by the endless Nun.
t,AS rG Eaof. Lii IL.
ing TO recommend them TO our notice, but their
appareni cheapDcss. We have TOO long al
lowed ourselves to consider chcnpness term
applicable 10 all articles procurabie at small
price.-.withont looking any farther into the
spbect.-.ani this has unfortunately been par
iicnlary the case where productions of the
Press have been the object to be estimated.
But this is all radically wrong, and en,reat
every citizen Of the West, who has any regard
for his own interest, 10 look little deeper in
to the matter. ! confess. am one of the null
titude, which, inhabiting the Valley Of the
Mississippi, has constituted the chief support
Of some Of The hamfnoti sheets Of the cast, to
the exclusion Of our own more modest pablica-
lions. But being now painfully sensible Of
my past error. am anxious to make the a.
mendeAonorabie. not only 10 the Western Press,
Dut 10 my own JoaSment, ny pursuing Il diner
cntcourse.
i. is ,rie that occasionally we find an cas-
tern paper possessed Of sufficient discernmcnt
to appreciate the real character OF the West,
and regard us, at least with portion of the re-
speci aud attention due to it. But the great
majority Of these publications treat us with abb
solule contempt---such as for one. am resolv-
ed no longer 10 tolerate, and which, we all must
cordially depreca.e. Sincerely hoping that
your praiscwortby endcavors 70 establish upon