Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1845-03-06
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| The Albany Argus has letter from Mr.. Henry R
Schoolcraf "a gentleman familiar with the regions o.
the north-weS) which makes it very apparent that,
Texas should be annexed, and the contemplated mum
Of States created out of it. there win only be found
IL counterballance for an equal number Of State:
which must necessarily grow up in the rich territories
beyond the State of Missouri, and reaching round BY
the head waters of the Mississippi TO the great lakes
We make an extract from the letter:
"ALsANY, February 10, 1915.
+" E. CRoswELL. Esq.
"SIR: While the extension of the Union on the
southwest is under discussion, it may not be nappro
pirate to offer one two suggestions, arising from
personal observation the territorial area North and
West. With good map before US, (say Nicholet's
hydro. pub. by U. S. Senate.) the itself may
be readily comprehended with its relative attitudes,
and the distribution Of lakes and rivers.
by dropping line on this map due south from
the head of ship and steamboat navigation Fond du
Lac Of Lake Superior the point to which this
igation VIII reach at the moment the ST. Ma-ys canal
is completed, it viii be found the Missouri
the city of Jefferson, the capital of the State 1t is
well known that the western praIries and forest lands,
in their utmost fertility reach TIE banks of the left
fork of the ST. Louis river of the Fond du lac of Lake
Superior If a line be projected due west from this
point TO the Missouri, such line will cross the Mis-
sssppi in latitude 40 degrees 30 minutes, and strike
the former its great bend below the Yellowstone,
crossing, in this distance, region of mixed forests
and praires of highly fertile and sylvan character
wateredby numerous streams, flowing north and sonth
Few portions of America afford more inviting re-
gon for the expansion Of future population and 1t
is eminently suited to free labor. Indian corn,
and all the cereal gramna, be pro6taby cultiva-
ted Ii abOunds IN pure waters, affording abundant
water power and has pure and heathfn atmosphere.
No part of the West is better fitted for the consruc
ton of railroads and canals And when the upper
Missouri and Missippi valleys filled with popula-
ton, the products of their industry and the supplies of
their commerce could, in manner, find so ready a
way to market though the channel Of Superior and
the great lakes.
1.-Two States, it may be estimated, will be organi-
zed the right bank of the Missouri, above the in
lux of the Kanzas, aud between that point and the
10th parallel oflatitude and the Mississippi and
lake Superior north of the State of Iowa and the flu
ture State of Wisconsin These five States WILL to a
great extent, find their outlet to a market through
Superior, down the Mississippi from st. Anthony
falls. 1t is by views of this kind, it is conceived,
that the value of that large and little known part of
the public domain is to be realized and true duties
to posterity and the republic fulfilled At least, the
propriety may be indicated of dividing it, for the pur
poses of future government, at elrly PERIOD and
before local and sectional interests have been formed
and thus added to the already existing question of
boundary before Congress"