Weekly miners' express. (DuBuque, Iowa) 184?-1849, 1847-10-13

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SPEECH OF GEN. JAMES WILSON
Our citizens were favorcdwi,h speo,c
from 1Long jim" as the b'hoys cal. hin
from New Hampshire on Saturday las
upon the great advantages to be derive
from railroads. i was ii every sens
q the word, g railroad speech-plain, CO
sent, and convincing --replete with goo,
argument, deduced from personal obser
walton and practical study--and the wa,
ne carried the audience from place t,
place--firss 70 New Hampshire. then L
Massachusetts, New York; back through
Ohio, Michigan, and Illinois, to Mi!wau.
kee, through to this place; making shor,
halt here to take in water, and then on
70 the Missouri river; and from that to
the valley Of the Columbia, induces us to
Pet haln down as a regular locomotive
Fo out long story short, it was GOOD
old stump speech--just such as man
would be apt to make coming from New
Hampshire, where he can ride stump
every ten steps, if he desires; and YOU
need but hear his old scape pipe begin 10
let OIL steam, to be satisfied that he would
never pass one with cold shoulder.
The building Of railroads is subject
which IS very justly claiming at this time
large share cfpublic attention. Altho'
as means Of communication it has been
used II some States for many years, yet
u y only within the last few years, that
public opinion has become fairly awake
70 the Importance Of the subject. The
opening ola railroad from Albany to Bul:
falo, N. y, which was completed about
i've years since, was regarded at the time
{ i was being constructed, as mos. haz-
ardous undertaking, from the fact of its
being on line with the Erie Canal-but
what has the result shown? That the
railroad is bad stock, or that it has d.
minished the value of stock on the canal
No; but that the vast emigration to the
west, and exporting of produce from the
west, have afforded more business than
both railroad End canal could perform:
30 That large portion Of western produce
has been compelled to find an eastern
market through Canada, by way of the
Wellend Canal and Oswego And in
place Of the railroad stock being below
par, it is twenty-five per cent above par.
Precisely SO with every railroad of any
Importance in the country;--in place of
being improbable stock, it proves 10 be
the best IN the country; aud instead of be-
ing damage to the country. through
which It passes, it proves a decided bene-
fl, by facilitating the settlement of the
country, the expectation of the surplus
produce, reducing feeights, increasing the
value Of property, and inlusing new life
and animation into the business of the
country. The wonderful success which
has crowned the efforts of eastern capt.
nlists in this branch Of business, has been
noted BY the people ofthe west, and they
are now becoming fairly aroused to the
subject. Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, ILL i
nois, and Missouri, have at length fairly s
opened their eyes TO the Importance Of !!
the subject. Public meetings are being
held, celebrations convened, charters
obtained, surveys made, and roads COM
in every one of the foregoing
States. Why should We remain silent,
when alleast are doing so much? plumbe's
project for q railroad to the Pacific, which
Is exciting good deal of attention, and
railing forth much praise in the east: pro-
poses, as q starting point, Milwaukee,
Should this projcc: meet with any favor
10 Congress, either at present, or some
more remote period, and Milwaukee ba ,
made the starting point, Dubuque must be
lie point at which it will cross the Mis-
;issippi, from the fact thaton direc, line ,
rom Milwaukee here, less grading {
you'd Be required than any other wes-
ern direction that could be taken.- !
this road is made or not, one
hing is we'll settled, that we must find an |
'astern market for our surplus produce, {
- we never shall be able to compete {
nth the farmers east Of the Mississippi.
'orwe not only encounter the risks Of
dangerous communication, and a Auc.ua-
ing market, but every article that the
arnef gets Of the merchant, he gets a.
treat disadvantage.