The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1849-12-05

not, except so far as it may conduce to the gener-
al good, but the proposed rail road will brine
them to the Mississippi in few hours; the pro-
auctions of their farms will flow to market in
millions, and vigorous state of prosperity will
spring up where languor and inactivity now cx-
list. The northern counties are fllinn IN with
an cnterprisng and intelligent population from
! the same, and more northern attitudes on the A.
lantic coast. They are none of your slabsided.
drawing, sunshine gawks, but men Of mental
and physical vigor, from the land of rail roads
and schools-men, many of them, who would
adorn the Senate or plough the sward; and who
fling the silly taunt in the face of him who dare
say the grass would grow in their tracks, Take
the example which exists before us in Illinois.
and compare the sallow supincncss of the south
with the rudy enterprise Of the north? South
ern Illinois was nearly twenty years Tcuitory,
and nearly twenty years more State, before
some of the northern counties were organized,
and now the northern counties are driving rail
road from Chicago to Du Buquc, on their own
immediate resources, while the south is rrowl-
ing like dog with sore car, crying to the Leg
islaturc ''comc and help me- Do you think
that such 4 people, or the brothers and ncighbors
of such people, will stand still with gaping
mouths when they sec two rail roads-onc from
Chicago and the other from Milwaukee, ap-
preaching the city of Du Buquc, and make no
effort to carry it through the interior of our own
State? Curse the thought! The man must be
mad when he talks Of ''cost to the rest of the
State Whence the cost? Is there no State
pride at stakc-no cost to the rest of the State
when the stockholders Of roads through Illinois;
and Wisconsin arc amassing riches on the carry
| ing Of our productions, when our own citizens
possess equal resources to construct roads thro
our own state, whereby we may have, at least, a
reciprocity of trade? Is there no cost to the
Statc-to farmers and our merchants, when
we are compelled to pay tax of four and hall
dollars to the State of Missouri, on every thou
sand dollars of our surplus productions which
we are compelled to send to st. Louis, for want
Of having access to any other market? The
chap who puts forth such an idea an express
sion of opinion from the people Of Iowa. should
have taken lessons in Yankee school, before he
undertakes to calculate cost!
But the ribbald theme of these wiscacrcs is,
that this road will run parallel with the MISSISSIPPI
pi. This is a scarccrow which has grown full
tlcdgcd in their own prolific imaginations! They
say that we should direct all our influence in IA
vor of the Improvement of the Rapids, and OF
their" ccntral cross rail road." Bless the mark
Who baptscd that bantling? Who stood spon-
sor for the get: The CENTRAL CROSS RAIL
EoAD!'! Improve the Rapids say we, and we
bid you God speed, for their improvement will
promote the very object which we desire to at.
tain. They have retarded the growth of tho
north, and have withheld from us much that i,
valuable in other localities, but when YOU ask u:
to abandon our favorite measures for the pro
motion Of centres and crosses, you may awake
some fine morning and find yourself crccpin,
through the little end of horn Miss .uuscn
catinc must not put on such airs to expect on
services to run her central cross rail road from
Davenport to Iowa City parallel with the Mis-
sissippi to her hall door, while she makes sucl
free use of her slipper whenever we talk of do
ing our own business on our own hook. Gu
road will be road for the farmers, and will b,
adapted to the eligibility of the route and to tn,
interests Of the country. Its centre may be cx
tended westward as far as the Mississippi re
ccdcs eastward and it will form a cross for you
central between the waters of Skunk and Iowa
either in the county of Johnson, Iowa, Powc
shick, Jasper, or Polk. The course of our route
may be temporarily governed by untoward Cir
cumstanccs, but mind of sufficient capacity t
contemplate system for the State, would OK
tend this line into the coal region, to be there in
tcrscctcd by route from Davenport to Council!
Bluffs, by way of Moscow, Iowa City, Marcngo
Montczuma, Newton, Fort Des Moincs, Pcnu
cch, &c, to St. Francis. A few days more ane
a voice from Fairfield and Anamosa will make
croakcrs tremble in their stocking vamps.
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