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 BRING
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-
ist The northern counties are FILING up with
an cnterprsing and intelligent population from
the same, and more northern attitudes on the At
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-nen, many of them, who would
adorn the Senate or plough the sward; and who
ling 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 salow supineness Of the south
with the rudy enterprise Of the north? South
ern Illinois was nearly twenty years Tcrit ,ry,
and nearly twenty years more a 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 a dog with ear, crying to the Leg
isaturc ''comc and help me- Do you think
that such 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, APP
preaching the city of Du Buquc, and make no
effort to carry it through the interior of cur own
State? Curse the thought The man must be
mad when he talks Of s'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 productions, when our own citizens
possess equal resources to construct roads thro
our own state, whereby may have, at least, a
| reciprocity of tradc' Is there no cost to the
Statc-to our farmers and our merchants, when
we are compelled to pay tax of four and half
dollars to the State of Missouri, on every thou
sand dollars of our surplus productions which
we arc compelled to send to st. Louis, for want
OF having access to any other markcto The
chap who puts forth such an idea as 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 scarecrow which has grown full
| fledgcd in their own prolific maginations They
say that we should direct all our influence in IA
vor of the Improvement of the Rapids, and of
Their" Central cross rail ro0d' Bless the mark !!
Who baptiscd that bantling? Who stood spon-
sor for the get? The CENTRAL CROSS rail-.
noAD!'! 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 the
NORTH and have withheld from us much that is
valuable in other localities, but when you ask us
to abandon our iavorite measures for the pro-
motion Of centres and crosses, you may awake
some fine morning and find yourself creeping
through the little end of horn Miss .iuscn.
catinc must not put on such airs as to expect oul
services to run her central cross rail road from
Davenport to Iowa City parallel with the Mis-
slssippi to her hall door, while she makes such
free use of her slipper whenever we talk of do
ing our own business on our own hook Our
road will be road for the farmers, and will be
adapted to the eligibility of the route, and to the
interests Of the country Its centre may be ex-
tended westward as far as the Mississippi re-
cedcs eastward and it will form a cross for your
central between the waters of Skunk and Iowa
| either in the county of Johnson, Iowa, Powe-
shick, Jasper, or Polk. The course of our route
may be temporarily governed by untoward Cir
cumstanccs, but mind of sufficient capacity to
contemplate system for the State, would cx-
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 Mones, Penu-
cch, &c, to ST. Francis. A few days more and
a voice from Fairfield and Anamosa will make
croakers tremble in their stocking vamps.
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