The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1850-01-23
Washington Correspondence.
Extract to the Editor, dated


and pride, that Iowa, but yesterday wilderness
for the sons of the forest, is awakening to the
importance of judicious internal improvements,
to connect her interior agricultural resources,
with the trade of the Mississippi; and also, with
the railroads to Milwaukee and Chicago, and the
roads farther south, running into Illinois This
is praiseworthy; but be careful of the manner in
which those improvements are made. Avoid
embarrassment undertake no road, but what
will be of public utility and profit to the State.
Such road is the one you speak of running in
connection from Dubuque to Keokuk. The rich
and alluvial lands this road will pass through,
you can well warrant will pay handsome in
terest on the investment, by the immense trans
port of the productions of the different counties
in the sale of their surplus products; to say moth
ing of the mineral resources that will hereafter
be brought to light by the prosecution of this
valuable improvement
. The above improvement, together with the
improvement ofthe navigation of the Desmoines
river to the Raccoon Fork, should elicit the en-
tire interest of. cur whole population.
Let there be no rival interests springing up to
mar the success of either of these great meas
ures. When they are completed, then, and
then only, will the State realize the benefit of
these judicious and commendable improvements.
What, in the name of common sense, can our
friends to internal Improvements mean by send
ing on to Washington an ';outsider,' to advo-
cate that particular "section of Iowa." What
can your section of the State wish to be done in
the House, that is not most faithfully attended
to by Messrs. LETTER and Thompson; and as to
your members in the Senate, Messrs. Dodge and
Jones, there are not in that Chamber two more
able, industrious and energetic gentlemen in the
furtherancc Of business, or who accomplish more
for their constituents, than they can and Will do,
at the coming session. Already Senator Jones
has made an early move in favor of your con-
templated improvement, before the Senate, and
Lands; and 50 far as he is concerned, Keokuk
and Dubuque will soon be united by a railroad,
and the iron horse moving ahead in full blast be-
tween these two points. Then, why is an "out-
slider" advocate required in Washington? This
is a new move, and there must be something I'M
explained in the action of the Convention. The
delegate, Mr. L. H. L. perhaps, has other pur-
suits in view, and the mission to Washington,
per Sc, may enable him to sssce ourselves as 9TH
ers u.s. "be them Wings, or be them Dem
ocrats."
In all my exrerierc , I have never known an
"outsider" to be of ultimate benefit to any cause
1t always begets distrust in the feasibility of
particular object, and hence, it is, that so many
important plans of improvement, have been neg
lected and delayed, by unimportant improve
ments, pressed upon Congress, through interest
cd persons called "outsiders." Should MIR. L.
II. l.. come to Washington, we wish him a pleas
ant journey to, and happy residence therein
but if the road from your city to Keokuk is the
object of his visit, the improvement will be i'm
peded---not benefited by his interference. SEN
ator Jones is fully alive to this improvement al
ready, and what can be done in aid of the COM
mencement Of the work, will have his support
and he will have the aid Of Senator Dodge, full
ly and freely, on all questions where Iowa is to
be benefited, or the interest Of our enterprising
population are to be promoted. Therefore, ''well
done" and ''wcll doing" had better be let alone,
and no doubt but all interests in connection with
this road will be fully realized by its most san
guinc advocates.
When your railroad shall be finished to Iowa
City, we will then have branch road to Mus
catine, and shall look for YOU, cooperation, as
| know we shall have the influence of those here,
Our beautiful little town will not press her claims
at present, but at the proper time, she will not
be backward in laying before the Legislature
and Congress also, the Importance of our loca-
ton for commercial purposes, and the eligibility
Of our being tied by railroad with the capital
Of our State.
Congress adjourned on Thursday until Mon
lay; and OH Monday they will adjourn until
he following Thursday; SO that you may not
Expect legislation to commence fairly, before
,ext Monday week.
1t is impossible to conjecture who will be the
Clerk, no more than could guess about the
Speaker. Yet, from opinion abroad, Mr.. For
ley of Philadelphia, think most spoken of at
present.
On Thursday, in the House, there was aolig-
frec-soil-spree. 1t was all in the family, viz:
Nessrs. Giddings, Schenck, Vinton. Root, Win
hrop and Holmes offs C. There was extremes
If language used but as it was all in the family
If this delectable party our friends let them have
r o,f in fhe;r oup |
I am decidedly in the impression now, that
favorable turn has taken place in the minds of
many of our northern and eastern fellow citizens,
On the subject Of Slavery. Freesoilism is but
IN assumed name they are in fact disunionists,
coupled with abolition; opposed to white citi-
zens of the South, and in every form and feature
he advocates of universal emancipation of the
negro, notwithstanding they have sworn to sup
port and defend the Constitution, which guaran-
ees the right of such property in the citizens of
he United States. l hope this Union will live
lown such fanaticism; and as we grow older
IS a nation, we may continue in the path, united
% the end of time; which unity, Washington