The Arkansas banner., 1851-01-14
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. biil which hare ialrodeeed tate the House af Representative. aaA rssssrsd to the committee Sa Psbise I.anss The eammi,tes have already seen they will report spoa the biR Evoessly, aud hsvs s,rOag hop. thai it Will becens law this session IT not n ~iH bs isf fos my sacrsssor, who 1 shall hops. may he fertanase ssea9h so pass it.
 Ths bili will givs to the State of Arksasss so a4 ia shs ob~c's expressed n it. asoatI so DO acres sf Issi The read rsaaiag from St Louis so Ful- tos. ca Red River. will give ss direct and rapid lesmmasieasiou with aIs the Ner,hcrn sad NsFsh- western states. ostisg to them. wet esr-el- yes great sAssnfases. ia tins to come. ia con. sn-rcisl peiat sf siew. whiea will be maltpiisd ad facilitated to cur State by the maay aavigaSis streams which the route will 'o- Rit Blaek, White. Arksasss. Saline, 0ssehita and Red Rivers; whist. al ths same time. 1t oE,rs |, rexNs arm which she eAa aud an 4s<ared waI extsad Soath to sl,e Gal7h aad West to ths Ria Graaie an which she will b. well abe de- she is free from debt. and owns the whole anoaat Of hsr vast pa5- lie domain. These mataal advantages will secure Tor The measure a s,soag vote from tas North aud East particularly ths agricuiarai portIon of the North west aad the esnmsrriaf aud maaufactur- ing eitas of tas Atlantic Little Rock wRI bs brosght ~iihia foar days travel of New York ia less thsa D years from nsw; and, within ? days { trave. of tas KIs Graaic and Galveston.
 I can oaiy. in this hss,y note. hint at tas most palpabIe rrsalts. By another portioa of the b1I a branch ef this road will extend to the Msstssi Jp thss coua~ctiag as with sister SOathern States. virgini. North CAroliaa, South caroiiaa. Georgia ! and A'absrns, whose Railroads la progress of constructions. aY- reaching eat with Tennessee aud ] Mississippi to Memphis aud Nick .barg Oar road will uaite x ith tAess by .ermiaas Oa the Nissts ! si7pg river either q, Hslena or Memphis. and th- selection of the pois, propose to leave open ia my hI in orde that the ys of ths roats and other As yet eoatingens adEaatagss may eete rmine the selection.
 ! This road will ihsu obtain. as hope and doubt not the support of southern States. since t will open to them aud ourselves aod Texas sthe mes, wit; that of Sou,herR States.
 1 The bare conmereemsat of thsss schemes will ! give impetus to the settlement and life to every | branch of the basiaess Of State-whst the ai- I tiu,aie completion of them viii render of the most happily situated and most powerful 0f the ] States of this Uaion- only. ia the limits of this short letter. sketch eatiss. and leave the matter for refectiou with our people It viii fest with ourselves after the passage of the bill promptly to prosecute, saPiasiy to neglect its Obiects- 1 Nevertheless, for our embarrassed eoaditsop, we 1 havs many methods remaining by which we eau attain the desiribls snds-n0t ia a year, but as- saredIy, maci be done in tea, and all in twenty i years. and our then wild and vacant public laads twill be covered wiia smiling fields and the coua less hao;ations of dense and prosperous population
 Judge SEBASTIAN will urge this ball ia ths Seaa,e and, in fact will in day or two, perhaps to-day present ths bll itself and put it It's way in the Senate, that when ii shlll have passed either branch of Congress, the other having had it under consideration, will re4aifs 10 desay further in- v-s'igatioa.
 The South ernquesfon still exei es every one. and Is the eoastan, theme in all private circles. The 1 ssf-styi=d Union party in arrayiag themselves $ szainst the Southern rights party after abagdOaiug all that was worth struzgi,. 1rs doiag more 10 sadauger ths uaion. if honest in their movements. than ever w4s toae by iaeir eppositss They are placing the Uni3s at stake. upoa either offs acts al of which equally insignificant, the fAiluss to eufSrcs the Fugitive Slave la~ being one of them aai as one issue for disu0ion, slesdy determined, since ii ss not, and etn not D, exec catet. They stake the Union, and by solemn dsciarA'ioa srs to assai ani destroy 1t; aat fss sisaiieas of tle Goa susu,Gon, but for ths mere enactment of ordiaary laws by Congress failure to execute laws Of Con- gress
 They entitled to the gratituis of the South for hs stirring advocacy If they to have dis union upon the Fugitive Slave law. they mus, have IL wi.aoG, my sympathy. l. ts q law we have sa- joyed oaly month or two. and never md before They assisted he North w.Ih their votes ;o rob of all rights ia the vast empire of our aeqIis- l tians. and uutied with the North to deceive cur people by ext9iing 's Us as ample compensation thls futile Fugitive Slav. law of Poi4ge with
 tax of ten millions. for rig gltfal inheritance. will not anit- with them to make ci-uaioa inc rghtfil remedy for every petty Coagres-ioaai en- aetmeut tina; injares Us. But w.L say that they have passed nanght tle most palpahss lse.lca ble aai decisive aggression, th,, ,aroagh uasru ious ejaculation the side, aud iotic pusi- Iasiasty the other. was ever 0agil Oat by ens party Of people upoa another ia a contest between eqess.
 I am hoping daily to soual and s,roag reso- lutioDs up from ths Legislature of rkansss. am very sraty aud respectfully. yoar oSt ssvt
 R. W JOHNSON. | \ BILL
 Granting 10 the S'Ats Of Arkansas and Missouri.
 the right of way Tor. aHi portion oF the Puslie
 Lands to aid in the construction of Rail I-roaa
 from st Louis ia Missouri. sia Inc city of Lists
 Rock. 10 some point oa Red River near 10 the
 towa sf Fstou tn Arkansas. and for brsaeh
 of sail road in Arkansas to the Misssappi river
 Ssc 1. Be H enacted by fAe Seaaif aai Rssse ol