Burlington hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1845-185?, 1851-11-06

tern votes, they did not care what they aided
TO Muddy creek any other 1t was thus
'aa, 'hey achieved their object. Mr. Rhett had
salu 10 a'n, that he would never vote against
Improving tne Mississippl; he woud sooner go
o'' y! IA Senate when the vote came. judge
D. expressed ms regret at the fling at South
saioiilia on he proceeding day he wished the
waters OF South Carolina did mingle with the
! MsStsSlppi That State was like wild and
uilseh'e'ons boy that would put boxes in the
street al night TO break peoples shius Sach a
boy might be mended /; but a bow that vvouId
steal wasn't worth Il picayune. South Caroii-
ma was the birthplace of Marion. ari the
oampters, anu others Of kindred stamu, the
mehiory OIL whose names and deeds would new
CT oie. lhere was ga,lantrv among the men
nom that State; and even when he had TO re-
stst thefa, 'oere was something saiian, IN
uleir course that he could not quarrel with them
"hse he help ped TO vote them down. He was
sorry that he felt obliged TO vote down men
"aose tamil was an orerstrained notion OF indie
FehGehce. She was wrous-Ie was a Union
man ana compromise man. and escheyed alike
| red-hot Northern fanatcsm, and rnn-tnnd
Southern chlvary. There was crank in their
heads about allegiance to their State: but ii was
~ "aH laai,--Was taere man IN Burlington
who did not love Iowa?
He did not defend South Caroline; he had
! fought long and hard against her. Bat it was
I Impossible 10 know her without loving her even
1 while You reproved But returning from this
dlgress!on, he Woald repeat that the great point
was 70 secure a united Western sentiment. The
J western states We're now IN minority, ten
i years hence they would have the majority. The
/ only danger was lest they should grow EAST
/ era, as the proverb was at Washington AL
I ready the Al eghany States were not radical
( enough on western measures. Their union was
/ all that was requisite. A convention like the
\ present meeting to discuss and demand their
rights IN clear and iarcihle language must be
! heard Oa!y let the members 20 home and hold
their Representatives TO a strict account. He
/ hoped most hea:tily-,hourh the sentiment
/ mght not perhaps have been expected from h,m
that hlS successor in CuniS eSS, whose letter
! had been read TO the Convention, might fully
/ succeed In the course to which he had pledged
/ himself.
There was one more fact worthy of notice,
lie continued, In regard 10 our position There
was In some quarters something like a feeling Of
eacy towards the Wes'; for IN many parts they
look upon this great valley as sort of FL Do
radio. lie remembered an amusing incI,len, in
| Congress which might illustrate this. After
speech IN which he had always used the phrase
-''lhe great valley of the Mississippi. he was
accosteI by d member from another quarter
with the question, put with ar expression Of
annoyance which he should never IoIget-.sSir.
do you thluN yon could manage to mention the
valley OF the Mississippi without always calling
II 'the great cdiiCg:" There was no such coun.
Try on the globe as this valley, excepting not
esen China or IindoSton, a valley capable of
sustaining a hundrec. millions Of incubation
more happily than our FIVE millions now live
upon 1t. Nature stamped the lines that should
/ bound nations over the world, and in all other
+ continents those lives are different. Elsewhere
mountain chains rise IL the middle from, which
on either side the waters toW down to the sea-
Here two great cha:os one Oh either side, 5000
miles apart, enc lose the vast valley and from
each countless tributaries pour their waters into
! the great central trunk that divides its whole
/! length. The eastern men saw and knew all
these thiags; they saw that every 10 years we
| doubled our numbers, and that IN 1860 the star
OF empire would hold as way httherwards-
They were jealous OF uUr growth, they had
SAID 10 ham that they were anxious to have peace
secured with Us before we should have all the
power. lie mentioned as good Sign for the
West the defeat al the last session OF an anpro-
prlAtion 10 balld towers on The eastern Shores
iof de.e"ce--aS useless as the Egyptian pyra-
n,ds, bat designed them 10 einptov Surplus la
Dor. The idea WAS absurd, TO attempt The for
uicaton Vi three thousand mi eS OF coast, and
the time WAS past waen au enesny'S foot should
ever be set on American soil.
The next thing was 10 turn this hitherto
yearly drain upon the Treasury in the Mt<>jss-
>lpp,-Sbo3,nD Eeac, raer knew nothing
there about the eXte"t of the Mississippi com
.ne,ce, or even that Of ST. Louis lie hal been
called to aecoantn Congress Tor stat ~ the tom
mage OF ST, Louis ii Thirty ,u!ae Thousand. AMI
gNea 70 understand that such stuff coulint pass
there. Yet perhaps 1t was 10 be expected that
the East should know nothing about us. when
we knaw So .Ittie about each ether. lie had
been scarcely less amazed By what lac SAW
around him. for he came there kua,yiar noth-
my OF the real condition OF Burlington. He
had not even looked Tor the pavements Which
were all he could observe on landing nj mid
night; but when he went out the next ,aerniur
tue evident prosperity. the size and b,aaty OF
the city, watca he aaa expected to i1i little
village, Fe3oubed lis agreeable surprise. In
England, five huadred years woala be Il mod
crate time Tor the production Of such a place
Well when the Etstern men were toll that we
hate an iatelnal commerce on the Mississippi
which exceeds the whole iore,-a coHmsgce Of
New York, Boston aa3 Philadelphia, ihev boot
al The Idea. They knew well that We hAd an
internal trade ot great Importance, bat otits ac-
taal aggregate value they never dI canned. st.
Louis had amazed them; they could not UNDER
stand taIS magical growth of an important
commercial citv. 1900 miles from the Sea--toT-
getting that inland commercial may be as valua-
bic, aud as profitable. aai eau build up cIty
as last as ioreign.
He had no doubt that within fifty years the
clty he was in, now bat Is years old woaid
stand were Philadelphia how did. and that ST.
Louis would equal New York. They could
tot understand this. When there was talk OF
'eSseHng the distractions 70 ocean commerce,
they looked at lis valGe OF hundred aud eighty
or two hundred millioaS' and It SeesDs necessary
enough. They forgot That oar population was
already S,0oo,O1U and twenty years hence would
be 32.oonooo, While our Inland co,nmrce must
continue to increase, till it overwhelmed and
oversaowed all others Our cominerce, which
OF whatever description. was the exciting cause
aui occasion of all industry. mechanical or
agricultural. 1t was natural. since The MiSSiS-
-tppi commerce was peculiar and distinct from
all other. which every where else was ncces-
sarily conducted br sea. AMI Judging of st.
Loais by others cities no: TIE sea board. its
trade was 4 mystery 10 them. They would
come TO understand il. s.. Louis had done more
IN two years to ntogm their minis THAI five
years speech-naking in Congress. The o5stru-
ton would vanish IN time, let but the West keep
united. He did not like to encourage sectional
feeling, but this matter was to some extent Il
sectional Interest. and must be coHtenlcd for on
those grounds He was sure, after eighty years
constant effort to effect it. that the two positions
he had mentioned would in time be settled
The second had already been twice recognized
first. BY the great ordinance of 1877. and again
10 sooth the alarm of North Carolina in 1888,
when she was about to accede TO the Union,
and feared the Spanish influence on the Miss,s-
sippi. That river had then been declared