Hannibal journal and western union. (Hannibal, Mo.) 1851-1852, 1851-11-13

its full consummation. speak thus emphatic
ally, because know that the people of this State
have manifested a determination to push ahead
with unbounded energy in the work, and the
declaration has gone forth fEom the lips Of men
in mighty numbers assembled, that it shall be
accomplished. Yes, it shall be completed, wheth-
er the General Government gives us what even
handed Justice requires, BY making appropria-
itions of lands to aid in the work as il has done
to our sister State, or persists in thatunust pol
icy which has compelled Missouri TO stand back
for the last quarter Of century.
| Felicia GSeceS&. Missouri is afAe herself 90
build the road, even if other older States of the
confederacy, which have been the special recip-
tents Of the favors of the General Congress, do
unite, and thus defeat the measures introduced
for obtaining her just rights. do not anticipate
THAT our claims viii fail TO meet with attention
commensurate with their importance; but if we
are TO infer from the letter of RoBERT RANToUL,
of Massachusetts, who says that, although we
have running on our borders and in our midst
the great Mississippi and Missouri rivers, yet
we are so far behind the improvements of our
neighbors east of us, that we must not expect to
see our lands coming in competition with those
Of Illinois-opposition may be made, yet we will
rely on our own resources We have burst The
chains which have so long bound us, hand and
foot, and have thrown off the shackles which
have crippled our energies, and have taken the
sponsibility to speak and act for ourselves. 1t
shall no longer be said that Missouri is behind
the improvements of the other States of the con-
federacy, for we intend to make her what the
God Of Nature designed her 10 be-s most hap
lpy, peaceful and prosperous country.
The State has come forward nobly IL the work,
and has extended her credit to aid in the pro-
gress of the enterprise. Through her liberality,
loan of So, 800, 900 was authorized for its con-
summation. Already the requisite stock has
been taken TO secure both loans. The success
of the enterprise is rendered permanent by
soib Of unbounded fertility and the loveliest sec
tion Of country-I was about to say, on the A
merican Continent. There is no country con-
tanning the same extent of territory which is ca
pable Of sustaining such an amount of population
in full vigor as our State, and all weowant to
successfully establish the truth ofour assertions
in regard to the matter, is,o to open the avenue
for carving off products This road .yc.!d
be intersected at all points by numberless other
rail and plank roads, to make even the remotest
points in the State accessible to good mark Ell;
and such an avalanche of the riches of Mssouri's
soil will be pouredo into the Mississippi, 70 be
borne on her quiet bosom TO the ocean, and from
thence carried to. all parts of the earth, as will
speak in tones which cannot be controverted,
endorsing all which we claim for our State.
The speaker stated, that it only remained for
him to. perform the ceremony of breaking the
ground, and, sinking the shovel in the earth, he
said:
In the name of the Hannibal and st. Joseph
Railroad, with equal good will to the Pacific
Railroad, and in the name of the State of Mis-
souri,, remove the first shovel full of earth.