The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1852-03-10
Iowa.

The State Of Iowa 10 about to enter upon
broad and new scale Of prosperity. The Des,
MONIES River improvement Is secured by a maj
settlement of the land donation, which gives TO
the State adequate means to prosecute that
work 10 Fort Desmoines, furnishing town IN
the centre of the rich v,llry IN the world,and
in the heart Of the State. Bills are now pend
ing in Congress for grants Of land to aid in the
construction of the keokuk aud Dubuque and
Davenport and Council Bluffs Railroads -
These bills, we would suppose, must pass Con
gress. Th Sc lands i'll new States can only or
valuable as roads are made to approach them
and Congress being the greatest iandhoi'ef
cannot fail to be the most brnctitted by grant
that brings SO much new land into lnarkr'.-
Some feeling has been exc,'ed III Iowa by a
n,w project of Railroad east and west through
Burlington, and keokuS papers charge 1t as a
plan designed t" defeat the bill in Con.r s.,
because the other roads do MT pass through or
otherwise favor The city of Burlington. We do
not believe th't Burlingt m would act trem mo-
lives so narrow aud uagenerous
The Keokuk aad Dubuque Railroad has been
rep -a,edly and earnestly rrs mmended by the
Iowa Legislature, aud Con sress cannot over
look the preference thus declared tor partcu
lar work After The continued and strenuous
efforts made TO obain grants for the k""k"R
and Dubuque road, il was feared III" Davenp"r,
and Council Bluff Rad, would be too grca' a
WE CHIT Ia hitch on but at tine 81 SESSION. II INT
Legislature, and at C,nv mons vt The pe"pit
f The staie, 1t was rec ann, nd, d, and Is new
before Congress cnnnec d as a compromise
with the proposed keokuk and Dubuque Rad
road Tie projected Railroad hrou. h Burning
ton east AID west, is a recent PROJECT, ant
comes up at a very unfivorablr time. Molten.
! since, Burl n Iton unit with US m Convrn
| 4. & Ian INN RaU
| ids.
Now the Rapids and everything else is jeop
ardised BY this attempt % favor the pr pose'
eat and west roads thro Igh Burlington.
Congress has rightly taken up 'he works pro
posed BY Iowa FIRST, and We hope new plans am
| pr..iec 10 will not prevent their success
| Il il no part Of our purpose, nor Is II on
nrovincp. to inte1f re with the donislic policy
Of our sister State but this new policy has no
| been confined in its Influences to Iowa alone
The jarr.ng and conflicting propositions who
the friends Of Bur,ngt n, Cat least her probes
ed friendly have brought b. fore Congress, hav
had very prejud.cial effect upon all demand
from the West. II presents the Western p G
pie a. divided among thenselver, upon the "t
| iects and improvements that specially deman
the assls ance Of Congress in the donation {
public lands. We are cer;ainly not h'st'l
to Burlingt n, and would 81 IDLY &c ner intel
ests advanced, but when SHE assumes that otht
o;ects Of movement, MT centerrg at
particular J. cality are antagonistic to her pE
periy, aud when her c'tz, ms send dele gates,
lobby members to Washington to defeat wh'
tiey cannnt secure 10 herself, she places herse
in an attitude If hostility u the balance OF tf
State, and Of Western interests. that Will NJ
be promolive Of her own pr fP.rity, and wh'cl
from its conflict, rejects pr judlc'ally upon 9
other movements The true and NATURAL polio
in the W est, it seems to US, to lrt every mel
sure stand upon its own merits, and not m ,k
one an obstacle to the passage of another
That we do not take different view IT III
I course Of Burlington in this mater than is e,
tertained by the citizens of that State, we CT
the following from the Dubuque Miners e.
press.