The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1852-04-14

nv we cannot but regard his course, however ST
III cere he may have been, as highly unjust to NJ
Emerson, and injurious to the party.
IN We have not aimed TO be unjust to any on
y and will always be ready as any to retra
y when we commit an error, but while it is o,
n privilege to conduct democratic journal,
- shall be our duty 10 exercise that privieg,
: however unpleasant at times that duty may be
= If this course meets with the dsa probatio
J of those, who have heretofore felt friendly t
us and our success, we must accept the conse
quences, however fatal TO our prosperity, o
dsagreeable to our feelings
;. To the Editors, dated Washington D. c.
: March 9th So
. know of no Bill of the Senate this winter
that has elected much debate, as the Iowa
: Land Bill, passed by that body last week. Ane
| must be permitted to say word in favor Of
one Senator, who abored most assiduously and
: trumphant:y in favor of that great measure to
your State. Being friend and advocate to
this great improvement Bill of Iowa, l cannot
but reflect, with the l.yeliest feeling of appro.
ure are under to the Hon. CHARLES SUMNER,
tor his mastery defence Of the interest of Iowa
In this, her application to Congress for the
grant OF Land for the road from your CITY to
Keokuk and the one from Davenport West
In all asking Of Congress, the grant of I50o,-
900 acres
In calling your attention to the remarks of
Mr.. SUMNER, Of Mass, have reference in do
ing SO, to refer to his speech, delivered in the
Senate on Tuesday, Jan. 9th SO The whole
speech, in an able defence Of the Land States.
al the ingenuity and able manner, in which
Mr. Sumner argred to prove that the Land
States should be en,itied for the enhanced value
of the Public Lands, and used strong logic,
convincing and confirming his position. Your
people should extend TO the friend of the Bill,
all praise for the able manner in which the in.
terest of Iowa was advocated, and also to your
own tro industrious, persevering and indomita.
BILE champions ofIowa. in the Senate, but t, none
should the need of praise be extended more
than To Senator Sumner.
The conclusion Of the Speech is so beauti.
, tnl, and so wei. engrossed, that must ask you
to insert the following extract: Mr. Sumner
says:
Thus much for what have TO say in favor of
this bill, OH the ground Of justice to the States
in which the lands lie. Ii this argument did
not seem sufficiently conclusive to render any
fiaptb dIcone l,ox e.
| might go forward and show that the true in
lerests of the whole country-of every State in
the Union, as of Iowa itsef-are happily CON-
| cident with this claim of Justice.
/ 1t will readily occur 10 all, that the whole
country will gain by the increased value of the
lands still retained and benefited by the propos.
ed road. But this advantage, though not unim-
portant, is trivial by the side of the grander gains
commercially, politically, socially, and NOR.
| ally-wtich will necessarily accrue from the
opening ofa new communication, by which the
territory beyond the Mississippi will be brought
into connection with the Atlantic seaboard. and
by which the distant post of Council Bluffs
will become a suburb of Washington 1t would
be difficult to exaggerate the influence of roads
as means of civilization. This, at least, NAV
be said Where roads are not, civilization can
not be; and civizatio advances as roads are
extended. By these, religion and knowledge
are difused; intercourse Of all kinds is promot
ed the producer, the manufacturer, and the
consumer ARE all brought nearer together COM
merce is quickened; markets are opeLed
property, wherever touched by these lines, is
changed, as by magic rod, into new values
and the great current of travel, like that stream
OF classic fable, or one OF the rivers of our own
| California, hurries in a channel Of golden sand
The roads, together with the laws, of ancient
Rome, are now better remembered than her VIC
tories. The Flaminian and Applan ways-once
trod by returning procunsuls and tributary
kings-still remain as beneficial representatives
OF her departed grandeur. Under God, the
road and the schoomaster the two chief
agents Of human improvement. The education
begun by the schoolnaster is expanded, liberal
ICED, and completed, by intercourse with the
world and this intercourse finds new oppor-
tunites and inducements in every road that is
built.
Our country has already done much in this
regard. Through remarkable line Of steam
communications, chiefly by railroad, its whole
population now, will be soon, brought
close to the borders of Iowa. The cities of the
Southern seabnard-Charleston, Savannah, and
Mobile--are already stretching their lines in
this direction, soon to be completed conductors !;
while the traveller from all the principal points
of the Northern seaboard-from Portland Bos
Baltimore, and Washington-now passes with.
out impeachment to this remote region, travers-
ing territory of une nexampled resources-.at
once magazine and granary- the largest
coal field, and at the same time the largest corn
field, of the known globe-windIny his way
among churches and school houses, among for.
ests and gardens, by villages, towns, and cities,
along the sea, along rivers and lakes, with
speed which may recall the gallop ofthe ghostIy
horseman in the ballad:
''Fled past on right and lc> how fast
i Each forest, grove, and bower
i On right and lett fled past how fast
/ Each city, town, aud tower!
"Tramp tramp along the land they speed,
Splash splash along the sea-
On the banks of the Mississippi he is now ar.
rested. The proposed road in Iowa will bear
the adventurer yet further to the banks of the
Missouri and this distant giant stream, might
lest of the earth, leaping from its sources in The
Rocky Mountains, will be casped with the
Atlantic in the same iron bracelet. In all this
| see not only further opportunities for COM
merce, but a new extension To civilization aud
increased strength to our National Union
| A heather poet, while picturing the golden
age without long lines OF road, has ignorantIy
indicated this circumstance as credtable 10 that
imaginary period in contrast with his own
"How well, exclaimed the youthful T,bullus,
ssthey lived while Saturn ruled-Letorc The earM
,oas opened Ly the long rays''
"Qnam bene Saturno vivebant rege; p'iusquam
TeIlus IN tongas est patcfacta rias."
But the true Golden Age is before us, not be-
hind us and one Of its tokens will be the COM
pletion OF those long acays, by which villages,
towns, counties, States, provinces, nations, are
| all n ha aSsocafpd md kpn .t,r IN, g.,