The Davenport gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Scott Co., Iowa) 1841-185?, 1852-01-29
EDrroR1AL CORRESPONDENCE.
AND KEOKUK, DAVENPORT AM
COUNCIL BLUFFS RAILROADS.
IrSn County. Iowa,

j COUNCIL BLUFFS kAlLkOAus.
i LINZ County, Iowa,
Jan'y. 2tst, 1859. }
u Editor GAxsrrR: Dear Sir,-This community
are extremely anxious to know through the col
umns Of the Gazette, whether they are tc De pc
,rayed in every quarter BY pretended friends.
Tho mutual friends Of the Dubuque and keo'
kuk and the Davenport and Council Bluff Rail
roads, have been urging their claims (or 4 gan
Of land from Congress for the last i've Yssra; tn
bill making the grant passed the Senate at ls las
session, and By the notorious inaction OF SheP
Letter tailed even Reconsideration in the House
Many OF Mr.. Letters friends wishing 10 trea
him chariably were willing to believe his p'aasi
BILE story, viz: that be could not get the Commit
tee to take il up.
/ Now be il remembered that Shep. lives q sun
down, and shutdown in lows is At Buriingtonant
no other place, and while shep. was deliberate
lly betrawng his constituents and falsifying q
hundred pledges, the Burlington influence wal
patting him on the back, and whispering 70 his
willing ear s'kill the critter-nip It in the bud
Dodge let it through the Senate with the under-
standing that you should sn.otheri inthe House,
while the Burlington press was laundering forth
the cry Of, hambug, hambuggery; boiled down.
Yes, week after week, dad the press Of that
place send forth to the world the announcement,
that the idea Of building Railroads in Iowa was a
perfect humhug, and that the Congress OF the
United States would never consent to s'.hrow
away'' the public domain for such wild and vis-
ionary schemes.
But times have changed and 30 have the Bur-
lhngtonians, in one conelusc on At least, though
not in al. Col Morgan, aias Little Red" 81
the burlington Telegraph, resigns his duty and
charge as editor Of that paper, repairs to Wash.
ington big with hope, as an applicant Tor clerk
ship in the House Of Representatives; and not
Withstand ng his head was in perfec, blaze Of
red, he soon found that be was too small pota-
toes for the crowd. Def ated in his darling pro-
ject, his next step was to scriie himself ito the
good graces Of Burlnsto by getting up ron gran
scheme Tor Burlington, and il possible homsragle
the whole State.
Little Red opens the ball by a letter to the
Telegraph, in which he says "Mr. Mace, Of Indi-
ana, has given notice of bill for grant o. lands
for Railroad from Lafayette to Peoria, and from
Burlington to the Missouri River"
Again he says, ssJudge Clark viii give hear
~ and efficient support TO the said Burlington
and Missouri road" He then holds out bait
to Dubuque to join them, BY in,imating to Du-
buque that their plan is TO 60 in for Road from
Dubuque TO the Missouri River, at the mouth Of
the Big Sioux.
Mr.. Red top, next treats the Dubuque and Ke-
okuk Road as "dead cock in the pitt and lets
off his spite at it, in the same way the Burlington
ssdsad heads have for the last FIVE years. Hear
him
0The pghqQus and Keokuk 1oad have treat
ed thus Tar % ssdead cock in the pitt" Its in
PRODUCTION from the committee has not changed
nv conviction az TO its fate II will iail for the
reasons before stated, and for the reason that
there is no more proprety in such route al this
day in Iowa, than there would have been forty
years ago for road along the banks Of the Ohio
or the banks Of Lake Erie. Discerning men in
Congress will see this fact and vote accordingly.
Our Senators and Representatives but discharge
ia simple duty in sustaining the measure with all
their zeal and ability, as they must act in obedi-
ence 10 instructions. But il must certainly be
sufficiently apparent TO almost every person in
Iowa, BY this time, that they have been most u.-
fortunately instrsscted."
Not content with having committed the Du:
buque and Keokuk Road 10 the pit; this wissa.
ere brings up the old scare crow about building
a Railroad parallel with the River, and adds
ssWhile asking Congress to improve the navi-
cation OF the river, we also come forward and ask
Congress to build Railroad along the banks Of
the river. Who does not foresee the result OF
such applications? Which shall We surrender
the Improvement Of the river or the building Of
the road? Will our people make the selection,
or shall the decision be left to Congress?'
Short sighted mortal, "wise above what's writ
ten" did it never occur 10 you that Railroad
from Burlington, 10 the Missouri river, would
run along great deal nearer the banks OF the
Desmoines river, than the Dubuque and Keokul
Road would to the Mississippi? And is it true
sir, that not content with one magnificent dona
ton Of lands in that Valley, you now have III
impudence to ask another, and that too, wher
the average distance Of 81 our Road from the "Des
mones grant, riA not erceed eight miles. MI
Editor, have heard OF the inpudence Of III
d., but this led-headed d takes tn
socks.
Now 90 far as this late tremend demonstra
ton from Burlington is concerned, (ior followin
/ Morgan's suggestion they have held "pubii
mee,ing' composed Of the Burlington public, an
III presume "wrote letters'') we care no,hin
about il, for it is nothing more than we have al
ways had to contend with, but when our pretend
ed friends take II up and publish Morgan's lette
with the following "heaier," we begin to loo
around and see where the next brick-bat is I
come from. The Dubuque Herald Of nth inst
heads Morgan's letter with the following sdito
riaI:--
q ssRAiLRoAp FROM DUBUQUE TO THE Missouri RIv
4 Err, AT THE MOUTH OF THE BIC Sioux RIVER.
Il at will be seen by the following Editorial col
/, respondence OF the Burlington Telegraph, tha
our Representative in Congress, Hon. Lincol
? Clark, has given notice Of bill for donatio
Of land 10 the State Of Iowato aid in constructin
: Railroad westward from Dubuque 10 the Mi
, souri River at the mouth Of the Big Sioux,
"We feel confident that this move has bee
made by Judge Clark under conviction that III
! grants heretofore asked for, will not be mad,
and should these convictions be confirmed ma
we not hope that the bill will not only be intro
duced utspeedily passed into law"
We cannot conceive Of any motive under hea,
en-, that should induce Dubuque editor to sur
pose ssthat the grants heretofore asked for wi
/, not be made," unless il be personal hatred {
!, somebody; and having the right to guess, we que