The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1852-03-17
m. rHolrsoN cAMp1nls POSITION

m. THo1rsoN cAlPDEILS POSITION
IUUED.
The following letter to the editor Of the Ga
lena J-ff.rs,nian, we take from late No. Of
that sheet.
HOY Sc or REpREsExrAr,vEs,
February Gath, lS42. )
Editor cfths Jefsrsonian:
You will please correct
! tho E,llou inu erroneous statement which np-
reared in the dubuque Express, short time
l since, aud which have Sc, copied into other
| paper., wig: That hid written a letter to
distn snshed democrat ut Dubuque, in which
have given it as my opinion, that the Dubuque
and Keokuk, and the Davenport and Council
Bluff. bill would pass and, tina, it would aft 'rd
me great pleasure to see it pass. This is the
substance of the Express statement. Now,
have only to say, that never wrote any such
thing. but IN the contrary, it the gentlemen re-
TERED to by the Express, will examine my let
ter, he will discover that intended To convey
/" him precisely the opposite idea, VIZ That
the grant never would be made; and that the
bill never would pass. My opposition lis confined
to the Kcoknk and Dubuque Grant, and have
never intimatcd Tint would oppose the Davcn.
port and Council Bluffs road. l am against the
Dubuque and Kcokuk grant, because it propo-
.cs to cons'rnct Il road running parallel with the
Mississippi river. am opposed ta il because
it will prevent the Improvement of the rapids,
in the mississippi by the general government
| am opposed to it, because it will effectually
destroy the river interest, between Dubuque and
Keckuk, and is intended I" advance the inter-
est Of the two last mentioned points, at the
sacrifice Of all the intervening towns, on both
sides Of the river / have nrv er fora single mo.
| nA tho INT tha
bill cruld ever receive the sanction Of Congress.
| And that the passage OF any such bill would
give me "pIeasure," as the Express has it, is an
entire fabric ,ion,
| Yours. &c,
THOMPSON CAMPBELL.
If we have innoccnly misrepresented the
views Of Mr.. Campbell, we are very glad to be
set right.
Mr.. e, certainly did state in his lettcr-to a
gentleman in this City, that it was his opinion
that the bill before Congress for a donation Of
export and Council Bluffs Rail Roads, would
pass and he certainly did not express hostile
sentiment in that letter to either road If by
this. he meant to be understood as treating the
subject ironically, Ethe fault belongs to his supe
rior intellectual endewmcnts in this particular
and the unfortunate ignorance Of the commu-
nifty among whom his letter found place, and
not to any impure motives in this quarter, for
giving to him higher position in public est.
nation, than he desires or deserves.
Perhaps we were hasty in stating that it
would afford him pleasure TO see it (the billy
pass !; but from the tone Of the gentleman s re-
marks, who received the letter, we drew the in.
terence and We know he did the same, that Mr.
C, was friendly to the measure But in ju .tice
to that gentleman. ourselves and especially to
Mr. G, we must now cxonerate him from al
friendship for so important and conimendablc 4
public improvement. Not however, without
first giving him the benefit Of dispnssionate
reply, to what he considers ample grounds for
his determined opposition, to an improvement,
Of equal Importance to his own state, with that
in which the improvement is designed to be
made.
Mr.. c. clnims, that while he opposes the Du-
buque and Keokuk road, he has never opposed
the Davenport and Council Bluffs road There
is but little virtue in this acknowledgment, be-
cause the two roads are embodied in the same
bill, and to defeat one, would certainly endanger
| the success Of the other.
But what are the objections urged by this
gentleman, to The Dubuque and Keokuk road ?
let. He is opposed to this grant, "because it
with the Mississippi river
| If there was any force IN this objection, it is
very strange that the two Senators from Illinois
have not discovered it and regulated their con.
duct accordingly and it is still more strange, that
the peoples Repre sentatives in Congress assem-
bled, did not put quie,us upon the Illinois
Central Railroad, which. parallels the Mississ-
ippi TO its mouth.
Our Iowa delegation when they sustained
that measure discovered no such mares nest az
is here presented, and we opine it will puz
zle Mr.. C. immensely, to prove that this i'm
provement, will not be a direct important and
lasting benefit to every portion of illinois, his
own darling City, Gaienn, not excepted. But il
he will take passing view Of the route over
which it is designed to run this road, he will
find that il runs from fifty to seventy miles in
terror from the Mississippi, accommodating the
wints and necessities Of almost the entire pop
ulat.on Of the State, and is not, strictly speak
ing parallel improvement with the Missssip.
pi. @
End. He is opposed to this grant, "because it
will prevent the improvement Of the Rapids in
the Mississippi BY the general government. -
This is sheer surmise, without any foundation in
reason, or political revelation, and were the II.
linois bill now pending in Congress, would ney.
er be named.
3rd he remarks, 81 am opposed to it because
It will effectualy destroy the river interest, be.
| tween Dubuque and Keokuk, and is intended to
advance the interest of the two last mentioned
! points. at the sacrifice of all the intervening
towns, on both sides of the river
We readily admit that it will destroy the riy.
er interest during the season Of ice and NAV ef.
feet it to some extent during the season Of ex.
IRENE low water in summer. But does Mr.. C.
suppose that these interior railroads are to efec.
tsn'iy destroy the commerce Of the great father
of waters' The heavy freighting ut this coun-
try, Will always be done upon the Mississippi,
when ii is navigable, and the man must be a
novice, who schools himself into tile belief that
the trade Of the Mississippi is to be rninea ~
this grant From The present rapidly increas
ing settlement and prosperity Of the West. we
cannot escape the conviction that both chan.
nels Of commerce will be proftably sustained
and that in place OF our railroads diminishing
the business of the Mississippi. they will vastly
improve it. by the immigration, capital and i'm
provements which they will bring to the coun,
try.
But admitting the position of Mr.. C. to be
correct, would he consign the people Of the
West, to drag out a miserable existence in toll.
ing to raise wheat at fourtv FIVE cents per bush.
Ell, corn at fifteen, and pork at nominal con.
side ration, while they command twenty five,
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