Hannibal journal. (Hannibal, Mo.) 1852-1853, 1852-03-11

| see that my time is rapidly passing away
and | must hurry over many points which
would be glad, under other circum Stances TO pre-
sent to this House, wore not limited BY th
rules. Here might pause, and ask my frien1
around me from the thirteen old States Of tn
Union, whether they will not step forward AM
aid their younger sister in The development o
her vast and inexhaustible resources? TIL,
West has aided You in appropriations for light
houses, beacons, Notifications &c., which, asid,
from the great advantages to the commerce o.
those States, afford an additional advantage e
those sections Of the nation wherein they ar,
expended by the circulation. of large sums oil
money, amounting TO many millions, among ths
people of those districts Of country. The new
States do not reap the direct advantages and
blessings of such appropriations and e2pendi.
lures, and it is alone by grants or approximations
OF lands for internal improvement, that Congress
can equalize the public benefits of the countryt
yet the West does not support the appropria.
lions for your Atlantic seaboard grudgingly
but, as part Of this great Union, interested in
the prosperity Of every other, she lends il her
cordial support. | may say that it is our pro-
duce that enters into the CONNIE rec which wells
the sails OF your merchant vessels.
Gentlemen may ask what advantage will these
roads be to the Eastern States and to the COM
mercial marine of those States which lie uooa
our eastern sea6oard! l ask you gentlemen,
what Is 1t that contributes TO your commercial
mariner Is it not the productions of our soil
our hemp, our tobacco, and other Product, If
the West and South, togethe. with inc manu-
tacture: OF your own g;orkshops2 Do YOU not,
as you increase the facilities of transportation
rom u;;c West, increase the commercial business
u the East; and swell the commerce of your
country, inland and abroad? As well sir, might
you expect that noble bird which is represented
above you to spread its wings for flight when
the barbed arrow has drawn the lfe's blood
from its body, as TO see the white sails of your
merchantmen extended for foreign ports unless
their ample ard capacious holds were filled with
the productions of the soil, or with the manufac-
lures OF your own workshops. These products
and manufactures form the lire-blood of your
trade and commerce, and these great railways
are the arteries which convey it with healthful
bound to the extremities. IL, then, you would
extend your commerce and swell the amount of
trade with foreign countries extend to us the
aid we ask in increasing our facilities for the
of our produce to your Eastern
markets. We are connected with the South by
those great rivers of which have spoken, at
least so far as the counties are concerned which
lie upon those highways. But there are nter-
or counties in our State which are denied the
great advantages Of inter-communication with
the Southern States, because of the want of IA
cilities for the transportation of produce from
the homes of the farmers to the Mississippi or
Missouri river.
Again, sir, would ask, are not gentlemen of
the manufacturing districts Of our country inter-
ested in extending the productions of their
workshops in The great valley OF the MISSISSIPPI
pi! Let them, then, sir, aid us by the extern
sion OF their railroads into our country, for our
roads would be, when made, but links in that
great chain of roads which commence in the
Eastern States and penetrate the valley of the
Mississippi. Already, sir, is there continu-
Gus line Of road from Pittsburgh to Cincinnati,
and the great roads of New York will soon be
in connection with the Cincinnati and Cleaye-
land road; and since left Missouri, in Novem-
Der last, contract has been consummated for
the completion Of the road from Cincinnati 10
st. Louis. Why stop there? Why shall your
iron horse be checked in his career at the
great Father of Waters? Let him stop, if YOU
please, to slake his thirst in that noble stream,
and then bound away, with swift and gathering
foot, over our mountains of iron, our hills Of
coal, and our broad and beautiful prairies.-
Let him bring to us the manufactures of your
workshops, the beautiful fabrics Of your looms
for our wives and daughters, with all the varied
forms Of mechanism which your ingenuity has
invented and your skill perfected. Let him
bear yours to us, and we will return to you the
rich produce of our felds-our hemp, our corn,
our tobacco, whatever our soil produces or our
mines will yield.
these things9 Are they not interested in ex-
fan1nn tho nd r.
their own fabrics, and increasing the supply of
their wants9 Every link which is added to the
great chain of roads extending from the Atlantic
States westward adds to the trade and commerce
of those States.
Why, gentlemen, will you stop us? Do you
say that the Mississippi shall bound the limits
of your road, and that Missouri, Arkansas, Lou
isiana, and Mississippi shall not be penetrated
by your railroads. In what have we sinned
that we not entitled TO the same justice which
las been melted out TO other States, possessing
as we believe, no higher claim than we do?
/ beg leave to call the attention of gentlemen
from New York to a remark which was made
by distinguished statesman Of that State more
than twenty years ago, and it is remark which
the subsequent history of this country and the
experience of the last ten years fully bears out
as that of far.sighted statesman. His remark
was that every link which is added to the great
chain of roads extending from the Atlantic States
westward, adds to the trade and commerce. Of
those States, and that there could.zRh q
improvement, however magn IE.-s e<zzI
small, whether a canal or a N ~ ~
constructed in every State, nOs -
or west, which the State Ct Sssss York wonIS
Z. al. Spehent OF. Task the gentleman from
New York, has not the experience of the last
ten years verified and sustained what was said
by this distinguished man of your State more
than twenty wears ago? And will Won. with