The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1852-01-29
HE UNION; WASHINGTON THURSDAY MORNING JAN 80 1852

Justice they should recognise the SUPERIOR will not
say exclusve-clams OF the States within whose bor-
ders and under the protection OF whose laws the national
domain is found.
Thus much for what have 10 say in favor OF this bill
the ground OF justice 10 the States IN which the lands
lie II this argument did not seem sufcienuy conclu.
sye 10 render any further discussion superiuous al least
from me, might 20 forward. and show that HE true
interests of the whole countryof every State IN the
Union OF Iowa itseare happily coneident with this
II will readily occur to all that the whole country will
gain by the increased value OF the lands still retained and
benefited BY the proposed road But this advantage.
though not unimporant is trivial by the side OF the
erander gains, commercially politically, socially and
morally. which will necessarily accrue from the opening
Of a new communication. BY which the territory beyond
the Mississippi will be brought into connexion with The
Atlantic seaboard and by which the distant post OF
Council Bluffs will be made suburb OF Washington II
would be difficult to exaggeate the influence Of roads as
Where roads are not civilization cannot be; and civil
cation advances roads extended by these religion
and knowledge are dlused; intercourse OF all Kinds 10
promoted the Producer the manufacturer and the con-
sumer are all brought nearer together; commerce Is
quickened; markets are opened properly wherever
touched by these lines, is changed by magic rod into
new values and the great current of travel Ike thai
stream OF classic fable, OF the rivers OF our own
California. flows in a channel OF golden sand The
roads, together with the laws OF ancient Rome are now
better remembered than her victories. The Flaminian
and Applan waysonce rod by returning proconsnls and
tributary kingsstill remain as benedcent representatives
Of her departed grandeur Under Cod the road and the
schoolmaser are the two chief agents OF human i'm.
provement The education begun by the schoolmaster
is expanded iberalized, and completed by intercourse
with the world and this intercourse finds new opporlu.
mites and inducements in every road that is built
Our country has already done much in this regard.
By remarkable lne OF steam communications, chiefly
by railroad, our whole population is now, or will be
soon, brought close to the borders OF Iowa The cities
Of the southern seaboard-Chareson, Savannah, and
Mobie-are already stretching their lines in this diIec-
ton while the traveller from all the principal points
OF the northern seaboardfom Portland, Boston, Prov.
dence. New York, Philadephia, Baltimore and Wash
ngton--now passes 10 this remote REGION traversng
territory OF unexampled resourcesat magazine
and granary-he largest coal held, and at the same
time the largest corn-feld OF the known globe-Wnd-
ing his way among churches and school houses, among
forests and gardens by villages, towns, and Cities along
the sea- along rivers and lakes, with speed which
may recall the gaop OF the ghoslly borseman in the
ballad
g Fled past right and left how fast
Ga right and eit fed past how fast
Each city, town, and tower!
Tramp tramp. along the land they speed,
Splash! splash! along the sea-"
On the banks of the Mississippi the traveller is
arrested The proposed road in Iowa will carry him yet
further, 70 the banks Of the Missouri and this distant
giant stream. mghties OF the earth on Its way from It's
sources in the Rocky mountains, will be casped with
the Atlantic in the same iron bracelet In all this
see not only further opportunities Tor commerce, but
extension 10 civilization and increased strength 10
our national Union.
heather poet, while pcturing the golden age with
long lines Of road has gnoraniy indicated This cir
cusance credtable 10 that imaginary period in
fol Tbullus, they lived while Saturn ruled-before
the earth t0as opened by long Ways"
ssQuam bene Saiumo vivsbant rego; priusquam
Tellus in tongas est pafgaetd Was"
But the true Golden Age is before not behind and
one of is tokens will be the completion Of those long
nces nations all 10 be associated and knit together
in fellowship that can never be broken.