The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1853-02-23

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gotten that Cairo no, Arkansas asd by The plopsi
route al least eighty miles on straight line beydnS ~
limits OF Arkansas And does he believe that Miss.
will accept IT, grant for hersef even grant ibs M
OF way over lands Inch all her ownl If so
must suppose that Stale does not understand NJ n e
rights OF her interests. and thai her senator IN
GEYERl who has spoken does not fairly repre- sen,b
Aud does my colleague not know further tbst ME-;
has adopted system Of roads for herself and mors G
unae than Arkansas. has been able TO get The aid NJ
asked for, which, with her own resources will sashI
her TO build those roads; thai she has not like on, @
fortunate State, when asking Tor bread been foest ~
swallow s,one' Sir, Missouri wants no road lhroa,S
her land 10 Cairo and she is too wise TO dis,rae, f
energies and waste her resources upon useless ana i
practicable schemes Nor is ii reasonable TO su.oa..
that while she has the power to prevent IT, she viii ss,
init any company State to pass through her bods,
and upon her land TO interfere with system which win
regard her wants and welfare, she has wisely
adopted, and i now actively carrying into practice
But sf looking al the mere practical question of con-
srucng the road. and supposng Missouri either wjlns
TO undertake 1t herself or to permit Arkansas com
pany 10 do IT, ask what means does this called gran,
contribute towards doing the work. repeatit contrib.
ntes nothing. All who know anything of the country
know that route from Cairo to the Arkansas BOUNDARY
in the direction Of Little Rock. must be through
swampy and most overlooked OF all the country Yves, Of
the Mississippi. and as such belongs 10 the State OF Mis-
souri, under The &C, OF September 49, ls3Ono except.
ing, venture TO say, within the whole scope OF This &c.
called railroad giant more, al the outside. than dozen
| sections within the gift of the United States. And
this. in connection with provision in the bill itself,
winch processes makes no grant
TIE provision OF the bill allude to is in the fifth section,
| in the following words
SIC And b. i,1thsr saaeed That the land. here.
by granite 10 said States shall be OF by sa Ss
only ia manner ioiowisgthal 10 say, that uan,y OF
hhu MOI exceeding one hundred and twenty secon md
included within continuous length Of twenty miles Of ad
.Saa may DC sold and when the governor said sss
weny continuous miles OF said road 10 completed ths
se ,om 9 ,a 81 land hereby granted may
ana II said road IS not completed whia ten YEAR, No
further sales shall be made and he land nn.old nv
| vert TO the United States.p au re-
Now, sir, surprising that chartered comp.ny . vh.
supposed existence my colleague 10 regard az ain
ructons" in favor Of this bill, should undertake ~
pay me moon'-cr. what Is about the same ATTEMPT II
build this road-whence would they get the land TO ia
demonstration OF the first, the second the third or M
ionr'h section OF twenty miles. along the whole erhy
from Cairo 10 The Arkansas line! Nolcaerc for hsIs
is none there. - AS's
| The senator from Missouri IMr GrYrRl wa. s.o..
caiy and practically right when he said thai ST. Louis
instead OF Caro-, had been made the terminus on ihe
Mississippi the road would have been valuable one 10
me range OF States west OF the great river Yes sir
NAT would have made road OF incalculable value 10
MISSOURI, Arkansas, and louisiana; for il would have
Connected by almos, straight line, St Louis and New
oreans the Two great commercial centres upon the Ur.
per and The Lower Mississippi and made the three STATES
year. despite the distractions navigation Of ice and low
"aer Tor the already great and rapidly growing tide Of
ana age who n naturally seeks: and mu h some
which latter Is destined to become our own Medtera
mean Look upon the map, sir and account II YOU car
ma impossible upon the basis OF human reason
place OF 81. Louis, in this BILL look upon lhs mr.
lure, and upon 'his" railroad from Cairo! repeat,
SIR, II cannot be nade- ought not TO be made, viii
not be made and il would be out of place and vsue.s
II were made Missouri did not ask for, and does moi
want IT. as her senator has told you Arkansas did moi
ask Tor 1t, does not want cannot make /, and even n
were made, she could not-and if she exercised common
sense she would not use it, And for the following rea
sons which must be obvious, and think conclusive, 10
/ mi pSaIu
FIRST The people of Arkansas have no businss4 :,
Saro. Their market, alike for exports and imports is
M; loe opposite direction and if in the prosecution Of
placed at Cairo, they would be further from market land
70 wrong direcuon) than when they lief, home /; ana
hey would have TO leave the place. correct this eyrm
tme comfort, and money Look at the place a. you
nay and the longer you study the more strongly vi
he convection be forced upon you that il can never become
one Oh The commercial centres great mars OF trade and
that no man OF intelligence will ever 90 there for bus
ness or for pleasure. We know that company said 10
pc OF large English capitalists, have been for many
Also That they have failed TO make it, as every one has
aiied, and will always fail. and ought to TAIL who 20
grossly violates the laws of trade, and would build
| town where one is not needed and where II built
tcoud not be supported. Such protector sir was lust
Of that order of wisdom which Swift so apy exempli
nee IN he Lapatan architect who began his house the
| hage poie' and attempted to build downwards
second: CAIRO is not suitable terminus on the Mis-.
sisspp foT railroad; because, in addition to the general
ooecuoh nave stated. access to II and eHrees from
oy navigation, are suspended each OF it's three %.
proaches Tor many miles during several months OF almost
every year, II not OF every year had occasoD 10 men
uon tins TO my honorable friend from Kentucky [Nr.
| UNDERWOOD few weeks ago. when speakipq of the
hsslsspp lermioss OF the Pacific railroad said then,
ana repeat now that that terminus should be At the head
o. perpetual navigation the Mississippi and | said
men, and repeat now, that that point is Memphis This
what the people of my State believe and desire In
ms understand both the senators from Tennessee to
concur with me, and have been greatly msled II have
not also IN this the concurrence OF both nv colleagues
ibe one here. the other in the House
III men, Memphis be the proper terminus of the great
RACING railroad, which assumes OF course that IL must
pass through Arkansas why not Memphis made in
,ns pm ths terminus OF the Arkansas system Of roads
which was designed 10 constitute part and would IN.
deed be the first eastern link OF the Paciec chain All
ms Arkansas asked, desired, expected, to be done
why was IT not donel The same reason apples 10 IA,
TWO cases, (Which, indeed, but parts oil The sams
case and convincing our Judgment in the one should
nave done so IN the other, and have controlled our
action IN both Why has not done this and why Cairo!
OF all the places IN the whole range OF choice should
have been put in place OF Memphis il not for me 10 bro
nounce In the light of circumstances and all fair con.
lecture let others Judge
And here let me call the attention of senators and the
country 10 circumstance connected with the Pacific
railroad and It's proposed route through Arkansas which
does mol seem to me TO have been sufficiently noticed but
winch is OF great and most significant importance
PRACTICAL point OF view. This circumstance is. that the
same parallel OF latitude, about IS der 10 min runs
from Memphi, through the centre OF Arkansas to Fort
smith, and thence TO Albuquerque, where it seems
to be generally conceded the first mountain barrier must
be passed en- route 10 the Pacific The rver az il passes
to the north OF that parallel tending eastward from Mem
ph. tar above Cairo and almost ST Louis some four
hundred miles altogether the fact established that the