Iowa capitol reporter. [volume] (Iowa City, Iowa) 1841-1855, 1853-05-11

COsy via IdTITcTS Oh UOWn east
who need a pocket compass to guide them
around the rocks Of newly purchased hill
farm. shudder by their fersides as they think
OF our illimitable woods, our fever infected
"meddcrs." our fathomless swamps, dangerous
beasts and rascally citizens. We "cave in" Ia
good deal ofthis. We acknowledge the ague
the woods (over in Michigan. but not here }
the prairies where man is Just as apt to catch
co d as he is in Maine or Georgia, the ego
piers, the case hardened Spectator, but We
are ready to match 1--WE speak now Of Iowal oar
other features with any state in The Union.
Men grumblc about the climate and where do
they not? Let a man be placed in what is ap.
parcntly the most equal and delicious latitude
on earth, and he will find there physical las.
situde which he never felt in his native cline;
he will find there that the average duration
OF human life is less than it is in Norway and
Sweden. The truth of the case is, mans dis
contented nature breeds thousand imagi.
nary faults which have no existence in reality.
A man complaining of a northern winter will
find a hundred disagrccables in New Orleans
at the same period, and the southcrner weari-
cd with the long continued heats Of summer
will silver and perspire alternately in that
tickle and varying season at the north. As
far as We can Judge the climate of Iowa is un-
surpassed by that any State in the Union.
She has an Incompatible soil, a long extent
ofriver navigation surface peculiarly adap-
ted to railway construction. a population as
moral and intelligent and entrrprsing as any
and with other States of the Mississippi Val.
ley her portion Of the glorious destiny which is
to wrest the monopoly of legislative power,
from the old sections of our land.
very simple matter suggested these re-
marks. A highly respected friend, fine schol.
ar and reputable lawyer. recently wrote us re
questing us to do a little errand, for him in
Indians, ar he supposed we were near neigh
bors We answered that we would do it viii.
lingly-for a consideration. Perhaps we
did not say anything about mileage!
But the great era of railway enterprise is al
ready involving Iowa, and the first car that
runs west of the river will be the herald of a
new order of.things: men who viewed us afar
of and conjured up a deep gulf :" between US
and them, will be tempted to cast glimpse
into this "outer darkness" when they can do
it by steam. MN would dare to approach
the battlements of Heaven could he do it by
railroad. and gaze upon the 'intolcrahle bright
ness which blinded the immortal Milton.
The true character Of our soil, our climate,
our multiplied resources, our society our pub.
lie spirit. will then become familiar as "house.
hold words" to May now wifully in the dark
and to the detriment OF .heir own interests
Energy and capital will hasten in to the work
OF building up noble and wealthy Slate. and
the long disconnection which in sogrea, meas
ure has existed between the Old and New will
be forever dissolved to their mutual welfare
snd edfcation.
Probably no State has higher repute in the
old country than this. Letters have been writ
ten and widely circulated all over Britain and
the continent; lectures been delivered, and
pamphlets published all proclaiming the fer
'ility and beauty Of Iowa and so far as We can
Judge the current Of foreign immigration which
has set in upon US is generally made up of desi.
rSble accessions to our population,