Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1854-09-07
For the Green Mountain Freeman.

ALTON, Ill, aug. 10, loof.
SIR In these days every Young aspirant that
has used the pen, hardly leaves his post to soc
the ,corld, before he sezcs his weapon to pub
fish it. Following the fashion, we introduce
ourself to you and to the readers of the Free
man.
When Vermonter, accustomed to the blasts
Of your winters and the invigorating air OF
your summers, fnGs himself in lower attitudes
than New England, during the hot, sultry
months of July and August, he often desires to
seek some favoritc watering place in northern
locality or to climb the hills and mountains
around his :" chldhoods homc," with an OBJ
ect as much for the benefit of the physical man,
as to behold the beauties Of Natures landscape
in every thing around. But we leave our i'm
asinary flight.
The present season has been unusually warm
and dry. There has been but one or two slight
showers at this place for the past two months.
The inevitable consequences have followed II e
corn crop, in the surrounding country is gener-
ally destroyed potatoes are very scarce, and
fruit small and unwholcsome. The cholera has
prevailed there somewhat; two or three cases
each week do not think it has ragged hero
as in 1910, Or as it has the present year in the
Northern portion of the State.
Alton is city of about seven thousand in
habitants, situated on the bank and bluffs OF
the Mississippi river, some three miles north Of
the of the mouth of the Missouri and twenty
south of the Illinois. The Chicago and Missis-
sppi Railroad is completed and this road is nou
the trdrchng thoroughfare to the East. Tho
Express train connecting with steamboats, from
St. Louis makes the running time eighteen
hours to Chicago, to New York in about seven
ty. 1t is anticipated that within one year, the
road in process of building from this place to
Terrc IIaute, Indiana, will be finished, thus open
ing direct route to Cincinnati and the East
ern cities.
Prospects are generally favorable throughout
the West. Some emigration from this State tc
Texas, Nebraska and Minnesota. .-
Settlers give favorable accounts of the wild
lands and splendid opportunities to build towns
on the great rivers Every man who needs d
farm would do well to accept Of q government
offtrs,' although he might not, at first see Il
church-slirc or schoolhous, in his own imne.
diate vicinity, yet, in time they are his to en-
joy. Let the oppressed of the old world come
hither, and breath the vital air Of national anc
religious liberty, Let them obtain n home fol
their postrrty, and still, " there will be land
enough left to give Uncle Sans boys all a
| farm" ..... ...... ..
Politically, the general sentiment is, no more
slave territory even here, where once fell mar
tyr to the cause, Of freedom, for advocating
''that all men are created equal" The friend'
of the Nebraska movement are generally. thost
who have, or may hope for spoils," the foe
say the "giant has dug his political grave
That the day may come when oppression of eve
ry name and nature, may be done away in THU
fair Republic, [unspotted even by the stain o
| Slavery and man enjoy that physical, menta
, and moral liberty designed by his Creator tina
he should enjoy, is the desire of your humble
correspondent, 4. vox occIDESrE.