Washington telegraph., 1854-11-22

vitlng her into brotherhood with them. ask or ex-
pect OF her. The Congress of the Nation has
empowered you to give from the National domain
within Your limits alternate sections of land six
miles wide not only TO the Cairo and Fulton rail-
road but also TO branch from Little Rock TO
some point on the Mississippi river which vour
Legislature has the power OF designating. Your
Legislature can at least respond to the movements
oil yonr sister States by providing that the Con-
greSsonal appropriation OF lan.l for this branch
road shall ac given icr the projected branch TO q
polnt on the Mississippi opposite Memphis. and
by appropriating such ether means as Arkansas is
authorized to grant And assuredly it is not nos
sible for such very able and intelligent BODY of
men, as your present Legislature evidently is. not
to see and to know that they can better and more
efficiently promote the general interests OF the
whole immense territory of vour State By giving
the means at their disposal ior the opening of a
direct communication with the rest OF the Repub-
lie at Memphis. than by giving them for road TO
some comparatively unimportant point. Let the
one policy be pursued, and Arkansas. with all her
Hercuean energies set free, can e:ter into success
ful competition with the other members of our
magnificent coniederacv and perchance win at no
distant day the title OF the empire State oi the
Union. Let her pursue the other. and she nav
remain, as at present. shut out to a great exten.
/ from the progressive world around her and almost
as incapable paralytic of welding the strength
that Natures God has given her Ii she nses the
means she possesses for the construction of rail-
road, let her take good heed that it be great
thoroughiare a portion OF a great and direct
thoroushiare over which the trade and the travel
Of the Nation shall pass Her object in the app-
cation oi the noble boon placed at her disposal by
the General Government shouid not be TO make
town here or town there, it should be to make
herself prosperous and glorious State to open to
the great masses Of her population throughout all
har wide domain facilities OF INSTRUMENTATION
ard commerce with the rest of mankind. The
other States are not afraid to meet Arkansas and
is she afraid to meet them3 They do not hes-
tate. upon any plea OF State pride to seek eagerly
a communication with her. and has she any such
State pride would prompt her TO keep them
shut out from her borders! What sort of pride is
1t that has prevailed for centuries over the coun-
ellis of China and Japan! No such a PRIDE am
sure, animates the hearts of the tree and liberal
people of Arkansas.
The great west now understood as embracing
the region west OF the Mississippi river, has been
mainly peoped within the last twenty years 1t
Is great empire of ITSELF extending from the
Great Lakes on the North TO the Mexican Gulf on
the South and from the Father of Floods on the
Fast to the snow-covered Sierras of the West
Nature has scooped out three great valleys as the
Grams and outlets of this region that of the Mis-
souri, river in the North that of the Arkansas river
in the Centre, and that OF Red river upon your
southern border. Through each of these three
great valleys, the trade of mighty States is des-
tined to flow. Let Arkansas be true 10 herself
and her Central and Southern valleys will be the
most important of these and the first opened to
the rest OF the Union. From the eastern bank of
the Mississippi railroads are radiatng to all points
OF the compass. Connect Little Rock with the
Mississippi at Memphis, and branches viii be ex-
tended to Fort Smith and the borders of Texas
Arkansas will be in connection with the whole
Nation. No longer isolated at present no long
er shut up as it were within her own geographic
cal limits she Will be in communication with
the whole bOuudless territory oil the Republic.
Passing up and down the Mississippi river cp-
posite to arkansas, the everlasting cottonwood is
scarcely relieved except by occasional wood
yard. The traveller naturally supposes that all
I beyond the rivers banks is an uninhabtabe and
lmpenetfabe swanp. Yet your two counties OF
Crltten5en and Mississippi alone bordering upon
J the great river. have greater quantity OF pro-
ducslve soil than the whole OF New England, and
are capable OF supporting larger population than
your whole State now contains. Your resources.
mostly undeveoped as yet, are indeed pTodigous
1ou have mountains OF zine and manganese, YOU
have eXhausteSs mines Of silver and lead,
have extensive beds of coal. YOU have iron that
surpasseS IN quality the products OF the mines of
Sweeden, you have porcelain clay of the greatest
excellence, and you have marble that the inmed
quarrles OF CarTara and Galloway do not excel
Iou have gypsum and mari, the great fertilizers
oil the agricultural.st. You have soil capable of
Welding in the richest abundance every product
north OF the sugar cane of the tropic- You have
cotton lands toe finest in the whole world. Ali
these sources Of wealth and greatness are now
comparatively va.ueless to vou but, al the re-
sounding march OF the locomotive. population ard
enterprise will come in and open the vast store
houses of prosperity that p-odigal nature has
tahiished among you. Farmers, mechanics. arti-
Zars and miners, will cover all your hills and
plains and valleys. Even the interior of the earth
will be peopled You will become the producers
of millions of consumers. Your beautiful capital
will number its population by tens of thousands.
Cities and towns will spring up and flourish
throughout all your borders. Your lands will be
increased in value ten fold. A pathway to un-
paralleied greatness is open before your State
\ thousand considerations are beckonng her to
enter upon it. She is now iettered giant. bht
nothing is easier lor you than to break the man.
aces that bind her mighty limbs and TO send her
upon her glorious career, conquering and to con-
quer.
Ny friends, am no speaker, and have said
enough. Again thanking you from the depths OF
warm heart for your kindness and hospitality,
| beg leave to close with toast:
The State of Arkansas-the vast wealth with
in her bosom is surpassed only by the wealth of
love in the bosoms OF her beautiful daughters
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