Glasgow weekly times. (Glasgow, Mo.) 1848-1861, 1854-07-20
Mr.. Caruther's Speech Grants Of Land
for Rail Roads,

for Rail Roads,
We make few extracts from the speech
Of Mr.. Caruthers, which explain themselves.
He is working for road that Flournoy DO
ted against he tells what kind of a road it
is, and how important to our State. Flour
noy says Congress, giving alternate Sec
tions, ought not to advance the price of those
reser, ed. Mr.. Caruthers answers that, in
about the same way Phelps did. Read the
extracts
Sir, said Mr.. CARUTHERs, in common
Justice to the West, the Government should
grant alternate sections in aid Of railroads
without doubling the price Of those reserv-
ed. But know it would be mere folly Ia
ask such grant. In the present humor Of
the House, it would be simply ridiculous to
endeavor TO carry though such a proposition,
Just as II is. l have not, therefore proposed
| it for the Iron Mountain road. .4ny one Of
any sense, who knows anything of public
opinion. knows that il would be impossible
TO get through such grant. The one |
propose on the alternate principle is better
than nothing-there is chance for its pas.
sage. therefore propose it.
need not, at this late day, pause 10 dwell
upon the necessity and advantage of rail-
roads. | need not point out how wide and
general are the diffusion of their blessings;
how linked in are the great interests Of ag-
riculture, commerce, and manufacturers how
the products of the West freight the ships
Of the East; how the market of the South
absorb the products of the manufacturers OF
the North; how the commerce Of the world
is fast coming 10 be an interchange Of CON-
molties with the Mississippi valley; how
all these great interests of every part of the
land are beautifully blended together; quick.
ened into more healthlul and vigorous life
and stimulated into larger expansion by
those Iron trays which enrich like streams
of gold, and bless with their social and civi.
LIKING influences! The public mind, with
its unerring judgment, has grasped these re-
suits, and demand these roads wherever
they are not!
On behalf Of my district ask for gram
Of land TO aid in the construction Of the Iror
Mountain road-cQmmencing at the city O.
St. Louis, and Terminating at point on The
Mississippi river, in the State Of Missouri
This road is to form link in the chain o
railway connecting the northern lakes will
the Gulf and the Atlantic seaboard-w
New Orleans, Mobile, and Charleston. A
ST. Louis it connects with the network Of
eastern roads terminating there. 1t links ir
with the Pacific road, now started from the
city Of St. Louis, on its slow but unerrins
and undertaking course TO the Pacific ocean
The mere statement ofthe facts that it reach
es out through its connections TO the Gul
and southern slope of the Atlantic upon tn.
south; connects with Cincinnati, Baltimore
Philadelphia, New York, and Boston on the
e,st; the lakes of the north; and the land o.
gold in the west, vindicates its eminent ma
tionality, and argues forcibly the necessit,
OF its construction. The road is to pass
through the densely populated and fastl,
growing county of Jefferson. 1t sweeps
down through Washington-the rich hear
Of the lead deposits Of Missouri. 1t skirt
along the agricultural county of st. Fran
co.'s; and reaches in that county the far.fam
ed Iron Mountain, and thence takes its cours
TO the Pilot Knob, in Madison county; tn
two forming the richest and most extensiv
deposte Of iron ore in the world! TIL
Knob and the Mountain! Well may Mis-
souri, be proud ofthose iron sisters, so vas
in their proportions, so rich in their quail
ties, so inexhauslible in their treasures!-
it goes through the stock-growing county o
Wayne. with its rich valleys nesting in be
tween its pine-clad hills land passing throug
the county OF Stoddard, that is springing in
: to wealth and teeming population as if b
magic; and finally terminates upon the BAN
Of our great river, shedding its beneficial in
fluence upon the counties of Scott, New
Madrid, and Mississippi; more rich in thei
soil than the delta of the Nile, and produ
cing more largely in proportion 10 their pop
ulation than any other section of country G
r the same size in the Union!
D This, sir, is the region through whic
this road is 10 pass-the region to be open
, ed up 10 the manufactures and commerce c