The Cedar County advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Iowa) 1853-1856, 1854-03-18

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WAsH,scroS, D. c., March 8, "a.
/ EoiroRs ADvERrlsEA:-GrHfs. /:
! had determined on taking my sect IN ths
. H. Reps, to pay no attention to news
! paper attacks upon me, or my course
not for one moment expecting that
! shoull lie charged with conduct that had
no foundation in fact.
i l am charged 10 an editorial article il
your paper Of Feb. 23d, Of having (du-
ring one Of the sittings Of the committee
to whom was referred the Iowa Land
Bill, denounced the Lyons road AZ
bancombe--a humbag--as being all gas
only wild speculation OF H. p Ad-
ans and his associates, to fill their own
pockets, without having the least expec-
tation Of constructing railroad--that |,
had no foundation or support, and that
said Adams g. Co. had entered all the
vacant lands along the line of said road
and were now only agitating the matter
for the purpose Of selling such lands at
great profits" &C., &c.
Now, gentlemen, ! have no idea that
either of you would knowingly misrep-
resent me, or publish an article Of the
kind. unless you supposed it to be rue,
hence infer that you obtained yourain-
formation from source that you supposed
was reliable. -
| In answer to all this. let me place my
self upon the record 50 that there can be
no mistake about my assertion, when l
say that there Is net one Tor1 of truth
IN II.
Some time in December the Iowa Land
Bill was up before the committee on Pub
lie Lands. and the commit,ee extended
to outsiders" interested in Iowa Rail-
roads, to come before them and explain
their claims, &c. On that occasion, Mr..
Chandler. some gentleman from Boston,
Judge Williams, Platte Smith, Of Du-
buque. and myself, were present. Each
one Of US explained matters as well as
we could, exhibited lnaps, and everything
passed off harmonious and satisfactory TO
all parties. 80 far as heard.
have been before that committee once
since, and only once; and that by invita-
ton from one Of the gentlemen compri-
sing the committee.
The reason of my last interview was
occasloned BY conversation with one Of
| the committee IN the House, in which he
talked OF the Dixon and Fulton City road
as beng finished to the Mississippi river.
| asked him who had represented to him
that the Fulton Civ road was finished TO
the M'es.s,lppi rivcrs He answered that
uc could not tell. but that the committee
SO understood it, and that it came from
the outside pressure" told him it was
not true; and he therefore requested me
10 60 before the committee and state the
tie fact. Ibid GO, and + told the comnlil-
tee, what was true, that not a poand of
iron was down between Dixon and Full
ton City. never opened my face about
land entries by Adams. or any other man,
connected with the road; never thought
Of such thing, and canno. for the life Of
me now imagine why a sane man would
use such an argument if disposed to In
lure the Lyons road.
You further say tina. ",hey { Adams
and Chandler) procured plot and list o.
the davenport road showing the amount
entered by Cook. Sargent & Go. Com
ment was unnecessary. The evidence
was conclusive. HIS feelings at tia. par
ticuar time can be better imagined tuan
described. He was cornered, and made
10 own up TIE corn" &c. .
Now, S.ss. | cannot say what Adams
and Chandler did, in the way Of getting
.'plo's" and ''lists" of entered land b,k
TO show how perfectly groundless this lat
ter charge is, solemny asser, that the
first word ever heard abss, this "plot
and "list" Vas in letter frQRa friend
in Iowa who wrote me after the late elec,
ton of the new board OF directors Of the
Lyons Road, in which he says that was
charged, at the meeting OF the directors,
with having made a representation about
land entries. by Adams, as charged In
your communication. Where then, SHs,
was "cornered, and made TO own up the
cornf Where were my feelings" SO
aw!ully shocked, when they could "be bet
ter imagined than describeds'
again assert, that the whole thing is
made Tout Of whole cloth" and who ever
made such representations In Iowa, either
knowingly tied, or were dupes OF some
one who purposely misrepresented me.
4 So far as land grants are concerned tor
Iowa, there Is no occasion for any one
doubling my course ia this Congress
During the canvass CT which Was e.ec.
ted, took the ground openly, and above
board, that the legislature elected at the
. same time was, would cut on, a new
railroad policy iof the State, and would
lnslruc, our senators, and request theiI
representatives what the State wanted
and in as much as no lands could be OBJ.
tanned unless the representatives co-op'
J Grated with the senators, that | would
, obey the instructions Of the Legislature.
made tins pledge all over my district, and
4 intend to stand to it, if j, kills me.
II there was bu, one PROJECT GU, side
OF the instructions OF the General Assem-
hlv Of Town we m,oht p0Ssibly Det Tho