Iowa capitol reporter. [volume] (Iowa City, Iowa) 1841-1855, 1855-05-23
IOWA
AZ IT Is N 1855.

Such is the title OF = forthcoming work by
N. II PARkER, Esq. Of Davenport. which viii
undoubtedly prove Of great practical value to-
the traveller immigrant and citizen; as Ga
ze.iser and Handbook Of general Information
The character ADD design of the publication,
however. may be more fully learned from the
id vsrtisement Of the publisher, to be found in
another coiamn; while from our personal know
ledge Of the author, We feel confident, that he
has spared no labor to render it a compete arh
reliable book Of reference. aid more than full
fiiled the promises indirectly set forth in his
Prospectus.
For Iowa, as it is," we predict vide cir
culation, and a hadsome return to Mr.. PARKkR,
for the time and toll that he has been obliged
to expend ia its compilation and authorship.
We have been also permitted to publish in
| the X, porter. the following introductory chap
| ter Of the work, which without entering into
| the main design conveys Is q prelude. very
good idea Of ths fusncy and ease, that, cha,
sct4rise the writer's style, and render him
readable and agreeable, even in fields Of the
most practical and prosaie nature.
| INTRODUCTION.
sin fresh 10 The memory Of few Of her c.,
! tizens. is the time wker Iowa was one vast
wilderness Her land unit led, her groves un'
| peopled, aad her mighty rivers DOW ing nniEa.
| peded -anadmired by art or eye N msn sle
donned her verdant robes and deckAd her feld'
with flowers On each returning Spring, ~ II e
4 WOO the distant husbandman; aud when chs'
| Autumn came, she shrank again into the sea
and withered state, neutrality-suspicious. sull, ans
still with hope. She heard the Indian hunters
shot resound AMID her solitude: she he'd tn
4 ,aPxint OF his step upon the yielding s,riace Q
hef soil; she watched him crawl TO his wigw an
home, and lay him dawn 70 siothfui rest. I
dream Of the rsvage ofthe hunt. Sha saw hir
avaye tomahawk aOd scalping knife, Will
piercing war-whoops rang from deal 70 del
and whisting balls and rolling thunder shoe
q air above, and bathed the blaxing 6c Ids /
. gore. She heard the red man 8 cry Of death
the white mans shout Of victory. And the
her streams and felcs-her hills and wasin
woodlands Joined in one vast choral hyml
when banners were furled and arms were lai
to rest. and Peace snatched the sceptre from III
! wearied god Of war.
Then, soon, throughout the land. lamef
tAtion rose. The red man stretched his tor
upon the earth. and sowed the sod with tear
q He babe long farewell to hunting groun
!, and river bank--so blaf and valley, whe
! transcendent beauty held her court: or uttere
!. parting wall beside the graves Of his fathel
= the moauds OF his nations slumberibg Chief
: Here had successive generations learned
!. kneel from year to year-here had their voc'
: risen annually IN strains Of mourning and
q homage. for the loved or the illustrious dead.
here had been their refuge in times of sorro
). or oftrouble; ana here had they folnd r
= treat, sequestered from the wor,d. aud hedge
round With sacred. IN unprofaped reverend
But although be fingered still-athough
at leave these solemn scenes occasioned his mo
poignant grief-called forth the widest thro