New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-09-18
MISSOURI AND IOWA.

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SIM There "a NO better Agricultural State than
Msscuu. TIE land is quito felte ~ that OF Iowa
and the climate ia mdcr. and the wood pcn''of,
and vet while tens Of thousands OF ffcomon ARC ofn
grating ev,ty month into Iosa, ecarcely ono " 40
"mcnn" NJ 90 locate in Missouri. was informed
that large quantities OF the pubic lands IN the-e
counties bordering on Iowa are now in market under
the aiding sale bill OF Congress and That they cannot
be sold AZ any price. VIVA, il the cause Surely not
n scarcity Of money for in single land Office in Iowa,
Fort pos Moncs in the month of May, 1853, 100000
worth OF land was sold And most OF the purchasers
went right past the Missouri lands. Yea, this is not
the worst much of the land that has been entered for
wears, csn now be purchased for less than half Con
gees price
learned too, that improved Arms could be pur-
chased in this section for 60 ard 80 per acre while
inst over an imaginary line in Iowa the same SOIL the
same improvements, will readily command SIS and
$50. said an imaginary line, but it is noreit is the
broad line between Freedom and Slavery On the
one side Of that line labor is hoDoed and the laborer
respected be is what God made him, free man; the
eternal mind is unclaimed; but on the other side hu-
mainly lies bleeding in the dust; the hesb the bones,
the snews the muscles are 10 the power OF the slave
oders If the citizens of Missouri have regard to
the moral dunes uey owe W uieh 4n1hoi oAu S40''
fellow creatures ought they not to look at their own
interests Suppose the good citizens OF that state
would rise up and proclaim liberty to captive omor-
row, and the news would go forth that Missouri Is
free think you that the thousands Of freemen who ere
now crowdiDg into the far west of Iowa, away from
civilization and far away from market would no.
plefer Missouri and woud not the curse be re-
moved? But so it Is Slavery has blinded the
ewes Of the people. These are the people who are
moving heaven and earth to carry Slavery into Kan
sas IL it not enough that they have ruined tia
pros poets Of ore State. Why should they plant an IN
st,ltion in Kansas which has been curse to every
land where il ever had or has an existence In
asserting that Slavery is a to any land we do
Lot wish TO be understood that associate anything
like superstition with this curse, but the curse flows
naturally from the system iiself; though at the same
tine we are fully satisfied from the justice OF God
that his ffowns must also rest upon such land. l
take It that Slavery is sin against God, against
humanity, against justice and against reason. That
which in the etern u nature of things is wrong, no le
gislston can make right. am glad that there Is one
paper The TRIBUNE, that is not bound to the car OF
Slavery Nearly all secular and religious papers North
a,e under the influence Of the South; they are afraid
to proclaim liberty to the captive. l am glad that
THr TRIBUNE stands firm, like rock in the midst OF
the ocean battling for the ensaved and downtrodden
The TRIBUNE with its 200 900 Briarisp arms is work
ing out the emapc pation of unborn millions VIAroR