Weekly hawk-eye and telegraph. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1855-1857, 1856-03-19
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p,asis1. MANY VOTERS.
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The following letter Is from subscriber 4
,he H.vk-Eye, living in Missouri, but forneyl
resident Of Desmoines county. He Ia mistake,
IN suppesing We ever wrote or published any n
s,ls rating Missouri below Iowa in natural I'D
,,s,sxcs and resources. She has the adyarsap.
n climate. and is probably equal In other res
,ee,s. but slavery and border rufianism ar,
te.usne her back, and although much older sb.
wi soon fall behind Iowa in population ant
improvement
ApA,R CouSrY, No., March Q, 1856.
Nj Error IL noticed an article In your pa
nor tba, Is calculated TO do our State some inid
:, and which would not perhaps induce more
euigrants to move to your State, than are alrea.
dy socling there. The article ailude to ID
from traveller, who says, that there Is in the
FRA instance vast difference III the prices Of
hnd. must differ with him here, because can
move 10 him and to the world, that there are
arms all around me that are worth Just as much,
and will sell AZ high, as the same quality OF land
vii across the line. We have as good land rs
there i any need Of, and timber in abundance of
al kinds and west Of this We have as good coal
as there is to be found any where in the western
states and any amount Of it everywhere. am
nov speaking Of the northern part Of Missouri
We have plenty Of lime and sand or free stone,
and Astounding everywhere. II has also been
urged against US that there was no water to be
got; and here let me give the reason, that PEG.
pie do not get about digging wells as they should.
There we're dug in and about Kirkesyille, last
sumner some thirty wells, and the result was
plenty Of good limestone water. We have also
plenty Of water for our stock, and this is not all
10 pans and sink holes as great many imagine
The prairies are high and rolling; there is more
rolling or broken lands here than in Iowa. like
better here on that account. For instance,
persons farming and raising stock, can do Will.
less land, as they do not need tame pasture, the
pasture range is the bestin the woods We have
also better wheat country than Iowa it, As 4
general thing the land is more sandy, and is NOT
20 liable to be freezing out in the spring
The gentleman is certainly not posted up on
the business transactions and prospects of this
Tate, when he said there was no emigration, &c.
Now, lived in Desmoines county for eighteen
years, and can say that during the period that
lam residing here, there were more new Corners
settled in Schuyler, Putnam, Mercer, Sullivan and
Adair, and so fer as know, in the balance Of the
northern counties, than l have known in the same
length Of time in your region. The rush to this
State, admit, has not been going on great
while; but the land Office at Milan in the north
cru district, has been crowded for eight months,
80 that people were compelled to camp out to
wait their turn to enter. There have been rs
high as eight hundred waiting here at time to
enter lands. Besides every county has an Office
to sell swamp lands.
shall not try to bring up arguments, to show
The mistaken ideas some people have of Missouri
10 regard to health alone it cannot be beaten
We have no Maine liquor laws in force here, we
have no need of 1.-THE people are generally
speaking temperate and religiously inclined
The laws of this state are as wholesome rs they
ate in Iowa, and more so--except the laws regu-
l,ing Negro Slavery, which do not approve Of.
Wehave some few slaves In Northern Missouri
could wish there was not a single one here.
But as Jefferson once observed, 1--WE have the
wolf by the ears and dare not let him CO." If
they were eolonized it might do--if the slaves
we're all freed they would overburden the Free
States They have no wish to stay here, if they
could gain their liberty.
One thing is certain, the people Of Missouri
never asked for the repeal of the Missouri Com.
premise Bill 1t was hatched up by northern
Senator and Graded by the so-called Seventy-Six
party. Every settler from the North keeps per.
haps two from the South emigrating here with
their slaves for one would like if North Mis-.
souri, could he settled by freemen of the northern
and eastern states, for the reason that they are
more enterprising and go-ahead sort of people.
lwould say to those wanting homes, come to
the north part of this State, and you cannot help
but like the country. We will have a railroad
running from the northern part of the State to
the south in few years. Yours, &C.,