The Kanzas news., 1857-08-22
From the Boston Traveller.
THE NEW MISSOURI MOVEMENT.
The Working of the Free Labor LeaEen.


The Working of the Free Labor Leasen.
LETTER FROM ONE MIssoURIAE TO ANOTHER
ST. LOUIS, July 10, 1857.
You viii see from the newspapers the
movement made at Jefferson City. 1t viii
result in building city there, the largest
| between st. Louis and the mountains. This
Is conceded by all who have examined it.
l am not aware of single exception. 1t
viii also result in building the Central Cross
Railroad, from the North Missouri Road in
your (Boone) county, through the capital,
and with each other, and will do more than
any other road that could be built, to COM
| plete the railroad system of the State. It is.
in fact, State necessity. Without it, Nor
thern and Southern Missouri cannot get to
the capital by railroad, unless they come to
st. Louis, on the Eastern border of the State,
and thence return to the centre. So great
an inconvenience, in this fast age, win not
be long endured, by a people so rapidly
gathering the resources necessary to re-
move it.
| When this cross road Is built, Jefferson
City will have position, on the Missouri
River, and connection with the railroad
system of the State, which no other locality
between St. Louis and themountains can eE
er get. Connected with ST. Louis by river
and railway, just far enough above to make
easy functions with the North Missouri and
South Branch railroads-less than forty
miles North, and less than fifty miles South
the city will be seated on the handle of a
great commercial fan, reaching Northern
Missouri, Southern Iowa, Nebraska, Kanzas,
the Cherokee country, Northern Arkansas
and Southwest Missouri; ready to collect
tribute from the trade and travel of these vast
regions, on their way to st. Louis-the CEN
tral commercial depot of the valley of the
Mississippi Jefferson City viii be the first
point touched; the focus of this vast COM
merce, en- route to the central depot, wheth-
er it comes from the North from the South,
or down the middle.
i Thus situated, our locality offers the most
inviting position in the West, to the active
and enterprising, desiring to lay the founda-
ton of large fortunes. It will be seen and
appreciated, and spring to prominence and
wealth, in a manner corresponding with It's
position and resources. 1t is surrounded
by immense masses of bituminous and can
mel coal, lead, building stone, and the finest
i ship timber in the West; and when the juno
ton is made with the South Branch road. it
viii command the pine forests of the Mare
NEE, Current and Gasconade rivers, only
about fifty miles South of us. This done,
the pine lumber from the tributaries of these
streams will find its way to Jefferson city,
and thence be distributed, by river, and rail-
way, North and West of us, making it one
of the largest lumber markets in the West.
,tl,o q, =, -
aided by great natural and artificial channels
of trade, it is obliged to be to St. Louis what
Albany is to 9 the city of !. New York, !
The organization of the Jefferson City
Land Company, and the policy it has mark
ed out, viii tend to throw into this State a
large emigration, and much wealth from the
/ Northern States They viii come from no.
where else. Shareholders not only won't
come here but those that are here, are, eve
~ now and then, going off to Texas. Our
cities must be built, our lands peopled, our
mineral resources developed; and our State
made rich, by our own e4ertions, aided by
the population, wealth, and enterprise of the
Free States. 1t is folly-it seems to me
more than folly-unmanly passion, and pre-
/ judice, to reason otherwise. Missouri is fast
becoming the great heart of the nation, and
a hundred thousand emigrant eyes are rest
ing upon our position, and vast agricultural
and mineral resources. Shall we encourage
them to come? Shall we? Shall the cheer
ing ring of the woodman's axe, the mechan-
ics' hammer, and the roar of northern ma
chinery, be stilled and hushed in the wild
fanaticism of sectional passion and sectional
prejudice? For one, | say no-emphatical-
iy no. Let US throw open the gates of our
cities, and present our undeveloped agricul-
tural and mineral resources to their bound
ing activity and enterprise. Let them come
over the border, and sit down with US, in
4 fraternal quiet, and grow rich with US
What say you?
We are making arrangements to have a
first class college, with first class endow-
ment, at Jefferson City; and. though we
have not proceeded far enough to speak def
initely, yet so far as we have proceeded, the
encouragement comes up to our fullest ex-
peetations. There is, perhaps, no better
place in the Union for such an institution
But one objection occurs to me, the force oi
which / may not properly appreciate. JEFF
literally girdled by the heaviest develop
IAcDtS VI TIC HIleSt anu cSAHHSl
coal in the world. This will make it one oil
the largest manufacturing cities in the West
Otherwise, every element is in favor of it,
as the site of a first college Ii is in a fine
climate, healthy, beautiful, central to the
State and to the Union, and easy of access
from all quarters. It is now accessible tc
the wealthy of st. Louis, the Northern States.
and the Southern coast-Memphis. Match
ez, New Orleans and Mobile-by river and
railway; and northwest Missouri, Nebrasks
and Kanzas, by the Missouri river, and soon
viii be by railway.
Our enterprise viii be prosecuted with al
the resources and energy We are master Of
interested as you are with US, we hope to gel
the benefit of your counsel, and the influence