The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1857-05-30
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In the Eastern hemisphere, States sfe the
growth Of centuries; IN tia Western henis-
phws, they spring into sxisseaco, with ara
pidssy vtish keeps paee with the growth Of
individnal naa. 4 thousand years after
the Saxon Consasst, ~ End England jsss
beginning = snrss from barbarisn, and
become powerful. Il WAS only in the ago
d Columbus and Vespucius, that the Span
ish Kingdoms, sitter eight centuries Of in
ternal strife, coslesced into mighty mon
archy. Il wss NOT till the reign Of William
and Mary, in Britain, that Prussia was ele-
waited to the dignity Of Kingdom, and
numbered among the great powers OF the
earth. In America, however, the case Is
otherwise. Here populous States suddenly
appear in regions, which little while be-.
fore, were over-shadowcd by the forest, and
ruled BY the Indian. On the shores Of the
Pacific, California, which is now a power
full Republic, was less than twenty years
ago, . lonely wildness, and at the opening
Of the Nineteenth century, not one Of those
opulent and prosperous commonwealths ex-
listed that now adorn the banks of the Mis-
sissippi, the Missouri and their tributa-
ries. IT'S but few years since, Iowa,
Wisconsin, Minnesota, and almost the en-
tire Northwest, included between the Ohio
river and the Pacific Ocean, was one vast
wilderness. Now, the Valley of the Mis-
sissippi and Missouri, with an area Of near
ly a million and half Of square miles, is
thickly populated, and the mind can scarce
" grasp the illimitable vastness of itsin-
crease, and its business importance. The
turbulent and muddy Missouri river, bears
no small share of the worlds commerce.
II numbers its steamers by hundreds, and
their tonnage viii soon reach within the
millions. It Is the great carrier of the pro-
ducts in agricultural and manufactures, and
other applications Of labor, of States and
Territories extending over twenty degrees
Of latitude. 1t has reared cities as if by
magic. It has been the means OF convert
ing, within . lifetime, primeval forests OF
boundless extent into prosperous villages,
and fertile and luxuriant farms, and of max
ing literally s'the desert to smile, and the
wilderness to blossom rs the rose." 1t has
contributed to the rapid development OF
hidden resources, to the enlargement Of the
hounds Of science, to the cultivation of lit
srssure, and the promotion of the useful
and ornamental in art.
What wonder il it, that country so fer
sile in its soil, and so richly endowed by ma
turs with illimitable resources calculated
to enrich the nations of the earth, should
have waved strong and mighty in so short
. space Of time. The first and great essen
tial to the growth and improvement of a.
country, is population. Without man to
till the land and develop its natural powers,
it must remain unproductivc and va!ueless,
no matter what may be it's fertility and ca
liabilities. Accordingly, we find that i'm
migration and increase Of population pre-
ceded and produced, in the case Of the
"Great West" that permanent improve
ment and prosperity which have so much
surprised the sold fogy" economists and
staticians Of the East. The extreme Sec
tions of the Union-the East and West-are
becoming so closely connected, SO identi-
fed in their varied interests, from the ra-
pidly growing importance Of the latter, that
the people Of the East will soon, if they do
not already, consider the West as the rich
and favori.e, a country Of unbounded re-
sources, which they are proud to see in
crease in wealth and population, even
though it is done at their expense and
through their energies.
Every year but adds to the already heavy
drain of population and capital from the
East in favor of the West. First, father
sends out son--thcn daughter is chosen
ALI for the same field Of labor then the
father finds he has a surplus Of capitol
which he learns will pay much larger in
terest in the West-then 60 the furniture,
manufactured goods and machinery; and
to use the latter, another call IL made upon
the East, for every idle man, woman and child
in all the villages and cities. And hardly a
neighborhood in the East that furnishes
anything for the illimitable ssGreat West''
and what one has not?-but what are
receiving their pay in larger rates Of inter-
est, and making the interest and capital left
in the neighborhood worth more; for all the
balance is in better demand and more active
~ employed. Before such emigration took |
place, the resources Of such Eastern villages |
were already fully developed; more, they
were exhausted, and possessed . surplus Of
population without employment, but now
many of those compclled-to-be- idlers, are
independent, industrious, home owning citi- |
zens of the West--prosperous, and many Of
them occupying responsible positions. Such .
10 the relation Of the East and the West-the
same as father and son--the rich, easy, es-
tablishcd old States, watching with regard !
and interest, the rapid Development and |.
progress Of the young and vigorous new
States-the West borrower, the East
lender, for which they receive enormous
rates Of interest, otherwise than by the rate
per cent, in advance Of property &c. From
these facts it is evident that the West has |
not been slumbering and idling in these lat
ter days, and that in point of population,
agriculture, commerce and opulence, each |
and every one Of the new States, bidss
fair to rival any of the older States.
The influx Of population to the West,
was perhaps never greater-Iowa, Illinois,
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