Arkansas true Democrat., 1857-06-30
From Washington City.
Washington, D. C.,} June Huh, 1857.

 MR. EDITOR - Arkansas has slept long enough. The old terrapin must now be walked up, and nothing but the locomotive whistle will arouse her from her Rip Van Wrinkle slumbers, and ere long that will be heard screaming over her hills and valleys Col. NJ. Brayman, president of the Cairo and Full ton railroad company of Missouri, succeeded yesterday in perfectng negotiations for three thousand tons of iron, which will be sufficient to lay thirty miles of track. By the com meucement of the hot season twenty-five miles of the route from Cairo leading south west will be cleared and grubbed and when the grading will be completed at the close of the fall season, the iron which is to come from England will be upon the bank of the Mississippi opposite the mouth of the Ohio.- Four fifths of the payment of this iron is to be made in the bonds of the company and the remainder in cash Several propositions have been made Col Brayman to build and equip his division of the road at the estimate of the chief engineer, one of which may pos sibly be accepted by him.
 
 succeeded in obtaining stock subscriptions to considerable amount, and has arrangements for negotiations, with every indication of success, for the means necessary to accomplish the great work on hand new era is beginning to dawn upon the destinies eff our young and hitherto unappreciated State No we'll inform ed railroad man doubts the accomplishment of the Cairo and Fulton railroad, and the past management of the company has given the enterprise high position.
 | I understand that Capt. Jas. $. Williams, | chief engineer, will be in Arkansas by the 18th | of July, to common ce the permanent location of the road preparatory to the letting out of contracts The land interest of the company l is approximating it's final adjustment at the general land office in manner highly satls- factory, and I am happy to add that the en- tire quantity provided for in the act of Con- gress making the grant to the State, will cer- tainly be obtained. Thus we this great project moving along, led by prudence and economy.
 Missouri and Arkansas certainly have reason to be proud when looking towards their future. Especially is it the case with the former. Rich in lead. iron, timber and soil with thousands pouring every season into her territory, mak ing it popuIous with an energetic people who work away their lives in the development of these resources, it cannot but soon take high if not the highest stand among the sisterhood. L J,f ,.1a constitution, been projecting rock around which the great tide of emigration has swept, but now the territory to the east, north and west of that State, limited by the uninhablta- ble and barren plains having been pretty well filled up, the overflow is running into Missouri. No southern man, however strong his affinity for his own land, if observing with candid eye, will fail to or acknowledge that the north excels us in agricultural pursuits manu- lecturers, city building, and, in fact, in almost all callngS that make people prosperous and wealthy. As proof of that preference which the general emigration possess for free-soi it may be remarked that the land lying north of the boundary line between Iowa and Missouri is selling for double the price which that south of it brings But few days ago the abolition papers of Chicago were clamerous over the success of their party in the municipal elec- tion at St. Louis, but very shrewd man and a large property holder of Chicago silenced them by saying that they were letting the guli- otine down upon their own necks. They are rival cities, and anything that tends to advance
 
 other. 1 hope 1 have said nothing in these re- marks that will be construed into lack of appreciation of the south--ny country. Why cannot southerners see facts and note them? Does it make it any better to close our eyes upon them? Slavery will be pushed down to the northern limit of the cotton grow ing region, and if the principles of the present democratic party always have the majority of advocates, it will be so done as a natural consequence of men consulting their own in- terests and that line will forever remain as the only division between the northern and south States. This is said as an observer, not as | a politician.
 I only intended weitius you a few lines about our railroad enterprise. l will be home soon. Yours, H.
 COT course we cannot agree with our cores pondent in the tenor of his remarks upon the | relative agricultural interests of the north and dsouth-notwithstanding he writes [" as an observer not as politician" Much of that | in which the free states "excel" the south is ! produced by the fruits of slave labor The | very groundwork of their prosperity is doubt less the work of our "peculiar nstitution"- And though they may excel us in the perfec- | ton to which they have brought many of the | natural advantages found at their doors. they cannot compete with us IL the products of the | industrial and agricultural pursuits. The south, | though not as far advanced in manufactories and fine buildings excels the north in the pro- duction of almost all the great staples of con- merce, such as tobacco rice, sugar and cotton; and her exports must amount to three iourths | of the whole exports of the United States The single staple of cotton has been more than half the exports of this country for many years. | If to that one article be added others of exclu- | slve growth, and our surplusage of grain, we presume the result will be found nothing short | of three-tourths of the whole Let us pursue this idea some farther. It must be remember ed that with these exports the imports are pur- chased, and 1t is upon the imports that the ta- riff Is laid for raising the revenue of the govern ment. It therefore follows that the south are and have long been furnishing the means for raising about three-fourths of the public reve- nue of the whole ITnitad States And .o .o,, l