The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1857-10-17
From the Missouri Democrat
Progress Of the Free Labor Question i'm
Missouri.

FROM lus Missouri Democrat
Progress Of the Free Labor Question i'm
Missouri.
From all parts of the State we have tn
most gratifying information of the hol
which the free labor question is obtain
ing upon the minds of the working mel
of the interior. Day by day we receiv
letters from those who have heretofor
taken no par. in the brawl of politics, bu
who profess their deep sympathy will
this political movement in behalf of tn
social and physical advancement of ou
State. Thousands whom we have per
sonalIy seen also confirm this intelligence
and 'ead us to anticipate even a NOR
speedy triupmh for the cause of the whit
man in Missouri than we might at frs
have darcd to hope.
If the question were made tomorrow
and discmbarrassed of all other issuessir
the counties of Franklin, Jefferson, st
Charles, Gasconade and Usage, it woult
b, sustained by triumphant majority
We can, too, safely say the same
Of the counties along the Iowa line; ant
can add, moreover, some facts in rcgarc
to the rapid manner in which they ar,
filling up, that are, perhaps, not generally
| known:
Thus, in the last twelve months, there
have been added to the county of Harr
son, as shown by the books, more thar
one thousand voters. In the county Of
Gentry, eleven hundred voters have como
in since fall; in Norway about eight hun
dred and in Mercer more than five hund
red. These, it will be remembered, have
chiefly brought their families with them
thus adding very large aggregate popu
lation to the State.
Some of the adjacent sections are said
by gentlemen recently from there, to
have advanced in even swiftcr ratio, but
we await data that are being collected
from irrefutablc sources, before putin
the facts in print.
The persons who have thus emigrated
to the northern part of our State, have
principally come over from Iowa in the
last few months, and hundreds of others
are daily focking in the same direction
from Ohio and Indiana. They are small
farmers, who take up one or two hundred
acres, and who cultivate their own land
with their own industry. In every sense
of the word, they arc the true represen-
tativcs of free labor, and arc welded to its
predominance in our State.
Along the line of the North Missouri
Railroad, many settlers are daily choos-
ing their homes from its beautiful lands,
and if that be true which We hear, ''Hud.
son City which has only just been laid
out at the junction of this road and the
Hannibal and St. Joseph road-promiscs
to spring mp in twelve months time, to a
size equal to almost any of the interior
towns that have snailcd it for twice that
| number Of years.
And the reason is just apparent as the
increase. Missouri has now cheaper and
better agricultural lands in it than any OF
the new States or Territories. In the
thenorthorn part, prairie farms of mex
| haustble fertility can be bought just now
at from two to three dollars per acre
Timbered regions command somewhat
higher prices, and the abundance of coal
everywhere render that article scarcely q
| necessary.
Again, in the southeast, some of the
finest pineries of the State are yet unen-
tered, and offer rare facilities for invest
ment. They lie but few miles off from
the Iron Mountain Railroad, and the tim.
Der will find in St Louis one Of the best
markets in the west. In this portion OF
our State, too, as for instance in the coun.
ties of Madison. Iron, Washington, St.
Gencvieve' and Stoddard, very good ar
able and timbered sections can be pur.
chased at the minimum rates, whilst
even at secondhand sales improved bot,
toms and upland wheat lands often dc
not command more than from two to five
| dollars.
We published some sales few days
since of several thousand acres in St
Gencvieve, which fully bear out this
statement. On the other hand, immense
tracts of country in the range of the
Ozark mountains, which are teming with
an undeveloped mineral wealth of iron
copper, lead, porphyry, cobalt, aud nickcI
! Idii Dt Itsih oS'a ~idt DLil
too, is as common there as limestone
! is here.
We need scarcely speak in this con.
nection, likewise Of the Gland of the
running waters the beautiful south.
west. Already it is attracting thousands
who arc fast flling up the vacant sites,
and seldom does any one dcsirous of pur,
chasing a home visit it without remain,
ing there, whether his purse be long or
short, \ small capital buys a wide range
out there.
The southwest has, too, one remarkable
county, which in the nominally slave
State of Missouri, cannot fail to give it a
pre-cminence We refer to that fShan-
| non, uh'ch has not II stare ritAja it<
Joundarics. This is a distinction it en-
joys over any other in the state, and it
may we'll be proud of the fact.
All these reasons combined have not
failed to impress the public abroad, and
thus the enchanting landscape, the CLAN
| cling, rushing streams, the extended prai-
ries, the wealth of minerals, the cheap.
ness with which all may be possessed has
done much to encourage immigration,
and to advance the progress Of free white
| labor in the State.
| Such matters are full Of good cheer for
the future of Missouri. They tell of the
| Saxons doing the work of their destiny
They speak Of our race striding onward
Rlling the broad prairies and clothing the
magnificent uplands of Missouri with in
dustrous cultivation. They are testimo.
nv in themselves sufficient that the white
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