Daily Iowa State Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1856-1859, 1858-09-03
Responded To by DR.. lessee Bowen

! Responded 70 by pr lessee Bowen .
Iowa city.
Lad,es and Gettcaen hen arrive,
in Your town 10 day / DID not know that
should be called upon 70 make a speech
have no sentiment in my breast that - i'm
ical to Mu.e4tue or Washington While
ny homo i af Iowa CITY. ! Ftjoics in the
prosperity ot this piace ireco.ect he toll
AMI trouble lad in travelling through this
section oi the state some nineteen years
80. Il was then heau:iiui unbrokru
country, the ike II v inch vas neSeI beiofe
behelf. When passed on the ronI from
Nit Pleasant 10 iowa city, there was not Il
sinyle house Oil the route. Mark the con
trast now. To day ireatfaste,, n, iowa
CITY, dined al Washlngt, II, and viii SUP at
home II lfWashington viii permit us 10 have
switch we siaA be very happy | am
I authorized bg tie citizens of Iowa City to
offer you their hearty congratulations on
your connection with tile east;
4 We old iogies are in the habit OF looking
/ back.to former days and comparing them
/ with the present Thirty three years ago
! the world had its first railroad The east
! ern part OF our country Is now netted with
| them, and the country west OF the Allegha
/ ny counts the miles they reach nine thons
! nnd Tn, Telegraph j. great work, and
towns and cities throughout the world are
connected with IT, All these improvements
IN railroads and telegrarh- have been made
IN the last thirty Years Not only western
lcwa but the broad iaeiie slope will soon
herald the approach Of the locomotive from
the Atlantic. | am thankful that live IN
Iowa that I'm at WASHINGTON to day to see
| this gathering ot peolle on this glorious oc'
casion, and again congratulate vou.
thanking vou for Your kind attention,
close
Il farfeii--It i no discreIit in sim-
lar race 10 come ont little behind
Reply By Cha-, Negus, Esq, OF Jefferson
county.
Ft{t.u lde.ens-l am happy 10 inform
YOU tina, our citizen. at Fairfield are cel-
brating the arriq Of the ears at the place
to-day, and il may seem strange that de
sert my town to come here; but lived here
once. and ! come - congratulate you.
Ny advent into this place was made
eighteen years ago came foot and alone;
there was conveyance whatever to come
IN, had no money to pay for any if their
had been. met an old citizen here to-day
"
first come to this country, | sometime had
to eros rivers coon f.shon--that is climb
up one tree and easing OFF into the branch
ea OF another on the other sile-and in 80
doing, on my advent to this country, tore |
rny clothes all oti from ne,and stop, cd al |
tint oil mans house and mended them -
That wasn't much like railroadlng
On Saturday eEaniog last th.s same iron I
lp--a first .atue ttfo ttoi ia o,,r ,.it,t i.
some two miles further West than Washing |
toe. 50 we ire not la hrhind after al
Ia 1921 The first railrond in the United |
STATE. @a. built 1t wa foni Philadelphia
70 nttouo quarry, some few miles out, aud !
went ~ naie power. In 1929 the first !
railroad hV steaul was luiit, iiom Boston to
Lowell. The .ial r.il s used which hns
since gone out Of use In 1873 the tirs tel !
cgraph was pat ", il connected wishing !
ton AMI baltimore. Vow towns and cities !
Throughout 'la woriti-and even continent.
are spannel together ~ the telegraph wire |
lelaw Gttilens when fact came here |
there We're only 7ix iamilies. half dozen /
old bachelors, and hot u girl or unmarried !
lady hcfe-whtt change. iit.o Gre lcta !
Of them new, anl good l5oEing ones too. !
must closu here, aud nale way for the
next
- hoc! hH'fr1-iay the bridge that
spans The rather OF Waters, long remain
band OF unton a"lweeL th9 tWo States -
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.',li' siits ''i.'s7 : = 'i'e
IL narslert, about th. carly history ofiho
West. once asked him the meaning Of /
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el,l suprise. Or something very dc,.rabl,
and beautiful ilow can repress the /
emotions % my h.,rt "heh ! fefeat the |
,s,.1.,t,. ~ ,',.,..o, ''..'
states kuop tho Courts are powerful. +
but pa'l'r oPiron Is more powerful than \
.1''' y. ',l a. .tf f9hE az ths per on "tiich
I,nitsg L,.tb. H., -, -, IN
of Watai with common future Then may
they only be jealous II that which cOnsti-