The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1858-10-14
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has favored and endorsed that route
by contracting to have the, mail carried
over it to California. And notwith.s
standing the project Of q Pacific Kali
road was started years ago, and endorss
sed by the entire West, the national
slaveholding democracy killed of its
great advocate, Tom Benton, and have
kept us as far from any definite acton
in favor Of it as we Were years aego:.
The interest Of the extreme South de-
mand an extreme southern ronte, che
South constitutes the democracy inf
Congress and controls the AdministraJ
tion, and unless we build the Road on
thesedthern border ofthe United StatiS
they say we shall not be permittedstd
build aroad at alb Thus il has ever
been with the Southern democracy:
whichsis now the National dem6cracv:
they have always opposed the interest
ofthe West, anb voted down aaflpouv
Harbor and River improvements, or
failing to defeatthem in Congress, have
invoked and secured the Presidential
veto. teassuor
The time has now arrived for the
adoption Of new policy in many fesS
poets, and no State is more deeply ill.,
terested In it than Iowa The first move,
ment in the direction of the uew line of
policy, is to crush out the Cubs project
and in ats stead to expend the millioNA
required forits purchase, in the constrtc
tion offs Railroad from the westerH bor,
der of Missouri or Iowa to the Pacific
oceanp The scdmmencement ofsthi1
project would at once draw . ideIfof
emigration from the middle, and est
ern states, and from acposs the Attain,
tic, which would grow strongef and
stronger year by year, filing our Stats
with people and with money, and sup.
plying Us with an ample market at homs
tor all the surplus our farmers could
raise. It would fill the immense rel
giOns west of as with q free and indnss
tious population like our owns and
would eventually make Iowas lying =
she does between the two greaE riyess
of the continent, central State Of this
great confederacy. With the country
westtof US rapidly settlediup, .throagk
the influence of the Pacific Railroad,
We should require railroads in every
direction through. our own. State, and
they, would be built, and would pay af-
ter they were built. 4 u sa,a-l-l - ),
And now is the very time to push
this policy upon Congress and the ccun,
try. The northern Slave States are not
very warmly in favor, Of getting Cuba,
and they are not all committed in fa,
vor of the Arizona route for, the Pacific
Road. They would not all unite. with
the extreme South against us on, either
of these projects, and we doubt not
they might be neutralized, or rendered
favorable to the construction of g. Pa
cific Railroad on parallel of latitude
80 much nearer their own than that Of
the extreme southern route. .+,,
During the next three years there
should also be large grants of lands
made for railroad purposes in Minneso-
to, Nebraska and Kansas and in all
these grants, and in the location and
connections of the railroads to be con-
structed. by them, our State has deep
interest. ;. o6s sfs .tst 50 sss2i
With such immense interests at stakel
it is. Of the utmost importance that tho
people of the first @ Congressional Dis
triot send. their most competent man 70
w ashington City, rs their aAgert and
Representative, to attend to ttheirsbusi
ness in the councils of the nation. q 81
Col. Curtis, Onrs present member; =
= gentleman of fne presence and sof
courteous manners, who has had sre-
markables facilities for making the 40
quaintance ofinhuential public men, in
all portions of the country As q civil
engi'eer, with all the great works for the
deyelopementi of the West and . per-
sonal acquaintancesw with all those who
are engaged in these enterprises, Ae
possesses advantages enjoyed by scaroe
another man, I'M the entire 3 westsrn
country. These secured for him lprompt
recognition in Congrras, as one Of the
leading men Of the NoFth-weat whnse
.counsels and services were sought pT.on
all measures affecting the developmsst
Of this section of country, Hencsl it
was, that. although . new member, the
entire delegation in Congress from tho
Northwest. conceded him Q position
on the most important ,Special, Com
mittee of the last. session that ON the
Pacific Railroad. And during tho e..
sion. Col Curtis achieved a:highar posi.
ton and = more favorable reputati0p
than any member ever there from this
State, He has another session of his
term yet TO fll, during which he ~ysll
extend his acquaintance and familiar
ity.with the business Of Congress and
the interests, Of the West; and win
then be ready to enter upon his secosd
term with all these personal ayaptages
and this Congressional acquaintance
and experience in bis favor. s..s -,
On the other hand, his, competitor,
Mr.. Trimble, has no advantages Of ner-
son. manner n0Siti0n knnvylo6Oa rs