Daily Iowa State Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1856-1859, 1858-03-02


Coaneil BtuNs. The Rock Island bridge
gives this route decided advantage over
any other. For the continuation Of Us line
Iowa presents q rolling prairie Withhold any
serious obstruction for 300 miles. Thirty
miles in Nebraska has been explored Or It's
continuation beyond the Aississipp( and
government surveys have estabIisiNd the
fact that the difficulties OF the line betveen
Council Bluffs and San Francisco are less
than any other route except the 32d paral-
lei Here Is vast region Of country" il
has been said, exactly suited to the most
necessary and most important products of
the earth-breadstuffs and meat Open this
road through it when it unites The two
great oceans Of the world, it becomes the
center Of the vast globe with the grand high.
way or thorougbfare Of nations through it
it will be new found world the over-pop-
ulation Of Europe must and will flock TO it.
This great depot af meats and breadstuffs
lies just midway between the Atlantic and
Pacific Oceans, and inevitably on the line Of
the road which must furnish the shortest
and chea pest channel Of commercial exchan-
yes and the interchange Of products of the
Eastern and Western worlds.
For those seeking other than agricultural
matters, the lecturer described q voyage
from Davenport up the Mississippi. The
pleasant and growing villages make the
western bank, for thirty miles above Dayen
port, a continuous town, the seat OF a busy
population and the mart of PROSPEROUS
commerce Dubuque, which we soon after
reach, is city Of Is 900 inhabitants, many
| Of whom have grown wealthy by the devel-
| opment Of the mineral resources of the vi
entity From St Paul westward, through
Minnesota, Daco,ah and Washington Terri
tories, will ultimately stretch an important
branch Of the Northern Pacific Railroad, and
| st. Paul will be central depot whera Ii-
| rope and Asia will meet and shake hands in
summer, while they will continue to do SO
in winter ut Panama. In this connection
| the lecturer gave an extended sketch Of the
trading capabilities of the Northwest the
undev eloped and immense mineral veal b
of the lake region at the North, its fisheries,
lumber business, DC, all of which would in
crease vastly, and call for The settlement Of
farms to give supplies to the miners, the
fishermen, and others.
| No portion of the United States surpasses
the Southern shores of Lake SUPERIOR in
healthfunes of climate, and they have no
ayues or bilious fevers, those scourges of
most new climates. Many of the objections
now made to that section Of county were
| formerly made i'll reference to Chicago,
which, ae late as rs years ago, vas de-
| scribed to be one of the most hopeess and
desolate places on the face of the globe In
s36 her exports ware but 5. 900 invalue J;
in 1910, nearly quarter of a million and
in 1858 she is the greatest primary grain
port in the world, while her lumber fleet is
| valued at s 100000. Five years ago she
shipped 81 tons of marble and store from
neighboring quarries; last year 900 TONS
employing in the trade l,345 men and
81, 500, 900 capital. Her population. from
1910 in 1910, and 2S,269 III 1850, has in
creased to 100000 in January 1855 This
| demonstrates the immense wealth Oithe re
gion lying just beyond, and tells whit may
be expected of that and other Western cit
les when the country shall have become
thoroughly settled.
The lecturer then showed how slow In
comparison had been the growth o. the
most energetic European cities-as Anster
| dam, u great mart which took several CEN
turtles TO reach population of 00,OOC; as
| London, which contained in HI, only
10000 people, in 1900 but l25, OOO- or gain
ed in $50 years what Chicago did in four
and half years-July, 1858, to January,
1858. For some time these Western titi.s
must so increase, for continent lies unset
tied beyond, rich in all the sources of wealth.
The lecturer next gave advice to persons
going out West. To those engaged here In
the pursuit of prosperous business or pro-
fession. he said, your condition requires no
bettering-remain where YOU are. You
have all that is needed in this journey OF
life that is SO soon to terminate. But if YOU
had moderate means, and wished to increase
the portion of your children-if you have
energy and courage, and are willing to la
Dor and wait-then it is certain you can
live more easily, and lay the foundation Of
future independence and veal h more surely
in the West than You can this side of the
Alleghanes. The State Of Iowa presented
the most desirable field. Handicraft willcar-
ry It's skill to a gaod market thera, and the
meanwhile, the broad acres which a few
hundred dollars will procure on her pro-
ductive territory, will grow in value as the
country fills up around and before him, and
will cut up into farms and fortunes for hi.
descendants. This was the history of Amer
can progress. He had no fears for the capi
talsts in new country, for his Investments
would in the end return him hundred fold
And Mr. Greedy says, that for the hard
handed plough logger, who is poor in coin
but rich in children, there is no country to-
day so inviting as the broad free West"
The East and the West, then said Mr. Sar
gent, need one another. We want your emf
grants you want our meats and breadstuffs
We want Your manufactures and transat
lantic imports you want our space of ter
ritory and our open opportunities. We
want your capital; you want the increase
our labor can impart to it. Nay, more, we
want your stability Of character; you want
our RESTLESS activity. We want the guild.
ance OF your thought and seIfrestraint you
want our daring enterprise and our lively
impulse. We want your: steady brain you
want our ardent blood. We want Your
conservative moderation Won want our pro
gressive instincts and rapid ty of NOV nent
In short, Prov idence clearly intended tina,
We should be the complement and helpers
of each other, supplying each others defects
advancing each others Improvement
In a free and cordial interchange and in.
termixture, lies our true path of honor and
advancement.
Gentlemen of Boston:
We have one country. We are one peo
pie. Learn fresh conviction of that grand
and inspirating truth from the practical les
son Of this address. l stand here gratefully
and gladly. on the native soil of nv fathers
grateful to have this venerable New Eng
land for my birth place, glad to have the
youthful and vigorous West for nv home
grateful for the sacred memories that bint
me to these Eestern shores, the dwelling
place Of my ances ors and glad that be-
yond the banks Of the Mississippi there NAV
be an Inheritance for my children
There, young men. your kinsmen, your
sons, your brothers, ale my neighbors and
friends. Daily they are planting them
selves in prosperity around me, or are push
ing on, in hope, to new and fertile region.
still nearer the Rocky Mountains. The bes
treasure they carry with them, every there
is the influence of your New England