The Van Buren press., 1859-07-27

| EE The following extract of q. private
letter from friend, we give to our readers.
that they may see in what light our State
is looked upon at distance:
New YonK, Jrly II, 1859.
j. 8. DcNnAx:
DEAR SrR-I presume ere this You have
entered pon your career editorial, in the
State Of your adoption and made your sa-
lutatory to the public. indicative of the
principles your columns will sustain-and
the local interests they will advocate. Ar
kansas has been and is regarded here as a
border State, without the facilities of COM
mercial communication except attended
with great delay and expense with her sis
ter States--in short she has no ready mar
ket for her surplus products this retards
industry and impoverishes her people. No
works of internal improvement have. as /
learn, yet been completed although large
and muni6cent grants Of land have been
made by the General Government to aid
her in the construction of Railroads, trav-
|ersing the State on two lines from North to
South, and East to West. Why is it.
reposing in apothctic slumbers, when such
future prosperity, are now staked upon her
remaining action within the next three and
a half years +? For by that time the period
will expire under the act of Congress MAX
the donation of lands in aid OF the con-
struction of her Railroads, and unless the
work shall have been commenced and in
undoubted prospect of completion by the
expiration of that time. no hope of legisla-
tive aid by extension of time could be rea-
sonable entertained or expected. To one
here surrounded by the benefits. advant-
ages and prosperity attendant upon the de-
velopment Of the resources of the country
by aid of Internal improvement, this
apparent indifference of the people of your
State is inexplicable. Is it possible they
have never reflected upon her geographical
position as State in futuro as central in
the Union, connected as she can be by a
Road from her Western border with Mem
phis, with the entire net work of Railroads
forming functions at that point with the
middle Southern and Western States, as
they have been termed. 1t is by the Road
traversing hcE State from East to West,
that the Souther States will form junction
with Pacific Road, as no hope can be en-
tertained that more southern location than
the 35th parallel will be adopted, and that
point, before it shall be fixed as the main
trunk, may be greatly west of Arkansas.
The State of Missouri is using all her ener-
gies to fix the line as GENITAL as possible
through her limits, terminating at such a
point west of your State upon the 35th
parallel as to control the northern and east
ern portion of the trade and travel from the
Pacific The construction of your Road
from Memphis, west on the 35th parallel
route. would give weighty arguments and
inducements for a junction less remote west
than contemplated by the friends of the
Both parallel in the State of Missouri,
while it gives more equal advantages to all
sections OF the country, south of the Mis-
souri, line without detriment to any portion
of the Union, My views abovJ Expressed
have been upon the assumption, that the
Pacific route would be fixed upon the 35th
para llel. This may not be the result of
Congressional deliberation, but if facts, col
lected from authentic sources, such as dist
ance. country. climate, cost of construction.
central locality, equality of interests to ali
81 1hs %n!Sa are to ss the f9UaA
appear that this route had them, consequent
ly will be the one adopted. Let the thun-
ders of the press throughout the length and
breadth of your State be called in aid, to
arouse the people from their indifference to
this subject-let the peals be loud, long and
until the work is accomplished.