New Oregon plaindealer. (New Oregon, Iowa) 1859-1866, 1861-01-18
COMMUNICA TED.

Friend Mead:
In your issue Of the 4th you institu-
ted a comparison Of the population.
and by inference of the resources of the
coun try tributary to MeGregor and
Dubuque. l think you have given Du-
buquc credit for entirely to much. BY
casting yonr eye over the map Of the
State you will find that Jackson county
with it's 1S,50S inhabitants must do bus
mess at .Galena, Savannah and Lyons
instead of at Dubuque. At least one
half of the 1881 inhabitants of Jones
Co., will pas, their business over the
n. &. I. G. K. r. and as for Marion
with its 1851 inhabitants (this is the
population of Linn and to which we re-
fered El,) being 100 miles South West
of Dubuque and having several avenues
to the Eastern market nearer than via
Dubuque cannot add much to the trade
of that city. Benton Co. also with its
$500 inhabitants will soon have a r. X,
running through its center and over which the
distance to Chicago will be some 40 miles
nearer than via Dubuque. Deduct from Du-
buque the above counties with their so, 4ss
inhabitants leaves McGresor 2,34s ahead
then deduct $4,000 jim Dubuque the excess
ever McGregor and add 5000 for Mower and
Freedom counties in Aim, and McGresor
is at least 10000 ahead.
The amount of exports shipped from Nc
Gregor will venture is three times As
much as from Dubuque, and when We consd-
er that McGregor is so situated that it is i'm.
possible that any R. X. can be built within
40 or so miles Of her; it soc ms that her fu-
ture is not to be ccIipscd by any River town
in tn. State. As for Inducements to invest
capital either in r. R. Manufactures or agri-
culture there are no 10 counties in the U. 5.
ofthc same ago that offer advantages equal
to that Of the counties North West and West
Of McGregor and that will show rs rapid
progress in TIE past 10 y,ars. If the N. l. r.
Road should be built 100 miles west of Nc
Gregor in the next year as is promised it
will without doubt receive four times the bus
mess of the D. & P. r. If you will exam
in the Census of 1880 and 1869, think you
will come to the same conclusion.
Truly Yours J. A. DANIELS.
THE POSITION OF mr. BUCHANAN.
Never, since the formation Of the govern
m ,nt, was there such desperate effort made
to dragon a President into inauguratins CIV
il war, as there is now to compel Mr.. Bu-
chanan to let loose the dogs of wrr" against
South Carolina The powerful engine the
press is almost wholly in the hands of the
Black Republicans, and with unsparing bit
terness, and with Inscriptions misrepresen
tations, they seek to gain the; people t.
their side OF the controversy. The real issue
is lost sight of in technical questions concern
ing the right of secession, the course of Ma
jor Anderson, and other in Incidental matters
which really have no bearing upon the grea
contest before us. The real issue is hid from
the people OF the ncrth, and therein oul
great danger lies. The South lock upon th'
inauguration Of Mr.. Lincoln as their implied
assent that his principles are Gems titutiona
while they really regard them as subversiv'
character. "But," say many northern men
let US wal to see if Mr.. Lincoln will carr,
out his principles" In other words, let u
wait to see whether he is an honest man
Now, such was not the way our torefather
obtained their liberties, nor will it be thu
way we shall preserve ours When Crea
Britain declare that she had "the right Il
tax the Colonies in all cases whatsoever
they did not wait until British soldier wa
stationed in every house, but, as MIR. Web
stcr truly said, 'they fought the Revolution
on a preamble"
Now, Mr.. Lincoln's party declares that
will exclude southern men from their share O
the common Territory, and yet the Supreme
Court says they have equal rights there Tn
decisions Of the Supreme Conrt are tho ST.
preme law of the land, and yet this party, nov
boasting o. its devotion to the Union, declares
that it will deprive citizens of their legal an
constitutional rights under it Such bold
traitorous party as this coming into power
naturally enough alarms the South, and sh'
saws 1--WE cannot live under dishonored ant
disobeyed Constitution.
But the anti-slaveryites demand that MI
Buchanan shall compel her to do so-that h
shall involve the country in civil war becaus
some of the states refuse to allow the glorious
old Constitution Of our fathsrs to be broker