Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1867-07-11
HANNIBAL, Mo, June %, 1867.

i am Just here nom Saint Louis, 10
look around, and tell you the news from
over the river, for this mighty Mississ-
ippi lies between US and the green hills
OF Vermont, In earlier days, / climbed
your mountains, and drank from the
cool crystal springs that leaped from
their sides, or bubblea from their base,
and memory carries me back to New
England; TO dear hearts and homes
that render New England sacred, and to
be forever enshrined in the choicest rec
objections Of her children wherever they
wander.
You may thus see that whatever praise
may accord to the West, is mingled
with no prejudice against New England.
HANNIBAL,
is $50 miles above st. Louis, 20 miles
below Quincy, charming town of some
10000 inhabitants, planted directly on
the west bank of the Mississippi, like all
our western towns has the promise of a
brilliant future. Here and at Quincy,
are the eastern termini of the Hannibal
and st. Joseph Railroad which stretches
entirely across the State 206 miles, to
Kansas. Along this line, which has
thirty or forty towns and stations, a few
years ago, comparatively, three was an
uninhabited country.
The H. & st. Joseph Railroad Co. have
lying on both sides Of the track 100000
acres of magnificent country, fertile in
soil, charming in climate, and cheap in
price, which it offers, especially to the
people Of New England, on most liberal
terms.
When I think of this magnificent
country including 10000 square miles
north Of the Missouri river, with a
sparce population still, when consider
how easily crops are here produced, and
cattle and sheep raised and how easily
people can make living, if not for
tune on these prares and then think OF
the bleak hills Of Vermont, of its long,
and cherries winters, its late and cold
springs, l can only account for the mass
of New England population remaining
at home, because they are not acquaint-
ed with the facts in the case.
There are discomforts, and hardships
doubtless, attending the settling in a
new country, but, not half so great for
the wide-awake, hopeful, and labor
trained Yankee, as for the thousands Of
foreign emigrants that cross q stormy
ocean, and then cross the mountains
rivers, and plains Of dozen States, be-
fore they reach Missouri. But, this is
done by many thousands of industrious
Germans. In the Fatherland, they hear
Of Missouri as an Eldorado, and they
long to come, and they gather up, with
marvellous economy, their little wages,
until they have accumulated sufficient to
reach the State.
1t grieves me sometimes to see how
the populations of Europe come and
seize upon the best parts of the United
States, while the farmers Of New Eng
land delve and toll upon their Ihillsides,
ekeing out scanty living from & hard
soil and an ungentle climate. Farmers
from Pennsylvania and Ohio are coming,
but why should we not have Vermont
largely represented on our prairies? II
the farmers of Vermont can raise the
finest stock, the unequaled Morgan, and
the famous Merino, why should they not
with our splendid facilities for their en-
terprise and skill, reap greater success
on our grassy prairies Men, far infe-
rior to the average Of Vermonters, have
made immense fortunes in Illinois. But
Illinois has no adv antage over Missouri
can conceive of no reason why multi
tudes Of Vermont's best young farmers
should not come to Missouri, except they
do not understand and appreciate the
immense advantages which North Mis-
souri, offers.
OUR CROPS.
II