New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1873-10-30
EDITORIAL CORRESPONDENTS.

CHICAGO, October is, 1873.
II was announced by an orator that Illi
| nois and Missouri together could control
the country. and really. when ono travels
on The rail between Cairo and Chicago. the
| probability Of such . result: il not subject
of sidicules Having passed through the
sparsely peopled region of Mississippi and
the western corners of Tennessee and Ken
lucky. the contrast Of the farms and vii
lagos along the line of the Illinois railroad
is especially striking. The road through
the southern part of the State is not so much
employed as those sections nearer Chicago.
Still the former are well fenced, and the
buildings and people show evidence of
thrift But it is after the road enters the
prairie sections that the extraordinary fer
tility and prosperity of this State is most
obvious. Each station is village, we'll
built and active. Coal and provisions
abound, and the independence OF the popu-
lation is shown in the appearance of the
people and in the fact that they can afford
the time and money to travel from point to
point ON the railroads. 1t is thus the rail
roads through Illinois have somewhat the
effect of street railroads in the change of
passengers which takes place at every sta
ton. But 1t is in looking upon the agrcul-
tural scene that the populous power of
Illinois is most conspicuous. Think of
counting from the Car window, on one side
and at one view between forty-five and fifty
dwelling houses, with the church spires
and school houses and factory smoke of
mora! and individual progress intermixed
with the dwellings Of labor. Think Of the
well dressed, happy and healthy women
and children: the horses and carriages and
cattle. Why, looking upon these prai,ies
as an ocean. with its undulatins surface,
the white houses as sails, away upon the
horizon. the shoals of sheep. and the alter.
nate appearance and disappearance Of the
huge bulIocks under the changing profile,
seem imaginary porpoises, rolling their lub-
berry and lazy backs into the sunlight, to
dive again into the Deep But under this ]
nautical figure SOU have the mos: practical
illustration of the extraordinary capacities
of this favored region. This soil. extending
owe: the States of the central West, will
bear the population Of Belgium. They have
the food and fuel of Belgium, with better
climate. Multiply anything like this popu-
latiou by the area OF this region-contrast |
it with the sparsity of the planting popula.
ton, and you have the basis of a power |
which can and will govern this couniry-it !
may be safely said Of this continent. Well |
might the Governor of Illinois have warned I
all the lines Of internal transportation and |
outlet ports that they could neither tax nor
the outlets and inlet, Of this
to the sea. The civil war expended !
and invested in this country very large
of the public debt. The very econ
,mv OF existence here accumulated the
wealth elsewhere expended for food. it is
ust as a planter who buys of farmer
transfers his expenditure to the
Of the farmer. The war
aught these people their Talor. 1t taught
hem power and the uprising of the late
Oldiers for a march to the sea with a con-
yoy OF corn is an evidence of the position
which providence has assigned this extra
rdinary people. And as a result, we see
he country population well-clad and t,ans-
'orted IN buggies. Now, the inhabitants Of
illinois have their buggies just as the ma.
ives of Owhyhee have their canoes. There
re none without a handsome buggy and a
asst horse. We see the chubby children
AIKEN to school by their healthy and well
ayeInnad hrothers and sisters Taxa all
his picture. There is no part of this