Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-02-14

TIE people of Memphis will greet the
representatives of Dubuque to-day with
every possible mark Of esteem and respect
and give them hearty welcome TO the CITY,
II is not often we are privileged to extend
hospitalities to any OF the people OF the
Northwest, not because of the distance thai
separates US, but that so many greater
cities intervene between us and that their in
terests, at ore time mutual with ours, have
been diverted by the artificial channels that
have been multiplied to SO marvellous an
extent since the close OF The civil war. During
that war the men Of the Northwest revived
the cry Of Stree navigation of the Missis-
sippi" first uttered by the Legislature
OF North Carolina, and afterward so
threateningly contended for and achieved
by Tennesseans before the purchase
of Louisiana. The great river, typical of the
great republic whose territory it divides, was
the roadway for the hardy pioneers who
peepled the Northwest as we'll as for those
who ventured into the wilds of the South
west. 1t made the territory now known as
the State of Iowa accessible TO the sons of
New England, who, like those of
North Carolina, bravely pushed on
toward the setting sun in obedience
to the unseen power which prompted them
in their submission to "msnifest destiny"
This land was given to them 10 subdue, aud
to blaze everywhere amidst its forests the
paths that were TO lead millions TO peace
and plenty under governments of their own
chosiug. The part that Tennesseans
played in this finding or making
of paths, two generations ago made her so
conspicuous as 10 win for her the enviable
distinction and designation OF the "Voluu-
teer State" Every battlefield in Alabama,
Florida, Mississippi and Texas besrs record
to this manful work of blazing paths for US,
who, 10 more peaceful days, profit by
their blood bought triumphs. From the
mountain where Andrew johnson sleeps TO
the capital of Mexico, Tenresseans have
been among the first to make the paths
plain for others to follow in happier times.
Those OF Memphis cap, therefore, meet the
representatives. of Iowa to-day with kindred
feelings, as men with whom they have an
identity in history, as having COM
mon purpose within the limis of the
same civilization, enjoying the liberties
guaranteed by the same constitution, under
the same flag, revering and holding sacred
ths glorious memories of the patriotism and
the suferings OF the revolutionary fathers
that is the heritage Of all Americans They
can meet them, too, as those who are likely
soon TO be joined to them in the bonds OF
peaceful striving in trade. Within the past
few years the people of Iowa and all the
Northwestern States have again turned to
the Mississippi as their ony channel of
release from the railroads whose freight
charges are a tax far more exorbitant than
that for which the Boston boys threw
the tea into the bay, and the barge
system is likely again to make the
Father Of Waters Of as much con-
sequences TO the people Of the present gen.
Grafton as it was to those more ven;uresome
of the first years of the century. Besides ,
this, Memphis is reaching up to that section
by the Kansas City railroad, SO that Iowa
grain, beei and pork may find short road
TO the cotton States or to New Orleans
by barges from Memphis, which stands
at the head of perpetual navigation on the
Mississippi. This visit of the representa-
tives of Iowa 10 Memph takes ou,
then, broader significance than the OBJ.
ject which inspired would give it, though
that is in the highest degres commendabls.
Thus regarding it the people of Men,
phis can make no mistske in the extent
10 which their welcome shall 90 nor in the
enthusiasm by which it shall be per-
yaded They have no bloody chasm
to 6ll There ia nothing TO mar the
general Joy. The hoWers have bloomed and
blossomed many seasons above the fields
made memorable by American soldiers from
all the States during the civil war, and the
graves of the heroes of the North and the
South have for many recurring seasons
passed under the plowshare. The cries OF
countless hosts have given way to
the pleasing hum of busy men, and
the sorrows of stricken households
have died out before the glee and 10y and
hope of succeeding generation. There
only remains to us-as to the people of the
North-a memory OF valor consecrated
10 our defense that will live forever
"a story that even now our brethren be.
yond the Ohio eau listen to with swelling
hearts aud moistened eyes az to that Of broth
ers who fell illustrating the cOnst sncy, en-
durance and pluck that are the distinguish-
ing and nobler qualities of the English.
speaking race.