New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-06-15
4 LTVELT STATE.
+. Tnder Many Governments before
Tt Entered the Union.

NOVA. THE FIRST FREE STATE I3I.,. THE
i0fi-IsIANA PURCHASE. From ~, h's Itio5
' 70 .lt BY William salter. With sgnieen
Illustrations. i2mo. Pr 81 a =
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From the time of its discovery by Marquette
80 Joliet. in 1873. for century and three
o,arters Iowa that was 70 be had an eNtren'eiS
,ar.od existence for a superficial area that oy
-, nature was destined always 10 remain IN me
COMO Mace. It's original inhabitants. the "Aioua
"Ajouez." "Ayayois.' "Ayouez. Aoals OF
...vo,r as they were variously denominateo'
rye way 10 the Sacs and Foxes. 1t passed I'M
der the civilized control first OF France then Oh
Spain 1T was acquired by the United states III 'he
louisiana Purchase. and was under the govern
lnent Of Indiana Territory in the DlslrIc' VI
Louisiana Next 1t became part OF the leFtl-
tory OF Louisiana, and for nine years II was d
art of the Territory of Missouri. From 1872 to
1884 It was in the unorganized TERRITORY Oh uie
United States and then found Itself incorpo-
,ated zuccessively. in the Territories of Michi-
ran and wisconsin It was not until 1888 that
q became a Territory under its own name ana
eight wears later. with certain notifications oil
its boundaries, it was admitted to the Union as
q State
Through all these years of changing fortunes
end governments Mr.. Salter follows the history
Of the future State. with special reference al
ways 10 the dominating question OF slavery or
free soil" The story of that controversy Is nor
a new one and has been told many times, but
Il takes on a certain freshness when STUDIED
from the point of view of its application to the
first non-slave holding State in the Louisiana
Purchase to be admitted TO the Union. AS the
author truly declares, The services Of Iowa to
the cause of freedom and to the life and great
ness of the nation have won honor and fame
TO the State.
snain left no impress on the State. and few
names, as that OF Des Mones and Tete des
Morris in Dubuque County, are the only marks
of French domination remaining upon its soil
DUBUQUE himself, the first white settler, has
been more than adequately concentrated Tor
his pioneership by the city that perpetuates his
name and the monument that has been erected
within its borders. He seems TO have been
shifty sort of person at best, who married
suuaw TO assure the friendship of the Indians
among whom he and his companions were FORCED
10 live in order to develop the lead mines by
which he made the fortune that his dishonesty
and trickery prevented him from retaining. A
far more notable person in the States history is
Henry Dodge one of the original trustees OF
st. Genevieve Academy, the first institution Of
learning established west of the Mississippi, In
1905 Dodge took permanent position in the
future history of the territory, in and states
rnanship as well in education. He rose to be
a brigadier seenral in the war of 1872, and was
conspfcuous for his valor and energy IN the
Black Hawk war. earning the Rooseveluan title
of Captain of Aggressive Civilization. He was
Governor of the Territory of Wisconsin when 1t
included the present State of Iowa He con-
Guided the treaty with the Indian chief Keokuk,
by which the Sacs and Foxes relinquished their
reservation on the Iowa River