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and with but one laboring man, Ifelt «
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Fnm the CoaslUuliatalist. ■ | father land, let oa be read; to give them ibe an®- JoWiers! m^iiefgloiy ta to cowaa^d yon. I: sponsibility and no snffiU~relmfciiico'in w • »
.Wr. Editor,—Permit me, through your nm^^ta^W^bcen tot^mta win, danger. 1 ion among men ofall parties,as to the neceaaity of a yoang gentlemen with mo into'probtofolfo^''*
columns, to offer to your rcadera a few re- batthat with the achievement of tbqir victory, thqr i.. 1*1 JtuLi will bo that « _ , „ , sore hardships and fatigues; buttoey,toa^»? , *® , I
ra&rks : Upon the result of the recent elections have also seenred to thcmsclre. a support m thmaod reLuie - Conrt for the Correction of Errors. Let u, remem- u MOn w0 wUl follow voo-we^L^*^ I
iuour Slate, as that result cannot fail to be a j country, which will not fail them in the hour of you will meenbem^e,annals of.Uic _repubUc
subleclofinuch comment in other States need, and let ns speedily organize ourselves, that we, epochiwlnch-SWU-.S-k~.*r,tv 1
of the Union.
The democratic party entered the contest
with, apparently, considerable advantages
oteriia opponents; they yere but apparent
und not .real, . One. of . Uidse .advantages
Was (fictriumph we obtained last October
and'Noverober; but i lie uttest ions at issue
then and at the recent elections were not of
a similar character. The question l/ten
was national, and the ouestion at the late
election was local. If the question had
. been, at this recent election, national, the
democratic party would certainly have been
again triumphant, as the! same party will
always be triumphant when national qu*s-
tions’arc at issue, anti for the best of reasons,
because the general mass of tli j people of
Georgia are essentially democratic, ortho
dox in their republican doctrines. Our op
ponents will have to admit the correctness
this position, us I admit, and my* fellow
democrats will have to admit, that pn local
questions our opponents have had, and still
have, some advantage over us. Ilcnce the
result of the recent election for Governor,
which most conclusively demonstrates the
correctness of the position assumed by me.
If at the recent elect ion for Governor, nni ion-
al politics had been at issue, Mr. Crawford
with all his personal popularity, and his
reputation fora faithful discharge of his du
ty as chief magistrate of Georgia, would
have been defeated l>y a large majority.—
His political friends will have to admit an
other position assumed by titc, because the
result of the election for "Senators and Rep
resentatives to the legislature, is an unde
niable proof of the opinion already express-
ed, that the people of Georgia arc essential
ly democratic. Out, I may lie asked, how
do you make that oat, when there will prob
ably' he a whig majority in the House,
more than enough to overcome the prob
able democratic majority in the Senate 1
It is notorious (hat tjic whig*, in 1843, or
ganized the Senatorial’ Districts tt> suit ihctn-
ieltfes ; that, by their organization of the
Senate, they were to succeed in twenty-nine
oat of forty seven districts. Their calcula*
tion was fallacious; the result of the elec
tions in October and November last proved
dial the whigs deceived themselves ; and
the result of the recent election proved also,
that, when the voters of Georgia arc not
biassed by local questions, bill arc governed
by general principles, the majority wii! ho
found on the side of the democratic party :
hence the probable majority the democrats
will have in the Senate, ami hence the ma
jority they would have had iu the House,
if they had not pursued (he fatal policy of
running opposing candidates from ilicir own
ranks in several counties which gave large
democratic majorities for Governor and Sen
ator. The whigs will not have more than
two, three, four, or five majority in the
House, as we have not as yet received nil
the returns in order to ascertain the exact
majority
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profit by their experience in protecting our own po- ment U
lilical interests at borne. In abort, let us organize
in county contentions throughout the State of Tex
as; let us naminato the candidates: thst-we will
support as Senators and Representatives of-the
State Legislature; let ns send delegates to a State
Convention, clotbed with authority to nominate can
didates for our Governor, and take such other mea
sures as they may deem proper tnd expedient for the
best interests and welfare of the party.”
From the Washington Union.
From a file of Mexican papers of late dates, too
numerous to bo called more extensively st present,
the following hasty abstract has been made.
It is evident from the contents of tliese papers,
that the Mexicans are preparing for war after their
own fashion, but with a steady determination which
amply justifies all the preparations which have been
made by our government They speak of the con
test as inevitable, and as one which threatens tbeir
national existence. In a well written communica
tion of some length, in one of those papers, the wri-
ter undertakes to demonstrate that there is no neces
sity Cor any further declaration of war by the Mexi-
live the supreme govera-
MARIANO PAREpES Y ABRIhjLAGA.
ALBlfY: f ATRTOT
WEbAEtPA^OCTOBEH 32, 1846.
“ tourt tor roe torrccuon ot errors, minsrousnu- ^ we wjJpfoUow
l^ g her that-it is asnbject entirely disconnected with an a they have fully redeemed their pled™, u
party politics. Let the question be fitirly and can-' gone through many bardsbipcv.much fafig^ ^'
didlydiscnsscd, and if it shall appear that such a labor hunger and thirst. 1 cannet ssy r 1
tion of law, by preventing litigation, and giving ad- ■ gj. They were ready to wade tlirough mnj J* - 1
j,., » .. -■ *_u.- -r .e. —.-.I- ^ »_ .v.:_ A- _:.e
To" Corresfqxdests.-—-Tlie' communication of
Mr. J. E. Kean violates a fundamental rule of our
office, and is necessarily excluded.'
If the temporary tEditar of the Courier expects us
us tobandy epithets with him, he wiil.be mistaken.
We are not In the liabit of noticing scurrilous arti
cles, .believing that tbe dignity of the press and the
morals of the community are best preserved by treat
ing such articles with the silent contempt which
they merit; but we are induced to vary from that
rnle so far as to do justice to the intentions of the
Courier, the' language of which it seems wo had
misconceived.; . The writer for the Courier says,
that in stating'UiaC Gdh, Brisbane, formerly 'Engi-
ditional security to the rights of tho citizen, sorely
none will object to its establishment.-' If on thc coo-
Uary, it shall be shown to be deliterious to the inter
ests of the people, no one will desire it
We give briefly some of our reasons for believing
can Congress, and says that when General Almonte, I necr.aud subdcqffiffilly President. ortho Ocmulgco
by direction of Santa Ana, notified onr Government j &. Flint Rail Road Co., had undertaken that work
tliat Mexico would consider the adoption by Con
gress of a resolution to annex Texas as tantamount
to a declaration of war, Santa Ana was in fact, in
the exercise of all tho powers of government execu
tive and legislative, and was competent not only to
proclaim war, but to declare it; and tliat the contin
gency having arisen, war is declared, and actually
exists.
A circular from tlio Treasury Department of Mex
ico, dated August 20, requires the governors of the
several de|iartmCDts to establish juntas or commit
tees for soliciting and receiving donations of money
or other articles for tho purpose of assisting the go
vernment in the prosecution of the war against the
United States.
Tho revolt of a part of the army, nndcr tho com
mand of Gen. Parades, is the subject of considerable
discussion. The Siglo Diez y Muere of the 8th of
September contains an address signed by the officers
of the troops concerned in the movement, in whicli
they warmly deiend themselves from what they call
the calumnious accusation of mutiny, and state that
what they did was the result of actual and unavoid
able necessity, and not from any indisposition to ad
vance towards tlio cnciny. The same troops, they
say, iiad often marched without bread or shoes; hut
it did not follow from tliat, that it was their duty to
do so in all cases j and in the present case, nothing
would have been gained to thoir country by their
marching, destitute and dispirited, to meet a power
ful foe.
Tho following curious specimen of bombast is
from a Tampico paper: “ Why are not onr valiant
troops battling with these Yankcs drunk with wisky
ami raw meat, who would let themselves be killed
like hogs 7 Why have not the enemy’s advance
troops (icrishcd by tlio swords ami lances of our in
vincible veterans of the North 7 Why should they
lie permitted to Cattily themselves, in order tliat in
cold blood, and so ingloriously, with their fifteen
. iiad not the fatal policy alluded I chambered rifles, they may make us purchase victo-
to bcen'pursued, Pulaski would have return- rie* dearly?”
cd a democratic Representative.*, as well its . 8‘gto Din y None of the 11th of Soptcm-
b
Representative.*,
Bulls, Jasper, Walker, ami, perhaps, some
other counties. If those four counties had
returned democratic Representatives, the
democratic party would have had a ma jori
ty in the House as well as in the Senate.—
The result, as it is, and will be, as I believe,
will show that (he whigs will have a ma
jority in the legislature on joint ballot n-
gainst the vote of a majority’of the people
of Georgia.
I admit that (he majority of the voles for
Governor Crawford, would seem to lie more
fa'vorablc to the whig party ; but this ma
jority will have been given under circum-
elances which cannot he ascribed to the
popularity of that party in Georgia. The
result of this election shows that the people
were gencraliy satisfied with the local ad-
inimstration of that gentleman; but it docs
not show that this people intended to sanc
tion the - principles df a national character
entertained by nim, If the; people of Geor
gia intended to approve,by their rotes, the
political principles of Governor Crawford,
how conics it, that the democrats will have
a majority in the Senate ? How comes it,
that the votes cast in the forty seven sena
torial districts, will show an aggregate dem
ocratic majeritv of all the voles given in,
while there wifi be a whig majority for Gov
ernor ? I am satisfied from a comparison I
made of the votes given in for Senators and
Governor, in many counties of the State,
that if the returns of the votes given in for
Senators arc published, the aggregate will
show a democratic majority in the State.
If this be tlie case, can the result of the
recent elections be considered ns a whig
triumph ?. Certainly not. If it be not a
whig triumph, what is it then 1 Nothing
more nor less than a triumph of Governoi
Crawford, individually, because had those
citizens who voted for democratic Senators,
voted for the democratic candidate for gov
ernor, Governor Crawford would have been
defeated. G.
Democracy la Texas.
The democrats of Texas are organizing throughout
the State, to act with their political brethren here.
A great public meeting baa been held at Galveston,
and a permanent Committee appointed. We ex-
tract the (bllowhig'fioai their address in the Gal ves-
tonows:
v “ We find die' several State* of the Union mnch
distracted by the division of political, parties. We
find tte.Wiyf party distracted, and tent aaunder by
itodivcoidant .dements, a -part aaanriating them-
sdvarWitk the abothiooista, and circulating pledges
agaihstthis onr country from onr enemies, and oth
er pledge* subversive of tbeir own constitution and
government. Let us remember that Texa* has been
annexed to tho United States, by the votes of the dc-
mocracy of that country, and that we are bound in
doty, as well as from principle, to stand by the par
ty that has fought the political campaign far onr fa
vor. . ’
- Leva* rally-to the support cf our friends la our
her, speaking of the arrival of a courier from Mata
moras with the news of the advance of our troops
says: “ Such intelligence proves that there is no men, and that politics were not involved in the result,
longer a moment to bo lost, and that the patriotism Mjiny democrats vrero deccivcd by these assurances,
and honor of the Mexicans imperiously require that
the government and people should devote all their
“ with more zeal than ability”—ho did not mean a
want of mental capacity, but a want of money, or the
means to cany on the work. lie says also, that in
stating that “ the money heretofore appropriated (for
improving Flint River) has been squandered with
out doing any good, and this will be the case again,
unless the Legishtthrc refrin the money in the Trea
sury until the workhas been performed under the
supcriutence of sqnyi good practical Engineer”—
he “ intended to assert that the money heretofore
appropriated had Vtitfi lavishly expended upon the
river by men unacquainted with the business, and
to prevent a similar? error, it would be necessary to
employ a £«sd piact jjjtl Engineer to direct the work
hereafter.” i„Wq l^e, that such assertions will al
ways he accomparied; with similar explanations—
they are necessary,^ a proper understanding of the
language. According to the rule of interpretation
laid down, if weakest'that the present writer for the
Courier, had undertaken the conduct of tliat paper
“ with more zeal thtrti ability,” we should be under
stood to say that he lacked the money or other means
to carry it on. If we should say that he has “ squan
dered liis money without doing any good," we should
be understood to sly*that he had expended it lavish
ly upon proper objqqts, and that he was unacquain
ted with the business in which he 1 was engaged
We must live aml fcarn.
The Issue Before aud After tlie Late
lUection.
The whig newspapers throughout tho State be
fore the election,' Word filled with.argumcnts to prove
that the present was not a political eonlc. t—demo
crats were called upon to come out and support Air.
Crawford for Governor. They were assured tliat
his election would have no bearing upon any po
litical question, that tho issue was between the two
tod grass, to their necks, with our proving,
their heads—to swim rivervto fell, trees for braJ" I
and all other fatigues necessary for.thoaccoo^' I
ment of our object. -'I
Before leaving Prairie du Chicn, 1 fixed usnn
route which 1 would like to pass to the Mis® *1
that a Court for the Correction of Errors should be and with compass in hand, made it within iveta’
established, and we shall be glad to hear the reasons °f ^ le P°'ut started for. By Burr’s map oMv;,
of others, for or”against it i cousin embracing Iowa, &c. (which ! r onndoo ,
* • correct than any I have seen J we crossed thn t
1st. It is required by .the Constitution that the; ^ e y River at Fort Atkinspon, North lat. 43 ) I
bout fifteen; thence, we crossed the dificrcnt Inm/1
es of tho Wabisipiniea and Cedars, in about the
latitude, to clear Lake, in W. Ion. 93, aud jU. I
twenty-five; thence Northwesterly, till wc ‘I
to a branch of tho St. Peters, running Northeast
My object was to find a dividing ridge.between £ I
waters which rim North and those running gout
cr; and I will hero remark that I did nut find
Cedars or tho St.' l’elcrs hratfch'fo ' correspond irV I
Burr’s or any other map 1' have seen. Thence 1
west to tho Des Moines, in lat. 43 20, West Ion- I
tnde about 95, which river we crossed by felling ti^.j I
for a bridge; thence duo west, to a number of seal l
lakes forming the head waters of the Little Sioni, I
emptying into the Missouri; thence across Fiord I
Rjver, then duo west across the branches of the Cib I
umet, and then the Calumet, and then the White I
Stone or Vermillion, then Jaqucs river, and then to I
the great, the grand Missouri, fifteen miles brio* 1
great bend, making a distance from the Missiaap,; I
of more than five hundred miles, over the finest cor-1
try upon the globe, capable of sustaining more tfe, I
three times the population of the same space in »I
other part of the world—no swamps, no marslie,. r. I
flooding of rivers, except in the vicinity of the MV I
bisipiniea, and that only for a small distance,—c-‘ I
undoubtedly the most healthy country in the « K /1
I have never found the atmo.qihere Bo purc; the I
face gently rolling to an almost level, always her. I
ever, enough undulating to let all the water o£-1
While pn this subject, I will remark tliat none of tit I
rivers west of the lakes are natural rivers, bit has-1
formed themselves and beds by the constant wash-; I
this vast and almost level plain. But more of til
hereafter.
thoughts to one object—the punishment of the infa
mous invaders of the republic.”
Tlio Government was calling the regular troops
from all tho departments remote from the apprehen
ded theatre of war, and supplying tbeir place by lo
cal militia.
From the Washington Union.
Alorc Proiiuni iameutos iu Alexlco.
War urox I’afek.
Wo arc favored with the following translations of
tho last Mexican papers, received from Vera Crux
by the Princeton:
From El Siglo Dicz y Nuove of Mexico, of Sept. 2.
& > roclaiutiUon of General Parades to
bis Troops.
The General-in-chicf of the army of reserve to the
lrno'.s under his command.
Head Quarters,
San Luis Potosi,Aug. 27, 1845.
Soldiers 1 The supreme government has ordered
that the tir. t and third divisions of tlie army shall
constit utc the army of reserve, and lias been pleased
to appoint me its gcneral-in-chief. This proof of
tlie highest confidence requires mo to consecrate
myself, by a new title, to a country so generous to
wards me.
- Companions! That samo country now raises its
august iront for tho purpose of resisting the usurpa
tions of a neighboring power, which has believed
your valor asleep, and that you arc not the sons of .„..„ i _ „
llioso heroes who, in a hundred combats, manifested " , * T “'V
their couraere and constancy. A rapacious'and Plonda . Ilk ° ^ of, Georgia, thoug.it there
and supported the'Whig candidate. But as soon os
it is ascertained that Mr. Crawford is elected, the
issne appears to pi; changed, it is now a glorious
Whig Victory—a complete party triumph. No
paper in the State labored harder to prove that poli
tics were not. involved in the election, ‘than the
Savannah Republican. But look at the columns of
that paper since (lie.result is known. .The “same
old Coon” has aomc back—tliat japer has put forth
the same strains -Of-sanitation, tlie same chaste and
emblematic 'wood jcjts. -and the same shoots of
triumph that weroiuped by'the Whigs in the “Hard
Cider” and “ Coo»"8k!n” campaign. Wo hear no
more now the election is over, that politics are not
involved in the contest; but it is claimed as a po
litical victory. Those democrats who were deceiv
ed by tlie whig pnjss before the election, should
look at some of their papers now. They will see
that whig profession^ before and after tho election
arc very diflerent tiling*. Those who were duped
to vote for any of th&whig candidates by the asser
tions tliat politics were not involved in the contest,
should look at the. Savannah Republican and learn
wisdom for the futnlre.
their courage and constancy,
grasping race have thrown themselves upon our
territory, and dare to flatter themselves that wo will
not defend the patrimony which our fathers conquer
ed with their blood. They deceive thcmscivos!
Wc will fly to snatch from them the spoils, tlie pos
session of which they are impudently enjoying; and
they shall learn, by a dearly-bought experience, tliat
they are not contending with the undisciplined tribes
of Indians whom they robbed ef tbeir land, their hea
ven and tbeir country; and that Mexicans wBi ar
dently combat the soldiers of a nation which has
sanctioned, by its laws, the moat degrading slavery.
Comrades! When the supreme government com
mands, we will march to avenge so many injuries,
to sustain the integrity of tho grilant soil which gave . '
us birth, the religion, the adorable worship of which “ e
Florida Coiirgre&sioiial Election.
From tho cdfnplc^qn pf the returns thus- far re
ceived, it appears Hhat'insny ot the. Democrats of
Florida, like time of Georgia, thought there was no
danger, and stayed at home on the day of the elec
tion, and let the whigs carry it -their pwn way.—
The Florida papers say Mr. Cabell is probably elec
ted. From the -following extract of too Star, (a
neutral paper) it appears that it was the “policy” of
the whigs in Florida, as well as Georgia, “ to oper
ate privately.”
‘-The whig party Kps pkrtially succeeded, because
it has operated witheut permitting toe hand, which
impelled toe movement to be seen. And it therefore
had the means of combining influence*, and elements
of power, which wprg also unseen, and' unappre
ciated.”' . * J ‘2' .
The editor of the,tk>mmereial Advertiser “halls
return of Georgia iuito the whig ranks.” He
Legislature shall establish such a Conrt.
2d. It will diminish litigation, by settling contro
verted principles and questions of law, which ore
now undecided, or are decided variously in diflerent
Circuits, the very uncertainty of which now fills
our courts with harassing law suits, benefiting none
but tlie lawyers and imposing a heavy tax upon par*
tics, jurors and witnesses, in money and time. It is
too uncertainty of the law which causes litigation.
Tho decision of a Supreme Court would make toe
law. certain and uniform throughout the State,
whereas at present, each Judge being supreme in
his own Circuit, there is no uniformity—what is
decided to bo law in one Circuit, is frequently deci
ded to be contrary to law in another Circuit.
3d. It will form a most importaut security to the
rights of the people against too errors, prejudices, or
corruptions of too judiciary. At present, if a Cir
cuit Judge decides a case contrary to law and jus
tice, there is no appeal or remedy. How many
honest men have been deprived of their hard-earned
property:—how many orphans and widows have had
their estates swept from them, leaving them penni
less upon the world, by toe errors of a Court, which
mightliave been corrected under a proper judiciary
system. We have known important eases brought
and gained under a decision of one Judge, whicli
were lost under a different decision of his suc
cessor upon an appeal. Under such a judicial
system there is no reliance to be placed in law, nor
is there the proper security for liberty or property.
4th. We believe tliat the establishment of such a
tribunal would tend to increase the industry and de-
vclopc the resources of tlio state, by introducing
capital from abroad, which has heretofore been with
held from a want of confidence in the stability and
correct administration of toe laws.
One ol the many evidences of a necessity fora
Supreme Court for the Correction df Errors, occur
red during tlio last week’s session of Randolph coun
ty Superior Court, in tho progress of too trial of
Chapman for manslaughter. Originally, • by the
Common Law, tlio whole panncl of forty-eight jurors,
from which twelve men were to be selected to try a
criminal (for tlio higher grades of crime) might be
chalenged by tlio State, with or without cause shown.
They could be chalenged by th6 prisoner only for
cause shown—incapacity prejudice, &c. By too
statute of 1817, toe prisoner was allowed the addi
tional privilege of pcreftiptory chalcngcs without
showing causes or assigning reasons. By the stat
ute of 1833, the prisoner was allowed twenty per
emptory chalengcs, and the State ten. In the
to which we allude,toe call of the array of forty-
eight was commenced for the purpose of selecting
a jury to try the prisoner. The first on the list be
ing called, was objected to by too Solicitor, under
the Common Law privilege of the State to object to
the-whole, or any part of tlio array. Hines Holt,
Esq. , Attorney lor defendant, objected that toe Com
mon Law privilego of the State to. challenge too
whole array of jurors had been virtually repealed by
toe statute of 1833, which substituted, instead of
adding, ten peremptory chalenges, and that such was
tho practice in other Circuits. J udgo Warren over
ruled the objection, stating, 1st. That the practice
in this Circqjt had been uniformly such as was now
being pursued. 2d. That his construction of the
law was that the Legislature intended to give the
State ten peremptory challenges in addition to the
Common Law-privilege of objection, for the purpose
ofensuring the administration of justice. 3d. That
the Common Law privilege was not a chalengc in
fact, as too samo jurors must bo returned to too pris
oner for selection, provided toe jury had not been
agreed upon when tho forty-eight Iiad been passed
Thus wo find that in the most important of all
trials—thoso which affect the life and liberty of the
citizen—the citizens of different Judicial Circuits
are governed by diflerent constructions and diflerent
administrations of the same law.
our ancestors tsoght os, the laws which we hsve «bonld recoHeet ^jit_wjps asserted by the whig
established, and that nationality which of right be- press in Gee4em.jfiqffi. tlio seaboard to .the mama-
'°”8**?.“*•, , , ' itains,beforetlfojriqmnithatthiswas hot.a port*
My friends! your mission has also another ob- -—j—. . - 3
ject—that of maintaining order and peace, support- 1
ing society in its safeguards, and the citizen in all Look ont (or Cdffittcrteil Half Es|t«.
liis rights. We are no more toon sons of toe! Three persmn,j&fro^&ouae, Alfred Belcher, and
nation,it. defenders, and rapport. I fl.tter my.eif Benjamin TharptgWtio committed to jail in this
that honor will never abandon your ranks; that you ril . _ » g. . . ■ . rn . t..-.,
will show invariable examples of moderation; and ^ Wednesday c tout for passing counterfort
that your ardor wiU be reserved forthe day of battle, WfEagles. Tlitywtation is a good one, and it is
when you have before yon the enemies of the coon- supposed that a considerable number of them are in
*Ti. | circulation. ' ’~ l ~ "
The following letter from Mr. Whitney, published
’in tho New York Everting Poet, shows that he and
the enterprising yoang men with him, have not been
idle. It will bo recollected that Mr. Whitney is ex
amining s route for a rail rood from Lake Michigan
to the Pacific Ocean. He has progressed as tar as
toe Missouri River. He speaks in raptures of the
country between lake Michigan and toe Missouri.
The soil of this vast country is also as rich a»;
can be; in the whole distance 1 did not 9ce one t
acre of useless or bad land; the farmer will w*2
but to plough, plant and gather liis crops. Tt:
whole is now covered with the finest grasses (i
cattle, and when cured, good hay. As far asfr
Cedars, arc considerable tracts of good timber, U
none beyond to the Missouri, and then very lie'
till nearly down to Fort Leavenworth, and then oab
three miles wide, and sometimes none oa therm:
but coals are abundant, and the growth of timber so
natural, that without fires (which now spread ov«
tlie whole prairie yearly, consuming everythin;;.)
fifteen years tlio whole, from river to river, would h
one denso forest. ‘ "
From the Lake to tho Mississippi arc no difficult
streams to pass or bridge; that stream can be bridg-
ed in the vicinity of and above Prairie du Chiea
without difficulty, but not below. From the Missis
sippi to tlie Missouri tlie rivers can bo bridged of.
ly, and with littlo comparative expense, first n'r
materials being abundant in the blufls which idm
their banks. The Missouri is a very difficult stream
to bridge or to navigate; its waters are rapid -, nun
places shoal, eighteen to twenty-two^Inches; its be!
quick sand; its channel constantly changing, and
full of snags; its bottoms (below the Calumet) n
from four(o five miles wide—all quick sand, min
ers or strata, of from ono to three feet, and betwees
each the water is constantly breaking out, wider,
with the wear of toe main stream, causes tlie bub
to tumble in, and often making a new channel froa
ono side of the bottom to the other, rendering it r>
most impossible to bridge any where below the a-
trance 0f4he Calumet; bar above which are ln|
places of rock bed, arid one of gravel, where Mo,tV
bottoms,from bluff to bluff, is narrow^nd abridge puj
be erected without difficulty and with safety. TV 1 ,
from my picture yon see I have found all 1 desired.
and far more than I expected when I set out 111
con get the grant of lands, 1 can build the roadi, i>'
in a few months after the grant, the work sin!) h
commenced, aud for sooner than I have dared to hop-
it will be completed, when we shall have the vbd 1
world tributary to us, when the whole commerce c
the vast west will be tumbled into our laps, wbn
this vast and now useless waste and wilderness (“!
ever must be without this road,) shall become
only tlie thoroughfare of the vast world, bat its pi-
den, for feeding, clothing, comforting and enlighten
ing millions who are now starving, houseless, natri
ignorant and oppressed—and who can oppose
a work 7 I have not exaggerated the results toft 6
from it. If yon, or any other intelligent man vri3
candy and deliberately talk over this subject,, JW
will, you must be convinced th*t it is not chfmen^
—it is not exaggerated; but that it is impossible*
half estimate its results. - I again ask who cs*ff
pose it 7 No man’s rights tire abridged, no list''
taxes increased, and not even one cent asked 6
from any man. All I ask is, that which is no*
groat part useless, and ever most be without d*
rood; and I do not aakthis without pay in nzrtl’
forthe whole coat of the road will be expended ft
materials, labor and the products of the earth to rt*
tain the labor, among the people to whom toe hi*
belong. Tbonghit does not go into the treats#*
the United Stoles, it goes directly into the podrttt*
,the people to whom that treasury belongs, and »•*
too more than doable tost which will he wc**
for the seme farads in any other way.
I call on. yon, and upon all, to examine tref in**
tigate this subject, and to support me in it so (it
Mr. Whitney is not alone in his admiration of that lookjS^j^hLrs^rtin britlgi^ tiffs
beautiful country ; othem hare pronounced it the ly before toe people. It is not a polities] qa**
most desirable forming country on toe like faf the’It is not sectional; it is one in which til paitiM^
Earth. Believing it wottoTbe interesting to most of-• rt »* ni * u interests be benefited. It is nodrt
onr leaders, we have siren toe entire letter. jobbing or gambling scheme; there being no**'!
onr readers, we hare given the entire letter.
St Loura, 20th Sept. 1846.
We srrivod here last evening, in toe steamer John
Golong, from Fort Leavenworth. My lost was da-
ted at Prairie dn Chicn, about 1st July. 1 expected not toe wbcde world be benefited by H? ***
a guide through to the Missouri.—was disappointed; we willing to have it on the terms otfered,
■i thenexpected another at Fort Atkinson, fifty miles' money and without price T It appears tos* *r
, west—was again disappointed. Without a guide,, these qusstiaa cannot bo answered btrtia ^
pony to manage, or stock tp speculate upon, » *
can be deceived or defrauded; and toe only tP
tkme seem to be, do we wont such a read 1 *.
desirable r Wi9it be a national benefit 7 onl /*
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