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The Hawkeye expresses great solici-
tude ssthat . strong memorial may be got
up by the Legislature with definite in
structions 70 our Delegate to insist upon
boundaries similar to Mose proposed ty os1
novtkers friends. Well, this is rich =
But few weeks ago our cotemporary
found great fault with Gen. Dodge for
suggesting, after Daaean's amendment had
bssn adoptsd By tie House, q change Of lines
by which seversl thousand miles Of ter
ritory were added to our State limits
yet now we find him favoring PROPOSE
ton to cut doom the State to half the size
Of the limits established BY Congress-
twenty-five thousand square miles! Not
only this. but be il willing to ,slinqui'f'
district of country fronting on the Sis
sissippi equal to any other in Iowa, highly
improved, and containing probably $1,000
white inhabitants, for strip on the Mis-
souri, perhaps one hundred miles in length,
Of which little is known except that it is
the abode Of several tribes Of wandering
Indians. Are savages better than whites?
DO ne prefer the bowling wilderness
to cultivated fields and Aourishing villa
ges?-Is the Missouri Of more value 10
Us than the Mississippis These are
questions we should like to have answered.


Truly, the knowledge Of some men on
the subject of boundaries surpasseth all
understanding. s '-