The world: historical and actual . ith Minnesota on thenorth and Missouri on the south, extending northand south about 200 miles, and east and west, 300miles. There is hardly a foot of waste land withinits border. Its agricultural capacity is almost incal-culable. It has no important river or lake. Itscities are comparatively small, Chicago being thegreat center for the entire state. The capital, DesMoines, is a thrifty inland city, and so is Iowa City-Several river towns of some importance are foundalong the Mississippi, Dubuque, Muscatine, Daven-port, Burlington and Keokuk, also Sioux City o
The world: historical and actual . ith Minnesota on thenorth and Missouri on the south, extending northand south about 200 miles, and east and west, 300miles. There is hardly a foot of waste land withinits border. Its agricultural capacity is almost incal-culable. It has no important river or lake. Itscities are comparatively small, Chicago being thegreat center for the entire state. The capital, DesMoines, is a thrifty inland city, and so is Iowa City-Several river towns of some importance are foundalong the Mississippi, Dubuque, Muscatine, Daven-port, Burlington and Keokuk, also Sioux City onthe Missouri. Iowa was created a territory in 1838,and admitted into the Union as a state in 1846. Itsgrowth has been uninterrupted and prodigious, butalmost exclusively agricultural. It has very littletimber, a great deal of coal, and some lead in thevicinity of Dubuque, as Illinois has across the Miss-issippi near Galena. It also has some gypsum, andis beginning to manifest manufacturing enterpriseto a very considerable KANSAS. Kansas is a striking example of the advantages ofadvertising. The politics of the country, as has beenseen, served to make the public familiar with thename and interested in the settlement of territory and Nebraska were organized in immediately the North and South startedon a race for the ascendancy in Kansas. It was notlong before there were people enough to justify itsadmission as a state. A majority came from theNorth and were utterly opposed to slavery, and re- peatedly framed and adopted constitutions prohibi-tory of it. The Southern influence in Congress pre-vented its admission. A constitution framed by aminority convention held inLecompton in 1857pro-tected slavery. It received only 2,000 votes. favored the admission of Kansas as a freestate, that being the practical outcome of his favoritedoctrine of squatter sovereignty, and that positionmade him obnoxious to a large party of the Democra-cy, and ca
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