The Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. Territory) 1849-1855, 1850-09-26
To Farmers of the United States and
~ C,ronal FttT ~ ~ ~

Xkf Europe. iEfl tfR n
.-.Ms design now, 10 give lhlsc If I2a who are
DESTROYS Of removing TO new country, SOME OF
'as reasons ~h. ,ou ought to prefer Minnesota
Cor The business Of frlning: To begin with if you
frecf ina, incorrigible einss Of persons who have
taken II into their brains that part Of this great
globe i. habitable. by reason Of the cold, to a
higher degree Of latitude than about forty degrees
p.r,h, wehlse no usc for YOU Stay in yoar door
Isss cabins and &c shiv,Ting about in your thin
.lazy garments of jeans, Through the mingled frost
md mud, and the icy slect and chilling ioss OF
,ha, most execrable Of all cimaies---an hermaphr
rsdits rsgion,s half tropical and half frigd--a
oeass of the North Pole upon the Equator. Stay
where YOU are. We want here race Of men, of
higher physical and mental powers, of more meat
and muscle. Of more force and energy. The
~hole Of the British lsia,as. the nursery Of tina,
vigorous stock of lhs human family, which first
taking root on the rseky shore Of the Atlantic,
has, in two hundred years. uprooted the forests
filed with barbarous Indians, and like the prolific
locust tree. spread wider and wider its annual
shoots, until its shadows are reflected from the
Paei6c--thcse British Islands lie more than five
degrees north of 81. Paul. The whole Of Eng
land, lreiand, Scotland, Belgium, Holland, and a
part Of France. lie north Of the extreme northern
boundary Of .Ninncsota. We are now address
ing those ov,r the whole globe, who have been
in,iSorated by the cold We do not know where
&c look ON the face Of The earth, far South even
as latitude 80 degrees, for race Of people who
would be worth having in Minnesota, We can
dispense with the rusty Spanard, the idle Italian,
the stupid Turk; bni We want all the Middle,
Northwestern and Eastern States, and all the peo-
pie of the islands and the continent Of the north
&C Europe, 10 know what advantages Minnesota
offers 10 them.
We take it as Ali axiom, that individuals and
States. must be supplied with mainsprings
man viii last longer upon treadwheel than rust
ing out IN dungeon. The hardfsted Yankee,
who wars through has lifetime with Nature, to win
little field amongst the lodges Of New Hamp-
shire, eutlives two or three generations of Suck
ers, who settle down the fertile bottoms of the
Illinois, amid vast savannas Of Indian corn. The
Sucker, degeaera,es into mere drone. He makes
his crap, aud is saiiiied. The Yankee, is never
satisfied, while any body in the world has bet
ter house or better educated children than his
own. Whenever Nature pours profusion into the
lap Of msn-when results come without exertcn,
man ceases effort, and his powers no longer
developed. This is the inevitable result, to midi
viduals and 10 States. Nature spells her children
by enriching them. This result is the surest in
rich Southern soil; the climate itself, as well
os the profasion Of Natures supplies. Invites to
Incidence and ease. The honey bee, taken to
the tropics it is said, will provide stores for one
winter; but after that, is as irnproyident as a
house hy. +..I In - -~-
This is a condition of things, not TO be found 10
Minnesota. Tine length Of winter and the inyig-
Grating climate. invite to exercise. He seeks
for it-has an appetite for it, as much as an En-
g,ishman has for roast beef, or for a tramp with
his gun His powers are all rght--he has coed
boiler in him and steam to work of; while your
Sucker is like one Of the little old aguish steam
,
ago, or like the sluggish current beneath it.
The human family. never has accomplished
any thing worthy of note, beside the erection OF
the pyramids, those nestoncs Of ancient centu-
history of the tcorif. is written chiefly above that
parallel. South Of it, existed slavery, in one or
another form, always, to great extent, both in
ancient and modern times, aud wherever con-
back Of production, and ride, there will be want
and wreicbedDess; for Nature has ordained it for
the true welfare of man, that every human being
shall labor, IN some honest and usefu! vocation.
But there are premdices against our climate,
Spme Insist upcn it, that we cannot raise Indian
Corn. Show them prolific fields Of it, as we no,v
can hundreds, the naked ears gIiltermg lihe gold
hi the mellow sunshine Of autumn, and he ground
beneath almost paved with yellow pumpkins, and
yet they look increduous, and shake their heads,
snd say sir wont do. was here last June, and
your Springs are too late You can make
ea,cn crap y'hcre, no how yoa can fix il, stran.
ger" These wise people have theory-that
niaizo is adap,ed solely to the latitude they came
from, and they are az stubborn in maintaining it,
al tie geologsts arc in their theory that there can
be no mineral coal north OF the Illinois Goa, beds
although il i. actually found here, in various 10
caliiies, ranging south from the Crow Wing river
as Far as the mouth of the Blue Earth, of the
mos, admirable quality. If we could not raise
Indian corn, we should remember, that with the
exception of a part of Italy and Spain, all popa7
loss Europe, subsists very well without it. But
maize, we admit, is TIE Cereal crop Of America.
We subscribe to all Mr.. Clsy's beautiful eulogium
npon it; and perhaps the most valuable quality Of
This grair, is, its adoption to ioagitudss, rather
fhan lafifGdes. There is not an Esquimaur In
dian bassing by his lake side in the sunshine of
his brief, hot summer, who cannot raise and ripen
one variety OF another oil, maize. From the delta
OF the Mississippi, TO the reme.esi spring branch
that supplies Lake itasca, TIE head of the river,
this crop can be raised, and is raised and rpeued
ex.~v .a.r ysfbat c,iix .hay, 90 ,cc,x, a., 49,.