The Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. Territory) 1849-1855, 1850-02-13

pion and pursuit we're the very opposite of those who
shores Bay and Connecticut River The latter
were men of calm temperament and Looking upto
acknowledging but their blessed Redeeme painting after
hid Christ they sought extend the donn
ion of Great Britain to acquire wealth by hazardous enterprises
till the land around their immediate settlements
study the Divine Word and to train their children fear the Lord
of ardent and excitabe empera
They stimulated both by their creed and their nation to
explore lands They taught that the converting of the
religion Rome and that conuests behalf OF the
sovereign of France particularly meritorious
Hence the cOOns of Acadia accompanied by priests bound by
wealth might be obtained for their employers glory
While the en of New England were looked upon by Charles
as oucasts dull canng Roundhead of Acadia heard
% of an % 'Hpaa M ns at e m I pr Gy y so toa
they reaped SPEEDY speedy a harSes Ss y % tho .n ps, landed
icy Plymouth the disciples of St Francis had
forests the that empty Lake Huron before the
May with her precious freight weighed anchor from South
ampon French settlement Quebec before Harvard
University operaton the disciples of Looa aided by
ing institutions the banks of the ST. Lawrence The
men of college, youthful seminary
for girls and the renowned Rcheeu with female relative assisted
public hospital under the of UrsulMc
The journals the first missionaries the uron perued
with like enthusiasm by the kings statesmen merchants r
Of SO manv the faith The enerzng merchant encouraged the
missions that opening many avenues of trade.
Before proceeding sketch of the and explorations
' dsoSve the H as is
had learned bring their rs Quebec and received
priests Brebou Daniel determined of
an religion They the first Europeans that erected house
the neg gRborhood of Lake Huron
der through Ottawa along
Lake Huron visit by invitation the Obwas the outlet of Lake
Mary, they found assembled thousand of that tribe
who % dwell NTH the North Eastern % paon o,
the Society of Jesus and their Europe Here
for the first time civilized man. Dakotas
amid whose lodges we reside was existence The Obwa in
that the Dakotas lived eighteen days journey
Thus says Bancroft eloquent chapter Jesuit Missions "dd
religious zeal French bear the the banks of ST.
Mary Lake SUPERIOR and look wsy toward
the home valley the Mississippi five years before
apostle Eliot had addressed the tribe Indians that dwe within
six miles of Harbor.'
accompanying the missionary devoted to life of Or
immediate followed the trader devoted to life of gain;
chapel hardly sumouned with before trading
house In year 1854 adventurous young
ing and probably the first white that
penetrated the Dakota country
Upon their Quebec such glowing
they had the lakes they had crossed the nations they
acquainted with whom the Sioux kotas
that ecceac burned with desire go
land Even the bishop of Quebec ready TO be the
planting symbol his faith among the newly discovered tribes
length decided that the aged esnard who had obtained
dearly purchased experience the Indians of western New York.
should the religion of Rome the shores OF Lake Superior
With ardor that every must admire he oered not after his
field of labor his language trusting sin the
Providence which feeds the little birds desert and clothes the
wild flowers of the forest and expecting that his friends would short
ly add him 'to the memcno Of deaths
Hoping against hop he reached the shores Of Superior safety
ne m him and nd whl his cmnann was 7oaEoa as it is sIn
forest Whether he died from starvation the tomaawk
has There tradition his and
prayer amu for many by the Dakotas
The melancholy disappearance of this aged soldier Of the church,
did Aouez also Jesuit from visiting the shores of
Lake Superior, in the year 1865.
early date there that there large mass
of shore but his search for unavang
the adventurous did not until
the Island La Ponte the residence the Ob
often planning against their
Dakotas. H then be regarded the first white
authentic who first od the soil the
confines According the Obwa tradition, the first
Ponc traders who had been confined by the
found starving condition, eating their coh and
blankets that here early period
small silver crucx of antique workman
ship lately poughed up that vicinity. At that period the
Dakoas extended quite the shores of SUPERIOR and
his with them the first to learn Of the
istence of great river which he calls the 'Messp.'
During residence the North West founded the
Mission Of Holy Spirit passed his time teaching the Ob
was the Noer and Ave Mara; endeavong
sumbcng by pictures of hell and the judgment
day and obtaining from the Sioux Dakota
abors successful returned Quebec
but with the Obwas and
was by fellow aborer named Nicolas
1868 the arrival of two Others named Da
destined become known
by poserty. ' ,7ao +tfnet1 ~ ~ 81
Marquette the vicinity of Lake Supe
had heard the Messp that he deter
mined to take the first favorable opportunity to discover It,