The Minnesotian. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. Territory) 1851-1852, 1851-09-17

States of Ohio and Indiana and al this
acquisition is made for sum of money
less than one half of what is required to
support the navy of the United States for
a single year! In fact, it eventually
amounts TO just nothing at all, as the prin-
cipal reverts to the government at the end
of fifty years.
This treaty was set on foot and consum-
mated, thus far, in that spirit of national
liberality, looking to the interests of the
whole country, which has so eminently
characterised the administration of Presi-
ident Fillmore, and that of his lamented
predecessor, General Taylor. While bend
ing all its energies to the enforcement of
the compromise measures, and working
successfully to calm the stormy elements
at the North and the South, it has not been
forgotten there is West, yet largely I'M
developed, that requires the fostering care
of the parent government. That the Ugh
ty progress Of our people toward the set
ting sun may not for a moment be stayed,
we find the wisdom and forecast of our
Territorial Executive urging the making
Of this treaty just at the proper period !;
for it was through his influence and re-
concentrations mainly, that the time was
set, which has eventuated so propitiously
for both the white and red man. Two
years. or even one year ago, would have
been too soon. 1t was not then required
by the exigcncies Of emigration. The
California bubble had not then burst, and
the tide was rolling westward, over the
prairics of Nebraska and the Rocky Noun
ta.ns. But the time was now, and the
people of the West have not been disap-
pointed in their demands upon the gov
eminent.
In giving this general credit to the adj
ministration, and its agent here, for its
timely acquisition of this large and unsur-
passably fertile country, we must not for
get that much is due to the energy and pa
triotism of our delegate in Congress, and
others here, who have become acquainted
with the Indian character by long years,
residence among them, and without whose
aid so reasonable and practical an arrange
ment could never have been made.
The great question now is, the ratifica-
ton of the treaty. That it will meet with
scarcely any opposition in the Senate, when
the facts are fairly and properly laid before
that body, we have not doubt. The fact
that the terms agreed upon are several
hundred thousand dollars below the ulti-
matum laid down in the instructions to the
Commissioners-which had been prepared
after careful consultation with Senators at
the last session of Cengress-is one of the
strongest grounds in oar mind for suppo-
sing that whatever opposition there may
be to it from any narrow sectional, or rar-
tisan motives, will find no countenance
among the national statesmen, who control
the influence of the Senate.
The utmost streach of the imagination
can scarcely picture our destiny in few
years, if this treaty be ratified. 1t may be
expected-it may be declared as fact
certain, that even SO soon as next year,
immigration will increase over this season
at least one hundred per cent. The cry
has gone forth that new FL Dorado is
open to the hardy enterprise of the Amer
lean people, and they will be upon us by
thousands and tens ofthousands. Instead of
three steamboat arrivals per week, we will
have almost that number daily. Instead
of our boats being crowded with mere lock-
ers on here for few days, and croakcl :
who return to abuse lis because dollars do
not grow on bushes in Minnesota, we
shall have the hardy yeomanry of Ameri-
ca and Europe, thronging our streets and
blocking up our landings with their plows,
harrows, wagons, teams, wives and chill
dren-men who come here determined to
stay, and cast their destiny in this broad,
healthy and beautiful land. Aye, and then
there there will be the snug little "Min-
nesota river packet with steam up, ready
TO convey the immigrant, upon the arrival
of the large boats from below, far up that
fertile valley, which has been pronounced
by every beholder the very Eden of the
northwest. -:
This is no highly wrought picture: Of
fancy. The man that lives twelve u,opuis
will see it realized if tho tfeaty: Be .iattii.
fled.