Wisconsin tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1847-1854, 1852-05-27
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"i4u0Il lSSs siaI et III uouotlul supremacy, Dy me
aboriginal man, and the other denizens Of the for
ests and prairies
/ 1t were needless to except from the UNIVERSAL
y of this description the occasional advent of the
Indian trader, the nascent settlements on the 40.
which were attempting a precarious existence, or
the Military posts which were pushed into this ou-
domain OF our Republic, IN token of our politl-
cal dominion and as heralds Of an advancing CIV
/ lzation.
/ In SO2 the State Of Ohio was carved out OF
the body Of the North West and admitted into the
( federal Union. Steadily advancing in population
wealth and respectability to its present enviabIe
position in our political system her brief but i'm
pressive history commands the admiration Of old
+ er communities and awakens the generous emu
lation Of the new, Her population, in 1881, had
reached nearly 100000 souls, and she ranks the
third in the sisterhood Of States
/ The history of Ohio has been the history, in
I succession, Of Indiana, Illinois and Michigan
Their advance has been in like manner, rapid in
/ population and the other elements of political
/ greatness The four States above enumerated con
tanned in 1880, 100000 of fIeemen.
/ Surprising as these results are, transcending all
that the world had previously known of the crea-
/ ton OF new political communities by the peace
ful migration Of men and Of their arts. dstancing
even, all previous experience in the settlement Of
the new world, it might seem enough for Wiscon-
sin, the youngest of the creations of the Ordinance
Of s. TO say, that she is of the North West, and
shares with her kindred States Il, the experience
Of like early development But to say this. is
not enough. The settlement Of Wisconsin thus
far has been on scale. unapproached even by that
Of the four States above enumerated, and consti-
tuting with her, the area long familiarly known
as the Territory North West of the Ohio" That
this IS not vain boast, is fact too broadly and
familiarly known, to need the formality of dem
onstration. For the satisfaction of the curious,
however, there is appended hereto a tabular view
of the population of the five States of the North
West, for decades of years constructed by cola
ting the census returns from 1900 down to 1850.
From this table it appears that during the decade
l840-50, the population of Wisconsin advanced
from 10000 10 3O5OOO, while at corresponding
decades of their growth, Ohio presents the fig
ures from $4,000 to 100000, and Michigan from
$1,000 to 212,oOO, while the corresponding in
crease of Indiana and Illinois was in a much
smaller ratio.
It will be observed that the increase of Wiscon-
sin. Tor the year ending in 1850 was 900 per cent
BY examination of the census returns Of that year
it viii be found that the increase of Iowa, was 345
per cent, that of Arkansas, Ia per cent, and in
no other state over 100 per cent during the same
period
This migration to Wisconsin. unparalleled as it
is, in the experience of States, has not been fit
fuJ result Of the gambling mania which is Turing
its hordes of victims 10 the land Of gold It has
been the steady and persistent flow Of men and
capital, seeking permanent home and good in
vestment After filling up the southern tier of
Counties, the unbro}en tide Is setting strongly to
the fertile vaIlies of the Fox and Wisconsin riv-
ers, with their tributaries, and to the Mississippi
border
Wisconsin is 10 less distinguished in the char
acter Of its early settlers than in their number
Recalessness and wild adventure has found little
place in the history Of this migration
Michigan was fairly open to survey and settle
ment as early as 1880 and in the course of the
succeeding ten years It's capabilities were explo-
red and appreciated; during which period its pop
uIation rose, by massive migraton, from ST.
600 TO 2l2 600. In 1910 the relations of Wis
consin to the intelligent enterprise of the eastern
States was what those Of Michigan were ten years
earlier The straits had been passed by sails and
by steam, and the Territory Of Wisconsin was o
pen TO settlement
The conviction, however. has fastened itself on
tie mind of New England and New York that the
ded and more readily available in Wisconsin, and
would work out an early maturity, economical
and social that had lot been realized in the histo
ry of other States. In accordance with these inn
pressous it is conlesseliy true that the basis Of
the social character of Wisconsin has been laid in
n grafton as distinguished in character, as it has
been surprising in numbers The intellect the
education, and the iutegrity-lhe head and the
heart,-as well as the enterprise, the wealth, the
industry and the skill Of New York and n Eng
land, have been laid broadly and deeply under re-
QUESTION, to furnish out the staple OF the popula-
ton which is to leave Its impress on the State for
generations TO come. Wisconsin has been equal
" fortunate in the numbers and the Material OF
her foreign immigration. The great European
movement, which is likely 10 characterize the lat
ter half Of the 10Th century, VIII consist, not so
much in the improvement of the forms Of social
organization al home, as in the reproduction OF
her civilization under greatly improved conditions
By massive emigration 10 the new world, whose
broad surface Of land still unoccupied is demanding
settlement and cultivation, with voice now ia
miliar to the ear and attuned to the heart Of Eu-
rope
There is a Germany in America which Is des,i-
ned TO be greater than the German fatheFlaUd-
Ireland Is already Cis Atlantic, and regenerated.
The scandinavian, with a remarkable power Of
assimilation, touches our shores and is American
in thought, feeling and language. From all these
sources, Wisconsin Is deriving large and steady
accessions of numbers and of wealth, of enterprise
and OF cultivated intellect; no; Of those who drop
down by accident within our borders bur of those