The Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. Territory) 1849-1855, 1852-11-04

as certain as that the immutabe laws of nature
every citizen! Is it not plain that he who runs
may read' Why should not the light of hope in
the prosperous future cheer every Minnesota heart,
nerve every ARMAND enliven every mind: Was
there ever in the history Of the world, on any
portion of Gods footstoo, a grander theatre open
ed for the display Of human industry, energy and
enterprise, than here. Where happier homes
could be carved on: by the mere aid of toll and
sweat Where health and peace and comfort,
could be enjoyed 10 greater extent, as the re-
ward of industry, than here' Where higher aims
could be pursued and nobler lives be led--ves
spent in the building up State, to be governed
by simple, wise and wholesome laws-inhabited
by people, moral, temperate, and possessing
religion pure and undeiled and without tinge
of bgotry cant. Why stand ye all the day
idle in the market place. Why are ye not, each
and every one Of you up and doing Why do
you not feel that the pillars Of the embryo State,
are resting upon your separate shoulders, and re-
solve to stand up With more than SIMPSONS
strength, though the weight should threaten to
crush you. And if you despair and the
!, light of hope grows dim within your heart and
, fades away, turn from the dim picture there pre-
sented, to look this. In from five to tea years
more, the State Of Minnesota will contain from
to zoe, 900 people. constitution and State gov
eminent will have been formed and some citizen
now perhaps amongst US, VIII have been chosen
her Chief Magistrate. Her two Senator'S will
have been sent 10 the Senate House, and her
voice will be heard and her rotes felt in the
ellis Of the nation. The working machinery of
her government will be all in motion. Her peo-
pie will elect sound Judiciary who will admin
ister, we may hope, her laws so wisely and Justly
as TO forever shield the sacred ermine from sus-
pcion or reProach. Her prairies will be peopled
over by hardy, happy, contented and thrifty
3 race Of men-a people gathered from all parts Of
our own loved country and from the oppressed Of
every clime-all here as free as the rough breeze
that sweeps around their homc and tnges
every counteuance with the rudy hue Of health
The two great civzers, the church and school
house, will be found from Big Stone Lake TO Fond
) du Lac--from the Iowa line to Pembina. Rail
roads will connect US with the States; and the
various prominent pcnls within the State will be
united by an iron cham; while that real ''Demo-
craft The iron horse, will be heard putting over
mapya plain, and his echoes heard stirring among
the silent hills, and laughing TO the sluggish
waters Of the Mississippi, st. Croix and Mnneso-
3 Ia; well other streams, whose calm sur
faces are as yet unripped by even the paddles of
q steamer.
Manufactures, commerce and the arts, will
flourish to an extent unthought of. Every
stream will be taxed and made to labor as it leaps
and Ioars. Every acre Of tlllable land will be
made to yield its tribute. A fleet Of steamers
; will be always found at the levce Of ST. Paul and
$ other towns. Bench stree, being cut down to the
waters edge and magnificent levee will be
f formed the entire city's length. This idea is due
: to the late editor OF this paper, J. NJ. Goodhuc.
In short, the hum of industry and Of strong, ac-
Y tive, vigorous joyous and happy life, will ascend
: heavenward like incense from grateful people,
till the noise of hundred cataracts like St. An
thongs would sink INTO ms ignifcence and be un-
heard
And now should this picture Of the future be
considered to be overwrought, look at the history
and results of only three years past Witness
the wilderness and prairie transformed from bar
renness TO high state of prodicveness--;hou-
sands of farms opened, towns arising. the church
the school and court house adjoining many a hill
and vale-and while the wild Dakota war son.
or scalp dance yell comes ringing down the even
ing breeze and wakes up all The echoes of the
bluffs from Mendoza to St. Paul, the Joyous church
bells ring back stirring peal, and chimes as
'twere a lublee--ali of which seems TO say
''civizaticn is ever onward-ever progressive to-
ward the setting sun; joy-joy to the of men
all glory to our Con in heaven---all hail to this
iarest portion of his footstoo!'' Again, look at
the advancement made since the opening Of nav
isation, IN April last-comparc the present with
The past-loOk at the assessors list, and see the
rapid immigration that has poured in upon Us -
witness the claim houses scattered thickly over
and dottins every prairie and peepng through
every grove; the rude, rough homes of men
great stalwart men-men with stout hearts, strour
arms, and willing determined spirits. Pioneers of
the frontier, ever progressive, and bearing the
banner of civilization in the foremost rank; these
are tho jewels--the men who soon will constitute
= the State; their blood and bone and sinevs, are
worth more to Minnesota than any Californian or
Australian mine. have mingled much among
these men, and no faint hearts are there-no fall
terins back or murmurins. Hope, all cheering
Hope in their future, beats high within their
hearts, and attended by health and happiness and
rapidly increasing families, thus doing themselves
and the State a service; the few annoyances of
frontier life visit them but lightly, and to deter
mined mind, they vanish as quickly as a troubled
dream.
Turning from the country, witness the rapid
rising of the towns IN the same brief snace ST