Kansas weekly herald., 1854-09-15
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Icause of these prominent traits in thei
Ieharacter. The fact, however, is generally
admitted, and its effects are seen In the as.
Itonishing growth of our cities, and the rapid
and Immense development of our resources.
Although the people of the Eastern States
occasionally readsln the newspapers stray
paragraph of statistics, showing how aston
IIshing is the progress of the " est IN wealth
and population, and they In common with
all the world beside, look upon the west as
-eminently the theatre for the exercise
/ of Anglo Saxon energy, yet we have reason
to knows mar tb=g = = = seryE and IN IN
definite IDEAS g fhe hieh iniel igenee sahieIz
directs a1Ithe efor>s of Ueste7z Eaiad.l
MiseratEe caricatnres Uestsxe eiodusnce
and we5se1 EIs have iszr I'D them a.
bundant s6iiaees ST z1errillllelIE; q Elex have
found it much more agreeable TO laugh at
the eccentFieities and follies that were rife
twenty years ago, than to study carefully
the present condition of the Mississippi Val
ley.
Unconqu energy is an essential
ment In the character Of all classes of our
population. 1t was born in us and is part
and parcel of our whole being. Whence
and who are our populations The native
born Americans, with very few exceptions,
are natives of New England, the Middle
States, Kentucky, Virginia and Maryland.
1t is often said that the nations of Europe
were sifted to furnish the seed to plant the
American colonies; and it is equally true
that the descendants of these colonists were
again sifted to supply the population of the
Mississippi valley. The sons and daugh-
tiers of the older States, who have a mere
modicm of intelligence and energy, are
content to ''live where their fathers ired;"
the intelligent, the ambitious and the ener-
getic cast themselves upon the mighty cur
rent of emigration that is followingth star
of Empire towards the setting sun, deter
mined to carve out for themselves fortune
upon the fertile praiiries Of the the West
Hence, those who come among US caleu-
lating largely upon the gulibility of our
people, are quite apt to find themselves
most egregiously mistaken. It is often
amusing, and even pitiable to see the pat
ronising airs which young aedglings Just
escaped from their anxious mothers, put on
when deigning TO come out to teach US
western barbarians the elements of ciyiliza-S
ton. Such benevolent youths either learn
some important lessons within very few
months, or secure an early ticket back
to the barren hills where such specimens
of humanity dogegetate.
I Our adopted fellow citizens are equally
distinguished for energy and intelligence.
The yeryabest of the population of Ger
many, Ireland, Norway, Scotland and Eng
land find their way to the valley of the
Mississippi. We welcome these hardy
sons and daughters of our Fatherland to
home among ts-to the full enjoyment of
American freedom. They have the en-
ergy to brave the dangers of the deep, and
the intelligence and love of liberty to seek
home where no tyrant hand shall ever
Cypress them. They ere emphahcally
workers, and soon do they surround them
selyeswith every comfort.
1t is not difficult therefore to account for
the energy, the sgo-a-headtiveness of the
West. The population of the Eastern
States and of Europe send us their most
active, earnest, ambitious men. AS to the
results which the combining of all this
energy and intelligence upon such soil
and under such circumstances as now sur
round us, are destined to produce, 1t would
be unsafe to speculate. Gould
future n all its reality We wouls
our reputation for truth, to give
our readers. Our children's S CHI b nay.
even our children are to see sIeh 4 cz7lilIllzas
ton. as never before was the pside ct tas5
|philanthropist and the historian; and na>i
ton compared with whose poHer, I'll the
empires of the past must take seqonffNs
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