The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1854-06-24
For President.
WILLARD FILLMORE

Picc Presidents:
EDWARD BATES of Missouri,
FRANCIS T.. BLAIR, of Washington, d. e.
NATHAN X. HALL, of New York.
WI. JARVIS, of do
Secretaries
DR.. Ray, Galcna, c. a. Dana, NY.
J. A. Dross, Chicago, Ii. Van Dyck, Ally.
On motion of Hon. VIM. J. Bacon, the fol-
lowing persons were appointcda committee to
report resolutions:
VIM. J. Bacon, John a. Dix, L. Bacon, J. NJ
Stone, John y. Granger. Charles Hudson, John
a. Rockwell, Chas. L. Williams, jacob Camp
bell, Jr.
The committee through their chairman. re-
ported the following which were unanimously
adopted:
Resolved, That We hereby offer the express
sion of our sense of personal obligation to
Messrs. Farnham & Sheffield, the contractors
for the construction of the Chicago and Rock
Island Railroad whose genius formed the plan,
and whose lavish libcrality and executive ~
bility have done so much for the SUCCESS Of this
unparalleled expedition to the Directors Of
the Chicago and Rock Island Railroad COmpa-
ny, who have so readily and with so much mu-
nifccnce co-opcratcd in the enterprise and to
the Directors and officers Of the several Rail
road and Steamboat Companies from New York
to Chicago, who have borne their share in the
expense of bringing about thousand invited
guests from the Atlantic States to celebrate
the completion of q continuous line of railway
communication connecting the harbors ofNcw
DIRK and Boston with the eastern bank of the
Upper Mississippi.
Resolved, That in the event which this men,
orablc expedition is designed to celebrate, we
recognise q new achievement of the enterprise.
the skill, and the voluntary and selfrewarding
industry, which are the natural result of per-
feet freedom and Christian civilization new
assurance that ere long no breadth of prairie or
depth of forest, and no barrier of desert or of
mountain, shall interrupt the iron track or the
resounding trains ofcOmmercc from ocean to
ocean and a cheering amen that the ties of
sympathy, of common interest. of mutual de-
pendcncc and of patriotic affection and pride,
which bind into great nationality the States of
the Atlantic, the center and the Pacific are
stronger than the mountain ridges Of the CONT
ncnt.
Resolved, That We have seen with a joy which
we cannot adequately express, and with new
feelings of cxultation in the grandeur aud des-
tiny of our common country, the exquisite and
varied beauty and the bOundlcss physical re-
sources and capabilities of the regions through
which We have passed ; that we contemplate
the multiplying population and the growing
power and riches OF these new States not with
any sentiment of rivalry, but with gratitude
to the God of our fathers, who endowed them
with their foresight, and has rewarded their
self-sacrifice by giving their children so goodly
a heritags, and that the cheering welcome and
the lavish hospitality which We have every
where met from the pioneers of the advancing
millions with which this region is so teen, de-
mands and receives from US hearty acknowl-
edgmcnt.
Resolved, That especially in times like these.
when the question ofmans capacity to govern
ofman's inalicnablc and sacred right
to freedom, is assuming so much Importance in
every portion of the civilized world, We rejoice
that here is safe and blessed asylum for the
cxiles and fugitivcs Of freedom from every Eu-