Minnesota weekly times. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1859, 1854-12-26

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to that WIN ai .s.who, natives OF y
England, delight 10 i6nsf a former residence ii
South Carolipa or Alabama, and to hail from
thence; or beflfin Ohio, claim Kentucky birth
right In their administration Of the I" chivalry
of others, sinking their own manhood, No; an
pround to acknowledge myself citizen of Maine
no mean State. And, sir, at this hour, when we
meet, not merely as citizens of Minnesota, but as
once belonging to that beloved New England
which gave us birth, we may surely be pardoned
some feeling of pride in the States which several
" claim us as their sons and daughters,-some
expressions, which, in any but q Yankee might be
deemed boastfu.
My pride, sir, in my native State, springs not
from the fertility of its SOIL the mldness of its
climate, its mineral wealth, nor vet its unbound
ed agricultural resources. No; the gifts which
Nature has so beautifully bestowed upon her sis
ter States of the South and West, have been
grudgingly doled out to her, and perhaps it is as
well for her, it certainly is far better for the
States more favored which she has helped to col
onize, that her rugged and comparatively sterile
soil, and her inhospitable climate have compelled
her inhabitants to put forth every energy to Sc
We need not go beyond the States next ad-
joining us, to see the enervating effects of too
bountifu bestowment of natures gifts. Where
herds of swine round and plump enough to tempt
Jew to abjure his religion, run wild through the
oak openings, and to obtain supply of corn it is
only necessary to plant label in the spring, and
to climb the stalk for the in the fall, the ut
most aspirations of the inhabitants are satisfied
by ''hog and hominy - but where even the nee
essaries of life can only be obtained by hard work,
the people grudge not the extra exertion neces-
sary to secure the comforts and luxures of life.
If the curious traveller through the rural districts
of Maine sees no apparently limitless fields of
stately, waving corn and golden wheat extending
far the eye reach, neither does he see the
cabin of the proprietor of such field, occupied
by men and women, children and pigs, as tenants
in common of its one or two rooms, nor does he
find cows and oxen. horses and sheep, seeking un-
der the lee of rail fence shelter from the winter
wind that wildly sweeps over the prairie, but in
stead, the white cottage of the farmer with its
companying coIcOurse of we'll filled barns, meets
him at every turn, while the red school-house on
almost every hillside, filled with, or surrounded
u
measure how it is, that New England, after sending
forth her yearly swarm of lawyers, doctors and
ministers, farmers, mechanics and specu-
lators, has always still ga few more left of the
same sort"
And the ever present village church, with its
hcavenward pointing spire, gives unmistakabe
evidence that the jewellers in the land do not for
get, in their eagcrncss to gather worldly gear that
there are higher interests than those of the body
the pocket.
Under their hard necessity for toll, the inhab-
tants of the Pine Tree State have, by the habits of
industry and thrift thus forced upon them, brought
under contribution to them the whole world
With cunning handicraft, they have put together
the rock-maple from their lofty hills the towering
pine from their swamps, the pich-pne from the
sunny South, iron from old England, and hemp
from Russia, and straig htway the noble ship gides
from the stocks to her native element, walking
- the waters like thing o Efe.''
The white sails of her shipping stud every sea,
and the daring advent urcr who reaches port
which Bath or Biddeford, a Penobscott or Quad
dy keel has never ploughed, may safely land and
take possession in the name of his sovereign, for
there the foot of civilized man has never trod
| fear that in this gloriication of nv native
State, am worrying your patience, but the ro-
marks have made apply with equal force, muta-
lis mutandis to the native States of all of vou--
The industry and energy, the calculating shrewd-
ness and keen foresight which are said to clarac-
tcrizc the New Highlander, all sprung from the
difficulties with which he has had to grapple from
his childhood, the struggle with which has made
him strong. No excessive bcstowmcnts of natures
gifts has taken from him all motive for cxcrtion.
and when the Yankee goes forth from the home of
his childhood to push his fortune in the wide, wide
world, it is with those elements of character and
habits of body which render his success sure, if
he be worthy son of our common mother. lie
may be ''hampered" with some SO narrow hcrcd-
itary dogmas," such as, honesty is the best pol
ICY and others of that ilk but he is troubled
with no announcement 8. largencss' of IDEAS, and
has early learned not to despisc the day of small
things" and preferrins even place at the foot of
fortunes ladder, to mourning the guilt of ScLuy-
Ter. he little by little fortune or builds
up fame, which shall, years aftcrward, be held
out as an encouragement to some future son of
New England to perseverc in the same habits of
honesty, industry and thrift.
BE it ours to see to it that the fame of New Eng
land receives no stain at the hands of those of her
children, who have received in relation to Mime
sofa, the command ego We in and possess it.''-
Let the school-housc and the church 90 with our
most advanced pioneers, and our whole lives
whether public or private, show that the religious
principle, which formed so controlling an element
in the character of our fathers, has not been
- crushed out from the breasts of us, their
children.
9th. Vermont the Green Mountain Statc-Shc
nerer surrenders.
Mr.. Day, of st. Anthony, responded. After
what has just been said it may seem improper for
sne to say that am Unexpectedly called upon to
respond to this toast in the place of one who was
Yreparcd. But sir must at least take pride in
declaring myself native Of Vermont. Vermont
born of a quarrel between New England and New
York. Sir, she never surrenders. She is small
but her yaes and hills are clothed in everlasting
green. and who does MT know that her we'll tried
sons, can from the tops of her torweing mountains
overlook all New England! To one of her found
the offers of gold, title, rank, luxuries, was
made if he would betray her interests and stamp
upon his soul the crime of treason and ingrat-
tudc. lie was poor sir, he had no gold about
him, perhaps he did not own foot of the green