The daily Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1855, 1855-05-22
Position Of Minnesota at the East.

Position of minnesota at the East.
Since the season of navigation opened,
We have almost daily had evidence, good
and gratifying, of the high estimation in
which our Territory is held abroad. Even
the stately newspapers Of the crowded and
overgrown cities have, Oh many occasions,
departed from their we'll known rule, to be-
stow kindly word instead of maintaining
contemptuous silence. They have not
only admitted long descriptive letters into
the columns of their blanket sheets, but
have often collected and compiled the infOr'
nation so sent, and by them obtained, and
made it the subject of extended and care
fully considered editorial remark This is
compliment, and, we may add, that in
their eyes it is condescension also,-yery
seldom obtained for q ~hole Territory. Par
ticular locations have, on account Of their
offering special employment for capital
as for instance, the lead regions of Galena
and Dubuque, and the copper region of
Lake Superior-always obtained notice and
consideration, because Eastern capitalists
could there find opportunity and scope
enough to use their money to greater adj
vantage, and with greater return ensured,
than could be obtained on Wall Street, or
similar places.
But Minnesota does not hold her claim
to respect and value, from the peculiar and
manifest advantage of a few points only.
From Houston county on her southern
border, to where Lake Superior rolls it's wa
tiers Oh the north, all parts hold estimation
properly alike, and it is as a vast field where
the hardy pioneer, the farmer, and the ac-
tive mechanic, are assured of home and
an increasing patrimony-that the solemn
and authoritative public journals of the far
east have lent their aid to securing pop
ulation for it, under sense of their duty
to the public at large to do so.
Among the mercantile classes, too, there
has risen an influence in many important
places, which cannot fail to exercise daily
and most beneficial effect. They cannot but
feel that communities like that OF st. Paul,
which year after year make huge demands
for merchandise upon the East, and each
year double upon the call for the supply fur
nished the previous one, must have the ele-
ments of natural as well as artificial pros
perity to keep them up, especially when their
character for commercial integrity has been
thoroughly maintained They could, and
do no less than make it the subject Of Sc
rious contemplation and conversation, and
their opinions, widely spread, have gone a
long way towards turning hitherward most
desirable class of settlers.
Doubters have come among us and ex
amined for themselves, and the virgin sol
of our Territory has often beea pressed by
the adventurer, where previously the foot o.
the White man HAS uCNCt NoU. AAC An"i
of limited means has come to see whether
it would be wise to put his little all into
new enterprise in the Northwest, and ha'
thought it best 10 do SO the capitalist ha'
opened his purse, and the real pioneer, will
scarcely any other capital than his axe, has
while hewing down the forests, hewed out
also, a competency for himself. All classes
have come here most Of them have set
tied, and by their letters home, have aidet
to increase the standing OF Minnesota
Hundreds upon hundreds Of others hav
gone back only to return with their families
and they, too, have done good. Last, ant
by no means least Of all, the Press of Min
nesota has raised its voice, and with power
ful effect has represented not only wha
Minnesota has been and is. but what tn
.uture must inevitably make her.
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