Minnesota weekly times., 1855-05-15
MONDAY, MAY ID, 1855.


crn friends have heard of ''Minnesota as the New
England the Northwest" But we warn them
not to go too far north for n pleasant climate
That great northern Minnesota and Wisconsin is
valuable as q lumber region-but the farmer docs
not wish to 60 so far north for his home. The
climate of northern Iowa and southern Minnesota
is the climate of New England. 1t abounds in find
running waters such rs the delicious trout loves to
sport in-navgation is open hero some or 4
| weeks earlier in the spring than beyond Lake Pc
pin. Tho hardy New Englander will find this
country cold, and its winters long enough to give
his constitution oil the energy that climate can
give it.-Lansing (Io,0a) AatelHgencer. 81.
Now there is no positive allegation in the above
extract Of the superiority Of the climate Of the
country down that way over Minnesota. 1t would
not have been safe to make any direct assertion to
that effect, in the face Of the accumulated testi-
mony of the last six years Of close and search
ing nqusition, and when its rcfutation was with
in the personal knowledge Of some two or three
hundred thousand people, distributed all over the
States. There is, nevertheless, in its ''enOuglts'
and "to fars," aud other ingenious modes Of hid
ing disparaging comparison, without involving
the risk Of an absolute comm;ttal-an implied
abnegation Of our claim to possess the finest cli-
mate ,cuhout exception in the ,0hole Continent Of
North Amefica claim which we now put for
ward in the shape of distinct proposition, chal
lenging denial from the ends of the Earth.
If our winters in the parallel of st. Paul are
one week longer than the Lansing winters-which
we doubt-they are On the other hand Il very differ
cnt thing from the Lansing winter. In respect of
saubrity, evenness of temperature, freedom from
chilliness, dampncSs or sudden changes, every
thing which contributes to a boundiess exubcr-
ance of animal life-to physical cnjoyment-to
inefable healthfulncss-eyerythin thing which makes
one climate preferable to another-we will put the
ST. Paul ,cintw against aay portion of the Lansing
year the Intelligencer may select, not excepting
spring, summer or winter. "It is a golden chain
of sunny days and starlit nights" as we have be.
fore described it somewhere. Our spring scarce
ly ever opens later than the first week of April.
The river at this point is almost always open in
the first week of April, frequently before, and the
causes which retard the opening of navigation, lie
in the currentless waters of Lake Pepin, whole
degree of latitude below this, and Lansing.
And what spring we have too? The spring of the
poets-of Chaucer and of Thompson. Your cold,
raw, wet, murky, nasty, drizzling Eastern and
Southern springs give the lie to all old idyls.-
Minnesota vidicates the truth of poetry, and
echos back to Italian groves the ancient song of
s'Vcris ct Favoni.'
But it is our autumn on which stake our re
putation. If Lansing can beat it, why don't it?
But if we had no other difference in onr favor,
one thing alone should secure our climate from
the "dium of comparison with ''down South"-
and that is this 1--WE put it in capitals to give the
difference bold relief.) WE NEVER HAVE
FEVER AND AGUE HERE; except, of course,
what is imported by refugees from Illinois, Iowa
and other s'aluvial bottoms" God help tn. man
that camps upon them. We cordially admit the
pretenson of Northern Iowa to be the real New
England Of the West, in climate. We don't pre-
tend to any such dubious distinction. 1t is pre-
Q: :.ely becaus Lansing resembles New England in
its disagrecablc climate, its insd;ous chillincss,
pcstental dampness and bone-racking changes,
super-adding to Yankee Rheumatism, Consump-
ton and tooth aches its own indigenous agucs,
that We are so different from Lansing.
It's good lumber region M here, is it? We
have heard from some source that it's pretty
good farming country too, but that don't require
comment.