The daily Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1855, 1855-01-18
GOVERNORS MESSAGE.
|alo'c Citizens Of the Council and House Of Representatives,


during the year that has jus" closed Ie goodness OF DIVINE providence has @
gr"iou bestowed peculiar with but few exceptions have
wealth nl prosperity opened immigration has poured in
east nor land have
been opened and from quarter Of the Territory
cheering been received Of uninterrupted prosperity
Not quite six have elapsed since the Territory was established During that
period twenty laid off, and nearly all organized Our population
thirty thousand
pal splendid church ec erected; au society has taken high moral stand
hopeful before again called to look into
the and possible give a vitality to the civil institutions OF the Territory as
their usinrcs require
Sound political economy taught population wealth
greatness making power the political
certainly it, Our agricultural mineral
m,miang Minnesota needs uan
drawn Territory population We
history broad fertile prau woods lakes minerals
In power gton capital abundance and direct emg
where find enough those advantages combined satisfy the enter
png all We need stop inquire why it that tou
fathers friends themselves stick to the
comparatively barren soil of the Old States rather than seek home in this vo
rating healthy climate fertile soil They will find facilities for
comfort steps advertise them would therefore, as the
step recommend that take into consideration at the earliest day
convenient propey appointing reside chiefly the city
of New York duty people Information
Territory climate population productions agricultural manufacturing and e
upon local while Of the Territories the
cocry used before the civilized world in Congressional deatc each
history published before the peculiar
SeIlins public SOUTH the subject of slavery The wealth
ieuy fertility each ll mountain mine prairie navc stream soil and eli
mite portrayed Representative Con-
gss the old world and elsewhere fully in
l from reliable Of all enable him his mind where
he will While Minnesota came before Congress quiet and unou
iv and has received it, and has made her to her
beauty that the climate of Minnesota less understood
the than almost anything else connected with her
history Daring past year received almost inunUae letters from the Mid
die States pqounns of questions Territory, especially desiring
know very and exceedingly cold that stock freezes to
out of his Jmii This popular among the
citizens OF the states states n ut, w., % % W & - - III 70 % h 1 a. I u, vol 1rtt
pm giving regard the SOIL climate productions agricultural manu-
,umr and educational facilities; growth population prospects, which, having
o off a sanction favorable results have been neither
felt before Such history Territory should be placed the hands
of the people in all parts country Europe through emigration and
fully prepared by the first of March, and ready for htrl
ton v the opening of navigation in the Spring
pleasure Legislature enact charter for to con-
State line Of ST. Paul to Lake Superior, by
the Congress the United States to
day February 1854 the extraordinary and privileges
to the thus constituted aroused the opposition OF this community
clause contested inch by c from the day of its introduction till the
signature which but before the final ad
under what may be perhaps properly termed protest against the eraord
powers and wi therein granted And suffice tito say that had withheld my
approval should day have magnificent grant of lands full force ready
had opportunity to confer fully and freely with
prepared do their will the premises The second
section of the charter provides shall meet the Chamber Of
mre York less than 80 than 60 days from the
passage then and there accept reject the charter They did so meet
acceptance herewith transmitted for
information On the 29t day of june 1884 the President OF the United States p
proved the Congress of the United States grant
line Minnesota by way of St Paul. in the direction of Lake Superior The third
Congress passed the House Representatives, read as follows
And further enacted that the lands hereby said Territory
the disposal of legislature thereof for the aforesaid and
shall benefit
Thereby expressly excluding all corporate bodies before
II,turc BEFORE, was
sd third section was authority of the House Representatives
mno,v struck ont doubt quite familiar yourselves
me- mind that said Company assumed during the penanc
u but not at the of the
orsan-el" will the motive their agents had desiring
have stricken oat the substituted therefor the word on The
made null and Fo all the privileges anu powers her
of said company were organized Gu OF before Tile
Ja therefore, they did organize said board OF directors
said they notice the New York Express M
the the 3Oth d of June the
of 0OIO Nho n tho in f