The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1856-07-19
TUESDAY MORNING, JULY Is, 1856.
Another Answer 10 anthrax

/ 1OLoDAI MOhNING, July 10, 1896.
Another Answer to Anthrax.
Our fellow-citizen, Pr. Mann, is at Phila
delphia, and it appears from the followial
that he is doing justice to st. Paul and t,
Mr.. Anthrax. This second communicate,
Of the Doctors is written in the spirit of
true, Minesotian, and places the slanderer i.
hisIright position ai 9 -4.a9
sl9aia. Z rFor the Public Ledger.
Jeh ast st. Paul, Minnesota.
DEAR S1R: With your permission will
reply to Anthrax" little more in detail
than for want Of space was enabled to dc
in my former letter. He says in his letter
on ST. Paul: A great city is talked Of but
we were unable to see the base Of such o
hope" He is correct in saying great city
is talked Of and no doubt equally correct in
saying he is unable to see the base of such q
hope.
Sebastian Cabot was unable to see the
base OF hope for planting colony in Anne
rica, and by his dolefuI representation on his
return to England put complete stop to
emigration for 80 years.
Sebastian Cabot was the Anthrax of his
day. The Spaniards, Portuguese, the Lord
Raleighs, Baltimores and Plymouth Fathers
were men of another sort, and seeing hope
where the Anthraxes failed Went to work
and realized it.
If VIM. Penn's compeers had all been An
thraxes when he mapped the city of PhiIa-
delphia from the wild. dark, unbroken for
est wilderness, what would the town plat
have been worth at the present day. There
were Anthraxes among them, and some of
the Governors applied an excellent rule, that
they stop growing and 60 to work or stop
eating. Those men could see hopeful fi-
ture for Philadelphia with one small vessel
moored to her shore, whose cargo was land
ed beneath the shelter Of prmeval forest
trees.
Anthrax can see no future for St. Paul
with from ten totwenty steamers constantly
at her wharyes, and levee SO over crowded
with merchandise that vessels have lain for
days waiting for space to unload their freight.
The warehouses already erected, Bass &
Co., SO feet by $50 deep, Borup & Co., Bur-
bank Blakely, Constans & Co., McLagan
& Co., &C., &C., all wholesale and commits
sion houses, surpass, in expense of struc-
ture, and amount of business dore, any thing
Philadelphia could exhibit for the first three
Quarters Of century of her growth. And
yet St. Paul is less than seven years old.
Anthrax could find no one to give him an
idea to justify the hope of large city. 1t is
tedious, painful task to give some men an
idea of any kind /; and, what is worse, when
a SPECTATOR has an interest in being disin-
terested, an interest in being ignorant and
full of doleful despair in reference to par
ticular town or stock, arguments and facts
are yainly employed upon such man.
implicitly, Anthrax charges the old pro-
prietors with being either fools or knaves If
they know that their property possesses no
intrinsic value, and scheme to seduce outside
purchasers at exorbitant rates, by false re-
presentations, it is systematic knavery and
swindling ; and if they believe in the future
growth of the city, with large increase in
their property, whilst, according to An
thrax, it is almost worthless, then they are
fools.
Now, submit that this is a bold, auda-
cious, reckless assertion in any Anthrax
Does this scribbler, Anthrax, carry suffi-
cient weight of character, that he may stig-
matize such men as Gov. Ramsey, Col. D. A.
Robertson, John r. Irvine, Lyman Dayton,
FL n. H. M. Rice, Gov. German, Hon Moses
Sherburne, &C., &c. And might fill up
an indefinite list of names, which, for abill-
ty of judgment and sonndness of character,
would do credit to any city or country; and
yet these men are knayes if they want high
prices for property, or fools if they won't
let the Anthraxes have it for nothing.
There were plenty of Anthraxes in Cleve-
land, Chicago and Cincinnati, many of
whom l know, that now suck their fingers
in penury, who spent the time they should
have been at work, fault-fnding, growing
and despairing. =
What local or geographical advantage does
or Cincinnati, or St. Louis pos
sess that St. Paul is deficient in? Why,
Anthrax says that by digging canal, the
town might be moved few miles further
up the river, to where St. Anthony now
stands. That is very true. The town might
be carried almost anywhere and canal
made to follow it.
This is only question of money, but Ma
ture and Anthrax are at war. The town
now stands at the head of navigation. 1t is
just below the confluence of the Minnesota
river with the Mississippi, and is the port
for all those up-river steamers. 1t also COM
mands all the st. Anthony, Minneapolis, Up
per Mississippi and lumber country trade
1t would have been just as easy to have built
the city at St. Anthony as at St. Paul, and
the town plot much less expensive had there
been any access to it and what wisdom
there would be in running away from the
navigable river and then 60 to dig
ging canals that the water might follow, is
found only in the acute understanding Of an
Anthrax.
st. Paul has a local relation to Minnesota
as Philadelphia has to the Union. Destroy
either city to-day, and tomorrow workmen
will be 'busy replacing it. It is the necessi-
ty for the city that builds and sustains it.
T. T. M.