Minnesota weekly times. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1859, 1856-06-28

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Ziolps Herald Wesleyan Journal, b ,ton.
The following hints will be valuable to those
who contemplate emierating to Minnesota, or
to any other Territory
NINNESOrA-HINTS ON EMIGRATION.
Persons emi.ratng West should not look so
much t. immediate advantage as to future good
and usefulness. They will have to make many
sacrifices of feeling, Of comfort. and perhaps of
money. 1t will be trying to leave old friends
and settle down among comparative strangers :;
to be priveJ Of the social and rels ious pri,i-
legcS Of other days, for The mragcr ones of ii
new country. From the time of Harding to that
of being well settled upon clam. or finding re-
munerative business, there must lie more or less
expense, much urp!easaniness ard discomfort,
and maybe many misgivinss of the heart, and
looking back to quiet home abandoned forever
and g abandoned, ," they may be ready to say
as the unbiddcn tear starts from the eve
g abandoned for what 20 and the heart echoes,
for what?" These have been the feelings of
multitudes who have come here from the East !;
but to-day they have homes and privileges, and
prospects, preferable to those they left, and the
brighter and deArcr for what they have cost.
1t has been advised that people comfortably
we'll of in the East. should be contented to let
we'll enough alone, and remain where they are
view the subject diGtr,nIy. This class, above
all others, is the very one to come West. Monied
men do and will come. They come mainly for
purposes of speculation few become identified
as citizens, and fewer still identify themselves
with the great moral ard religious interests of
the country. And if the certainty Of IL few trials
and hardships should keep away those possessed
of tolerable means and comfortable homes in the
older States, we should be left. and the great in
terests of the West would be left, to Spectators
and foreigners, and the very lowest class of east
ern emigration. There are thous md, of com
Portable iivers East, whose duty believe it is to
come west. They should not stop to consult
their ease, but their duty. And is it not a fact,
that they can be far more useful in new coun-
try than where they are? Multitudes may lie
spared from the East w;thent any serious detri-
ment to the well-being of society, that would
become great blessing to our western world
Here they are really need i, ard may do great
good. The West needs New England men. The
more she has the better. We want them to come
with their love of liberty, of free schools. of the
church and religion, and thus their influence will
help mould this great West in love for the insti
tutiOns of our country, and our common Christi
anity.
Why, Mr. Editor, it would do YOUR heart
good to see the influence of eastern emigration
in the schools and churches, in the feelings and
enterprise, and sentiments of our population
here. Ii is this. more than all else, that has
made our beautiful territory the New England
of the West" Most of our towns arc emphat-
ically New England. They were planted By, and
have been made up of, her own sons and dauch-
tiers. And what VIC want is, that a population
unprecedented in extent pouring in upon us,
that New England should never be proportionally
lessened. And in view Of what the West must
soon become in population AMI influence, is it
going too far to say, that the subject of emiyra
ton may be considered in the light of duty?
But further, it is not manifest to a rejecting
mind that in the West, the future is far brighter
with promises of pleasant homes, and enlarged
and active usefulness for oar children In the
East things are comparatively stationary. Ag-
ricutural prospects there for young men'are GER
t1inly small. The trades and professions are
full. and in many localities the supply exceeds
the demand. On the other hand, look at the vast
| agricultural resources of the West, amply sufi-
ciens to furnish bread to the civilized world
These rich lands fast being brought under
cultivation, towns and villages are everywhere
spr:nging up, and the demand for the trades and
professions Of all kinds must keep pace with the
rapid increase OF population.
Social, religious, and school privileges of
course are not in the West what ,hey are in the
East. SILL, bs.iag the original proprietors OF
the soil, who Yet love TO over their old
hunting grounds, We ara 10 a tolerably advanced
state of civilization. And those coming here
will be disappointed if they expect to find an un-
cultivated, ignorant and stupid class of people,
that know little of men and things, and can be
duped by any one possessing . little knowledge