The emigrant aid journal of Minnesota. [volume] (Nininger City, Minn. Terr. [i.e. Minn.]) 1856-1858, 1857-09-26

1t is something or marvel that III .gh God ARA, I'd
Ills glorious courier the Sun, in armor, TIL lar his
ing shone' and babe him westward take his way, man
should only have taken the hint day ago and
followed after him.
But the. pioneer has become multitude and the mul-
tilude numteress and the drowsy East awaking seeks
the West. There is hut one grand cardinal point to-
day. though the poor ignorant needle slow to learn It,
Like the dawnng OF morning has this progress been.
The tennessee, little while ago. lame to con
iure with; conjure visions of Wilderness and noise
less toot fails and dimmes threads OF trails aud rife
notes. and the red light Of camp fires among the
4 little while since forth thither good deal
like dyng-a piece Of business TO be done solemnly
and aoue and when long, dull intervals Of time yawne
between the pioneer OF the Genesce and the home he
left behind him.
Those will read these paragraphs who remember it,
aud they not very old after all
Theu Lake Erie wonderful dim in the blue dis.
tauce, aud he who had it and he who had padded
a canoe upon its waters travelled soul, aud had
tales to tell, and 4 world OF 10 hear them.
By-and-by somebody set foot upon God's gr a. mead
ows, that waiting to be fenced, and a pillow share
cut the sod gaiiy ships bows the parting water
and smoke went up lon hearti,s, aud song> from
homes
Now and then, some silly Canute other would
throw chain upon the advancing and utter bis
cdc, vt thus lar ana nD--, and the disobedient
d, would wash him '"prudensly up, and tumble him
.lea1el sunsc with the word farther just finished OH
his lips.
Aud hs las has been day and here IN the
time when round the lakes hnacd The craft port
and over the enalneIea sad the praia >slooners
Then the Eas, stretched forth hand t., the West
with trace of iron bars therein aud the West looked
away the Mississippi. The ,l1 coaches numbered and
iurch."l went down and ever. and under some
;iues then they waited at the the pioneer
raiii...,s the Ga!eua miles out fifteen miles out
iweni, miles ,.u,. where like The White Nile, it seemed
base Itself UPON the prairie and bad Sdsto aud pas
senger h",st grand >caIe--a depot aud Passenger
house with blue roni, ani circular walls precisely
the horizon, glornns ventilation and abundance Of
room and ali hat. Aud the Canu,e. came abou, again
wh their chains aui their inunelons, but the Sun,
that bright cx"mplar sept his way the West, and
tie roads followed after and the world brough, up the
And here, away here, he hither shore of Lake
Michiaan--e .ugh ourselves looking on beyond, for
strangely enough III longer at the WeSt--the
West has slipped iy alno.t without CIR knowing it
slipped by the railroad, and by the rivers and in the
cansas-c.'v.,s wan> aad loot with packs. and
in whceuarro Bur the Vest all abroad. untcnced
and unclaimed, ani cheap The great Uncle Of all,
in the generosity 1T his heart could MAKE il
\ while ago waited here wondering who
would next, "ui h'w nany there to
come, the OF Rngic. faint AMI iowa
Nebraska Bagir, AMI very strange it sounded to Us from
the West
And the West There it is dmly beck knlng in the
distance. Chicago ,ur,sl.