Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1857-03-06


Of the West says:
Toe st.tis,ics Of yesterday are all ous Eaiusless
"a 5,v those Of Jay viii hardly DO r 10 nor
roT 40 rapidly are cspi.El seeking investment
and labor ssskug employment. spreadirg over our
s,.,is,;c- are GOOD, hoxever, to set up mils
,,o,as an measure progrCsa As mere hlustTs
tion take one or two staples 81 slugs polnti
stnuIes Of food Il would aFe dons very wei 10
indicate the con uerce Of Chicago IN the year 1898
TO have written that ueuTlY yty tLou' @ul oarfs.s
Of four over million and a mig on7heis o. NAeS',
ADD nearlv thrss millions bu hs 9 OF ezra pas ed
thateitv But these stltiycs are vallses7 a. t. 10
wear The -four bsd gone up to four h.indf sa thou
and bsrrels the wheat To uesil5 nIas n ions Of
hnsheIs and tue corn 90 tg,l0e u Hons Of oishtb
in 1851 We bAvs other Ike statst'es, bot these
will answer our present purPos9
But 10 90 further west sad single OUT Territory.
Minnesots. but Yesterday wilderness land, mss o1w
$50. 600 population, and vzlaa';on OF thirty 'e
million of doliarsl Tbs bill P ldiug Tor TIE ad-
F,,ission of Minnesota now be:ers Congress, pro
yidss far \ Site Of 100000 square miles, large
enough 70 contain a dozsu suea S;a'ss a. " ms
old Bsv State aod which wall STOW 10 1861, 90
II is CALCULATED Z csnsus Of bali ml1or. Gov.
German saws that before It can possibly become
State the population will run up t. two hundred
or two hundred and fifty thousand; and the tax1-
bic property will reach sixty lnilOhs oil do-ars
A western paper predicts thst in twenty years tnls
fine State will have two millions Of population -
80 hold are OR western fellow e:lizeos ia tho hne
of prophecy, ss they recount the treasures OF u
uesots the teauy Of its crystal iakss-the water
DO ser capacity OF its running sream5-the weal'h
of it, grams and grssses-tLe magic fertility OF Is
soil-ard that which over ops all the lGttllge2cS
of ita emigrsuts So much lor the present aad the
future OF the preciEct termed Minnesota: not the
whole I66 OC0 SQUARE miles Of Mnnesos, bat the
Minnesota that will be the sovereign State after
sixty-six thousand sq1are mlss are msde INTO
new germ Of 3 State by tue name Of D.cJtah
Such Dacotah, by the way, as viii have good
one thousand square miles area m're than tho
Whole OF New England
So much for Illustrations Of tbs growth Ct the
west drawn from q lew items as 10 The Tsds OF
citv and the budding Of : at. Tue same pro
pIess is seen oil over our great aesetn worlG-t-e
world that the narrow pfosnciaism Of New Bog
land once would have rep-l ed from the Union.
The politicians who COunzeaed SUCH an unwcr;hy
policy as this; who moved heaven and earth =
thwart the msnifsst destiny OF thu AneFc N race;
who for years declamed agans: the growth OF
wes.ern influence should be the asst to raiss
| their vocs in council at the present day. And
vet they do i'll Ald their inf lsnc5 IS about "a
! much as would Ge a straw btemming tie cataract
might Of NisgTA.
Governor Giurnan makes pregnant remark ia
his eaDitsl message. l. is bus just the digni I'd
character and sand Dg Of Minnesota + say that LeT
prosperity las been gtsstY promoted By the careful
avoidance of interna stTlt5 alb u questions OF Ia
topal policy and even 10 Ter eWn internal alta rs
free expression Of opinion has been tolerated with
forbearsues and good sease that miy be pointed to
with pride and satisfaction in ell ZINE to COM Il
| ia SINGULAR how completely be fact has been over
| Looked in deal ng with Kansas s1ATs, that s. in
ternal strifg' has Characterized many, If not most
oF tine beginuiug of our States old and new Wit
| ness the ti-th Of Vernon and Of Kentucky; Of
| Michigan. aad of California. The iulerasl nies
| of Kentucky and Of Vermont-s'ave and tree 5 s.es
| were bitter and severe, even 10 tloCdsse5i aud
| long retarded the prosperity Of those S'aieI The
| case Of Minnesota is al exc pG1n to most OF the
States and tie avoidance OF Internal sttie has had
! much to d. Win lis leace, progress end Prese1t
| splendid pio'perity.
! There Is nothing ME gratifying IN hs.o-y than
| the way in which America communities have
| formed in the west ard atsumed al the obligations
and become emitted to the creqlal rgats of s1T-
| ereign States of this UGol la Mexico, 10 Cen
! trail Americs, in South America, under constant
succession Of internal STRIFE there has been ia the
| States and cit,ss sn extraordinary decline. Such
is the result o. that worst Ct political cslanidas
| civil Wsr-Iate'y invoked with such hippaCcy and
terrible fanltc an by political c!ergyman aud abo
! Egion fanatics. D; Dowisr, al eminent ssatscla ,
in commenting on the facts We have touched upon
the decline Ia South America and the growth OF
/ our west -ssYs sin three centuries tue eat re
| Caucasian race IN both Americas south OF the UEi
ted States as not equallsd numerica ly that per-
! lion Of the Union lying west Of the Aleghapy
mountains, settled by tue present generation,
amidst the conflicts Of prolonged savage vars with
the bravest and most uguiaRry nations K. owa
| in oil history" Suca is The wonderful aud magic
power of the boon of peace and security, supplied
BY republican government upon the extension OF
! population.