The emigrant aid journal of Minnesota. [volume] (Nininger City, Minn. Terr. [i.e. Minn.]) 1856-1858, 1857-06-20

IN the ILLINOIS, IaSnOn as laDOrlng unOer cnrOnlc
fever and ague These abrupt bluffs worked into strange
resembances by the winds and rains of centuries contrast
ed beautifully with the low treecovered islands that filed
the channel. ... s r-,. .~vq
began to notice also that practical life was busy
here as we'll as beauty Every few miles the river
village the rising town. At every point there were
passengers and freight to dsembark And then such ac
witty, such hurry, such energy The people seemed to
be perfectly wide awake. was astonished too at the
immense amount of store goods piles Of boxes, stoves
agricultural TOOLS &C. carried at every landing place
vanced my admiration Of the country increased. m
At length reached St. Paul. the type and represent
atve Of the whole region Ten thousand people accu
mulated in about six years. Property risen in that
time from 1925 per to 5000 per foot. And those
ten thousand people equal to one hundred thousand in
any other part of the world The streets in places
crowded Broadway, with wagons drays carts and
carriages hurry, scurry, if the millennium had been
fixed by special appointment for the next day and they
were anxious to settle up their business forthwith
Then when rode out upon the high clear, sunny,
breezy praries and breathed in that delightful that ex
harang atmosphere than which there nothing purer
or sweeter in all Gods created world and when look
ed around at that beautiful diversity of field WOOD
and water, rounded lake and crystal stream, said to
myself this surely earths Paradise Eureka have
found it. nd dai8 TT# # III
What have we and what will we have here. 0. s
A State almost the geographical center of the con-
tlnent- the highest point Of table land between the
Gulf of Mexico and Hudsons Bay" and consequently
the healthest The only State in the confederacy COM
municatng at and the same time with the Gulf Of
Mexico the south the Atlantic Ocean on the east and
Hudson's Bay on the north lit needs only what it
will yet Of necessity have the railroad to the Pacific lead
ing from s centre to San Francisco to make the great
pisse q our Unie its extreme
fnde b clamps &hsA snst bs 1ssred ItEtontans
g i,saf 81 G sss.sss g .el.A II copper
vast pineries alread nost Of the down RI
states its fertile sO soon nake il one Of the
greatest of grain-growug countries its Lake Superior
ports New York Chicago, will furnish ready
means Of export while its pure healthful invgorating
climate will beget race of active, cearheaded Hen
such few countries can boast Of Take New England
smooth down her mountains carry off her rocks, give
her soil of Neikc fertility, fill her with copper ore
cover her with pine forests drive the consumption out
Of her atmosphere let her retain her educaon her mo-
raty and her intellect set her to work develop her
possessions and you will then be able to form some con-
cepton of what Minnesota will be fifty years hence
These my first impressions Of Minnesota and
every day since has but confirmed them. For a time
was somewhat troubled about the winters These con-
sttuted the only objections had heard urged against
the Territory. In December last started for Min
nesota called there partly by business and partly by
desire see the climate in all its phases before making
it my permanent home As the result of my observa-
tons, would state in this do but repeat
a common sentiment-that would much rather spend
winter in Minnesota than in New York or Philadel-
phia True the weather is but it is Of that set
ted steady clear character which we call here brQcn0
weather." No damp winds, no sloppy thaw, no uncon-
Portable rains but day after day the unbroken field
OF snow the Clear bright sunshine, the same un
troubled air. Winter there holds undisputed sway
1t is not here, muddled mixture of all seasons in
which the breezy Spring, the sunny Summer the clear
Autumn and the rigorous Winter mingl. and mix and
come and 60 together You will understand the foree
OF this distinction when tell you that the first fall Of
snow in Minnesota remains the ground during the
whole winter without crust free is the air from
that dampness which in other countries produces IT,
Abroad over the whole Territory there ard the same
general features of plenty and prosperity The country
is ascending the scale and is yet far from that dead level
to which all communities eventually attain One hundred
and twenty thousand people crowded into Minnesota in
1856 forty thousand than the total Of its
population during six Preceding years This year i is
almost certain, still larger number will enter it,
The East is fully aroused to its merits It presents in
is freedom from miasmatic Diseases in the easy and
Pleasant ways Of reaching ID it's extraordnay rapdity
of nyth, features iIawestern. emigration. It is
andIEAl be State Of tie North West. Let us look
back and n~hat do Ohio, Indiana, Illinois.
Wisconsin cdG6are with this rich and favored
land and yet see th wealth and greatness to which
theyave attained - gded with mllions scanned with
railroads. covered cities, every foot of land valuable
beyond Athe widest amsaof its first owners and the
States themselves -sss begging Territorial aim. At
the gatesAof Congress,nov occupying distinguished
and influential positions ID tie saesacy Is there
any man who2Fill build wall acrozsr DE current of
these things Viii not this great sccele-
rated motion roll over young Territory not
the same events repeated, and will not in : few
years, Minnesota: bead Of the great valley Of the
Mississippi send her crowded cities hordes of
emigrants for thefurfhe1 West. .. Isbio9 esssl.4 4
There is one thing ~ liar to the western country
which eastern people cam understand until they visit
it that is to Say, the c es Of success are not con-
fined to isolated cases but universal. When We in
or elsewhere, we think, "ab, is extraordinary, but
it may never occur again. o. ae contrary for every
instance Of that sort that meet5 e light there are
hundreds that are not known in = public manner
The prosperity Of the country is to natural cause,
the sudden populating of and tile regions, aud
is universal Il finds its way into a. pks and grades
as we'll into the log house Of the farm into the
palace Of the speculator ; it spreads over ehelc
country. An adventurous pre.emptor dives So . thel
wilderness, twenty miles if You please, from any
habtation in search of water power olaim Or some
other peculiar advantage. He locates, and The fsar
comes over him that the benefits he has secured