The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1857-11-07
To the Laboring Glasses of the East.

Notwithstanding the fact that the Eastern
Press have been engaged for long time past
in creating suspicion Of the stability and pros
perity Of the West, and cndeavoring to dis
courage emigration to it, the great Hope, and
the promised land of thousands of the poor
err classes now suffering from the panic in the
Eastern States and cities is the great and
roomy West. There has never been CON-
mercial or financial revulson in the East that
has not been followed by an increased and
rapid emigration of the classes who have
suffered most by it, to the garden of the land,
the rich, broad, fertile and prosperous West
Here is the field for the poor man, the young
man, for erery man who has the energy to Ia
Dor, and the Thrift to accumulate. Thou.
sands of the western men who this day own
rich domains, and live in an aaluence of which
they scarcely dreamed when in their poor
homes in the East (not the guilty and empty
splendor of Fifth Avenue snobbery, but the
comfortable, rich, generous plenty of the
western farmer) came to the land of promise
only very few years ago, as poor in every
thing but industry, frugality and energy, as
the army that shall seek homes in the great
empires beyond the Mississippi next season.
1t is an ill wind that blows no one good, and
in succeeding prosperous years, thousands of
those who have sought their fortunes in the
West, and had success scarcely hoped for,
will bless the day that occasione their emil
grating to it.
Here is room for all who come. Immense
do mains of fertile lands containing every
thing necessary to build up great states, ex-
cept population, lie ready for the settler
All enter with equal chance the poor man is
not crowded down and dependant upon the
capitalist. He becomes the Lord of the soil
he occupies, and in few years, his industry
thrift and enterprise decides the question of
success-for success is sure to all who labor,
and labor is sure of its reward. There are
no panics, revulsions or failures among the
agriculturists of the West. There is but one
bank they do business in-the Bank of Moth
err Earth, that never fails to repay the indus
try of the husbandman.
Let those in the East of intelligence. in
dustry and sobriety, sufficient to insure sue
cess here in the West, yet who have had one
continued struggle there to keep their
heads above water, ponder on this. The
young man also who has found difficulty in
pushing his way to position and plenty in the
East can here find abundant chances to rise
in the world, become respected and win for
tune as we'll as fame. Why such will strug-
gle for years in the over-crowded cities and
towns of the East, when such field as the
Great West is open to them with its mani
fold more chances, is hard to be understood,
except from the truism that men prefer suf.
fering for long time Inconvenience of DO
sition rather than change, since change is dis
tasteful to so many.
Yet much as Eastern Journals declaim
against emigration to the West, the multi
tudes who have come are but vanguard to
the hosts of the great Army of occupation,
which is now taking possession of the good
ly domains of the West in the name of hui
manity and freedom. 1t is but ripple in the
tide OF emigration, which with widening and
deepening current, is to flow for years to the
great garden of the world, until the wilderness
has been conquered, and blooms and bios
SONS, and the thousand cities and towns of
millions of free, intelligent and industrious
people shall dot the plains, and gem the
mighty rivers of the Great West.