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

1t is something ns a marvel that, it Hrah God array. &C
His glorious courier, the Sun, IN arnior. til lar his com,
iny shone.' and babe him westward take his way, man
should only have taken the hint a day OF ivy" ago and
followed after him.
But The pioneer has become 4 multitude And The inui
!ituic numterle>s. and the drowsy East awaking, seeks
the West. There is bat one grand cardinal point to-
day, though the poor ignorant needle Is sA1w to learn it
Lake the da"nlng OF morning has THIS progress been.
The .ttenesee, q little while ago, was Il lame to cen
lure with to conjur. visions of Wilderness, and noise.
less toor fails and dimmes, threads Of trails, and rife
notes, and the red light Of camp fires among the trees.
4 little while since, 10 SCI forth itlther was a good deal
like d,ing-a piece II tu~iu,s TO be don" solcmuly
and alone. and when long, dull intervals Of tiule ,awueai
between the pion.,r OF the Geussce aud the home Lr
lett behind HIM.
Those will read these paragraphs who remember II,
aud they are not very old after all.
Theu Lake Erie was wonderful dim in the blue dis.
taucv, aid he who had seen it and he who had Padded
a canoe upon its waters Was Il Travelled soul, aud had
tales to tell, and = world Of ears 10 hear hem.
By-and-by somebody set foot upon Cots gr a. mead
ows, that were waiIing To be fenced, and a pillow SHARE
cur the sod IS sai!y as Il ships bo"s he parting water,
ami smoke w,u, ut from new learths, and sung from
ntw homes.
Now AMI then. soIne silly Canute "r othrr would
throw il chain upon The advancing wave ani utter his
tid~ wouli tsi. him imprudently up, and tumhle biz,
neaIvl sun>.i, ~ita the word ia,theI just finished OH
Ia, lips.
And hi. las ma be, IL III on, day and here ~ the
time when FOUND tn" iaaea ts~tod Tie craft 10 oar port
and av.r the ,nalneici SID catne he praifi tiiuon"rs.
Then the i:as, stretched ioili, ,ta hand t. The West,
with a tricc OF iron haIs therein, sud he West laokea
away 10 thr Mississippi. The ,1 CO.., hes numbered ana
iurct.ni. an! wtut sjr"n ani ever. and under SEINE
;i,uee, l.en they waited al tl. lci iiluita oI tne pioneer
!aii.,...:. I'D iia!e.a ten mlies vut. fifteen miles OUT,
,wen., m,irs au,, WHERE. ike IL. White Nile, it seemed
l." l">t Iise:i "ioil tls i'a:iic. and lad 1o' Pot aud p:s-
~cug.r it"al,r II , 4raiid >r:ile~-a d.po' aud i Passenger
house with u hiue rni. AMI cirtuiar walls precisely ~
the hur;z,n, !l"Ii'n- velti !atin and ufeAut.ouce oi
room and ali 'h4'. .Aul thu tanu;e= came atou, again,
wrh their chains aud ,ncir :njnnriions, but the Sun.
that hrigh, x.mplar, sept on his way II the West, and
rear.
And W. hare, ava, hare, Oh lie hiti.rr shore Of Lake
Micli-an-e su2it ourselves ,nokin- On beyond for
strangely enough, wr are 40 longer a, he WeSt--the
West has slipped is alna.t without cir knowing IT.
slipped hy on the r.ii.o"J, ana by the rivers, ana n the
ctntaS-r'vrt,} wIlt>, "ttt ~ loot With plcks. and even
ia wlr-!AatI, : !ju' the y est wa all .lr,ai. un!rncnd
ami u.icla ,ntsi, ,ui che y 50 shc Great tncit Of rs ali,
III III" generosity Il III hear' could MAKE il
:. wi.!r ago, "a, w Nal'", her" w"n ], ring who
wuulu come ncxt, Az fH" fnlny more thes" Hrrc -
Nebraska BaYh, an yer, STANCE il >"nnitl t, t. from
away ia tie wilderness Ii Tie frontier the outer rim Of
the West.
And the West There it is d.n!y f~ckti4ing n the
Distance. -IC,icago J 'uria|.