The emigrant aid journal of Minnesota. [volume] (Nininger City, Minn. Terr. [i.e. Minn.]) 1856-1858, 1857-09-26
ui9rout Sin anurual.
CITY OF NlNlNGEk. Dakota Co.. M. II.
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1857.


1Mc Mess In their own Pot.
We rccollec, hearing an anccdotc of a prophet, who,
III those days when prophets were more respectable than
they are now, was foretslling the fate Of his acquaint-
snces in the presence Of QUE of those rough semi.ciyil.
i.ed kings so semmon III Europc in the middle ages.
After he had gone through his oracular category of evils
rs was asked By the king # he who was so liberal in
forcteilipg the destiny Of others could reveal his own.
He said he could not, that it was beyond his power.
Then said the king, Il will tell it for you You will be
heheaded in half an hour, ana proceeded to carry his
prophecy into execution.
Thus has II been with the Eastern par. Of our Union
From al early day in the present Year l systematic effort
has been made by every engine that money could com.
mand 10 awake prejudice aud distruss against the great
West. Loud, numerous and repeated have been the
prophecies Of ruin and woe against our beautiful LANDS.
A crash "a crash = a crash has been rung in
the ears of the whole country until the very clamor be-
came convincing.
VIVA, has been the result ? The West broke net.
Not q splinter was detached. The earthquakes have not
swallowed orr fertile fields: the Indians have fed into
the farther Wilderness; even the grasshoppers have taken
wing and left Us. 4 few paper and ~rasteboard rea'
estate niillienaiTes have been reduced t. their proper
proportions, and SOME inflated speculations have collapsed
like punctured balloons. What else : Nothing.
Yes, even more. for while W. were expecting the crash
AMI the comes together, and wondering what shape
both would assume, 10, the storm burst with fury IN III
serene and pure atmosphere from which all the>t
prophecies emanated. Yes. even 50, The safe East, The
conservative East, the East lying back it ease aud digni
", and foratelling regretfully Yet impar1ially, the terri
be results that were about to ensue from the reckless:
speculations Of tie West, the East with one great how
gave up its pretensiops aud its pride, and now lies fai
in the most abjoet prostration that ever visited any par'
Q! this great country. Verify,
The poisoned clalice hath returned
10 their own lips
They SET about to ruin US, they would have enjoyed
cur ruin, they would have rejoiced over it as the as
tronomer rejoices over the advent Of some Grant body
whose return he had foretol3 Now they feel the agon.
meant tr Us. It IS not clri, ian Ike, and yet il is mos
natural that w should not regret 10 see such condigl
punishment visited Oh their heads who would hay'
brought woe - our hearth-stones. They deserve no pity
1t is also q subject Of satisfaction s. notice that Will
the rotten East, rotten to the core, i staggering along
under the weight Of it, affections. il is deriving all th'
little strength it possesses from the abused and i.ttreat
ID West. We notice by thc New York NeraM that Oh
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uittanccs to the amount Of four hundred thousand Dol
lars. They are looking 20 the West, and - the Wet
alone f.: slecor and relief.
How vain. how idle, for any st Of newspaper editor
- imagine they could turn hack the course Of God
great Gifts. The Western harvest, teeru;ng and groaD
inc FROM Minnesota to Ohio has more of argument III i
than al the Collected lccic IF all the oracles Of the con
gresated press. Can they oblilarats or wheat fields
San .ley by their wortls and their 1ypc cover up Qua
granaries? Can they dcny vitality 70 tle very susie
nance that feds them For if we are all 9 myth ant
a deception. & mockery and : snare, what is ~ De though
Of those who possess their whole Importance in beir9
our outlets. tie channel through which our productions
seek the sea. and through which we receive our foreigr
supplies. Cut of the great West from the city Of New
York, and tie destruction Of Solom and ,ioinorraA VA:
ROT more sudden or complete thari the desoiation w'licl
aould fall upon it.
Is our country to be not only halved but quartcred
If the slavery agitation separates Us North and South, j
the bad and bisoted conduct Of the Eastern press to draw
4. line Of osfracism between us East and West. Are 81
70 feel that re are hated and conte,nned, and that GU
fellow citizens Of a part Of the confederacy not only dc
sire but seek 70 bring about our destruction If 50, VT
say beware. Our dish OF soup Of your connecting ba
already nauseatcd your own stomach, beware Of q per
sistrnt course IT such prescriptions.