The emigrant aid journal of Minnesota. [volume] (Nininger City, Minn. Terr. [i.e. Minn.]) 1856-1858, 1857-10-24
The Great West.

.. The Great West, or the Garden Of the World its
History its Wealth, its Natural Advantages aud its
Future Also comprising Complete Guide to Emi
grants with full description of the different routes
Westward By c. W Dana, author of Life in the
West, Western Scenes, etc. With STATISTICS aud
Facts from Hon Thomas II Benton. Gen Sam Hous-
ton, and Col john {. Freemont Boston: Wentworth
& Co.. SIS Washington st. 1>5'. We have just re
eeyed copy Of this highly interesting and valuable
work from II. NJ. Rulison, Cincinnati, .. Being de-
voted the entire West, IL; reference to each Part
confined to its important features, but is still inispen-
sable to every who desires understand the true
ma ture of the Great West il fair compass. 1t is
work OF 400 pages I:no, handsomely printed on fine
paper, with illustrations of the coat. .ofarms of each
State Below give the opening preface Of the work
The Lan,i Of Ptoni~, and the Canaan of our time,
ia tue region which commencing tho slope OF the
Aleghanies, broadens grandy ever the vast praries
and mighty rivers, over qneenly lakes and lofty
tains until the cbb and flow Of the Pacific tide kisses
the golden shores of the FL Dorado
With soil more fertile than human agriculture has
vet titled with Il climate bamy and heathiuI, such as
no other land in other claim with facilities
for internal communication which ourvai the world in
extent aud ganeur,it does indeed present to tho na
tons land where the widest dreamer the future Of
our race may one day see actuazed destiny far out
reaching in spenlor his most gorgeous Visions
TO the New England man, who has been nuitur,d
among the bleak hills and the rough, rocky valleys Of
his native section where land is and food canter
where the farmer laorous!. cultiYates his little patch
of ground, and gets hercrom but small return Tor his
oilsone labor- Ie! hiu his gaze to the broad fields
Of the West and there behold the pls ultra OF farm
ing-an agriculture worthy of the There will
he see the field where his busy brain aud thinking hand
can fnd space and material tc work, and opportunity
to rear from Its virgin civilization, Institutions which
shall bless generations yet to he
O. the soul kindes at the though of VIVA. maeniti-
cent empire the West is but the germ, which blessed
with liberty and guaranteeing equal rights to ALL shall
go conquerng aud TO conquer until the whole earth
shall resound with It's fame and glory
The hardy yeonanry of New England peopling
by thousands thousands this land of milk aud
honey, carrying with them the ndomitablc Anglo
Saxon energy, and the virtues Of their fathers,
and more than all, minds which the common school has
trained into strong intellectual growth thus fitting thc'
to be the master spirits of the new era.
The old world cursed with despotism, is pouring out
its oppressed millions into the lap of the West and they
will furnish the hardy snews which, directed by New
minds shall lay the untold bountes Of nature under
contribution and swell the tide Of wealth.
When Pacific railway shall connect the fathesi cast
and the arthest within few days travel and the
now almost mitless deserts shall blossom the rose
inhabited by teemiDg millions pursuing their avocations
peaceully and each contributing his part to the good of
ALL it will be a consummation which the mind is lost IN
contemplating and of which the imagination is power
less to form an adequate conception.
The rapid strides which the West has made in civil
ization and in wealth marvellous. Every body Is
acquainted with them from the child who to schoo
to the patriarch with the Of eighty winters on M
brow,-how Cincinnati, Chicago, and St Louis the
spots on which they stand, but few years since un
broken forests have sprung into existence and grown
with such rapdity and power that they now outrsa IL
wealth and population the older cities OF the East with
two centuries Of growth on their record how States
Ike Ohio are wrestling the rol of empire from thei
eastern sisters and oycrshadowlng the rest with he
power an influence.
The subjects which shall treat on IN this work ar
Of lasting and deep interest to every man. wo"a" am
child on the continent. They need no apology n
one who has spark of patriotism anlmaflng his ooso'
will turn away from the glowing annals OF the " est
With resources such Nature has voucilsated to n
othcr cline blessed with of men who are no idler
IN their vineyard but claiming all the elements int
their service until there no limit to their acqus
,;ons there cannot fail to be set up along Its might
rivers and over its broad praires pavilion OF huma
nroeress which shall bless mankind. This structure
vet in process of erecon the materials OF constru
Il on ascending and descending mar Its prese'
,nnearapee bmt when the work Is finished the scatfo
na will fall and the noble cdi6ce will start IN 1t. VOL
drous beauty before astonshed world
We will not enlarge upon this topic here "
nrovince lies with things they now exist and the rea
er will pardon us fer induging in these remarks upo
the future of THE GARDEN THE WORLD