The emigrant aid journal of Minnesota. [volume] (Nininger City, Minn. Terr. [i.e. Minn.]) 1856-1858, 1858-01-13

town and State.a In undertaking this we aePose% WIN
confidence in friends, and all who are interested in the
prosperity of Niningrr, that our exerticris will be met
with corresponding encouragement, until the Improving
state of Affairs shall assume its wonted strength if3 e
The incorporation OF our City. .sses@
W. are requested to state that on Saturday evening
next, at s o'clock, a meeting of our citizens will be held
q, the fremont Hall, 10 take the preparatory steps for
obtaining a City Charter: A draft OF a Charter will. be
read for amendment and adoption by our citizens We
need scarcely enforce upon our people the Importance OF
I vs.. Hastings. e~J - J
We suggested in our last that = good fight. might serve
10 enliyen a tedious winter, and it seems the Hastings
IadeYs adent is of the same mind. We must beg, how.
ever, that the fight. if fight there s.sto1 be, will be a
clear, and au intellectual one. Ii We arc to take to stig-
matizins each Other With words that are fcrbidden'by the
rules of polite society, and that make their appearance
in print only in the shape of initial letters and dashe.,
We must decline the contest. We have wildly before
swa,e u.s,n ~.S4ULIM
sOuoth he, that man is sure = lose, 1an1 ssas.f
-. That soils his hands with dirty foes, 40 lsHsi
We have no disposition to End ourselves at the end Of
the contest in the condition Of the chevalier That enter
eG into q rouEh-auu-t AZ .uSut WALL eHo "SeP,-"'
though he came off victor he was so begrin,ed with filth
that his best friends did not know him. Decency, de-
esncy, MIR. Independent; 8 Assume the virtue though
you have it nes,' and avoid all words that cannot By
printed. 80 4 r. %S . "a go : !
Les US premise a little. First: \ large portion Of
the people OF HsstipgsyweYrespect highly and would de.
sire always to retain theif good opinion: We have found
among them some Of the very first Of western people,---
,;ha-.l n = 20, pr:S;nr :nteif iTpuf md hiuh minded. Some
few Of them we count among our best friends. Even
the Editor of the Mdrpeaderi before he commenced to
quote his profane ball against os we looked upon as one
Of the best men in the county. This contest has not
been begun by us. We have uniformly treated Hast
ings wit, courtesy We have prodered the hand OF
friendship to her We have toasted her at our public
dinners; we have poured the JUNCTION of hattery over
her, and her name has been received with rapture OF ap-
plause by our people. We sought to make d pair OF
Siamese twins Of the two towns, with the Hastings
branch Of the Nininger and St. Peter Railroad as the
vital ligature between them But alas :! the Dakota
Serenaders and the Hastings Independent with rude
hand have severed the cord OF life, and all our visions
of a new Chicago must be indefinitely postponed, to the
serious de,riment of Elder Cressy's farm.
In the next place When we challenged to combat
che whole host Of Hastings, .uAl
Cast the gauntlet down at once,
To northern Wit and southern Ounce,
We expected, as we before said, that the contest would
be conducted in accordance with the regulations of civil
lied warfare, and unless it is SO conducted we cease at
once. A discussion such as is already commenced IN
the Munger Journal may serve todraw out the merits
and advantages Of both places before the public eye :;
one such as is begun by the Independent would only
s.rve to Illustrate bilIingsgate and furnish "a new argu-
ment for the establishment Of Sund' y schools. n
q. -.Immodest words admit of no defence, ssr
't or want of aecency is want Of sense 5ri s@'
Casting . critical eye over the article Of the Aadepcnd-
en-, we find little to take hold Of. He compliments Us
on our rapid growth and comnends our energy May
his shadow never be less !! He regrets that the Dakota
Serenaders. haze disturbed our, equanimity, but hopes
that it may serve the. same purifying purpose that the
winds do 70 the ocean, keep us from sinking This
highly classical allusion we receive in good part, and con-
graduate ourselves that it was not accompanied by a few
half printed ~expletives. We must add, however, that
as the Serenaders were no doubt instituted to afford the
same humane relief to Hastings, and as they have been
performing their deodorisiog functions in their midst
without avail for soneliime past, we may be pardoned
if we hesitate to take the recipe. We are much Of the
same mind with the youth who finding Inscribed on q
tomb stone the couplet - ~ j. 4s.f. .e.s.ssss : =
ooh, christian friend, when this you see,
- Prepare for It'll xptnpnSN Hpshrs TnsT
Wrote under it - .,sy
ITO follow you, we're not content,
Unless We know which way you went
In the same spirit We must decline adopting the Dakota
Serenaders as a new element in our Pharmacopiw,su until
" e t II q CuI WEIiV 0fot i ~ ~
mean time we would recommend the liberal, use Of
chloride of lime in the streets Of Hastings on wet days
and we know not if it would be amisst to sprinkle . lit
tie over the Serenaders themselves F! AS 4Aks'
The choicest part Of the whole productions ~islc6ntain-
ed in the following lines - e'eJ7a asdio Il.
w do not claim to be your rivals. We hold that
our city occupies a position which will not for o moment
tolerate the idea of entering on the lists with a village
whose population at most does not exceed seven hun
dred. We shall ever commend the enterprises that snT
acterizes the people OF Nininger, but the idea Of her
ever becoming our rival is too much Ike Brooklyn vie.
ing with New York, to cal! forth a serious remark
Well done our, metropolitan friend. The Hastings
lndependtnf occupies the position Of the New York Her,
old we have not a doubt in this modern Manhattan g
Island. Hastings and New York |s Gods: 100000
versus 2 zee TIE Battery represented by that feaeiy
levee, where q melancholy poet might u1distutsb2sda write
odes to solitude. The Cnaard and Collins lines represent
ed by that forlorn looking Aat-boat that thrice sday per-
forms it's dangerous voyage to the island opposite, Ihs
metropolitan and Wood police represented by those few
III paid watchmen that on dark nights frequent deserted
streets or resembling groggeries. And last and best
Buftonfs inimitable humor, Nibso's enchanting harmo'
MES, Barnum's collected wonders, and C''r'sties unt'r
ing wit, all finding their exponent in that small, dirty
rehearsal Of stale Jokes, discordant tunes and lamentable
contortions, yclept TIE Dakota Serenaders. 7as
The presumption ofs toKn nambe3seseaen hundred
in. abitapts enteripg into competition viii. q town mum.
berinx two thousand. Think, Of 1t ! In Minnes9ta, toe
where towns date their ancestry from the tho9sd, AND
where they grew a: the rate of one per. cent per year
Mark the position Of things. L., ~Sep.ember. 1886
just sixteen months agc, the town Of Ninlnger number
ed about a dozen people, now it nu,ahers about seven
hundred and because it has met With such sudden
rise, carried away by its own success, it presanes 70 en-.
ter into the lists with a town which bad two thousand
neople in it when Nininger started, and has ever since
with solid consistency stuck to the same number 10.
We would ask the Hastings Independent which will
win the race, the race-horse or the milestone !? We