The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1858-06-24

| ton, refinement, and oil the best character
istics Of the other cities Of the Union are
10 be found there.
Commerce, too, with It's busy and ever
active hands and energy, has built its tenn
pies upon the banks Of that mighty river,
which, nineteen hundred miles below empties
its waters into the Atlantic Il there no
thing In all this. sir, Of which the people Of
IT. Paul may not feel justly proud!
Only ten miles above are the twin sisters,
Minneapolis and st. Anthony, joined to-
gethsr by work Of art that the gentleman
cannot find an equal for In his own State.
| Those cities have ten ..aeasana inaakissnss..
lie will find there, too, the finest water
power upon Gods broad earth, which, by
the energy Of MinnesOtians, has been made
useful in mechanical industry In driving the
busy wheels Of the mills, shops and iacto-
rics at the falls Of 81. Anthony.
You will find there, also, the University
Of Minnesota, suprstructure OF which
even the State OF Vermont might feel justly
proud
We are a laboring, a living people there,
and we believe We are just as good "a are to
be found elsewhere in the Union. Improve
ments and enterprise and progress are not
confined 10 the places have mentioned.
On the Mississippi, up the valley Of the Min.
ncsota in the interior, north and south, are
thriving cities, towns and villages splendid
farms, cultivated fields all the evidences OF
prosperous, happy, and intelligent people.
And all this, sir, has been accomplished in
eight or nine years.
The gentleman says that we believe the
State OF Minnesota TO be the greatest in
the Union. Even were this true. should
not look upon it as very serious crime.
The gentleman remarks only show the feel
ings Of the older and forsilKed States against
the young and growing West. The young,
the entcrprising. the energetic, the men with
Icing blood in their veins, are the founders
of new States And therefore, | do not
wonder at the jealousy manifested by the
East, for il feels that the ''sccptre is depart
ing from Judah" Sir, we may well feel
proud Of the progress Of Minnesota. In
1919, her entire population was four thou
sand nine hundred and forty Now it is
nearly or quite two hundred thousand souls
In sol, climate, natural resources. and all
the elements that go to make up great
and prosperous State, we are not inferior to
the most favored portion Of this broad
Union. Again, say, we have right to
be proud. We have wrcsted this country,
a. il were, from the very clutch of tho saw
age. We have made il to bloom and bios
som a. the rose All the substantial insti.
buttons OF the older States we have in our
midst, but we may lack those higher ones
that wealth cannot buy. We have every
means and facility for the purposes Of cdu.
cation and the growth of the arts and sci
enccs. We have there all the appliances o.!
civilization aud growth they have in any
other State. This much felt bound to say
in reply to the gentleman from Vermont
One word more about this Fort Smelling
property. and have done. | would like
some gentleman upon the other side TO state
how long ago it was when the last attack
was made upon the white settlements near
Fort Smelling! Standing at The command
: ants door, the eye can scan "A circle OF forty
miles, and look down upon population OF
thirty thousand souls.
Go "a little further. OF what use WAS this
Fort Smelling at the time Of the massacre
last March Why, il was more than one
slaughter. Would you send troops in March
up the valley Of the Minnesota, to stop the
iorays of the Indians? No, sir; but il Fort
Smelling had been dismantled, and il the
army had been sent to Fort Ridgely, where
il properly belonged. these murders and
atrocities would not have been perpetratcd.
Look again, to August last, when five thou
sand Indians bid defiance to Major Shcr-
man aud his battery. Why did not Ma
or Sherman fight them them Because he
had to send one hundred and twenty five
miles TO Fort Smelling. to bring up the men
who were lying there idle for months |
know the facts because accompanied the
troops myself from Fort Smelling up to the
south bend of the Minnesota river. Fort
Smelling is u very elegant appendage to very
elegant gentlemen, who have very elegant
place Tor parade and show.
Bu, some gentlemen say that the land is
good Tor farming business. 1t has been Just
stated by the gentleman from Missouri, Mr..
Phelps, that over two thousand acres OF this
land are utterly worthless. and yet they say
Il ia good for agricultural purposes. II IL
"a the gentleman from Massachusetts, says,
"'N'' st'N wv w tuc uttTN
ni,iccnt spots on the earth hut the gentle
man from Vermont says that the land ought
not Ia have been disposed Of because it Is
wanted ~ Imilitary p'ei Tor the pro'ec-
tion Of the frontier OF Minnesota Now for
the last eigh, or ten years the people OF Min
nsota have not called on the United States
Government to protect them in anything
They are abunlantly able 20 protect them.
selves. II is absurd 10 say that Fort Snclhng
il TO keep the Winuebagocs in subsection.
Seventeen hundred Of these Indians reside in
the valley OF the Minnesota, ninety five miles
above For, Smelling, where they are quietly
passing their time On their reservation.
Wee it not, MIR. Speaker for the pur.
pose IT being us,d A. an clectioncering doc
umen,, this report would never have been
made. And say further, that believe