The emigrant aid journal of Minnesota. [volume] (Nininger City, Minn. Terr. [i.e. Minn.]) 1856-1858, 1858-03-03
NUMBER a..

Or the following extract from letter received from
Ohio: - .sa.sso..s.. n, e..-.-.. - II.
BY this tim think you must b sa'i fed with your
experience in Minns''a. aud he ready to return We
learn hire that twenty y-thre. children have frozen to
deatl. in Minnesota during the present ainter'
VIII" is there can believe such ports originate in
anything but the mist fraudulent and corrupt motives
Our winter has been remarkably mild md "pt,,-there
has been no cotinuous sleghing the snow barely
my the gr'und for day tw" ut time, aud the
Mississippi river little frozen t" interfere material
ly with wooi cutting an other pursuits that CURED
s"d surface for hauling-snh yet in the face Of all
these facts, trinmphantly tru"p'ted through the
columns Of every urnal in the Territory the Eastern
press continues freezing and starving with wonderful
pertuarity. Can believe otherwise than tuat the
wish is father tt the thought - .[.,..- -
Or does any here rate the potent influence
of the sovereign instrument, the Press, nw welded
against Us Does any ,nan doubt that the universal
diffusion br adcas over the land Of their SANDERS will
turn thousands and Of thousands from doors!
As Shakespeare said Of the playes. Better that thou
have bad epitaph after thy death, than their III
repute while living We all know how sanguine We
last winter Of immense increase in population
during the spring Of 1857, and during the winter
months certainly nothing could have promised fairer
But at the very turn If the the Eastern press
alarmed the immense exodu. which threatened to
deprpulate their country, joined in umuts torrent
of abuse Of the Wes cuimnsng in prophecies of its
immediate downfall need not advert to the subsc-
qu ut history of that downfall where it commenced
nor how instrumental the prophets were IN bringing
purpose that the Eastern press stayed the ex
peced apod an that instca If the largest emigration
that visited shores expecte received
D. rhsps the smallest After such !. sson We should
set snetrste the power Of the ube ;urnaIs potent
~ they are for good or tyil How mutb we would
ne
tion, widely disseminated spring the tide ofempire
.weeps past to find resting place in othr localities
possessing not half our aivsntagcs.
The necessity for some action at this time i<generaly
conceded. The discussions in our Legislature on the
exemption Law show tie prevalence Of the feel II
.tll more strlkngly exhibited in the proposition OF
Mr. r h6eld Of ths House to publish thirty Thousand
pies Of pamphlet setting forth the advantages OF
Nnneso'a, be distributed by committee. There il
question the necessity Of some stepsto counter
,ct the false and Injurious influences work against us
re only question is as to the best means Of getting =
he proposed cni A. citizen Of Minnesota, with all
my interests centered within her Dor ers have thought
go"d deal this sui ject, aud TO- one see the great
folly Of sitting idly waiting for the food Of fortune to
come to feet. while other AMI rival l"caties are
IN lustriousy and unfairly 1t work dykng and daming
long. ''.. .91.'s - - - 80 - f'a2'@
The mesns already discussed would resp ctfuy
.ay, seem in my judgment, nsuf6 lent to the end pr
psed AZ to the iasinrss an expediency Of properly
modified exemption law there can be no question: but il
io.s not reach the heart Of the is very de-
rable to those now tere. but It cao offer sufficient
tmptat; to overcome the nprseson. already pruiacea
~ tie mi Il, II Tia .~t.rn oDlc. an * ;pton law
.nn,t greatly i.daence n q o EN- crate Into c,un.'
ry where he ha. been taught t. bI,sv. h. wotl have
nnhn to exempt Entir. imnunifv y {, I'M deb wsul,l
om peple lnsmschatka The Exru;p,io ion Law may b.
et fort6 4. ON. Of tho msnv adyautoes our Territory
possesses but a'on. # can do bu, li,te e7ss 4 ol
Mr. Rehfala. prep sition j. right ia its purp se, but
there Is Que ma q objection u It. Its efficacy would
epeni s,eiy on the distribution of tie $4,000 p.mph
lss snj ~ :, .hs .hs .oui h.ve ,o .rn.t
avent. vho n;cb = ,urn irn.t other .orn,s and tho
rssult voud nrobabIv H. that m.nv of them would be
sent % useless llt;.. nm st more be left in tiies
IN the corners Of du.t, o6ees Who is ,h re, be he
chiefaeent or sub..ept. who vii take the trouble or
even possess the data on which to foru list Of $4,000
persons 10 whom q seni these pamphlets ~ maJtr
even # such l;st IA. prepared. what euern have We
that one tenth of the psrson, 40 named wou have tho
sahtes inclination toward. cm grafton of any ksd,
an COZ y voul ut trouble themselves /. rad
a vlumin -, .nnhlet IN sub,c which they hai NJ
interest Il NAV Sc sud n answer. that these $4,000
pamphlets could be sent to IL liyins in the East who
were kn,wn 81 cifis-ns here d b. already incned to
emprate hither III, here Mr. Balcombes areuusess
coss u, that @ch pers ,ns can be much betssr sup
pisd With information on the sub ect fro@ ,her ,ns