New-York daily tribune., 1858-07-03


" than any other journsl-letters from different
sections of the Great West, setting forth the ad-
vantages of and indictments to immigration thther.
If the West is not sufficiently commended IN our
columns, the defect is clearly owing to lack OF
ability in our correspondents not to lack OF WILL
We never take liberties with their letters, except
rarely to suppress sentence or paragraph devoted,
not to cracking up" their several localities, but
TO running down some other or others. We mean
not to interfere with these rival pretensions, but TO
give our readers full and correct information and
leave them to decide for themselves, free from bias
on our part We repeat, every few days, our ex'
hortation to the unemployed and upixed in the Old
States, "Go West, and hew out homes OF your
own /" but whether they shall find those homes in
some one of the nearer New States, we leave to
the Judgment Of each.
OF course, we cannot publish all, nor nearly all,
that is written Us in commentator of this or that
section, and We delight to reject such absurdity and
rank nonsense as the following:
ST. PAUL, Minnesota, March 6, 80.
"Minnesota having been most shamefully nisrsp-
resented during the last Elk months by large portion
on 10 reute through your columns tho reckless state
ments which this Gordon of enemies have put forth
the hes with which they have delugedthe whole coun
try-til Minnesota stands forth hemmed out from the
East by wall Of fire. the plague or pestilence from
which all with the hardihood to look
back" &c.
Now we venture to assure the writer Of the
above that we have been publishing somewhat and
reading much moro about Minnesota for the last
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ever once seriously denied from any quarter that
Minnesota is in tho main healthful and fertile re.
gion, and that in timber water power, lakes,
springs and streams, she s about the most favored
of all the Western States and Territories. That
her Winters are usually severe, is a drawback
though that just closed was both pleasanter and
more favorable to business in Minnesota than in any
other Free State. Our correspondents generally
say that the atmosphere is 80 dry that they don't
mind the mercury sinking to 80 or 40 degrees below
zero occasionally; but then peach-trees and grape
vines do mind it, and even apple-trees are some
times killed by it-sO, on the whole, we should pre-
fer the climate of Illinois Kansas to that Of Min
nesota. But no man should expect to find all that
is desirable in natural advantages concentrated up
Wisconsiu Missouri, has its fair share Of attrac-
tons for the immigrant. Suit yourselves, gentle
men
Our correspondent, 4. Wiley, makes one good
point in favor of Minnesota as home for mechanics
and artisans which strikes Us ss new-namely, that
because of her remoteness from the seabOard, aod
from the seats of Eastern Manufacture, her home
manufactures Of all kinds will be less exposed
TO depressing competition from abroad than that Of
other States We think mechanics and artisans con-
templatpg westward move should consider this.
But when our correspondent proceeds to ask
why are not the Inducements profered by
" Minnesota seized by the Thousands of Eastern
- mechanics now without permanent and paying
" employment ?" &C., he talks precisely like the
French Princess who couldn't imagine why people
should starve TO death, since she could live on dry
bread rather than starve. Should not Mr.. VS.
good sense suggest TO him that it costs rather more
money to transfer family from New.York or New
En- gland 10 Minnesota than a mechanic who has had
little to do for six months past is likely 10 have
We believe nineteen out Of every twenty persons
now seeking employment Oh the seaboard are desti-
tuts of the means requisite TO transport them 10
Minnesota. This ia, in one yiew an advantage TO
the new State for it sits the immigration and gives
her more thrifty average body of settlers than she
could otherwise secure but it is fact not 10 be
overlooked BY any one quslfed to write to pub
lie journal Enough for to-day.