Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1858-1859, 1859-03-12
Correspondence Of the Troy Daily Budget.
The West for Young Mon.
ST.. PAUL, Feb. 10, Is

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The St. Paulians are an eminently gay and
social folk. The citizens generally are young,
and full of enterprise and hope. But few
"grey heads and old fogies are to be found
here. The greater part of the population is
under thirty. Besides the natural inspiration
of youthful feeling, the dry, pure climate con-
tributes not little to the development Of So
cial activity. Consequently, strangers are
invariably impressed with the energetic char
acter and lively movement of this city. No
one seems to rest for moment. A round of
ceaseless action fills up the hours. Some
wonder even whether the people ever find
time to sleep. From the opening of naviga-
ton to its close, the whirl of business and
exciting schemes of speculation absorb the
minds of all. New Corners are at once affect
ed with the energetic stir, and are drawn un-
consciously into the vortex. Energy is a
contagious thing. When the world is in &C
tive movement around us our constitutional
Incidence gives way, and we long to plunge
throng. We are suddenly electrified into
been reclaimed by changing his residence from
an Eastern to Western State. Minnesota
has cured many of this class, and converted
dustriOus citizens
There is much in the constitution of eastern
life to discourage and depress the laudable
aspirations Of young men. The competition
is so fierce in thickly settled communities, that
absorbes everything to itself One gigantic
mercantile establishment, by underselling the
smaller houses, renders it impossible for them
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small capitalist labors under overwhelming
disadvantages. No wonder, therefore, that
failures are so numerous--no wonder that
hundreds of young merchants, discouraged
by the gloomy prospect before them, degen-
crate into mere clerks and hirelings for the
rest of their lives, or, in their despair, aban-
don altogether the field of industry, and sink
into auick-sands of dissipation and degenera-
ton.
The prospects in the professions" at the
East are equally unfavorable. Young men of
decided talent, after years of proftless exer-
ton in an Eastern city, are often seized with
dscouragement, and throw up their profess
sions altogether.
There is surplus of the professional class
| in every eastern city, what can they do?-
What brilliant prospect can the future hold
! forth to them? One may succeed under the
| favouring breezes Of circumstance, while
ninety-nine others equally gifted perhaps,
may pine away in poverty and obscurity.-
This is no unnaturally tinted picture. There
are thousands of young lawyers, without eli
! ents, and hundreds of young physicians,
| without patients, who cannot deny it's truth
| fulness AS the heavy capitals in commercial
affairs discourage and ruin those of limited
| means, so in the professional world, the old
| established lawyers and venerable doctors,
| retain all the practice that is worth having.
| The younger members of these professions,
like Lazarus, are obliged to live upon the
| crumbs which fall from the rich mans table /!
| Who would entrust their lives or their proper
| ty "to boys" as all young men under forty
are usually denominated in the East. Such
being the actual state of things, it is not
strange that so many of the "rising genera
tom are pressing forward 10 take possession
of the new and untrodden fields of the West.
Here is country where the smallest capitals
may be employed to the greatest possible adj
| vantage. The returns are not five and ten,
but an hundred fold. Talent and merit of
any kind, is here certain to attain its natural
level and to secure an abundant compensa-
| ton. Every department of industry is equal
ly open to all. There is everything here to
encourage young men to the most vigorous
exertion. The country is developing with
astonishing rapidity. The present is full of
action. Wealth is accumulating fast, from
sure and inexhaustible sources Mighty
events are brewing, which will tend to accel-
crate the wheels Of progress and carry emf
grafton far beyond the limits Of Minnesota
Now is the time for young men to come to
the West. Come and select ''goodly herr.
tage," --s-... z5r- -..r. J. z. W,