Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1859-10-08
The following article has been on hand several
weeks. but we could not find room for it until now.
WESTERN CORRESPONDENCE.

LITERATURE AND ANTIQUITIES OF WISCONSIN,.
There is no other State in the Union that, at the
same age, could boast Of as large and talented ed
itorial corps as Wisconsin. Its largest weeklies
are ably conducted, and filled with material equal
ing in interest and Importance many of our east
ern publications. There are, at the present time,
one hundred and forty-three weeklies issued reg
ularly. 8 monthlies, 6 dailies -6l Of the Republic
an politics. 50 Democratic, Is independent. l tenn
persnce. l religious, l literary, l agricultural, l
educational 16 of which are German publications,
and l Norwegian.
The Milwaukee Sentinel and Madison Patrio.
occupy the most prominent positions of any papers
in the State. The Sentinel, edited by Gen. Rufus
King, has an immense circulation, an envlatle
reputation, aud as fair a sheet in both matter and
appearance as any eastern weekly ever published.
The Madison Patriot is only sister to the Sentinel
in attractions and worth, though of opposite pol.
itics. Many changes have been made in this
sheet, of late = it is now beautifully illustrated
with a fine heading-a view of Madison /; it is also
changed from the quarto to the folio form its ed
itors. Carpenter & Hyer, able and efficient. The
Patriot is a noble organ of the Western Press, one
zoe are all proud of. The Wisconsin Farmer, the
only agricultural monthly or PAPER in the State i:
a gem Of Western literature. 1t has a wide and
rapidly increasing circulation, not only in Wis.
consin, but in Iowa and Minnesota. 1t is edited
By Powers and Hoyt Of Madison.
For the last five years. the call for State publica.
tions has been without limit, for the reason of the
rapidly increasing march of emigration and growth
of the country the demand is still progressive
Those who in early time, in the days of REAL pion'
eering, commenced the arduous work of publishing
a weekly in some thiniy peopled district, endured
the hardships attendant.and have struggled on TIT
until the present, know what it is to work ant
endure. We hear Of many editors who, in thil
age of golden apples, as it were, are disheart
ened, discouraged and disguised, with the circula
ton and success of their neatly printed and well
conducted sheets and yet had Wisconsin's pioneel
editors received half the amount of means, hal
the support. after three years of toll and labor
tina. .hose same ~grunbling sheets receive in on,
month, it would have amply repaid them, ant
would have been q god-send of good fortune
Few know what western pioneering is, unless i
be those who have been pioneers, and none Blu
such, know what an editors life was WHIT
had the perseverance to commence and con
tinue. Let a person who journeyed over tho Stat,
of Wisconsin from the Michigan shore to The Mis-
sissippi in 1910, now traverse the same route, ant
he will behold such indices of rapid progression
as no other State, eastward or South, can ever ex
hibis. Our time-honored Fathers who have Ions
since lain down to their last slumber upon tn,
shores of the Hudson, ST. Lawrence and Connect
cut, would have looked upon a person who dareC
to prophecy of such rapid changes in the North
Western Territory, asa victim Of insanity.
one had returned to ~foretell Of such rapid growll
so fur westward, of such changes from a per
feet wilderness TO cities Of wealth and importance
channels Of commercial trade opened and in oper
alton. within the limit of two and three years
those venerable fathers would have considered
an evidence Of peculiar fancy or as comm,
from a "Salem victim" Of the then p~revailinJ
witchcraft.
Wisconsin literature is an evergreen, emblem o
its ewift progression IN all departments Of th,
State, commercially, educationally, art and agri
cultural. ] can think back only a few years, anc
bring to mind the few principal weeklies printed
in the State Of Wisconsin how careful was m,
father OF his papers, which after being read and
~re-read, read to himself, and aloud, lent to neigh.
bors three and four miles away. were at last neat
y folded, and sent away back cost, to old New
Hampshire and Massachusetts,. | can remember