Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1860-12-21
For the NeWsdealer.
Letter from Minnesota.

MR.. EDITOR The first number of your
paper found its way to me through the
kind remembrance Of an early friend, who
lives in Hyde Park, the home Of my boy
hood. / cannot tell you, nor express the
flood Of "reminiscences of those days. which
were called up when the wrapper was re-
moved aud 1 was confronted by Clyde
Park, Lamoille County, VT" 1t may be
an unmanly weakness, but though seven
teen years have elapsed since departed
the "home of my fathers" and have lived
in many States of "our (once) glorious
Union" my heart to this day, recurs TO
the old hills Of Lamoille as the oasis of
my existence on earth. What a catalogue
of names L could here insert, each having
its peculiar associations in early history.
Many Of those 1 have watched in my wan
behring's, who have found honorable and
useful positions in fulfllment Of the true
destiny of ma. Some have unfortunately
demonstrated the frailties Of humanity,
and many others alas, have "passed to
that bourne from whence no traveller re-
turns" But all this your readers and my
friends cannot appreciate with the peculiar
sentiment which suggests its dictation-
and the proper theme for Minnesota
Correspondent, should be Minnesota
here we are at loss in selecting topic
connected with our subject of an exciting
character for as good old Ia chary Taylor
is reported to have said in his Inaugural,
"we are at peace with all the world, and
desire to cultivate friendly relation with
the rest of mankind" We can give you
no details Of 'border rufianism" of shrek
ing Minnesota Of ballot box stufing, of
lynching, &c., but simply detail to you
the brief history of an infant state, which
is just merging from its swaddling clothes,
to soon take its position in the family Of
it's sisters, as respectable, industrious,
patriotic, honest and wealthy young per-
son--indeed, this is Minnesota to-day.
Weadmit that in years gone by, we "put
on more airs" than was consonant with a
well ordered life; that we thought our
selves very wealthy, in possession of few
corner lots, and an interest in some mag
nifcient paper-town site; that we es-
ehewed to chew the bread of honest toll
but as 1857 is marked in the financial
history Of our country as great levelling
era, where the great and small had to lie
down together, we saw our manifold fol-
les; we repented, and we trust and be-
lieve it is repentance which needeth not
to be repented Of. Then we bought our
bread with gold; both bread aud gold
imported from other States aud as my
dear old Granny Jennie used to say, "tell
the truth and shame the ID" we got
our gold in exchange for our corner lots
from our unsophisticated, confding cous-
ms of New England. No doubt the ac-
accumulated proceeds Of many hard
Punched ha'penny. Now, While in our
deep contrition wsyo &c these confession
do not charge us with preineGtated fraud;
with malice prepelse. No, such is the
limited ken OF human foresight, that We
in most instances, thought we were serving
our friends to fine fortune and doubt
less, IN many instances, ultimately, we
shall not be disappointed. But the bubble
has bursted; the tables are turned; our
town sites, many Of them, are turned into
wheat fields, and instead of i" button-hole-
ing our eastern friend to induce him
to invest his gold for town lots we
are begging our Steamboats, to ship our
wheat to our eastern friends, that we may
get their gold, to aid us in blowing and
cultivating more fields. 10 establish the
integrity of our assertions, as some old
fellows once said, "Let facts be submitted:
"The territory was organized in 1S49,
when most of the population of 5000 souls
were attached to the Indian trade. The
national census of 1850, gave the follow
ing result:
Wheat. Corn. Oats.
lS49 - 1.501 1915 30,5s2.
1869 80 3,2sS,000 3,l30,oC) $4,000
The real agricultural history Of the
State did not commence, however, till
1854, when the Sioux were finally re-