The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1865-07-14

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IL pAou3S iho MSi8 10 =. !. ~ save that
and WS6tUo3de abfcad are ch,oT, .lelaNons,"
OF EnEland md, eo far ~ T LILY ING people
done % about vi &a]harm .hev "n,,a sey nave
the paSt four yearsL hev hav;To T ~"n uorlng
our commerce and aided the reSs,f;oy ou upon
France, and other nations bav. ansna
faith. sa s5.ts, 4, "S'eu 10 gooo
Inths second piace. fee, mn ;,..,,
speak Of tAe nllstrious man Ehn ,. s;.. 70
Departnt nt0 f State. I would rath o.S - ~ tne
II. Seward than any other Ama.;. 70 VIM.
lived or died. ~. 'no' nas
:. When he shall have written h;e ,... ,,
1t may be said ' '"'' onpascn
1.-THE plorious WORK :.
ON which ob,;,;o - crowned to-day,
Nor envy make har s s, o. sn y prey,
rooa ~ ..... o' 'pop.
IN the ~en,,sn npoak 70 you, Mr. President, nor
ford onr ahIo plesent, OF Hon. b. g. San
R-nse.,. " LIZ .ePIesentatlVe at the Court of
von ON ond %h ;H.I suu Geeds are familiar to
'T Tha a;.na. Mno apsgnt ne Is yet with us.
Gallo var haHa 80 VI 1anns Caesar upon the
os a,u,s nsS9 Deen Justly regarded as models
S ssy,e anu oic!lon Tor tne last nineteen hun.
" II !I S anu nay sa'ely predict that those
u.r , Iii; HGH So , Sowsio upon the late rebel
sS,h w oo ~ "a WIitten languages,
S;".; n0u ~ 90 nOuels nOs oniy OF style ard
uiSIon, oos az con.sinnR the aolost exp06i-
IoSe . SAns ~ %seI1auonai law, and that Is
so;;a lucy VII ue .anoeo doWn 70 the last Ia.
tengens vesuge OF our race. The eminations
nave serve9 - our Pscincator In Europe. He
nas ever salo tne rignt WORD, TO the right man,
a. tne lignt ume' ne mas extorted praise
t t! O1I enemies. ana cnMenged the admire
t Mon % ING civ.lzea Worl0. he has been to
INC a. naMsn ~ tne 1our OF its greatest need,
-. Hiks tne SnaooW OF mighty rock IN weary
iano, ana nope ana trust that It may please
SIO0 70 stay the 00UO OF the 04e0aefn and ef1avo
ms valuable Me Ior 10 these many yeaTs."
Ana masmucn as ne mas spoken well for us,
ior the nauon, ana Ior Minnesota, shall ask
MN 10 oe unto me as was Aaron unto Moses
Wniie standlng before the Pharoah of Egypt
words IN my mouth" And If either Of rs
It will be pardoned on this occasion. Then, on
the 18th OF September, 1850 while standing in
the portico OF our Capitol, pleading the cause
of the nation before the largest and moet re-
spectacle audience ever convened in this city,
he gave utterance to the following truths and
touched the patriots OF Minnesota with Rs
phael hand: .-.t
the Northern Mississippi has been attended by
an agreeable and great surprise. l had early
read the works in which the geographer had
described the scenes on which was entering
and had studied scenes In the finest pr0duc-
ton OF art But still the grandeur, the luxu-
rance, the geniality OF this region were en-.
tirely unconceived. When saw these senti-
mel walls that look down on the Mississippi,
seen as beheld them in their autumnal YER
dure, just when the earliest tinges Of the fall
give variety to the luxurfance OF the forest,
thought how much of taste and genius had
been wasted in celebrating the highlands of
Scotland before civilized man had reached the
banks OF the Mississippi. And then that beau
tiful Lake Pepin scene at sunset, when the au-
n a yy0n IAat yVHn d0ay1
blue hue that initiates that OF the heavens. The
genial yellow atmosphere reflected the rays of
the setting sun, and the skies above seemed
to come down to spread their gorgeous dTs-
perry over this scene. 1t was piece OF up
holstery such as no hand but that OF nature
could have made and It was but the veslDule
TO the capital OF the State OF Minnesota
state winch l nave loved, which ever snail
love, tor more reasons than time would allow
me to mention"
fnd myself now for the frst time. on
the high lands OF the centre OF the continent
Of North America, equidistant from the waters
OF Hudsons Bay and the Gull OF Mexico
from the Atlantic ocean to the ocean in which
the sun sets-here, on the spot where spring
each other, the two great rivers-the one OF
which. pursuing its strange, capricious, majes-
tic, viyaciOus career through cascade and river,
and rapid lake after lake, and river after river;
finally, after course OF twenty-five hundred
miles, brings your commerce half way to the
ports of Europe; and the other, which mean.
dcring through woodland and prairie distance
of twenty five hundred miles, taking in tribu-
tary after tributary from the east and from the
west, bringing together the waters from the
western declivity of the Alleghanies and those
which trickle down the eastern sides of the
Rocky Mountains. finds the Atlantic ocean In
the Gulf of Mexico. Here is the central place
whence the agriculture Of the richest region
of North America must bear its tribute to the
supplies of the whole world. -'7' ,eTI7
: Ton the East. all along the shore of Lake Su-
perior. and on the West stretching in one
broad plain. In belt quite across the conti-
nent. is country where State after State is to
rise and where the productions for the support
of human society in other crowded States r1ust
he bronght forth. This ia. then. a command-
inc fieid. lint Il ia IA commandino in regard te
the destines of this Continent AZ * il IN regard
to its commercial future for power ia not to
reside permanently on the eastern slope of the
AIle0hanv Mountans nor in the seaports. Sea.
norfs have ALWAYS been overrun and Controlled
bv the people Of the anterior. The peope ofthe
inland and of the upland-thosa Who inhabit
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