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

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.seeedf Il re Inst place, I do NJ, .,o,
~ 49, AZ So p Relations" save that
and whorcside abroad are chiefly the H nsa
Of England, and, 90 far as know thaPp GhCple e
done ns about ell he harm .hev conld r "ave
the past four years, they having preved nnogg
our commerce and aided the rebellion ~foA
f.;,t Z, Auu o'uer nations have acted in good
In the second place, feel nv ;n.,;,;.. g..
speak Of ne llustrious man Who s;,s ~ W
DePartmsnto State. / would rather be WV tmo
1ve Se W. snan any other American that has
!, When a. he shall have written bis las. dsp.teb
~ Que g.orlous work is crowned TODAY.
M N, wn,cn oblivion ne'er shall prey,
nor envy make her spoil"
need not speak to you, Mr. President nor
c w sno genuemen present, of Hon. 81. g. San
Brussels. His name and deeds Are IA ;,;as ~
you all, and while absent he is vet Win no
Inc dispatches OF Julius Caesar nnon The
Gailc war have been justly regarded "a mndais
OF style and diction for the last nineteen hnn.
dred years, and may safely predict that those
OF Mr. Secretary Seward upon the late rebeI
war, will be preserved in all written lanSuaSee
and held up as models, not only of styIe Ana
diction, but as containing the ablest exnosi.
lions extant OF international law, and that "a
such they will be handed down to the last IN.
telligent vestige of our race. The eminations
of his genius during the years of our diversity
have served az our pacifcator In Europe. He
has ever said the right word, to the right man.
at the right time. He has extorted praise
from our enemies and challenged the admira.
ton of the civilized world. He has been to
the natien in the hour of its greatest need.
" Like the shadow of mighty rock in Q wearVV
land, and hope and trust that It NAV please
God to stay the hand of the assassin, and spare
his valuable life for :" Lo these many years.''
And inasmuch as he has spoken well for us
for the nation, and for Minnesota, I shall ask
him to be unto me as was Aaron unto Noses
while standing before the Pharoah of Egypt,
Words in my mouth" And If either Of Us
shall become local In our remarks, I trust that
it will be pardoned on this occasion. Then, on
the 18th of September, 1860, while standing in
the portico of our Capitol, pleading the cause
of the nation before the largest and most re-
spectacle audience ever convened in this city,
touched the patriots of Minnesota with Rs
phael hand: -s .sa
Every step of my progress since reached
the Northern Mississippi has been attended by
an agreeable and great surprise. / had early
read the works in which the geOgrapher had
described the scenes on which was entering,
and had studied scenes In the finest produc-
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 luxuriance of the forest,
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-
tumnal green of the hills was lost in deep
blue hue that initiates that OF the heavens. The
genial yellow atmosphere reflected the rays of
the setting sun, and the skies above seemed
perry over this scene. It was piece of up.
holstery such as no hand but that of nature
could have made; and 1t was but the vestibule
to the capital of the State of Minnesota-a
State which have loved, which / ever shall
love, for more reasons than time would allow
81 find myself now for the first time. on
the high lands of the centre Of the continent
of North America, equidistant from the waters
of Hudsons Bay and the Cult Of Mexico
from the Atlantic ocean to the ocean in which
the sun sets-here, on the spot where spring
up, almost side BY side, SO that they may kiss
each other, the two great rivers-the one of
which, pursuing its strange, capricious, msjes-
tic, vivacious 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-fi 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. >Ef
On the East,al along the shore of Lake Su-
perior, and on the West stretching in one
broad plain, In a belt quite across the CONT
nent, is country where State after State Is to
rise. and where the productions for the support
of human society in other crowded States must
be brought forth. This is, then, o command
ing field; but 1t Is as commanding in regard to
the destinies OF this continent as 1t is In regard
to its commercial future, for power is not to
reside permanently on the eastern slope of the
Allegheny Mountains, nor In the seap0rts. Sea.
ports have always been Overrun and controlled
by the people of the interior. The peope of the
inland and Of the upland-thOea who hhabit
the sources of the mighty waters-are they who
supply them with wealth and power. The
power of this Government hereafter is not to
be established on either the Atlantic or the Pa
cifc coast. The seapOrts will be the mouths by
which we shall communicate and correspond
with Europe; but the power that shall speak
and shall communicate and express the win Of
men on this continent is to be located In the
Mississippi Valley, and at the sources of the
Mississippi and the st. Lawrence. In other
days, studying what might, perhaps, have
seemed to others trifipg or visionary,
I have east about for the future, the
ultimate, central seat OF power of the
North American people. had looked
at Quebec and New Orleans, at Washing
ton and at San Francisco, and at Cincinnati
at st. LOUIS and 1t had been the result of my
best conjecture that the seat of power for
North America would be yet found fn the val
lev of Mexico, that the glories of The Aztec
capital would be renewed, and that city would
become ultimately the capital of the United
States of America. But ! have corrected that