Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1865-02-18
Tiiton's Account of tho Great West.
From the New York Independent.

A trip OF four thousand miles through
the heat Of the WesfS swakens a kindling
hrougb Of the greatness of the Republic
The West is the Empire; fact upacknow.
lodged at the East, because the East
knows not the west. But an impartial
traveller soon perceives that the East is not
the country. Ne,o York and New Eng.
land are but the thumb and forefng~ The
West is the rest Of the hand.
A Western visit in summer is best for
seeing the country in winter, best for see
ing the people. And are they not the
heartiest. friendliest, most hospitable of the
human race? What o Scotch welcome
may be, we know not but if letter than a
Western welcome, il is better than plain
man deserves. Joslle a Western man in
the street, and at once you are acquaint
auces meet him the next day, and you
are old friends. A shake of the hand
IN the West has more grip in it than be-
tween New York aud Bangor. Child of
The East, the West is the chief crown of
the parent. The universal New EngIond
element Westward is not only the best
part of the West, but the best part of New
England for only the courageous, the
energetic, and the conquering have had
the will TO quit eastern homes for Western
praries. Thus the early Pilgrims to New
England, have their truest sons in the
later pilgrims from New England. A
Yankee. therefore. does not come to his
fullest stature in Ysnkeeland the grown
Yankee is the Westerner. At the East he
Is "a geranlum 10 pot. thrifty aud prim :;
at the West, O geranium in a garden
where be grows rauk, exuberant aud gen
erous New countries greater mems souls.
Does the West seek a heraldic sign p
LIE. it choose shock of corr o, bounte.
ous land of small houses and big barns "a
So fertile is the Great Valley that, Jer.
rold said of Australia, Oaly tickle the
earth with hoe and she laughs with
harvest Though beaten dowa from their
full hight by SHOWS, corn stalks are yet
standing in January, SO high that one rid
ing among them on tall horse, and rising
10 the STRIPS, can not touch the tops -
The praries-common-place, sad, and sub.
ime-are the garoeu OF the world May
hey ever make farmers rich, and cattle
fat
Trade, the maker Of cities. has amphibi-
Gus opportunities 10 the West. The Miss.
issippi and its tributaries yield forty. eight
thousand miles Of waters angered by steam,
boat whees-a channel of navigation long
enough to twice grid the globe Already
the great lakes are partners with the Allan.
TIC in direct trade with Europe. The
railroad. are wearing out their tracks with
hard woik, snd paying State debts
With their profits Chicago counts $50
trains coming aud going daily at her
depots, and suys to New Yorker, SIR you
have DOT hall SO many Add New
Yorker must ssy to this wonderous water
lily Of Lake Michigan. ALI hail Chicago
-bazaar Of the West, and miracle .oi
cities .a.l
The daily press OF New York scsttsrs it,
leaves very thinly through the West. Mr.
Greeley's Weekly Tribune goes every
where, but the metropolitan dailies sc,
westward only until, like o iidestreak
they meet ,he counter-currsnt Of the Ciu
cinnati press, chiefly the Commercial ane
the Gszet,s, which. in turn. cover the
country as Tho waters do the sea, till they
meet the wide spread Chicago Tribune
which, in ike manner, divides the South
west with the St. Louis Republican anl
Missouri Democrat. All these journal
are able ipduentisl-growiDg rich taste
than their brethren 10 New York. Th,
great influence which the New York pres
undob,edly exerts upon the whole country
liz. 10 the Wsst, an influence not dirsetl,
upon the people, but upon the Journals -
But even lhis influence 10 diminishing no
Increasing Nsw York, perhaps, will a