Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-09-04
BLAINE's ADDRESS.

The great intellectual card of the day was
Blaine's address, which brought upon the
grounds all the prominent Republican poll
ticians of the day, consequently there was
great rush. Ramsey, Window, Pillsbury, Jim
Wakefield. Yale and SO on down to the post
master and land officers of every grade, were
all there. The distinguished Senator was
brought on the ground by a skin hand team
OF bays driven by Hon. Elias Moses, Of this
burn, Mayor Rand, Gen. W. ID. Washburn and
Col. King himself. The arrival of the distin-
&c for great rush of people, sis Who
blocked up the space around the hastily erected
pavilion under which he was to speak.
Col King introduced the speaker of the day
IN a few well chosen remarks. Mr.. Biaine'a
effort was well received, and at its close Mr.
Window called for. and spoke briefly.
When the speech-lnaking was over, there was
grand rush to get an opportunity to shake
the hand of the Maine Statesman, but the press
was SO great that many had to content them
selves with touching the hem of his garment.
The address was as follows:
Mr.. PRESIDENT: An assembage of the citizens
CT Minnesota, coming together to rejoice abund-
ant hafvests and to view the bountifl products of
their State is well calculated to inspire recolections
that of interest beyond the limits of the audience
that now honor me with their attention.
Near the borders OF your state, on the banks Of
the great river now flowing in sight there resides
man in the full Wgor of an honorable old age
long my acquaintance and my friend, whose career
calls wildly to mind the wonderful progress of the
Northwest. In the last two years Of Gen. Jackson's
Presidency George w. Jones was the delegate in
Congress from that vast now forming the
States of Michigan, Wisconsin, Iowa and Minnesota
together with that part the Territory of Dakota
north of the Missouri river and east of the White
Earth. In the last preceding Federal census the
total civilized population of the entire territory of
Michigan less than 80, 00-adventurous men
standing on the outposts of civilization and accepting
ana conquering the hardsfips of the frontier There
were at that ume-forty-three years ago--blt two
newspapers of any kind whatever published in the
whole country Of which have spoken. and not one of
these west of Lake Michigan. To-day the same
country has eight Senator's twenty nine Representa-
tves and Delegate in Congress; has railroads ag-
gregating 1900 miles in length and S5oo,OoOoOo in
cost; has seventy-seven daily newspapers and moro
than l,ioO weekly or monthly publications; has
great cities larger than Philadelphia or New York
when the United States had taken its second census
and chosen its third President has population as
great excluding the slaves of that day. as that of the
whole country which defed Great Britain to second
contest i'll 1872 produces larger amount of bread
stlt1s than the entire Union produced when Gen
Jones entered Congress-; and contains more wealth
than was owned in the eighteen States tina. divided
their electoral votes between James Madison and
DeHht Clinton for the Presidency. Such facts
these may well cause TO give thanks to God and
vrtuous ancestry for those blessings of liberty and
good government which have made all this progress
possible.
Geographically the State of Minnesota liz land of
singular and SURPRISING interest Lying about eaui-
the
West, on the North and on the South her situation
as compared with her sister States is entirely pecu-
LIAR and in respect s without parallel on any cor
nent. Her surface forms the central water sht OF
North America, and not far from where we n
streams have their modest that finally lose
themselves in direction in Hudson's Bay 10 the
Arctic waters In another through the chain of the
great lakes in the broad Atlantic and third through
the Mississippi river in the Gulf of Mexico. To the
westward nature has raised unsurlnountable bar
rier to the water coufe but the invention of man has
ftros1o
the of steam and the road of iron there is
already projeced and partly achieved that great COM
mercial highway to the Pacific foretold by IaSalle
when standing on the banks of the ST. Lawrenca by
| the rapids whose name perpetuates his prophecy,
pointing to the untrodden West, whittier he had al
ready turned his face, he to his doubling
companions the inspiring word, LaChine.
Viewed historically, that which constitutes tn
State of Minnesota, has had as many and as rapid
changes IN ts sovereignty any disputed territory
in Europe-fought over by armed no SITS set in mo-
ton by the ambition OF kings the jealousy Of rival
races OF men. This fair land was under the dornin-
ion OF France during the reigns of Louis XIV and
his great grsndsonhad Iveryle who led the French
colony to Louisiana for its first Governor and Ben-
vile who founded New Orleans for its second: was
pawned by the Regent Orleans in his scheme with
John Ian for creating value out of moonshire and
made with ether territory the basis of that vast swim
die in paper money projected by the Mississippi
company in which real estate in Minnesota, in the
undisputed possession of the savage and the Wild
beast, became the shadowy foundation in Paris
hundred and sixty years ago of far greater none
tary credit than it could have to-day in the same
financial market, with all its improvements and its
great istrinsic value Again. under the dominionin
part OF George Third of England, who was compelled
TO yield his right to your soil by the treaty Of 1885,
and to Withdraw the last red coat by the treaty OF
1885 stl farther for thirtyseyen years. all on the
west side of your dividing river
was attached to the crown of Spain during
the reigns OF the third and fourth Charles and gwen
up by the latter in the 1900 to France when for
PERIOD OF three brief years the larger part Of Mir
nesota had Napoleon Bonaparte for its Sovereign
ruler: The first consul always did business on ba-
ss OF hard cash. and he transferred the French pos
sessions In America to the United States for fifteen
John Law and his speculative partner, the Duke Of
mad made the possessions the basis for
an Issue OF paper money amounting to nearly three
naturally suggested by these facts which wouldp
maps nos DO entirely pertinent to an address before