San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1880-11-18
FOreshadOwlngs.

files recently, we were ourself sur
prised at the tenor of the following
extract from a half-forgo.ten letter
which appeared in an Indiana paper
as long ago as 1853. We thought
some OF our readers might like to
read it, as Indicating that the prefer
ence of the editor OF the FREE PRESS
for Southern cline is of considera-
BILE standing in point Of time. Here
il is:
After a six months deprivation of
outdoor enjoymonts-about the
usual period in this latitude-I con-
TESS exult, with joy unspeakable,'
in anticipation of the speedy advent
Of the season of flowers and fruits,
of song and sunshine. I don't think
it right to complain Of the weather,
although, in common with others,
claiming IN 'odor Of sanctity' to
which make no pretensions, l own l
have sometimes done 80. God has
made an endless variety Of climates,
and the dissatisfied, instead of grum-
bling, should seek one to suit them.
But while enduring for so long q
space the frosts and SHOWS and chill
blasts of winter, diversified only by a
boundless expanse OF mud beneath,
and most dreary and oppressive
clouds and vapors above and around
who can repress some occasional
stirring of envious discomfort, re-
currings to the favored denizens Of
the sunny South, rejoicing mean
time in all the exquisite delights of
our most delighfu! season?
Tho sdrans of animal magnetism
teach, that to humankind there are
remembered stages of pre-existence,
through which all have passed. They
thus acc ount for tho effect waich par
ticular persons or localities often at
first sight produce on the mind NOV
ing the bohoider to the thought or
exclamation, Il have seen this face, or
place, before. Upon this theory, l
nm quite sure that all my '.lntece
dents pertain to the South. 1 fee
an intultive sympathy with Man and
Nature in that glorious cline IN
instructive consciousness, that were |
translated, unawares, within her
borders,-for instance, to Mexico,
Cuba, Spain, France, or Italy,
should meet with nothing to excite
my surprise or amazement, but
should feel most thoroughly at home,
so far as regards her peculiar natural
development of men and things. My
brightest visions are of her glorious
sky and sea, of the magnificence of
her Eden-like garniture; my highest
admiration, my warmest affection are
for the fervid enthusiasm, the lofty
aspirations, the generous impulses,
the noble, charming simplicity, the
candor, open as the day, which char
acterize her people.
Talk not, then, to me of the
pleasures of winter, of the delights
of Northern climes-of the bleak
mountains of New England, OF the
not less bleak plains of Wisconsin.
Particularly, don't mention to me
Minnesota Minnesota, chief of ter
restrial humbugs! Muddier than
thy waters must be the head OF the
Hoosier who could think of making
his home within thy arctic bounds. l,
who, in central Iowa, froze through
out four North Western winters, and
endured the beating of the blasts
which old Boreas necessarily hurled
down from the Russian Possessions,
know whereof l speak. Grand and
glorious, 1 grant you, is Minnesota
in midsummer. But three-fourths
of its year is as waste as Siberia
snow submerged its plains, ice bound
its waters, the thermometer closely
approaching the Greenland standard,
no connection with the rest of man
mail. even, for months
often. Only think of it! And yet
almost daily, l read in the newspd-
pers, or hear from some yerdant or
designing individual glowing ac-
counts of the attractions of Mime
sotal Why, the very idea of 1t is
suggestive Of Lapianders doing Six
months in the year around their
earthen stoves; of captivity in 81
IBERIA or shipwreck ON Spitzbergcn.
of snow shoes and train-oil. of Sir
John Frankiin's fate! No man
should think OF it who cannot boast
of decided polar bear-lsh personal
or tlat he Is very Ike a
whlle. L. Is secrecy nabitlh.e even
Dy Workers Ur Yankees; but have no
doubt but CO's..cks, NurSesians,
Ico-an4ers, E-lGnnauX, or hAm;s-
wvu,d Go well there.
Way Is II inerc - little cmiSrLtion
Why do not colonies
Of enlightened anI Christian men 90
down and redeem that waste para
isel That would be better bGsi-
hess than gong to Mlnnesotl
Reading Lngfe.ows 'Evanseine
not long sInce. 1 own 1 was half Of
he opinion that 1t was a fortunate
.iung Tor stout Bash the Blacksmith
bat he WAS cxpelied las home IN
ruzen Acadia wnen j Afterwards IN
,Ountered nim-As / VS. most happy