St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-04-29

Minnesota, on the ground that in this
hyperborean region nothing valuable
would grow and no white man would
enter it, unless perchance to cut pine
logs and float them down the streams
f forr maiIy hundreds of miles to mar
ket. Even now, Il one of us should
have the temerity to intimate that in
his Judgment, before the end OF the first
decade in the next century
THE DUAL CITY
would be the equal of Chicago in mate
rial wealth and population-that Mime
sofa would contain 100000 of people,
and the territories West even a great
number, he would be looked upon as a
hare brained enthusiast, and fit sub
ject for writ de lunatico inquirendO.
Nevertheless, this country has but to
maintain its past and present rate OF In
crease. to justify so apparently wild
conjecture. 1t is hardly necessary for
me to state that the wonderful changes
have briefly sketched have not been
brought about without the tolls. suffer
ings, and dangers incident to the settle,
ment by white men of all new and wild
regions. The Dakota owners OF the
great domain on the west of the Missis-
sippi river coded their possessory rights
to the graves of their fathers, by treaties
with the United States government In
1852, very reluctantly, and were re-
moved to reservations
ON THE UPPER PRAIRIEs,
far away from the delightful hunting
grounds where they and their prOgeni-
tors had lived and flOuriShed from time
immemorial. Their discomfort, aggra-
waited by disregard of treaty obliga-
lions ON the part of congress and the
Indian bureau, combined with other
causes which entailed much suffering
upon them, was destined to bear bloody
fruit in after years, when they rose in
their fury and hurled their warriors ON
the white inhabitants living on the 'front.'
Ter, mercilessly butchering nearly 1000
men, women and chilnren, and sparlng
only the young women and girls OF ten
der age to minister to their brutal luStS.
The utter defeat of the savages with
heavy loss, the capture or dispersion OF
the survivors, the release OF the white
female prisoners, and the subsequent
execution of forty of the most guilty OF
the murderers, accomplished
BY MINNESOTA MEN,
without aid from the federal govern
ment then engaged in the mighty strug-
gle for the preservation of the Union,
are history, and need not be repeated
here. Among the first settlers were
Canadians, who had been employed In
the fur trade, and their ranks were
gradually reinforced by Americans and
men of other nationalities, but they
were for the most part poor in this
worlds goods, and it was not without
strenuous effort that the ''wOlf was kept
from the door" But they and their
successors were men of indomitable
pluck and perseverance, and lmbued
with well grounded confidence in the
future of the country they had chosen
for their permanent dwelling place.
need not enter into the details of the
various phases through which this state
has passed in its progress from
CONDITION OF BARBARISM
to that of high civilization. They are
almost identical with the process which
has marked the history of the American
people since the landing OF the FL
grims, albeit the succession OF events
has been more rapid than heretofore.
Fifty years is but a brief period IN
the history of a state or nation, and
there is no parallel in the rapidity of
the transition which has characterized
the settlements of the new Northwest.
While l rejoice that the domain with
which I have been identified for more
than half century has become the
abode of men possessed of the
sterling qualities which, humanity
speaking, insure the continued pros
perity of their adopted state, and while
have endeavored in humble way to
aid in the advancement of this mag
nificent commonwealth during long
series of yaers, cannot but feel keen
regret that the same results could not
have been achieved without involving
so enormous sacrifice of human life.