Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1922-05-25
LIZ aEf WRITTEN AT MADISON BY THE LATE
A. G. FUTILE OF BARABOO-THINKS AN
injustice. WAS DONE THE INDIANS OF STATE

Here is another of the old letters
from the package owned by G. r. Tut
ale OF Baraboo. They were written
5y his grandfather to his grandmother
away back in the 40's when there
were no envelopes, the pages being
folder over, with the address on the
blank side. and when the stagecOach
was the chief means of land travel.
a letter from Madison reads as fol-
lows:
Madison. Wis, Jan. IS, 1847.
L received last week on Thursday
your letter. | had nearly given up
all hope Of hearing from you at all.
I called at the office this morning
and found letter from Mr.. Catlin
Y found in that a little news from
N which was the first had receiv-
ed since left at evening of the same
day. told one of the Deans il he
would bring me a letter from my
wife / would pay him double post
age. / was agreeably surprised on his
return from the office when he pre-
scented your letter and a bundle of
papers.
l promised ia my last to give in
sny next letter my ideas respecting
che west. | can only give them as
first impressions which may be es-
sentially modified or altered by fur
Their acquaintance and a more extern
sive knowledge of the country, for |
find that things already wear a diff
Eerent aspect from what they did
when ! first arrived here. l can as
sure you at the outset that no one
at the east can form a correct idea
OF the west from any description that
may be given. If an idea is drawn
from anything that appears in the un-
cultivated portions of the east, moth
ing can be farther from the truth.
AS well might you search for the
COlOrs OF the rainbow where all is
midnight darkness.
The natural resources of Wiscon-
sin are almost unlimited and moth
ing is wanted but the hand Of cult
walton to make it the garden of the
world. The general face of the coun-
try rs beautiful in the exteme. There
are no towering precipices or yawn-
kng chasms to please the lovers of
the wild and romantic but a con-
Einued succession Of hill and valley
gentle undulating, the hills rising
from ten to fifty feet above the gen.
NeEBl level. In travelling over Wiscon-
sin, one cannot but admire the seen
cry even when no traces of cultiva-
1iOn are visible. There is a softness
and beauty in the landscape which
is indescribable and which the hand
OF art will fail to improve. / thought
while travelling through Michigan that
my ideas of the west had been al
lowed TO run extravagantly high but
I had not travelled far on this side
OF the lake before this feeling was
entirely gone. | had heard of oak
openings but | did not suppose that
they were pleasant groves, beautiful
Beyond description. / have made
and have been at such times some
or 7 miles from Madison and
many times when all alone / have
exclaimed, What a splendid country
&c this!" The groves in this state OF
wildness have all the attractions of
the choicest and most carefully dress
ed ones of the east | have seen
many mot a whit inferior in beauty
40 HiIihouse's at New Haven. The
fires do the clearing away of whatever
brush and shrubs appear from year
no year
wisconsin is not so thickly set
lied as | expected to find it, Much
.-Of the land, by far the greatest per-
-Gion of il, is owned by spectators,
nOn-residents and of course unimprov-
ed In travelling over these beautiful
rolling prairies ald through these
pleasant groves by the side of her
crystal streams and lovely lakes, the
conviction strongly forces itself upon
'She mind of the fraud injustice, and
wrong. resorted to to compel the in
heritors of so fine a country to aban-
don it. Standing in one of the ten
thousand little hills scattered over
her surface and looking down through
the shaded walks and rich openings
which everywhere abound, it seems
not unlike a splendid palace just
deserted by its inhabitants while
everything within and around seems
designed to crafty the taste and fill