"Beef-Steak," The Embryo
Four-Year Old Senator Would Lisp, "And Stewed Potato, And Buttered
Toast, And Corn-Cake, And Coffee, - And - And - And - Mother, Mind You
Get Me The Pickles."
St. Paul enjoys the double privilege of being the commercial and
political capital of Minnesota.
The same is the case with Boston,
in Massachusetts, but I do not remember another instance in which
it is so. It is built on the eastern bank of the Mississippi,
though the bulk of the State lies to the west of the river. It is
noticeable as the spot up to which the river is navigable.
Immediately above St. Paul there are narrow rapids up which no boat
can pass. North of this continuous navigation does not go; but
from St. Paul down to New Orleans and the Gulf of Mexico it is
uninterrupted. The distance to St. Louis in Missouri, a town built
below the confluence of the three rivers, Mississippi, Missouri,
and Illinois, is 900 miles and then the navigable waters down to
the Gulf wash a southern country of still greater extent. No river
on the face of the globe forms a highway for the produce of so wide
an extent of agricultural land. The Mississippi, with its
tributaries, carried to market, before the war, the produce of
Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky,
Tennessee, Missouri, Kansas, Arkansas, Mississippi, and Louisiana.
This country is larger than England, Ireland, Scotland, Holland,
Belgium, France, Germany, and Spain together, and is undoubtedly
composed of much more fertile land.
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