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IS 4.2
Story of an Emigrant.
state received great benefits in return by being settled by a
superior class of emigrants from the northern countries. As
for inv own share in that work, although mv efforts were
sometimes misunderstood and I myself blamed, as any one
will be who has to deal with newlv-arrived emigrants, I
felt much pride and satisfaction in the work, knowing that
not only the state, but the emigrants themselves, and even
the serving and laboring classes remaining in the old
countries, were very greatly benefited thereby. While laboring
hard for immigration to Minnesota my chief object was to
get the emigrants away from the large cities and make
them settle on the unoccupied lands in the northwest, where
the climate was suitable to them, and where it was morally
ccrtain that every industrious man or family would acquire
independence sooner and better than in the crowded citics of
the east. I never attempted to induce anyone to immigrate,
but tried to reach those only who had already made up
their minds to do so, and the only people that I ever induced
to leave their mother country were a number of poor
servants and tenants among my own or my parents’
acquaintances for whom I myself paid partly or wholly the cost of
the journey.
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