...my happiness to first land upon the soil of Minnesota. Not far from where we now are, a dozen frame houses, not all completed, and some eight or ten small...whose destiny I had been commissioned to preside. ***** Since that day how impetuously have events crowded time ! The fabled magic of the eastern tale...

...are found near its close: In concluding this my last annual message, permit me to observe that it ia now a little over .three years and six months since...completed, and some eight or ten small log buildings, with hark roofs, constituted the capital of the new territory over whose destiny I had been commissioned...

...his first message as governor on the next day. He spoke in a village which on his arrival had only a "dozen framed houses, not all completed, and some...eight or ten small log buildings with bark roofs," but he had a vision of thousands of immigrants coming. He urged memorials to Congress for action to...

...passage from the last Annual Message of Governor Ramsay, to the Territorial Legislature of Minnesota : " In concluding this my last annual message, permit...capital of the new Territory over whose destiny I have been commissioned to preside. One county, a remnant of Wisconsin territorial organization, alone...