352 INDIANA HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS 



"Where is "Lake C. H?" as I cannot find it on any 

 map." 



It is to be found on Colton's map of Indiana. 1 It is 

 the county seat of Lake county, Indiana, the North West- 

 ern county of the State, and embraces the head of Lake 

 Michigan. 



"I suppose the prairies are generally level and the land 

 inclined to wet. Of course the streams are sluggish?" 



I suppose no such thing, and of course you are greatly 

 mistaken in each and all of your suppositions. The land 

 is generally gently undulating; sometimes hilly and not 

 inclined to wet, and the streams afford an abundance of 

 excellent mill sites. 



"Have you any stone coal?" 



Not in this part of the State. The nearest is on the 

 Illinois river, 50 or 60 miles west. 



"What kind of people, that is where from, is your sec- 

 tion of country settled with?" 



Mostly from the eastern states; some Canadians; a 

 good many of the best class of Germans, and a few Eng- 

 lish and Irish. 



"What is the condition of the country as to morals and 

 religion?" 



Well, now that's a poser. You forget that it is con- 

 trary to the generally received opinion at the east, that 

 either exist at the west. I will allow that some of us are 

 no better than we should be, for we have taken the bene- 

 fit of the Bankrupt act, and cheated our eastern creditors 

 a little, but we shall pay up, (when Clay is elected Presi- 

 dent) and we do sometimes send you a little spring wheat 

 mixed with winter wheat; but we imagine that you don't 

 know the difference, and ought to be thankful that we 

 don't mix buckwheat. But we always pay our debts, 

 (public ones excepted,) when we can't help it, and we 

 don't get trusted, where we've no credit. Upon the whole, 

 we are a moral people, and if we are not a religious one, 

 it is not because we don't pretend to be. 



1 See detail from Colton's map, facing this page. 



