Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1800-1803, 1801-11-09
FRoM THE BALANCE.

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found to be peculiarly prevalent in thoie
nations of the globe, which are warmed by
the vertical fun, and where the gtoupd
brings forth in abundance and aln,ott fpon-
taneouAy. The children of Sodoa, VIA
were iituated in fanny and fertile vale,
funk into idleneis and Luxury; from
whence they were led BY caiy iteps to the
commiiiion OF crimes too horrid 10 name.
The iacred writer remarked concerning
that devoted city, that pride, fulneE Of
head, and abundance OF idlenefs were in
her.
On the other hand, rugged country
and northern cline, unleis 70 cold, as 10
produce torpor, is mott favorable to in
dustry as we'll as virtue, and will draw
forth in the higheit degree the energies of
man. Sloth is one of the hereditary evils
OF human nature. Mankind will not of
ten fubmit to a life of toll, when they are
70 fituated as not to feel the need of it;
and as induitry is nece6ary to the health
and arength of the body, and to the viz
tue and peace of the mind, they are hap
py people, if free, whole Gtua,ion leads
them to indutrious habits.
The ftates of MaHachufetts& Connect
cut, III general view is an iron bound
country. The (urface is roughened with
tones; the glebe is 70 obitinate as to re-
quire iometimes more than twenty oxen
In lis tirt blowing and, after all, it pro-
duces but fcanty crops, unleis frequently
encouraged by manure. Theie obRacles,
the hardy inhabitants furmount by the
dint OF indufry. The ffones they put
into fences and many Of their farms are,
NOT only furrounded with fone VALE
but are alto walled into fmall lots: in the
mean time, they enrich Their arabic and
moving lands by often covering them with
manuies, that have been compounded of
various ingredients, fuch as the dung of
cattle, iwamP mud, weeds, sc. mixed
and termen'ed together. BY thefc means
barren fpots are fome times made exceeding
ly fertile. And bsiides fubduing and cul-
t.vating their ttubborn farms, they employ
numerous hands in manufactures, and par
riculariy IN the laborious occupations of
manufacturing iron, frfly from the ore,
and then into nails, fhovels and the vari-
Gus implements of huibandry and h;p
building. VAT numbers from the fate Of
Mahachufetts are alto employed in the
whale and cod fitheries, in the COATING
trade, and in foreign voyages to Europe
and Ala, as well as to the Wet Indies.
where many of its young and hardy fea-
men yearly find their graves.
Amidt this variety of toll they have
multiplied with aitonifhing rapidity and
like 6iOes, have yearly tent abroad fwayms
into other diRritts. -BeGdes peoplihg
from the older parts Of MaGachu!etts, the
watt dif-ict ofnew country known by the
name OF the Province of Maine BE.
1ides peopling Vermont by emigration from
Mahachuietts and Connecticut Jointly
more than ten thoufond, by moderate
computation, emjgrate Annually from the
ie two ffates into the fate ofNew York -
The property that is carried ont by this
conitant eream Of emigration, cannot be
rpuch, ifany, leis than million dollars
yearly which waite is not repaired by
any emigrations from foreign countries,
inafnuch as foreigners emig,ating to
this country, rarely fet,le in New-En-
gland. ~
But, notwithstanding all thefe fleming
ly unfavorable circumstances, the old fet-
elements in the Hates afore- mentioned, are
neither diminiihed in numbers, nor impov-
erifhed III circumstances but on the other
hand, they generally exhibit the marks of
increaie and PROPERTY.
Aitonifhing are the refources, which the
people OF thofe difri6ts have derived from
their own indufry and enterprise; and at
the fame time, their rapid population is
proof that labor, ifnot too excelive, ie ia
voraole to the increafe of tie human fpe.