Virginia Argus. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1796-1816, 1815-10-14

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NEWPORT, Sept. 90, 1915"
There. is no axiom in political economy
more true, than that we are {. always strif.
ylng to better our condition. Migration is
one OF the means resorted to, and is, often
times attended with the most prosperous
result-indeed it seldom fails, when indus
try and Judgment accompany it. 1t is foily
alone, that would leave plentiful table to
diet upon acorns. Thus we never witness
an emigration in country that is thriving,
and IN which its people are prosperous
but daily we view the reverse, viz an emf
grafton from countries which are oppressed
by taxes, by debt, by oyergrown popula-
ton, by religious tyranny and obnoxious
laws, to such other spots as are more hap
PLY organized, and where sc tke labo,,re,,
is .oortty ofhis hire"
Hitherto the emigration has been from
the states of Europe to America, and par
ticularly, oflate years, from England, Ire
land, and Scotland, they being the most
oppressed and enslaved people that we
know or read of--and this under govern
rnent Boosting of freedom and civil liberty,
but which, by in quitOus abuses and intolel
ance, has absolutely eifaced the substance.
and merely left the letter of good laws,
hung up as amockery of justice for man.
kind to gaze at.
1t isa novelty. however, to view in cur
own newly settled and rising republic mi
grafton from one state to another-and as
fancy oftentimes leads men to change
their abode, we should not notice it, if it
were not upon scale which is really great
enough to excite admiration, and to be
traced to circumstances which point with
a warning finger to the vice Itself 1t is
certain, that no great migration from any
state would take place without some good
reasons for it--yet we find the high roads
daily filed with wagons and people, who
are removing from the states eastward OF
New-York, and who are pursuing their
route to those very states which are even
now the objects Of the greatest jealousy
and hatred of those in which they have
been born and bred.
Truth, in spite of all the masks with
which it may be endeavored to be obscur-
ed, will make itself apparent. And thus,
notwithstanding all the chicanery which
The eastern states of our uaion employ to
place the southern and western people in
obliquy, yet is it made manifest TO their
own sons and kindred, according to Sterne.
that sc they manage things better there
than in Boston" The iniinical opposition
TO the government-the servile adulation
to lis enemies--the treason and maIignity
existing under the mask Of tederalisn-the
canting hypocrisy of their preachers of the
gospel-the innovations and intolerance OF
their religious societies--theirmock moral
ity--in a word, their attempted imitation
of the British government and its vices,
have disguised one half of the community |:
end rather than live in continual luminosity
with their owns tleshalad btood," or enterin-
toa contest with it for the g rights of free
men," they wisely give up the field to the
fools in possession, and seek another more
suited TO their temper and prosperity.
These are SYMPTOMS which ought TO
strike the sensibilities of our eastern Magi,
as it threatens their own interests as much
as it benefits that Of the new settlements to
the westward.
A wholesome spirit OF patriotism and
the abolition of their blte la,cs and cantinC
conUeatictes, leaving the human mind free,
under the restraint OF civil laws, and at IL
berty to adore the Creator how, when, and
where it thought fit, would, in time. ope-
rate to change the complexion of affairs in
that section and instead Of behOlding our
roads as now covered with pilgrims, Jour
neying from this I" holy tand," we might be
greeted with the sight of some who would
search forit as g land q promise.