Portland gazette and Maine advertiser. (Portland, Me.) 1805-1818, 1817-10-07

ycuSIadJ, WAIiC VIC iOunu oSh. AsAo 800
with force said to coniiit of 5000 men.
The Royaliits acknowledge loss of 100
men during their fay at Margaretta.
The news is confirmed that the whole
province ofGuyanne is in poHellion of the
Patriots, and it is supposed they intend
making an attack on Caracas. Gen.
Morillo leaves this in day or two for
that place, where he is muitsring all his
forces to oppose them.
From the Massachusetts Spy.
10 nose rvho are about 10 emlgrafe from
.aez0- England
High lies the land, ye, 5.ess'd u I'll bouateous
sioveS
Firm, az her sons th us h rocky are her shores
And none, alb ! none SO lovely TO my sight,
Of all the lands that hess'n o'erspresds with
light"
From the rage for emigratipB which pre-
walls among the people of Eng land,
stranger might be led TO suppose that
they inhabited barren soil and an inhos-
pi,able climate, and that there was little in
il to attach the natives to their country !:
whereas it is an incontroyertable fact, OF
which every person capable of forming an
opinion upon the subject is sensible, that
no section of the Union possesses so great
advantages, fhysacat and moral, and that the
inhabitants of New. England form by far
the happiest community Of which there is
any record or memorial
0 for.unatos minimum, ST sua bona nj rim,
I his assertion is made after having viewed
nearly every state and territory in the A.
merican government, and carefully weigh
ed and compared their relative advantages !;
and after having, also, duly reflected upon
the state and history of the world, and the
condition of those communities most ceIe-
braled for their felicity.
The New England farmer who is pre-
pairing to sell, perhaps his pa,rimoniai es-
tate, and to emigrate with his family 10
Ohio, Indiana, or the Illinois, will either
not believe this, or disregardit but he will
be convinced, when il is 100 late, that it is
true He may, no doubt, go to country
where the soil is more easily cultivated,
aid even more fertle---and he may pay the
price of his health, and even his life, and
the heslth and perhaps lives of his family,
Tor these advantages. The writer of this
received the most aut1enlick accounts, and
Witnessed in part the suilerings, sickness
and mortality which often prevails among
those who emigrate from the northern
states TO the new and unhealthy regions of
the west. The emigrants from the middle
and southern states generally suffer far
less they do not often leave as comfortable
homes, and never as salubrious climate
! have said that New England combines
greater moral and physical advantages than
any other section OF the United States.
She has a salubrious and, upon the whole,
pleasant clima.e-more regular than The
middle or even western states-more tenn
perate and agreeable than the southern
and more healthy than either. The soil
though not SO highly fertile as some parts
OF the west, nor SO easily cultivated as the
south, is upon the whole an exceedingly
good one. And though it requires labour
to subdue it, yet when properly subdued
and skilfslly cultivated, ii never fails richly
to reward the lsbours of the husbandman.
Il has an easy access to the ocean, good
markets, and greater commercial adsan,a
ges than any other part of America. The
husbandman Is sure 10 receive good price
Tor whatever he raises, and 10 obtain all for
elgn articles upon moderate terms. tVery
different, indeed, from the farmers in the
western states, who are compelled to sell
their produce very low, and TO purchase
all fol eign articles very high. Indeed, not
outstanding all that has been said by the
ignorant and the preiudced 10 disparase
New England, it possesses soil by nature
as fertile as Old England, and only requires
the same culture to render it like that, the
garden ofthe world. Blu, this can never
be done while the present rage for emigra-
ton exists, and while thousands, instead of
cultivating their durable and productive
lands, are deserving them for the unwhole-
some regions of the west and south.
l have touched slightly upon some of the
Physical advantages which New England
possesses its moral advantages are far
more numerous and important, and can be
fully estimated only by those who have had
an opportunity Of contrasting them with
those OF the other parts Of the Union. ] he
regular moral and industrious habits oil the
people-her admirable religious and liiera-
~ lnSgllutiOnS-aDd the truIy repuhliran