Wheeling compiler. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [i.e. W. Va.]) 1829-1831, 1830-06-23
EuioRATION

We have noticed with great deal Of
interest the accounts which fill the English,
Scottish, and Irish papers, OF the em'gra-
non from all parts of those countries to
british America and the United States.
lTbe character and circumstances OF these
s,nirrants also attract our attention. a
large part of them consists OF persons pos
issssinp some means others are ndustr
.ous and skil(ul artzans; third class Is
mot less interesting, bong those whose
friends had previously come out to the a
mericas. and found the means, IN short
lime, 10 send for others OF their lamlly
whom they had left behind. This sput
Iof emigration, lrage the British journals
Icall ~ extends TO every part Of the island,
rom Inverness and Perthshlre to hent;
from the widest TO the most fertile dis.
tIcts. BY CObbetps account, tie em
grants are of the sort that the country
should feel most anxious to keep at nome;
those who remain, he says, are the pauperS
(which indeed must generally be the case
ashley have not the means OF transport
mo themselves. We have likewise to re-
mark lhat. Notwithstanding the HourshnS
accounts which have been gwen Oy GER
.aln tourists. Of the climate, SOIL aud gen
eral prosperity o. the Cauadas under tS
British legislation, the United States y
the testimony of the journals referred .,
seem t. absorb much more thu" an eqal
. portion Of these engrauts. After 81,
LOYALTY. national feeling. aud the sacrd
love of the naial5 S0iuH, may be mae
by the stress of circumstances 10 yIeld o
the first law of nature, d mans wish o
oct bread for himself and MS cmldrd'
: and that where II Is obtained with lesl
J sweat of the bsow and least subtraction
, from it after II Is made, whether IA le
shape of tax, 1.-THE OF rent. 30 ahere' Is
, the national character, says the FfIh
Courier, that these people seem TO lave
{ their native land without d sympior Of
, regret. The reason is gwen IN the anne
t sentence: they 90 90 JOIN other lrlend'"ho
] have thriveu since The ch.nge.
From Lelth II rbor, 10 one week here
, sailed about 300 emgrants; 10 the county
of Sunderland, 800 have REGISTERED their
names as passengers. Among ne pas
f sengers from Dundee are many iamJIes
from Perthshlre. The Pertt' Courier
saws. 1T is lamentable to wines the en-
igration of numbers of such a esPectaOle
and industrious class of peope, parucu-
larlv as the avOwed cause Is he absorp
fon of small into large farms. and the mgi
rent of landsN This high rent, Oy the
way. cannot be reduced without rum to tue
landlords. ON WHOM fall the accumulated
burdens imposed by the existing state OF
things A. Glasgow and Greeuock the
mays we're ~ .. hustle win emiGrants \
few wealthy agricultural and commercial
emigrants sailed from thai port, taking
with them IA considerable sum OF money
These were destined for Montreal. It is
-. added That the mania for emigration TO
the United States seems otlli to rage with
undated fury.o The Hull Advertiser all
leges as a fact that at a small village 10
persoas casually met on their way TO leave
their native country The Globe rtaie-
THAT emigration is becoming very general
Ilu Kent among the SINAI, farmers, an1
lolher persons who have pecunlary means
Tor removal" 4 Liverpool paper. after
Iremarking on the number Of the emigrants
ild that they are IN general strong and ac-
live men, capable of gaining a livelihood
wherever labor is of any vaIue-adds that
'' it is an unfortunate circumstance such
men should be unable TO gam a subsis
ence in their native land " In some par
shes, money has been raised by the par
shiohers on the poor-rates, IN order 10
provide for unemployed laborers the means
Of emigration. The spirit OF emigration
] las extended also into Wales Carpet
veavers from KlImarnocz have been for
ced by the want of work To accept of an
engagement IN a large carpet mandatory
h the State of New York A Sligo pa
per says that emigration to A lerica is
proceeding rapidly notwithstanding the
|tnfavorable accounts received each sea-
son from the United States and the Bat
ish settlements. The strongest proof.
however, of the prosperity which attends
he greatest number of those who emlgrate
is that in a year or two they are enabled to
nav the passage of their friends, whom
they general, send for to partaIIo of their
good fortune We may add, that the
greater part who have left, or are about to
take their departure from this county, are
persons in comfortable circumstances, but
whose prospects at home are not calcula-
ted to wed them 10 country where wretch
ednoss and misery await them"
Thus tho gradual romoyal Of British
people and British capital from British
taxation, seems 10 be gong on at both
ends. The poor q out Of necessity, the
rich out of choice. both governed, howo'-
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