Du Buque visitor. [volume] (Dubuque, Lead Mines, Wisconsin Territory) 1836-1837, 1836-05-18
Nm, I. JONES. PRINTER.
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ksEsl4GRAffoN TO THE WEST.
The last Western Monthly Maya
zine in review Of a new work on Tex
u, gives the following graphic and en-
teTtaining picture Of western motions
! MD western emigration.
We are proud Of the west,
particularly proud Of our own state,
and superlatively proud Of that spot in
the state, which we inhabit--yet there
isalways 3 one other place, which
Isl even more desirable than our own.
As Kentucky farmer will not admit, as
az hstract proposition, that there is a.
ny better country than Kentucky-yet,
in the next breath, he will tell you that
he is going to Illinois. An Ohio man
will demonstrate to-day, from the UNI
exampled rapidity with which his state,
and especially his own county, has be-
come populated, that his lot has been
/ cast in tlle pleasantest of all pleasant
places-and tomorrow he will sell out
and go to Indiana. This propensity
for emigration, maybe in some degree
explained, by q fact to which we have
alluded:that different parts of the coun-
TRY possess advantages differing in kind,
rather than in degree, and that men
change situations, not because their
own are inferior, but because others
would suit them better. The diyersi-
lies of taste and judgment arc such, that
man may imagine that to be an adj
vantage, which another would consid-
b "a I aefsGt, er aKieW With iadiaer-
& 3 q 6 nay exchange
snfsfn fqeasdd But II cannot Be true, Il
the intrinsic value of the property be
considered.
But there is, besides this, an adven-
furious spirit in portion of our popu-
lation-an Unborn propensity for roam
ing to newer lands, which is .interwo-
ven with eyery fibre of their natures,
and il1tliie them to change their habi-
tations61 The slightest cause Many.
have inherited from their fathers, a love
for the wilderness, where the soil is
fresh, the game abundant, and the tang
led forest, or the untrodden plains, af-
ford wide range lr their numerous
herds. They have taste which is al
most poetical, if it be notsreally SO.
.Hath not old custom made this life more sweet
Than that Of painted pomp7 Are not these woods
More free from peril, than the envious court!
Here feel we but the penalty of Adam,
The sseaoa's liiderencc.,
From these various causes, we see
the business Of emigration going for.
ward, not only with unexampled rapi-
dity, but WITH steady action, which
continues from year to year; and while
every part Of the west is increasing in
population, some favoritc portions are
eceiving vast accessions. One current
pouring in upon Michigan its crowds
pm NewsEngland and New York
pothetisfllin Alabama with planters
pm Kentucky, Tennessee, and the
prolinas. A stream Of New England
is entering Illinois from the north,
q another from the south brings it's
ousands Of emigrants from Tennessee
g Kentucky. Indiana and Missiou-
are receiving their portion Of this
cat flood, which, like the inundation
the Mississippi, deposits some Of it's
rticies upon every land over which
flows; while kind Of under current.
sort Of supplementary emigration, is
arriving off from all the western states.
rowds Of people, who are destined for
Arkansas, and forthe boundless regions
ylng along the whole western frontiers
Wherever the, traveller chances =
wander over the wide west. he enco,,n
ters the struggles ofahis army. mov;nr
towards the setting sun. Tbev nv,
still, they come Along he wIols
Sain Of the Alleghenyrid dye, they nav
~ seen crossing into our valley, byey- /
k pass which nature or art ia, r y
dered practicable they are thrown in
shoals upon all the shores Of the north /
8 iakes-they ascend in steam boats
from New Orleans whenever TN
srs OF lying shall BE discovered. which
u Iita izilll1l order Of things, must s.
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