Du Buque visitor. [volume] (Dubuque, Lead Mines, Wisconsin Territory) 1836-1837, 1836-05-18

never eat us out of house and home.
The universal Yankee nation might be
conveniently settled upon the plains Of
Illinois, and all the free whites that can
be spared from the south, would find
|elbow room in Missouri.
We have already suggested
that although every part Of the western
country is good, and some of it sur
passingly excellent, large portion of
our people are continually looking a.
broad for better land. AS person
of sanguine temperament is ever feast
ing in imagination upon some anticipa-
ted pleasure which is superior to all
the joys that we are in possession Of
SO we have still some Eden in prospect,
which is more desirable thanzthe pro-
life fields around us. Theswhole land
is on the gu vive-wide awake, and
watching for intelligence from some
newly discovered Ell dorado, which
would be good place to move to-
Sometimes one place is cried up, and
somctimesa nother-and then they rush
for it. One year it is Alabama, anoth-
er it is Jackson's purchase, and then, it
is the Sangamon country; and no soon
er does rumor thus invest famed re-
gion with imaginary charms than hum
dreds of farmers mount their horses
and ride off to explore it, and hundreds
of others who are too impatient to look
before they leap, gear up their teams,
and move away to the land Of promise.
The delightful season at which we
are writing, brings these scenes forci-
bly, to our recollection. The weather
is dry, the sky serene, and the atmos-
phere mild; theroads are dry and smooth
the corn is ripe, the cattle and hogs
fat, and the land teeming with album
dance. 1t IS the season in which the
emigrant may travel with the greatest
facility and cheapness. We have seen
them at this time Of the year strung a.
long tie roads Of Illinois, ia such nunl-
bsr~, Mini there 6tned To lbc no erz al
and farming too re owner, ] Stout,
sun burnt man, walks before-the wife
and children are slowed among the
.baggagc-the tall girls, and the great
muscular boys, each of the latter with
a rifle on his shoulder, arc strolling in
The rear. They are from Tennessee.
At night they halt by spring or on
the bank Of a stream, a greatfire is kim
died, the beds and pallets are spread
upon the ground, and after hearty sup
per, the whole party repose comforta-
in the open air. There is another par
ty from the same state; theysare more
wealthy, the females are in carriages
or on horses, and there is train of ne
groes they are going to Missouri.
Here is family from Kentucky-they
are very much like those that have Just
passed, except that they are better fix
ed'-they carry more household goods,
and are grade further advanced in
their notions of comfort. All these that
we have described are reputable farm
ers who will enrich themselves, and do,
credit to the state. There is band of
a different character. Several families
are together-not because misery loves
company-for wretched as they seem
they are as happy as others. They are
all on foot, except decrepid matron,
who is mounted on lean poncy, with
a child in her lap, and a half naked,
wicked boy behind. The splunder' is
carried in an OK cart. They carrynx-
es, guns, and knives, and are a half
claa, hungry, ferocious poking set, who,
in Europe, if not taken up for robbers
or gypsies, would be arrested for the
crimesbf poverty. Yet ercept their.
pouerty, and the Incidence which pro-,
dllted it, there is no harm in them. A.
mong them isa widow and nine chily1
dren, all barefooted and bareheaded-
she lost sher man. lately, and finding
it hard to get along inthe world, IS go
ing to try a new country. These are
from North Carolina. A litsle cover
ed wagon is seen-a creaking, crazy ai-3
fair, almost worn out, drawn by one
horse, whose last debt to nature seems
to be nearly due. Within are seated
young man and woman; they are man
and wife, and are as much like each 9th
er as two peas-they have had the a. I
que regularly every year, and are IS I
sallow rs dried cornstalk They have J,
no property along, nor any baggage
Iiothing but the horse, the wagon, and I
theltWo selves; and they seem to have
reached that part Of the journey Of life
the justice Of the peace who mar I