The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1836-12-28

assuming man cou!u eSpect or desire TO be.
Bun the best fields are not always fruit
ful, nor is the finest climate always salu-
brious, Sunny Italy ITSELF has some uncom-
Portable seasons, and the richest vineyards
sometimes cast untimely grapes. Three
cold frosty seasons in succession were too
much for Rogers indurance. His corn
was cut off in the milk ; his potatoes sog-
ged in the Boiling, for the frost nipped them
yet unripe-liis thrifty yoing orchard cast
II blossoms, because cold east wind assail-
ed It IN the very nick of time, and apples,
and new cider, were great favorites with
Roger. lie grew uneasy, dsconten,ed-
became peevish at times, aud once went so
far as even to speak uSkindly to his wife
"And can this be Roger p said she ten
derly yet reprovingIy ; "can this be the
kind husband with whom | have lived fif-
teen years, who never spoke harshly to me
before :"
He felt the force of her logic, and apollo
gized told of the loss of his crops, which
she well knew before-of his fears fof the
fdture,--that he had half resolved to emf
CRATE for Ohio, and only wanted her con.
sent to complete his resolution.
"Do as you think best" said she with
sad smile, 4" can go or stay with you
any thing for your sake can bear if you
will not speak harsaly tome or your babes"
Roger thought himself once more happy.
For months ho had ruminated upon the sub
ject, but wanted resolution to mention it to
her. He well knew her domestic turn |;
her attachment to her neighborhood her
love of settled life; and expected sho
would oppose removal. But now the way
was open, his mind was made up from that
moment; go he must lie sold his lovely
farm at great sacrifice almost gave away
his large aud fine stock of cattle-his seven
feet oxen and all, without tear; parted
with his two hundred rrernoes for a song
sacrificed his furniture which his wife prised
so highly as to shed tears at parting with 1t;
called in his money Mt interest; and late in
autumn started for Ohio.
There arrived, wearied and disheartened,
ne looked around in vain for the paradise
, he had anticipated. The man who feels
the real emigrant teUer, has u picture in his
mind of place all green and rich, and
beautiful, somewhere or other, to which his
soul aspires. He cannot tell you where il
is, or exactly what it is, but somewhere il
must be. lie chases 1t as we all chase our
hopes, but il sill fits away before him, like
memories in IA dream. He searches and
searches, but where is il Ii has in fact no
place in nature-it is but the conception Of
a disordered brain. Thus it was with Rog-
er, County after County he traversed, eros
sed river after river; but after all was not
able to find spot half 50 lovely as the old
farm he had left far behind him among the
bills of Oxford.
At last he was forced to stand. Half
his money was already spent, and stop some
where he must. On the banks of the Mus
kingum he purchased farm and hoped TO
find reason to be content with it. The soil
; was really fertile and easy and he had
nothing to fear from frost. But alas what
human lot is free from uneasincss The fe-
yer and aguc fastened upoE him every now
and then, giving him frequent fits Of shver-
ing, that outshvered all the winters Of
Maine. His wife who had never been sick
ly before, was now able to do but very little
and though she never complained, he could
see she was by no means 50 cheerful as she
used SO be IN her home among the noun
tains. His children became feeble, pined
away, did not laugh and skip as they were
accustomed to do formerly. Society to his
taste there was none. In vain he sought
that pure, elevated, enlightened. social in
tercoursc, to which Ire had been accustorD-
ed (; all the habits Of society were new to
him and no one finds 1t easy, after being
long accustomed to one course OF things, to
adapt himselfto another essentially differ
ent.
There seems to be some natural connec-
ton between the sun and the air IN which
/ men are bred, and the habits they form.
Hence natural and sectional dlycrslties: and
hence the uneasiness any one feels when
suddenly transported from one country to
, another! Even removal from one county
, or city to another, is not without degree
| Of the same feeling. |, is but measure o
|, the same sensation.tbat any one who has al
, ways enjoyed freedom, feels when he, fol
, the 6rst time finds himself IN PRISON.
Poor Roger felt all this in the extreme
, His blood and his limbs were at war with
, the climstc--and his sentiments aud emo
, tons we're in constant contest with the pul
5 sations of the community in which he hat
Z taken up his abode. II not confined to no;
J and hominy,' he yet found strange innu
, tritIousness in the diet Of the West Th
: fruits were ripeoed by n different sun--on'
5 If they were mellow, they yet wanted tn
2 rich flavor which health and active industr,
] gave to the mountainous east. And he saw
a that it was 50 with wife and children
: Gladly would he have sacrificed the rest o
} his property, to have been placed back
{ poor and contcnted among his native hills
But pride kept him silent on the subjec
e and year after year passed on and he wa
$ still an inbabiiant Of Ohio.
5 But his sorrows were but yet begun
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