Columbus Democrat. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 18??-18??, 1839-06-22
THE ARKANSAS EMlGRANrs.

closet constructing he Ho.ltral hlro>cupe of our /
new bora nation. proved most decidedly. among
asaer uujeaah.e po>mou,, thai the Kentucky
and Niagara lands, then aii the rage among the
emlgraui>, must cor, nue. 20 De- frontier lands, for
century TO come, and deplared Inc lntaualion O..
men who-uegec'ng he uuoccupicd lands east
ct The mountains, al Nhch there Was enough and
more than enough toy the wants II many gcnera-
uruS--eXt,d themselves to distant places. where
they must mover hope to sec their patents, helr
brothers and sisters, and other relations and
friends whom they had left behind" where, du-
ring all tia, coming century themselves aud their
children after them, must fight with desperate sa-
wages for the privileges IF sowing and reapng
their cotnlields, and where, worst Of all after
the trouble Of fighting. they must, Tor lack o,
market, sell then wheat far lgupeuce bu-be t.
buy dollar blankets 81 hall guinea piece.
10 Us Nhn, 20 hall Il crutlry, have srrn II
50 slgnnliy lal-acd, be predict on appears -u0i
GENTLY ridiculous. The wilderness, countries
now form the heart and centre of tie republic,
and aie, ia the language of speculation, ao ON
country, whence new mI-auis daily depart for a
new border; vhrh 10 ts tuu, becomes, IN a few
| years "A coldon Of sovereign States, sending out
| IN Ike manner, their hosts OF voluntary eNles.
| And thus the work goes on--ihe building up
of nation such as tho world has never yet seen,
such as II has never yet imagined. Croakers sit at
! home and pirate Of dangers trou abroad, OF poht-
| cal coltupuons, aud social d,sorganzaton. he
/ raids of coming conyulson; bat all the while,
| the cmlgrant Is on the road, with his plough aud
! his OK, his axe and rife, his sons and daughters,
| to add a new State to the Buatens Of nations.
whom no Jupiter can hurl from the seat OF pow
! er, ar Eua overwhelm, The rolds arc full OF
| team, the rivers alive with steamboats, ium
where YOU vii, you see 10 gap N the human bal
low, which rolling from the east, like the ruat OF
a mghty rIver the rushing m0scrst Of the ANA
| Zon OF The Gauges, sweeps over forest and prai
re, IN It, march 10 the Pacific ocean. When that
has been ga ned, when the Oregon boasts as ma
ny steamers as the Mississippi, aud the Chppe-
| wyans are as well pierced with railroads the
AHeghanles, we may look into the magIcIon's
glass or the fate Of the enormous ompue-or
rather for the fate Of other empires, It's outslip
ped and oycrshadowed rivals.
The rage Of emigration, of which we need not
leave our home to witness ;he effects, one IS al
mos, tempted 10 consider feature peculiar 10
The race. Pressed by 20 necessy--no pinch
ing poverty such as drives the poSf insnnaI
from his m1orand cot, no CALLING oppression of
tyrant and bIgot, only to be ESCAPED by exparia-
iiou; yet over changing, ever on the march, seek.
ing new home It would Uaiiy seem as { there
was something aomadic IN our nature principle
OF levlty and reseSsness from which the phlosJ
pher may, according to his mood, aurir "A super
abundance Of good or eyil lor the republic.
have sometimes, while rambling among the
i0hg trans OF ehigrant wagons, filing southern
or western road, asked myself whether The love
OF home--that tender, and lovely, and souI.en-
nchlng sentiment, so distinctive Of the race from
which we boast TO descend--was poetic fiction
IN America. Those men Of sub>lafce--that
Virginia planter with his hundred slaves, Journey.
tnE to the cottongrounds Of Alabama that COM
Portable farmer OF Pennsylvania with his half a
dozen wagons, aud furniture enough IN them to
iutni-h out garrison, vending his way to the
distant Wisconsin; do these men remember with
no regr"ilul feelings, the antique mansion on the
Rappai anuuck; The old homestead among the
hills of the Susquehannal The Eualnan will
tell you hi- lands are worn out and that he lelt
them Ia save his hands from starvation, or the
market, a PcHnsyv anlan assures you he ba. st.
ven -ons To be made laadhode6, at ms death
Ask that gallant New Yorker what GAMES HIM
50 lar from aone--he Is gong 10 buy up tie side
81 county town, aud cnnyer, i've thousand INTO
a ultiton; mat young lawyer from Maryland--hc
wants 10 -cl mtu Inc legislature, and thence Ia
.ngles-; that busting iaukee-he will be IA
mcrcHanh aud make bis fortune. In ,hotf, You
vii learn any thing except that the adycnluler-
tegct the homes lhey have left behind Them.
IAt oye ot home the love OF iteedou--ihar
= iredom Witch men iee upon HE bouudicss prai.
ne, 81 N lie aedsuiee,s forest, where the soul
hatn ,l1o" loom, and Is not conscious Of too
man, superors--aud love Of wealth, have swa-
toN' up tue genlor love OF the place Of birth
ltl All are not thus lnsenslbie. Poverty, DE-
led,d hopes, huab d PRIDE, send also helT re-.
prescnEaNe, 10 the boldrr, among whom one
may sometimes an eye TUNED IA tears, to the
blue horizon behind, and The yisages luIl I'll Jne
thoughts OF HUME home remembered a. a
lost paradise, deaIer tban any thing 10 be gained
IN the land OF PROMISE
Oue evening runbng upon a bluff on the
Mississippi, It was my chance 10 witness the eu.-
bdfcauon OF a family OF grants, whom had
previously noted descending 10 Inc O.di whi,n
was TO carry tnem across me river - ,ne darn
irowuug forests OF Arkau,a~. II vas d spun
evening, aud Tie season and ne uouI uuilto to
give beauty to tnc scrne. Upon he buH, g,oscs
81 locust uees she'd delicious perfume; and Inc
glones OF sunset lay upon TIE woods beyond the
). nyer. II was at tins pleasant nour, tta the Ia
mliy, CONSISTING ui i've pefsons--lne father, a
nau declining INTO the vale years; three sons,
one mere uicAm Of SIX or seven years old, the
others, youths Of eighteen and tweniy.one; aud
a daughter OF perhaps eventecB--deseeHded 10
the fver lac daughter, win The little boy was
packed away in carnole-Or IN western par
lance, carry -al--ol no very distinguished APP
pearauce, driven BY gray headed negro servant
/ he father and second rode on AofseOacki
white the FIRST born, with second negro tiudged
maniuIly along on foot.
There was nothing at first sight, very peculiar