Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1839-05-29

past IS highly injurious, both to those who
90 and those who are left. There cannot
De rational doubt that the most populous
parts of the United States would be meal.
cuiably better off with their present popu.
iation. Several Of the reasons nv CORES.
pondent has given. Others will at once
Suggest themselves to the rejecting. Blu,
tue mischiefs Of over-strained emigration
are lncomparably greater to the emigrants
than 10 those left behind. These also have
been IN some good measure touched upon
oy the writer, and will be readily apparent
10 all. l
For the Vermont Telegraph.
One year ago, l was travelling in the
western region, and Of course obtaining
some information by personal observation
and enquiry, respecting that vast and good
country, and OF the mode of doing business
there generally; but more especially in the
INDICATED regions; and must say that
do not feel pleased with their management
| fouod that the north part of Illinois, all
Of Wisconsin, Black Hawks country, (now
1oWa,) DC. &C., were mostly unsurveyed.
and consequently not yet in market. A
country perhaps as large as all N. England
and the State of New-York put together.
+or larger. A country that am fully OF,
opinion, ought to be in the peaceable pos
session ofFthe natives, until it is needed for
purposes of agriculture by the citizens of
the United States, and that will not be thus
needed until the older States are far better
improved than they now are, and a vast
tract Of land now in market is sold. Could
not l6 Of the oldest States well bear the
population, that is now on the whole, and
1t be better for the country2 Would it not
be more for the benefit of the nation, than
TO pretend TO try to occupy the whole at
present2 Would not the lands be better
cultivated, and the soil better improved.
made more productive and consequently
more valuable2 Would not internal i'm
proVement be more general, and better reg
.ulated-society more compact and OF course
more able to support the Gospel2 To es-
lablish and support public institutions gem
orally? And in case of war would not the
nation be more easily defended? Is the
population Of those is States, at present.
more than one to ten Of what they might
well bear2 Then why scatter over so
large territory, and render the population
on the whole SO sparse2 leaving 99-l0oths
of the soil not at all, or but miserably culti-
vated-fne mill-seats unused-common
schools but miserably attended to-the Cos
pei but wretchedly supported, and every
branch and means of wealth, improvement,
knowledge and convenience, left in half
living, halt dying state?
How many farmers are there now. within
our acquaintance, who have perhaps from
to 10 times as much land as they need, or
can improve to advantage, and who would
enjoy themselves far better, with 18th
part. than they now do with the whole
How many school districts have been broken
up? How many religious societies have
dwindled and died, or are dying? How
much do our roads, and every other public
convenience, suffer in consequence Of it?
Large farms, half fenced, half improved,
half in common, and growing up to brush,
half stocked, and what does grow, half
taken care of, and not more than one-fourth
part of the profits realized that might be, if
the population were 5 to L of what it is
now. The State generally suffers in rev.
enue, in enterprise, in Improvements, and
in all the facilities for the general veal
We often hear (and exultingly too) of vii
lagos, and even cities, rising up in the
western regions, Gas if by magic" Yes,
and by what means2 Is it not by means
of eastern money, and eastern enterprise?
Is it not done at the expense Of eastern
prosperity, and Improvement? Is there
not constant food of eastern 11ealth pour
ing into the western States? Is there not
constant drain upon the vital energies Of
the eastern resources, and croMding, glut-
ting, pampering and nursing up the west?
Yes, and it has been so for series of years.
| Yes, and it will be so for series of years
to come. And now this vast opening at the
north west. Thither is the great drift of
emigration now. No need of money. Lands
in market require money, but here it is not
needed. Yes, running over the 100, 100000
of acres towin market, as good perhaps as
! this; but the tide is turned this way, and all
characters, from almost all parts of the