The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1840-02-04
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SoVeTnor TILL, oultor OF the Farmers Month
ly Visitor, in reply to correspondent recon.
mending New Englanders to emigrate to the
West has the following just remarks:
"The cost of journey TO Michigan, 10 the
valley of the Wabash, or 10 Wisconsin, to
most New England men with family, with the
outfit necessary for his and their subsistence UNI
Ill he Gun procure crop on the cheap and fer.
tile lands to which he removes, will consume
means TO an amount sufficient to lay the founda-
iion OF his and their competence and indepen.
'cence in the neighborhood from which he start
ed. The mere pittance' derived from inces-
SAINT labor in New England, will not he found
SO contemplate as some apprehend, when COM
pared with the vast products of the West. No
one expects that crops of corn and wheat will
grow there without putting them into the earth {:
and it is at least question with us whether a
greater value from an equal amount OF labor
may not he derived from cultivation Of the soil
in New England than from the very best soil of
the West. Men of capital there may cultivate
their hundreds and their thousands of acres,
with the use only OF teams Of oxen and horses !,
but the value of the crops there, if raised to sell
is scarcely ever greater in proportion TO the per-
sonal labor, than the lesser crops in quantity
produced here. The poor man without capital
can procure much more Of the necessares and
comforts Of life from filling The soil, or other la
bOr, here, than he can there. Such IA man, If
he has credit 10 hire money sufficient for an out
fit and to keep soul and body together until the
first crop should be obtained in the land Of pro.
mise would find himself embarrassed with this
additional burden of debt sufficient to cripple
and discourage hin, for years, should he be so
fortunate as TO survive them: his children after
him, if necessity should teach them to be indus
trious and enterprisng, might live in that pre-
else aye of every new country that should be the
most prosperous and of course the chance
would he increased that they might make them
selves independent for life.
There classes of people who, if they will
venture the risque of the diseases OF the climate
may do well to emgrate to the West. PROBES
S'"ual young men, lawyers, physicians, and per.
haps clergymen, may stand chance of more
immediate Introduction to business and of the
promotion which results from success in new
and growing country than they can in an old
AS there is more litigation and of course more
misery in the one country than the other, so The
lawyer will find most business and as there are
more levers and ngues; more sickness in such a
place, so the physician will find more and
profit allie employment and even the clergy
man, If mon and women could be driven to be
more religious from the chance of sooner dying
would find greater inducements for his lahors in
the far west than he finds, in this land overrun.
ming with Christian ministers and churches.
Men with moderate farms, which cannot be
advanageously subdivided, having families of
some half a dozen 10 dozen sous and daugh
tiers, might emigrate to advantage to the cheap
and fertile lands of the West, making themselves
sure before they leave, that their pitch is to he
made in an eligible position, and in neighbour
hood where themselves and families may not
pine in discomfort, and sigh for the associations
md enjoyments which they have left.
Men of great enterprise, who have nearly dis
sipaed their means in grasping at TOO much and
becoming rich in Il hurry, tempered down to the
anticipation Irrational gains from rational means
may perhaps better repair their losses and gain
property by going TO the West than by tarrying
in the neighborhood where it will be Notifying
10 take position lower than the elevation which
was hei, first starting point.
After all there is an objection weightier than
all others, to the removal OF the people of New
England in mass 10 the West : and this is, the
nearly absolute certainty that all who go there
will have to encounter repeated attacks of cbis
and fevers and severe bilious complaints, before
they become accmared. To remove at this
time TO Michigan or Illinois, Wisconsin or Iowa,
there is at least an equal chance that the ennis
grant will not survive five years. Nay, old as
rethe setslements Of Ohio, the two last persons
we have seen from that State returned with the
,Dna,daverous, pale faces of apparent consumption
They came back to get their health and we
We're happy to he told that although their flesh
mad re'reaed until their bodies had become
mere skeletons, and the labored perspiraton and
me CLASSY eye looked very like q speedy dissolu-
non, they only wanted the fresh mountain air
anu The pure granite water of rough New EGG.
laho to restore them 10 perfect health in the
Go"fse OF two or three months. young gen
l'eman from this county, who had finished a
collegiate education, and who had been to Ohio
TWO years, met us the day of this present writ.
ing 'cadaverous and pale He said Ohio n
me State, as it undoubtedly is--that il was
fertile and fourshing but he said it was not
aer all, what it was represented to be; and
lhat almost all such as went there with
raised expectations were disappointed He had
neen sick nearly all the time he had been absent
To he Il
mated, that his present intention was again to
r l'1n to the West hut to the precise spot
Mhere he had suffered, when his health
should be restored after his arrival at his own
Palernal roofin New Hampshire The case OF
worthy physician doing good business and
navlng accumulated handsome estate by prac.
using in an extensive reach in healthy region
~ The county of Merrimack is well known TO
a ;a people of this neighborhood. That physic-
'a"' before he attained to middle age, sold his