Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1841-06-29
OUT OLE BUSINESS

OUT OF BUSINESS.
10 most Of our large eastern towns and
cities, there is much suffering and com
plant for the want Of business. We fire.
quently hear the most appalling accounts,
of persons thrown out Of employ, and with
out any possible means Of directing treir
industry to any profitable account Many
persons who once held u prominent rank,
in mercantile, literary, or professional life,
and who by the capriccs of fortune have
lost their Pecunary all, are frequently re-
duccd 10 the most abect dcsttulon and
want; while no avenue presents itself for
obtaining support for themselves anG "a
miles. In almost every densely popuIn-
ted town and city, az the east, there are
constantly muItitudcs who are willing to
labor with their hands, destitute of en-
ployment, and doomed to suffer numerous
prryationS. Even in times when com
MERGE and trade are comparatively in
Furnishing condition, there is always more
or less suffering from the aforementioned
cause.
We are left to contrast this state Of
things, between the east and the wcst.-
Where in our own Territory, can the man
be found who is willing 10 work, that can
not find employment sufficient to obtain
decent support for himself and family
Never yet have We seen the individual
in this country. in want Of the nccessi-
ties of life who had mind TO work
labor in Wisconsin always commands
food and raimcnt. Nor can if be said that
man cannot find employment in the
country suitable TO the rank and condition
which in his more prosperous DAYS he NAV
have enjoyed in society. Filling the soil
and culilvatlng the productions of the earth
are pursuits which degrade no man, what
ever may have been his former calling or
avocatIon. Among the G recks and Ro-
mans, the pursuit of agriculture, was cv-
ef regarded an honorable calling; beli ting
the rank OF the great and noble. In every
enlightened age and country, the cultiva-
ton Of the earth, has been esteemed suited
to the dignity Of the highest grade of mind
The west spreads GU; an ilimilable field.
! TO the exercise Of honorable industry in
this respect. The unnumbcrcd thousands
| at the east, who are depressed continual
ly for the want Of bushes, and who can
devise no means for obtaining an honora-
bic support, would find ample scope in the
west for employment, adequate to secure
livelihood.
There is ono class Of persons in cast
crn towns IN particular, with whom it is
extremely natural to sympathise. 1t is
that class, who were once in afIiuent cir
cumstances, and apparently placed be-
yond the reach Of penury and want. but
who, in The tide oftimes were overwhelmed
IN one common ruin of fortune. Accus-
toned TO move in the higher ranks and IA
shlonable circles of life, they still struggle
to keep up the show Of wealth, and strain
every effort 10 maintain their rank in life
There is perhaps nothing more humiIia-
ting to human nature, than to descend from
the circles Of fashion and rank. to a COM
mon level with the poorer classes of soci-
city. 1t drives the soul into the deep chan
ncls of melancholy, and has proved a fear
ful cause of suicide, TO many whose
strength of intellect, was inadequate to bear
against the direful current.
There are hundreds of this class Of per-
sons, who have sought an ASYLUM in the
west; having broken away from those tor
turing associations Of former greatness.
they have sought retirement, where it will
prove less wounding to their pride of feel
ing to dispense with the equipage of fash |
ION, and practice economy and simplicity |