The voice of freedom. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1839-1848, 1843-08-03

with ease. Irish potatoes, green peas,
beets and cabbages, carrots, &C., cali not
be raised here to advantage From Irish
potatoes you will get return of A or 5
to one - the crop will all be under the
size of an egg. A good cabbage head
cannot be raised here with any more ease
than sweet potatoes car. be with you, and
SO with all Northern crops in fact - ex-
cept, perhaps, turnips, of which few can
be raised.
If poor man will live on hominv and
| fish, he can undoubtedly live cheaper here
than he VO@ld do at the North - but he
a0iU not live as poorly at the North as he
will here. Many rich farmers Crackers
live here almost entirely upon hominy
and hog meat, and poorer than the pauper
of the North. And the richest man here,
with every disposition to enjoy the good
| things of this world, can not live as well
as the poor mechanic of your city does
live.
One half of East Florla is covered
with rivers, lakes, swamps, morasses, and
other waters; of the remainder nine.tenlhs
is pine barren, one.tenth hammock and
prairie. The pine barrens, some people
say, are entirely worthless. Some of them,
however, are good land, in the Florida
meaning of the word The hammocks
are likewise called good. Judge, when
tell you that the pine barrens are gener-
ally pure white sand. looking almost
exactly like the sand used at the North
by housewives to scour with. Occasion
ally, however, the pine barrens have a
tinge Of yellow, and in one or two in
stances l have seen, perhaps, half an inch
of vegetable deposit on the top of the white
sand, The hammock land is generally a
white or yellow sand, covered by vegel.
able deposit of from one 10 six inches,
which will soon be exhausted by cropping
1t requires less winter clothing here
than at the North, although have never
suffered as much from the cold as have
here, but that was owing to the defective
manner of constructing the houses here,
yet it is as necessary, and is usual 10 have
as many fires burning here in winter as
at the North, and probably more wood is
burned here than at the North, from the
superior economy of Northern people,
stoves, better constructed fire places, &c.
Wood sells here at 81 50 to $500 per
cord. In Michigan, Ohio, and Northwest
generally, under the same circumstances,
at 95 cents per cord, or less. [ can see
no possible inducement for poor man TO
come here, except the climate, and yet
many that come here prefer the climate
Of New York 10 that OF Florida. If he
comes here as a laborer he can hardly
procure labor, as negroes are employed
altogether. Ii a mechanic, he can get no
better wages than in the Northwest And
his expenses of living are much higher.
If he comes as a small farmer on his own
land, he finds poor soil, poor market,
and it is almost impossible to get along
without negroes. The Course of s'avery'
is upon the land, hanging like milestone
upon the neck Of industry, and thousand
impediments unknown to, ald not to be
conceived by northern man, are thrown
in his way, and prevent him from redping
the advantage of energy and enterprize,
if he possesses them, and which would in
The Northwest, lead him on to fortune.
Yours, truly, ~