The republic., 1851-01-29
Immigration 65 900

The emigration of 1857 was double that of s33I
and that OF 154950 has been double that of S4S-9
How lar this emigration and this road-making tend
towards the production of prosperity" we may
now examine.
Men are prosperous in proportion to their ability
TO obtain food, clothing and shelter in return for
labor. The Intelligent farmer devotes much of his
time and labor to the work of cultivation, produce
ing articles needed by himself and his neghbors
Tor present usc His leisure he devotes to the i'm
provement of his farm fit it for larger production
OF such articles for future use; and thus il is that
he accumulates capital, by the aid of which he is
enabled, from year to year, to produce and to
sume more largely, while accommodating from year
to year more rapidly The present productivencss
OF his labor for bids the necessity for going in debt
to the neighboring shop keeper and he is therefore
enabled at all times either to hold To sell the pro-
duce oihis farin ns his interest may appear to die
tate
His less intelligent, but moro ambitious peiob.
Dor. pursucs contrary course. With him, the
enlargement Of his farm and its preparation for fu
furs usc ia the leading idea. His leisure alone is
given to the work of cultivation for present use
From year to year he clears more land, fences more
nelds, and cuts more roads; and from year to year
he finds himself more in debt at the store Year
after year he creates new mortgage upon his
land and hs labor, until, at length, the sheriff sells
him out; and he them to his grief, discovers that he
has spent too much time and labor upon the max
ing OF machine for future production, and is
ruined; whereas, had he given the same time to
the present production OF commodities or things
~,
rich.
live now look around, VIC shall sec that much of
the ruin that takes place among coal
minors, furnace men. and indeed in almost every
pursuit IN hie, results from devotipg too much
time and labor to the creating of mdchiaes and too
little to The production Of things. The manufac-
tnrer withdraws the capital that should keep bis
splndles and looms in motion, to apply il to the
work al employing other men in the creation Of
further spindlcs and looms, and he is ruined. He
M has expended too much labor in machine making.
The cosl operator has productive vein of coal.
He desires another and, to enable him TO start the
second work, he 10 compelled 10 deprive the first of
the use of tho capital needed to maintain its pro-
ductvcness the consequence of which is that he Ia
ruined. The furnace man stops the working of his
mines to build another furnace, and he too II
ruined. He has given too much labor 10 the MAX
ing OF dchsnss, and too little to the production of
things. Look round where ma " il ia the Same.
Manufacturers overbuild themselves Farmers
and planters are anxious to have too much land.
They are all too much given to machine making. ana
they all suffer from the diversion of too much ia
Dor from present production.
what 10 true ofindividuals ia eouallv m of com,
muni'ies and nations. Tho tn ousands OF farmers
VINO abandon their farms in Maine. New York.
rcnnsyivania, or Ohio, and tho thousands Of
planters who leaye their plantations in Yirinia.
snc Chionnas, and Georgia, 10 60 to make new
iarms IN Iowa or Wisconsin, or new planta tions
Ine RW &ainconpoiz was the scene of all tho
negociations connected with the great Missisuippi
:cns,ne which spread such ruin throughout Fsthce