Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1853-06-23

Quakers; but the latter offered an asy.
lum to the Germans whom the sword o.
Louis XIV. drove from the Palstinate.
The French Huguenots, driven out by
the revocation Of the edict of Nantes,
scattered themselves from Massachu-
sets to Carolina. The Dutch and
Swedish settlements on the Hudson and
the Delaware provided kindred home
for such of their countrymen as desired
to try the fortune of the New World.
The Wings of England who rebelled
against James II. in 1885, and were
sent to the transatlantic colonies, lived
long enough to meet in exile the adhe-
rents of his son, who rebelled against
i George 1. in IT'S. The oppressed
Protestants of Salzburg came with
Oglethrope to Georgia; and the High
landers, who fought for Charles Edward
in 1745, were deported by hundreds to
North Carolina. They were punished
by being sent from their bleak hills and
sterile moors to land of abundance
and liberty; they were banished from
oatmeal porridge to meat twice a day.
Laughter. The Gaelic language is
still spoken by their descendants, and
thousands of their kindred at the pre-
sent day would no doubt gladly share
their exile. Applause.
There is no doubt that the hardships
which awaited the emigrant at that
early day were neither few nor slight,
though greatly exaggerated for want OF
information. Goldsmith, in 1.-The De-
serted Village" published in 1869,
gives us a somewhat amusing picture Of
the state of things as he supposed it to
exist beyond the ocean at that time
AS his local illusion is to Georgia, it is
lprobable that he formed his impressions
from the accounts which were published
at London about the middle of the last
century by some of the diScontented
settlers of that colony. Goldsmith,
being well acquainted with Gen. Ogle-
thorpe, was likely enough to have had
his attention called to the subject
Perhaps you will allow me to enliven
my dull prose with a few lines of his
beautiful poetry. After describing the
suferings of the poor in London at that
time, reverting to the condition of the
inhabitants of his imaginary Auburn,
and asking whether they probably
shared the woes he had Just painted,
he thus answers his question:
All no, to distant climes, dreary scene,
Where half the convex world obtrudes be-
tween;
Through torrid tracts. with fainting steps they
go,
Where wild Altama murmers to their woe,
Far different there from all that charmed be-
fore,
The various terrors of that horrid shore:
Those blazing suns that dart downward ray,
And fiercely shed intolerable day;
Those matted woods, where birds forget to sing,
But silent bats in drowsy clusters cling;
Those poisonous fields with rank luxuriance
crowned,
Where the dark scorpion gathers death around
Where, at every step, the stranger fears tc
wake
The rattling terrors OF the vengeful snake;
Where crouching tigers wait their helpless
prey,
And savage men more murderous still than
they;
While oft in whirls the wild tornado flies,
Mingling the ravaged landscape with the
, skies.
In this rather uninviting sketch, il
must be confessed that it is not easy tC
recognise the natural features of that
thriving State, which possesses at the
present day about eight hundred mile:
of railroad, and which by her rapidly
increasing population, and liberal en
dowment Of colleges; schools, and
J churches, and all the other social institu
tons of highly improved community
is fast earning the name of the Empire
State of the South.
After repeating these lines, it is
scarcely necessary to say that there
was much ignorance and exaggeratior
prevailing in Europe as to the state o.
, things prevailing in America. But
few years after Goldsmith's poem ap-
peared, an event occurred which aroused
: and fixed the attention of the world
; The revolt of the colonies in 1775-the
Declaration of Independence in 1916
the battles of the Revolutionary war
the alliance with Franee-the acknowl-
edgment of American independence by
the treaty of 1783-the establishment
of great federal republic-the illus
trious career Of Lafayette-the Europe
an reputation of Franklin-and the
towering character of Washington,
great applause, gave to the United
States great and brilliant name in the
/, family of nations. Thousands in every
part of Europe then probably heard Of
, America, with any distinct impressions,
for the first time; and they now heard
of it as a region realizing the widest
visions. Hundreds in every walk Of
, life began to resort to America, and es-
pecially ardent young men who were
f dissatisfied with the political condition
of Europe. Among these was your late
venerable President, Albert Gallatin,
one of the most eminent men of the
last generation, who came to this coun-
try before he attained his majority; and
. the late celebrated Sir Isambert Brunet,
the architect Of the Thames tunnel
. He informed me that he became citi-
zen Of the State of New York before
the adoption of the federal constitution,
and that he made some surveys to aseer-
tain the practicability of the great work
which afterwards united the waters OIL