Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1853-06-20
Gbe Dailp Diroinian.
From the New York Times. June 9.
The Discovery and Colonization OF
America-A Lecture. by Hon.
Edward Everett.
ICONCIUDED.I I

Commonwealth, simply III their bearing on
the subject of migration. These acquisitions
not inferior in extent To all that there was solid
In The Roman conquest, have resulted ln our
possession of Zone Of territory. of the width
ofiwenty degrees of latit.de stretching from
Ocean TO Ocean, and reary equal in extent
to the whole of Europe II is all subject 10
thu power of the United States; portion of
II has attained the civilization oi the old world
while portions shade off through oil the dc.
erees of culture, to the log house of the from.
Tier settler. The cabin of the trapper, and the
wlgwam of the savage. Within this vast do
MAN. there are millions of acres Of fertile land
10 be purchased at moderate prices according
10 lis position. and its shade of improvement,
and there re hundreds oI millions of neres IN a
state of nature; and gradually solJ at The gov
ernnent price of dollar and quarter per
acre.
II is this whicl, most strikes the European
Imagination. The old world is nll appropra.
ted. There are public domains in most foreign
countries but OF comparatively small amount
and mostly forests. With Ibis cxception.every
acre Of land in Europe is private property.
and in such countries as England, the Neiher-
lands, France, Germany and Italy, what little
Is sold, is sold only at high price. | presume
the number of andhoders in England is far
less than in The State of N Y. In the course
of the French Revolution, tho land has been
greatly divided and sub.divided in France and
in Germany and Is now held in small farms,
bur these sold only at high price Gener-
allv speaking the mass Of The inhabitants IN Eu
rope, regard the ability 10 hold and occupy
considerable landed property. as tho summit
OF human fortune. Tho suggestion that there
is country be, ond the ocean, where fertile
| MI 10 ia b..,, hua in nj a
dollar and n quarter per acre. and that dollar
and quarter TO be earned in many pnrs of
The country by The labor of single day y,strlkes
them like The tales of Aladdin lamp, or Ali
Baha's cave. They forget The costs and sac
r,fices Of ing home the ocean to be
traversrd.--,h" weary pilgrimage in the land
OF siungcts aiier their arrival They see mo-
thing with the minds eve but ths land of pro-
mise';- they reflect upon nothing but the fact.
! that there s a region on tho eaitb's surface,
where few day Is unskilled labor will pur.
chase The fee simple of an ample farm.
Such an attraction would be irresistible un-
der any circumstances 10 the population Of an
old country where us have just said, the land
is all appropriated and TO be purchased only
in any considerable qnan'iy, at prices which
pul lis acquisition beyond the thought of the
masscs But this is but half Of the tale. 1t
must not BE- forgotten that in this ancient and
venerable Enrope-whosc civilization is tho
growth Of two thousand wears, where some
Of the luxurious refnements of life are carri-
ed 10 perfection of which we have scarcely
an idea in this country--a considerable part
OF the population, even in most prosperous re-
gions, pass their lives in stnte but one de-
gree removed from starvarion-poory fed,
poorly clothed. poorly houscd-whout cduca.
{, bnt
n culture. The average wages OF the agricul.
tura laborer in England were estimated a
year ago at os Cd. sterling, about So 379 per
week. The condition of the working popu-
aton on tho continent OF Europe Isin no de.
gree better if as good. They eat but little
animal food either in England or the Cont-
nent. We form romantic notions at distance
nf conniii that abound in wine and oil; but
in the best governed States of Italy. Tuscany
for nstavcc, the peasantry, though they pass
their lives in the vineyard and the olive orch
ard sumo the fruit OF neither. have seen
the Tuscan peasants, unable to bear the cost
of most ordinary wine hom the vineyards IN
" hlch their tiages are embosomed, and
hirh can hc bought at retail for cert the
flask, pouring The water over the grape skins
ss they come from the wine press aud max
irg that their beverage.
| Even for persons III compal atively easy CIR.
cumstances in Europe, there are strong in
ducemens to emigrae to America. Most OF
the Governments are arbitrary-the taxes are
oppressve-he exacton of military service
onerous in the extreme. Add to all this the
harassing insecurity of life For sixty or sew
enry years the Continent has been one wide
theatre Of scarcely intermiited convusion.--
Every country in it has been involved in war;
there is scarcely that has not passed
through revolution. We read of events like
these IN the ne" spapers; we look upon them
with curiosity as al ticles of mere intelligence;
-or they awaken images of our own revolu
ton. which we regard only with joyous asso-
Citations. Far different the state OF things 10
crow ded Europe, Of which the falres fleds IN IN
every generation are trampled ny migh.y ar
mics i,to bloody mire! Dazzled by the brillian
cy of the military exploits of which weread at
a safe di,tance.we forget the anxieties of,hoss