The Empire County argus., 1854-02-11
NUMBER 13.
WE ARE A MIGRATORY PEOPLE.

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The locomotive propensities Of our nature arc
without parallel in the annals of history True,
the Bedouin has an extended desert for his home.
the different parts Of which he visits on the back Of
his horse his camel But there is no being on
the earth with so large development of what the
phrenologst calls httGdGteeaeSs His local ties are
as immenforial as his history. Who ever saw an
emigrant Arab! True, the northern barbarians of
former age left their trigid homes for the beauti-
ful skies and owory land of Italy or of sia Minor
and thus, dissolved first the Roman Empire in the
! West and subsequently the Grecian Empire in the
East. But as soon they had found Il more genial
! home, they became a permanent fixture in it. and
the present Italians Greeks and the inhabitants of
! " cstcrn ASIA descendants OF those northern
barbaiians.
Not so with our people. The descendants of
those, who, two centuries ago, found home in
New England are now dispersed from Maine to
California. Over all that vast extent of country
which divides between the two great oceans of the
world, there Is scarce village, town or hamlet in
which the governing element is not of Yankee ori-
gin those who, sixty or seventy years ago, emil
grated to Vermont, have since sent syarns Of peo-
pie, first into Western New York then to Ohio In
diana Illinois, Wisconsin, and to the States and ter
rltories west Of the Mississippi. The emgrant of
thirty twenty, or even ten years agois looking
still farther west for a still more deghtfu home
and thus the unscttlng Of the local ties among us
is without an example in the annals Of history
uncs on the subject
table of The last census shows US where the
inhabitants OF the different States We're born Itis
curious to see how migratory n people we are
Vermont shows herself regular hive She has
| not only mainly stocked her towns. but has con-
stantiy been sending off swarms to other States---
OF the 3l4.l2 persons residing in the State when
the census WAS taken, 280,96G were American born.
and OF these 232 ,0S6.wcre born in the State But
besides these, there were in other States nearly
l4o,OV0 persons born in Vermont, she having re-
ceired from them not quite - coo of whom 81 Gj5
came from New Hampshire and Massachusetts, -
Aboat 21CJ1 born in Vermont have gone to those
! two States. Most OF the rest have gone to New
\ orS Ohio, Michigan and Wisconsin. Not many
have gone to-the southern part of the Union.
These migratory propensirieS Of the descendants
oi the original settlers Of this continent is the great
hope Of our country. II tends to difslso the New
LnGiand spirit and institutions all abroad. 1t is
count"Tacting the evil OF having the German people
and language in place those of France in anoth-
Grand so Of an INFUSED aggregation Of nations
within borders that is rapidly melting into one
great \ ncrlcan nation with onc language and one
order OF political ideas, all the possible varieties Of
the human race, which now in, or may hcrcaf-
ter seek hono in the new world Christian 1In,cs
TIE TRUE BEAUTY OF IoMr-1hc country is tbc
true home Of beauty and horticulture is tie free
school OF taste, in which all our readers may become
apt pupils II they choose and gratifcd and useful
professors. if they will ill., and help to create as much
beauty In ter spare hours the wealthy citizen can
purchase with the gains Of years to decorate his
brick and mortar place in the metropolis,
There is no mere ornament, in the house or out
OF it. 50 cheap and 50 tasteful healthy plants and
flowers and you will hear ten persons of sense ad-
mrlng your geraninms or fuhsias, where one will
notice your rich curtain and tail mirrors And out
doors, the eye that would never be attracted by
garng paint, cornice column, will be instantly
arrested by The living arabesquc OF native creepe
or the umbragedus ontline Of an American tree
Do yoa not admire that simple little cottage with
Its graceful trees from native woods The vines
making beautiful While they conceal the rough OUT
buildings; the little " front yard or more fitting
lawn gemmcd, with shrubbcry and sparkling with
flowers; the neat walks with tnge of velvety turf
or natural ones over it, all in Keeping and all SUI
ted to the means Of the tasteful owner If You
have been able TO lift the veil which hides the Fife
within, have you not found real comfort and true
happiness there, and not the inmates really de-
serving Of what they enjoy
l And how much in time and money has all this
cost Perhaps less than tithe of that YOUR rich
ncighbor has expended to that great pile Of
boards and shingles or more ambitious mountain Of
brick and mortar. with cOuntenancc as black as q
undergrad OF brick kiln, and not thing except
weeds in the grounds or paints on the walls, either
grecner Or brighter than the man who can deem
his huge abortion the ne Plus ultra OF architectural
taste.
Ten to one he who built that dwelling if a farmer
is one Of those WHO would rather have a hill of
potatoes than rose BUSH and would sooner raise
a snarnGs cur than plant beautiful trec.-Pra,ris
fuymer.