Daily Davenport gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1854-1855, 1855-07-26
surS..r Stories abou. the west.

Tho Bangor Mercury of late date, while
laboripr under an attack of the dyspepsia,
or a desperate fit Of the blues, or some one
of the dozen other maladies which fall to
the 10, of the people Of Down East, gets
off the following
.On one of the most public conreyances
leading to the West, you may see Amos,
any dan family from Maine. A father and
mother. and their three children, are on their
WV - that paradise in Imagination. Five
ye.rs from this time two OF those children
wil he dead They will have shaken to
niaces The mother will have grown sal
low md lean, little better than dead wo-
u,nn. and the father, il he survives the ague,
b,r.e.races and -whiskey, will be found
, seedv. discontcnted man, the owner Of a
c.house, with oLtb lldings, and mort
,rage1 firm. This is true in more than halt
The cases and represents the average tate
Of New England cmigrants. Stay at home
IN Maine, one OF the best States in the I'M
ION Relieve none OF the stories from ~
ing land spectators in the West
Our contemporary, we presume, never heard
Of the man who carefully locked his stable
door after his horse was stolen II is rath-
or late in the day to exhort the people OF
Maine TO ..stay at home" They know bet.
ter. We have nothing TO say against the
northeast corner of Down East. We will
even give il the credit Of producing very
sunerior race of men, endowed with large
share ofmenta, moral and physical STAN
ina: but as soon as they are out OF Their teens
they are off There is not elbow room en-
olGh for them among the rocks. stumps and
forrs,s OF their native soil, and they 60 to
,ha worlds end, if need be, to find place
that suits them better 1t is rather innny
idea 10 exhort them not to come to the West,
whittier 50 many OF their kindred and their
friends and nelghhors have come before
them. and where some, starting from the
bleak ills of Maine pei niless, have accumu-
lated princely fortunes, and achieved social
end p1lit' c Il distinction which il would have
been folly to hope for in their old homes.
Tush, man. Maine is an admirable coun-
try "a emirrate trom-the West glorious
region 10 come 10, and they are thus united
by band OF harmony.
What nonsense to talk about being sha-
ken to pieces with ague in tue West! We
will venture 20 affirm that there Is more OF
that disease in the newly settled portions of
Maine than in the same extent Of country IN
Illinois, Wisconsin,, Iowa, Minnesota, or even
Z Kansas ana NeOFdshi. why, iIst SUMMIT
there was fever and ague all over the East
ern country. We presume there vas Plen-
~ o! /, in Milne; certainly there was 10
and around the city IT New York, and
throughout large portion OF New Jersey.
Even on Long Island and Staten Island,
considered the healthlest spots IN the whole
Union, they were not exempt from the cis-
ease. Taking last year as criterion, the
East can boast nothing over the West IN
re.nect to fever and ague, and the papers Of
that region would do well to assume mod
esty corresponding with the facts in the
case.
Then as to that wolul picture OF sauallar
and dilapidslion which cur contemporary pre-
SCENTS. 1t is all bred Of dyspepsia OF some
4 9th or peculiarly eastern disease. We know
something about the general appearance Of
things in both the East and the West; and
we affirm that where one such scene Is pre-
seuted 10 the traveller in The latter, ten may
be found In the former. Let him 20 ever
Illinois, Wisconsin or IONA, aud ~e have
no fear for the COMPARISON But he won't
/ come. No: he is probably one oi those who
/ haven't the enterprise to leave the old
! school district, and so he attempts to de-
preciate what so many others know how to
! value. We wish him better Digestion
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