Richmond daily Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1842-1861, 1856-12-18

The New Orleans Bulletin, in commenting on the
fact of many citizens of Mississippi having emigra.
ted to Arkansas and Texas during the past season,
has the following remarks which equally appli-
cable TO Virginians, who have done and are still do
ing the same thing 1; always struck us as singular
in the extreme to the people of the old States
pulling up their stakes, abandoning the homes Of
their childhood and the graves of their friends, and
starting forth in search Of home in the di slant
West We know it is hard for men to be contented
in any situation in life, matter how great may be
the advantages and the blessings that surround them
But the thought of giving up residence only tole-
rabe in the old States, and going forth to incur the
Inconvenience and hardships of an unsettled from
tier country, has always appeared to as impotic
aud foolish in the highest degree. Many of those
who have thus ruthlessly sundered the ties that
bound them TO the land of their BIRTH and who have
emigrated to and settled in the new and distant
States of the West, have doubt bitterly regretted
their folly thousand times over, and would gladly
return to die in the vicinity of the old family home
stead, if circumstances would allow There is no
necessity for Virgnans to seek their homes and for
tunes in the West, if they would only consent to
display the same amount of fortit ude and energy
here, which they compelled to go through with
overrun and left behind by the superior enterprise
and activity Of their neighbors. Virginia possesses
every advantage which any other State possesses :;
and to succeed here, as well as in the new States
business habits, perseverance and tact are the only
requisites-but these are the Indispensable cond-
tons oil success everywhere. Our people, therefore
would do well to consider the cost and to balance
the advantages and Disadvantages, before they make
up their minds to desert the Old Dominion and push
for the far West
We commend to their attention the following ar
ticc on the subject from the Bulletin:
Emigration this country seems TO be sort of mental
disease, peculiar diosyncracy. To emigrate from an
overcrowded State from where the soil is naturally
sterile, is natural reasonable and commendable But
what IN the OF soil and animals induce man TO
quit the rich soil and sparce population of State like
Mississippi for other locality? There is neither
rhyme in it, II is the result All ever rcste.
desire for change for something even when one is
well situated This itching propensity travel without
cause is not without very decided evils the Young com
munity 1t prevents that pernaneney among the popu-
aon which is necessary to the development of the re-
Of section, aud prevents the formation and
growth of schools, churches and kindred institutions 1t
breaks up those pleasing and beautiful family ties and
neighborhood connections which in a fixed population
fail 10 be formed and cemented together IL tobs
home OF half s charms for home always in its highest
sense associated with permanent location and topograph
cal ideas The poetry Of the old farm house the spring
the orchard the mill pond succeed with willows and mos
sy banks the brave old oak" the waving and graceful
elm, where it with the children whose parents are ever
on upon the wingg Little do those who roam from the
neighborhood which has begun present to their chill
dren the charms OF associa ton and fixed habtaon nm
dersand the philosophy of home its mighty influences
Tor good or evil In moulding the future destiny Of their de-
scendants.
what Is singular in many instances the rover il no bet
ter satisfied IN his abode than he in that which
he left and frequently not so well When once family
pulls up stakes and cuts loose from endearng local attach
nens aud advantages with the idea that there il some
Eys1m upon the earth where unaloyed bliss reigns per-
petual, some II Dorado.