St. Charles Republican intelligencer. (St. Charles [Charles City], Iowa) 1856-1857, 1857-06-04

torn away from their old surroundings,
but the transportation of whole COM
mnnities, complete in social and NOR
al integrity, to soil and circumstan-
ces that should give them a greatly
quickened vitality. Looking at its
condition to-day, or at that of Iowa
Wisconsin and Minnesota, which are
only few years behind our noble
State, what would be the reverend
gentleman's comment ?
But The emigration of the last year
or two from the old States, and
especially that of the present spring,
has given rise to new apprehensions,
as we have had occasion to notice on
several occasions recently. The old
States of course do net relish the idea
of a rapid loss of thcbestportion of their
population. 1t is an immediate disad-
vantage to themselves, and many
persons not familiar with the actual
condition of things at the West, are
apprehensive that it will result dis
astrously to the country at large.
"The West they argue, is going too
fast. Its prosperity is to great ex-
"tent delusive. 1t has indeed room
enough to receive the almost count
"lcss thousands who are pouring in
"to it's bosom, but it is not sufficient.
ely advanced to render it wise for
"people to rush there in such nun
bers. They will find out their mis-
take before long. They must en-
counter annoyance and discomfort
now, and by and by the crash will
come. Then they will wish they
had been content to remain in their
" old homes"
Such is the substance of what east
ern people often say of the West-the
constantly repeated jeremaid which
any one who travels through the East
ern States is sure to hear. Now we
beg to assure this class of nervous
persons that they are quite as much
mistaken about the material condition
of the West as DR. Bushnell was in
relation to its spiritual prospects.
We cannot have too many people All
can employ themselves to advantage
almost from the moment of their ar
rival, and as rule their labor will
give from five to ten-fold larger re-
suits than it would in any of the old
States. If they are mechanics or
traders, our multitude of thriving
towns offer inviting fields for thcr in,
dustry and enterprise. If they are
farmers they have but to put the plow
into a most bountiful soil prepared
to their hands from the creation, and
then wait few months for the
abundant harvest. What danger,
then, have they or the country to an
ticipate? Is it likely, at the present
prices of meat and bread-stuffs, that
the West will produce too much for it's
own or the worlds consumption
Would Wall street trcmble if our sur
plus Of thirty million bushels of wheat
in 1856, chiefly grown in the North
west, were, through emigration, to
reach sixty millions in 1858. If the
Northwestern States should double or
quadruplc their exports Of cattle and
swine by 1860, as most likely they
will, would the eastern consumers of
beef and pork dcprecate the results
as an evil If our growing western
capital should continue to flow into
the business channels of the country
in rapidly increasing volume from
year to year through emigration, as it
is sure to do, thereby giving increased
steadiness to the whole business of
the nation, would our eastern friends
predicate monetary revolution on a
fact looking so strongly in the OPP
posite direction? Without waiting
for an answer to our queries, we think
we may safely rest the case here for
the present.-Chieogo Press.