The emigrant aid journal of Minnesota. [volume] (Nininger City, Minn. Terr. [i.e. Minn.]) 1856-1858, 1857-12-05

the anathenss of red heart broken wives and beg
CARED chldren-subect all times to the fell swoop Of
the pote-the licensed gambling of the brokers board
is carried on in the face Of day its pretended sales of
what does own, its pretended purchases OF what
it does uo expect pay for chroniced in the pub
lie prints TO the extent of millions in the Of
for the cruel and dishonest purposes OF frghen
ing innocent parties into the runous sacrifice Of bona
ide property and thus making guilty profit out of the
public distress and the ruin of thousands.
do not claim for agricultural life in modern times
the Arcadan simplicity of the heroic ages; but it is
capable with the aid of popular education, and the
facilities Of inercommunication, Of being made pur-
suit more favorable than city life to that average degree
OF virtue and happiness to which We may reasonably
aspire in the present imperfect stage of being For the
same reason that intellectual and moral faculties
urged the highest point of culture by the intense
competition of the large towns, the contagion Of vice
and crime producesn crowded population depravity
of character from which the more thnly Inhabited
country though far enough from being immaculate, is
comparatively free Accordingly we find that the tenure
on which the land is owned and tilled-that is, the
average condition of the agricultural masses-decides
the character of people 1t is true that the compact
organization, the control Of capital the concentrated
popular talent the vigorous Press the agitatable tenn
perament Of the large towns give them influence out
of proportion to numbers but this is far less the
in the United States than in most foreign countries
where the land is held in large by few power
full landhoder.. Divided as it is in this country into
small moderate sized farms, owned for the most part
and titled by class fairly educated, independent and
intelligent proprietos, the direct influence Of large
tow rs on the entire population is far less considerable
than in Europe
Paris at any time make revolution in France !;
but not even your imperial metropolis could make
revolution in the United States What the public char.
loses concentration and energy by this want Of
metropolitan Capitalization is than gained by the
country in the vrous medocrty the decent rugality
th hoa1t Ifvn of
trust do full justice to the elegant re6nenens the
liberal institutions, the noble charities, the creative in
dustries the world encompassng energies OF the cities
but the prousc expenditure of the prosperous the
ia homed wrechedness of the destitute the heaven
etyng profgacy of the corrupt the insane spirit Of
specLaton the frantic haste to become rch the heart
less dissipation Of fashionable e the growing crocity
and reckessness Of portion Of the public Press the
prevailing wordIiness Of the large towns, make me
tremble for the future 1t appears to that our great
dependence, under Providence, must be and
on the healthy of the population scattered over the
countrystfangers to the excitements the Temptations
the revusons OF trade and placed that happy middle
condition Of human fortune which is equdisant from
the giddy nights If ainence, power and fame, and the
pnchng straits OF poverty and sch most favorable
to human virtue and happiness,
While the city is refreshed and renovated by the pure
tides poured from the country it's steamy and turbd
channels, the cultivation Of the soil affords home that
moderate excitement, hcalthfu occupation, and
able return which most conducc to the prosperity and
enjoyment OF life. 1t is in fact, the primitive enjoy.
ment Of luan-6rst in me first in Importance The
newly created father of mankind placed by the
Supreme Author of his being in the garden, which the
hand Of Onuipotence itself had planted dress and
to keep it. Before the heayng bellows had urged the
furnace, before hammer had struck upon anvil,
before the cleaning waters had flashed from oar,
before trade had hung up its scales gauged its
ures the culture of the soil began To dress the gar
den and to keep it this the keynote struck by
the hand Of God himself in that long, joyous waling
trumpan troubled, pcnsvc strain of life music which
sounds the generations and ages Of Bsnished
from the garden of Eden, mans mercful sentence-at
once doom, repreve and livelhcod-was to till the
ground from which he taken and this, in its prim
tive simplicity, was the occupation Of the gathering
societies Of men.