The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1857-07-04

The taDt ponciIknSe OF the sun beams Afe
. rloricus, that man, q By one consent, look
With longing hearts 70 the West. This has
always been the case, in every settled country
on the globe. tt tendency in this country
has been its remarkable and constantly in
creasing settlement. Its result has been the
erection of towni and cities, the organization
ofterritories, and the formation Of independ-
ent and sovereign States, to the very Pacific,
in whose quiet waters the sun takes his night
" rest. Its fnality no man has the boldness
to predict. But few years ago, the annual
emigration to the West was counted by tens,
then hundreds, then thousands, then tens of
thousands, and this year. owing to various
causes. by hundreds of thousands. tits init
mated that not less than ten hundred thou
sand individuals will remove from the East
during the year 1857, and take up their abode
in the West; chiefly in Illinois. WISCONSIN,
Minnesota, Iowa, Kansas and Nebraska,
making an average increase in each OF these
States and Territories, in one year, Of one
hundred and fifty thousand persons. This
NAV be an over estimate, but 1t is beneath
the calculation of some Of the most obser-
wing men in the country.
The wonderful energy and enterprise OF
the West-its contemplated improvements,
and the immense tracts Of land, granted by
the las. Congress, for Railroad purposes, to
new States, have opened to eastern capital-
lists, new and more profitable fields for the
investment of capital than ever before pre-
sented, and this. with the issue of slavery
or no slavery, in newly organized terri
tory, will be accompanied with an unprece-
dented emigration from the Eastern, Mid
die and Southern States to the West.
No political economist can look upon this
immense emigration during the present
year without mingled emotions. The Eas-
tern States will furnish the greatest proper
ton Of these settlers. To do this the man
ufacturing towns end pleasant villages must
be decimated of the people and wealth, and
their interests must be consequently mate
rally affected. No section of country will
be so seriously Inconvenience by this emi-
grafton as New England, and it will be years
before she will revover from it. In con-
nection with the ready money that her sons
will bring with them, to invest IN farms,
homes, and business, large sums will be
withdrawn from manufacturing interests,
and expended in Western lands and Western
enterprise, which must injure every branch
of business in nearly every hamlet In New
England. Ultimately she will recover her
importance. her wealth and her population,
but it cannot be done until her sons, living
in the West, have surrounded themselves
with plenty, and created a demand for her
products to be exchanged for western pro-
duce. The amount of labor to be perform
ed, the hardships to be endured, the works
of Improvement to be prosecuted, so as to
make farming products valuable, by finding
market for them, will require long, weary
wears. But as soon as the fertile praries
and woodlands are brought into subsection,
and the farms are surrounded with the con-
veniences of houses and barns, and easy ac-
cess made to ready market, then will the
western Yankee send on for the Injuries of
his New England home; but until then, New
England must either find other purchasers
for her products or curtail her trade.
Another painful reflection, connected with
this immense emigration is the disappoint-
ment that very many new corners must ex-
percncc; not in soil, scenery or climate, but
in those deprivations incident to all new
settled countries. Perhaps they are less
here than in other places, but still they are
great. We are confident that no new coun-
try ever afforded the means of immediate
wealth and comfort that ours does, but the
emigrant will have to deny himself of much
and have many hard wrestles with nature,
early prejudces and education, before his
western home is surrounded with the COM
forts of his eastern. There is an abundance
of room, and hearty welcome tor all that
may come, but let them come understand
ing y and prepared for the roughness and
struggle of their new homes, and they will
succeed better, and enjoy the rustic life
better, than if they came expecting no de-
ninal.
But there is a bright side to this picture.
Should this immense emigration be contin-
ucd, it cannot he many years before every
prairie in the west will blossom with cult
walton, and every market in the nation be
supplied with its rich vegetation Every
lode to mineral wealth will be followed,
while its treasures will be sought by the
world. Every water privilege will be i'm
proved until its looms supply the fabrics of
the nation; and over the whole surface of
the west will be seen thriving villages and
mammoth cities, indicating the wealth, taste
and energy which have crowned the Labor Of
the emigrant.