The emigrant aid journal of Minnesota. [volume] (Nininger City, Minn. Terr. [i.e. Minn.]) 1856-1858, 1858-04-28

There is no denying that these are hard times over
the whole Union. North, South, East and West, we
hear the same dolorous accounts, of lack of work and
lack of money. We are Of those who believe that the
reaction after the crisis has already commenced, but its
effects as yet are scarcely perccptible among the body of
the people.
In our own town we meet with many long faces, and
with many of our citizens who art suffering from that
cpidemical disorder the blues They mast r~ecoll,ct,
however, that the azure complexion overspreads the
#eEla, and is cou6ned to no particular locality. The
wh"ls matter is now reduced t" a question If endurance.
We must abide hy the dispensations of Providence, and
take tue present period as part of the experience Of a
life time.
Many when the crisis came few East, supposing that
the West alone was to suffer. In their old homes, how
ev.r, they found things still worse. Many were unable
to obtain work at any wages, others we're obliged to for
sake mechanical pursuits and take to breaking stone in
the Central Park Of New York and We could now
name three or four from this town who have written to
their friends here that they l"nged to return, but could
not raise the money to get back.
Let our citizens remember that scarce as money may
be they do not lack the means Of m.terial success.
Every industrious man can obtain for his labor a piece
Of ground to cultivate sufficient for the wants of his fam.
ily. lie can also obtain in pay for work lumber enough
to build himself a residence. Let him not lie idle.
Idleness breeds nothing but dissatisfaction and evil
habits. Industry costs nothing, and the working man 9
muscles are q bank account at which his drafts ue never
diShonorei !. An active arm eats II" more than an idle
one. AMI - much more healthy. Lit our mechanics if
they have Lothing else to do, build themselves a tome.
They have the leisure now, and will not have it in bet.
ter times and when better times come, as come they
will, they will be glad that even out of the carcass Of
disaster, like Sampson of old, they have extracted the
honey Of profit.
There are TWO things that lie at the base Of the pros
perity of the world, muscles and earth. They are the
only solid things God has given u. Mems muscles
of utility, and of luxury, that surround US. They have
been going upceas.ngly; since Adam was kicked out Of
the garden-a vast, lnterminable, irresistible succession
Of hereditary machines.-Yn the result we gee in the
present condition IF the world. On the bosom Of the
earth We were born, from the bosom Of the earth we
draw our su>tenance, AMI back to the bosom of the earth
we must crawl when our pilgrimage is ended. The
prolific breast Of nature has never yet denied her chill
dren The wealth of the banking house, or the hoard.
ed contents Of the stocking, diminish with every sue
cessivc draft all the accumula'ions of man fade away
time Inserts his in>idious fingers into every purse, but
the productions OF the great earth are perennial and III
rxhau>tiblc the Creator sits at the roots, and leeds the
harvest with ~un>paring hand,
In these troubled times let the public recollect that
ever al their feet lies a mine of wealth, and that what
they plant now they will reap in perhaps a season OF
greater need. Let every foot of grounl be cultivated.
There is u pleasure in the act itself, and q still greater
pleasure in the results to be attained by it.