New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-04-13
A correspondent of The Troy Time, write, from


tracks ofthe midnight stars.
A correspondent of The Trcy Time, writes from
Washington 90 follows:
"Some time ago there was sort Of Virginia fs7er
in Troy AMI the regions rouno sbout. Emig aton
talked Of and bright pictures OF plantation lfe,
when plantation coil should be 7edeemed, were ire
quently presented to the minds eye. Well, went 10
Virginia the other week with large expectations, bat
returned WITH wonderfully small opinion. | have
heard Of poor rtHe folks, but she like never
dreamed Of ard any man having decent regard Tor
his family will ponder the matter long time before hs
adopts the emigration plan personally l visited d
man who was c-welto.do farmer IL Northern Me-"
York four yeas ago. If there is meaning IN woe
begone faces, broken health and broken hopes, arr
sure the ardent supporters Of Virgins emigration wiz
only need ftoe' the family referred to, to New
York, to confute the most specious arguments. Ike
10 live but if Virginia life as it is were offered me,
and ife-lease FOR some years to come should be
disposed to say, No, thank You Let me die de-
Gently among my kindred Ihs had tomou.n ne
laugh at the miserable lives of the Horthern farmers
who have been induced 10 settle among them. Just
think CT going fifteen miles for pound OF tea, or
ten miles for q family physician twenty miles TO
church. and to acheol but six weeks in four years
Tie roads to be in WITH awful; end to keep your
seat, either in a wagon or on horseback is special
providence. | rode thirty miles ono day in mail
wagon and confess yself black and blue from head
to heels
There is doubtless much truth in the above
unhattering picture of emigrant ESs in Virgins
truth whereof Tie applcation-Or, at least, the.
applicability not confined to Virginia alone.
Migration to relatively urpeOpled country is
always q trial, sften a disastrous one. None but
persons of decided energy, de1teriy and self:reli
ance are fit to undertake it. The most fortunate
pioneer sacrifices many eDjoymerts, convenences.
comforts sacrifices, often, health, ease, happntss
for the good OF his children. IL you can't drick
your tea without leaf sugar, or can't make year
supper without tea, or can't 90 to sleep without
supper, you are not adapted to the lot of pDo-
neer and Isy as we'll give up TIE idea of embra-
cling it.
But two thirds of the more obvious evils of the
emigrsat's bot, such as this writer complains OF,
might be oSyiated by the simple and easy exoedient
of organized emigration. Whether the cOntem-
plated destination be the West or the SOuth-Min-
nesota, Ksnsss or Virgnia-shere should be concert
and cooperation among those who undertake 70
found or adopt new homes Let US briefly 0utlinsa
true system of emigration:
Let dozen persons---aay in Eastern or Western
Vermont or New. Happshire- propose to ind
or found new homes, draw up and sign call for
a public meeting at some central and suitable
place, inviting al who are of like mind to attend
that meeting. Let the merits Of this or that
locality for the contemplated colony be freely and
fully discussed thereat no one being bound by the
decision but each left free to do he shall see tit.
The discussion being closed let each person present
be called in succession to give his Name, and iDdi'
cate the section to which he would prefer to emf
crate. At the close, let any who prefer to change
have full opportunity TO do so. Now, let those who
unite in preferring, say Virginia, or Missouri or
Wisconsin, or Kanlas, draw together and choose
two of their number to 20 first and examinethe re-
zion preferred ascertain the prices at which lands
can there be bought, with all other important facts
respecting it. If not suited at first, let them look on
| till they find what is wanted Then let them make
conditional contracts for land, improved or wild,
| and call on their associates to follow.
Among this company, drawn together BY a soin.
mon preference as to future home, there will in.
evitably be persons of several a.Gereat Ceilings
many farmers, with blsckriiths, shoem,kers, mill
ers taIors, meychssnts doctors, tinmith', hatters,
lawyers, teachers, milliners, &C., &c. Suppose
tenn TO amount in all to five hundred families,
mainly industrious, moral, intelligent people, they
can double or rebt the ralue Of the land they buy ty
merely settling on il. That is to say: the land they
buy will be worth double or treble its cost from the
moment in which they shall have decided to settle
upon it.
| And not this merely-the evils and priva!iont so
earnestly and go justly deprecated BY the letter
writer above quoted, will have ceased to exist.
Who will need " "go fifteen miles for pound OF
"tea, ten miles for . family physician, twenty to
church" in such community If the roads be
bad after the first year, they will have none but
themselves to blame; and if there be but "si1
"Wsebs school in four years" they need not think
Of .addling their delinquency on the State. Ia
short, Organized Emigration emigration bycom-
panies battalions, regiments-is one of the most
bepe6cent ideas Of our age, and We do not mean to
LET il drop till all shall have been convinced Of its
soundness and great prospective utility.
|
The friends of regulated and licensed Liquor
| Traffic carried Maine in 1885, and thereupon re-
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