Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1859-02-10
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Written for the Yorkville Enquirer.
EMIGRATION.


Mr.. Editor :-Emigration with the spirit
of emigration, constitutes one of the great
est calamities and I say it with knowledge
of the import Of. the word-that has befaller
our State. We complain of tariffs and taxes
and they may be bad enough. Wecomplair
of hard times, the mismaDagement of banks
and banking, and may be they are bad too
We complain of drouths and foods; and they
are bad. We complain of poor lands and
quilted fields, to which our management has
contributed; but all combined have not, in
my judgment, SO much.afected the prosper
ity of the State, as that drain upon hel
wealth and blight upon herprosperity caused
by the desolating and mildew principle
emigration. 1t is the pestilence that has
often, in one years time, vacated many o.
Carolina's beautiful homes, sweeping alike
many of her best citizens and much of hel
wealth taken from fields, that have been
worked to be worn. 1t too, is the torpedo
whose touch has npmbed and paral yzed the
nerve of improvement and reform.
When we look around and see on every
hand that destructive goose-ripping policy,
in cutting down with ruthless hand and
CALLING and outlying those beautiful taple
lands, with no other seeming intent than
pressing for the last tithe, we are forced tc
cast about to find, somewhere, solution tc
sostrauge proceeding; for every Intelligent
mind will be in search of a reason for the
Indifference manifested, in not taking care
for the future, in the preservation OF the
SOIL II is found in the fact that this is not
designed to be the future abode Of the occu'
pant, and the raven croak of wear out and
leave is heard to rise from seimpoverishing
fields, and we may point to emigration with
the exclamation thou art-not the man, but
evil spirit and bare to improvement.
The course of emigration as pursued by
us TO the State, is unjust, ungrateful, and
paricidal. 1t robs the State of that wealth
she needs for her future prosperity and de-
velopments, and in the production of which
she has been impoverished; and in the doing
of which, we are robbers without the plea
thew sometimes make in extenuation, IT not
in eonseoration of their acts-the taking
from the rich and giving to the poor; for
We take from our native State, not only that
which is her OWE under the right of produo-
tion and claim of gratitude; but we also i'm
poyerish her to aggrandize the new States.
And the good old State is becoming nothing
more than foster mother, to her own inju-
ry, of the other States-a mere crysilis whose
she'll is to remain, while the butterfly fits
its gaudy wings to beautify other lands. But
whilst I deprecate the policy, I would not
censure, or have a quarrel for the other
States; it is to their interest-our loss is to
their gain, and although it may be death to
us, it is sport to them. No State can endure,
much less prosper, under 80 rasping pro-
cess.
Emigration is legibly written on those
fenceess farms, shackled yards, and tenant
less houses. "Gone away" is whispered from
the waving broomsedge. Going away be-
comes vocal in the apathy and lack of the
spirit of reform, discoverable in those places
most infected for besides the vacant negro
houses and deserted farms, We there meet,
we feel conviction in our minds that the re-
mainder are hating between two opinions
this country and some other. Their feet
standing on this-their minds fixed on an
other; and when asked why they do not ditch
and save, or manure and reclaim this or that
plat: oh they will answer coolly, "going
to move-only want to get the good of it
and leave"
Now although gratitude is noble virtue,
and her claims, even for State, touch chords
of sympathy in every feeling bosom, and al
though dulcc ct decoruna est pro patrta mora,
ct is sweet and glorious to die for ones
country is the patriots motto; yet the State
asks, on the present occasion, neither sac
ri6ce of life or interest in the discharge o1
the debt of gratitude owed her; but holds
out the additional inducement of interest
which should meet some favor even after the
failure of more refined sentiments.