Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1859-01-20
For the Yorkville Enquirer.
WESTERN EMIGRATION.

Mr.. Editor The subject of emigration for
some years past, and more especially Of late. has
much agitated tho public mind. So much so, as
to become one of vital interest, not only to the
people, but also to the State. We are beginning
to speak as lightly and Appantly of moving, as
important interests do not gather around in
trepdation, at the mere mention; as if upon our
decision Of the matter, may net depend our fu'
ture happiness or our future discomfort. We
seem not to know and feel, or seem to have for
gotten, that the ties which bind US to our native
land are almost life etrings-chords that are
twined around every generous heart, and although
we may survive their swapping, we must ever after
feel that we, like vessel without an anchor,
need something to give US fxidity.
Hence, when broken loose from our steady
moorings here, we are ready, ever afterwards, to
follow that good country, which is always ahead /;
and I may add, like shadow, ahead of the SUBJ
stance And with many, after leaving here, all
that is needed is for some one to plunge into re-
mote, desoate, sickly wilds, aud, through motives
of feeling or interest and without the claim of
experience, cry out "Run here every body-such a
country have found !" and they pack up agaiu
and travel to find themselves. like boys on an
April morning, running to the senseless cry Of
''come here every body" merely to see how beauti-
fully they have been fooled
hope not to be thought presuming to act
Mentor TO Tclemcus, on the occasion. would
merely offer my own convictions founded upon
few years experience West. for what they are
worth know my sentiments do not entirely,
accuri with the expressed views of many, some OF
whom you may consider capable Of Judging and
sufficiently dsinterested to advise. [ AIN also
aware my conclusions are such as mny not meet
the favor Of speculntnrs, or even the appreciation
of the population West, some of whom may have
been our old neighbors. And although would
not accuse them Of wfully representing, yet they
are to be regarded as interested witnesses, and
consequently liable to bias. They want you there
for society. They you there for your capital,
to all in building churches, school houses, aud to
! assist with roads, bridges, and other public pur-
! poses Many want tide Of emigration to roll in
upon them so as to raise the price Of land, that
they may give some one the chance to try that
dear place, and themselves the opportunity to
follow up the still better country just heard of, a
| little in the distance.
So the tide rolls OIL until stayed on the brink
of the Indians jumping off place ce--the Pacific !;
! for whenever the mind once gives way to diseased,
! fevrrish excitement, generated by the Arabian
Nights stories of the West, it fabricates Faire
landscapes after which to sigh, or travel Will o.
the Wisp jnuns round the world, until reality and
truth disclose the fact, that they are possessed OF
dream and in pursuit of q phantom ; and that
going abroad to hunt country, is like going
abroad to hunt happiness, often leaving what we
hunt behind.
Although am not one of those enthusiastic
SONS of Carolina, who think, as the Yankees &C.
cuse us, that South Carolina is The only State in
the Uuion, and that if extinguished the sun would
go out, still do think, even in an agricultural
poiut of view, Mt her extinction, very bright
star iu the galaxy of States would be dsrkened'
Aud when, as is often the case, hear 1t asserted