The Portland daily press., 1865-07-31
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may God hasten its cunsummation. aiis'a
EMIGRATION TO OR FROM MAINE.
Before the lands of the Great West were put
in the market by the us. Government, and
offered to settlers at the cheap price Of dol
lar and quarter per acre, thereby inducing
thousands-Im int almostsay millions of the
men and families Of the Eastern States, to
abandon the homes of their childhood and
seek for grander fortunes in those distant ire
gions, the tide of emigration from Massachus-
etts and other New England States, set strong
ly into Maine. 1t was good thing for this
then District" because it brought hitheF al
worthy population from the parent common
wealth, "a race Of intelligent, industrious and
prudent men, who laid, in most places, the
foundation Of sound religious and social insti-
buttons. The benefits of such original settle
ments are lasting. They give character to
whole communities for long time. Maine is
achild Of Massachusetts in more senses of the
word than one. Our people, our hws, cur
institutions, our habits and pursuits are the
;ame, And we may well be proud of thefact.
But since the policy of the q. s. Govern
ment has been to deplete New England for the
benefit of the VEST that tile has, been essen
Tally changed. For the last quarter of a CEN
Jury, more people have removed from Maine
INTO Massachusetts, than have emigrated from
she latter State into this. The workshops and
actories of the old commonwealth have drawn
many thousands Of our young men and wo-
men away from us, to Return again never but
Is visitors But the removals from Maine to
Massachusetts, are very few compared with the
mighty tide that has long been setting from us
into. the Prairie States. WHAT can be lone to
| check this tide? .isglsssH has
This y a very serious question, andaone; that
should arrest the attention of Maine press
lay, of your 3Press" more than any mere
subjects Of State or local politics.. / do verify
believe that if every secular editor in the State,
from Biddeiord to Calais, would make it a
| point every week to have something in each
paper, exhibiting the various resources of our
commonwealth, mineral, agricultural, arbo-
rous, mechanical, commercial, educational, So
cial, moral and religious, and thus w,ste up the
STATE, vindicating her. against the misrepre-
sensations and prejudices, at home and abroad,
which cool the ardor of attachment to our To-
cation, and making it appear that, Oh a compar-
ison of advantages and disadvantages with 9TH
er regions, Maine, on the whele, offers as good
inducements as any State for reasonable de-
gree Of success and happiness in life much, very
much mightbe done IN this way to make our own
people content to stay at home, and to induce
men of enterprise and culture to establish
themselves among US. The Press is mighty
power in the land.1 IT is a power abooe the
ihrone, greater than the throne itself mere
State Governor or Legislator is nobody COM
pared to an able and faithful Editor
But aside from editorial forces, there needs
one reform at home before our young men can
be prevented from going abroad for wealth and
lame. We must respect and encourage them
here, and not virtually say to them, eff you
would ever arise above the contempt of an
humble parentage you must go abroad for con-
sideration.y This disposition to keep young
men down, lest they should arise to positions
Of wealth and honor above some of their
neighbors, is direct discouragement to per-
sons of honorable ambition Go into the new
States, and everywhere you will find menwho
were born and reared in Maine,-men by no
means deemed first amongst their fellows
here-rIsing to the first positions in the State,
and winning the richest prizes in the pursuit
of wealth. We wonder that an exercise of the
same qualities amongst those who remain at
home does not produce the same results Why
is it, that ADLER men at home are outstripped
by feebler ones abroad Not only. is; this so,
but we see all kinds of industry manufactures,
arts, fourishing better in many other places
than with US, With unbounded resources, we
yield only a scanty return. The "plow, the
loom and the anvip' of other States, turn our
burrows, weave our garments, and ring with
the sound of the hammer that il forging our
implements of toll. These truths may not be
very palatabie, but they are truths, and it is
time the causes Of them were removed. Our
soil is good enough, our climate is good enough,
and In water power and commercial facilities mo
State in all this vast Union has SO great and hap
Ply a combination Of them as this very State of
Maine. But some how or other, we viii not
tet our young men stay at home. We regard
and treat them as boys till they are too old to
De inspired to deeds of high emprise. If any
OF them aspire to be any thing,-the word is
'cut them down, hedge up their way, let them
know we remember their birth place and their
juvenile faults, and that they shah never out
grow these, in our memories at leastn It lisa
hard. thing for our young people to endure this
overbearing and repulsive treatment from the
richer and older men around them. and so
they go abroad where they can be respected
Andthey dogo, and even our third rate boys be-
come the first rate men of other States. This
is wrong-all wrong-a great misfortune. Let
our capable young men be encouraged; let
capital be placed in their hands; let them feel |
as if they could be something eofn at home, |
and we may thus aid in checking that exhaust
ing tide Of emigration which Is now depriving |
ing our State of much of its best material for the
uppullding Of all our institutions Of wealth, of |
honor and of power. -TRAxI. /
The New Bedford Mercury, under the /
mead OF High Ames, says Hon. cakes Ames,
NJ O., Of Eaton, Mass, returns an income Of I