Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1865-05-24
Emigration.

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:. That we should be "a restless people is. no
|, wonderful The blood Of emigrants sires i,
| in. our veins Aud local attachments. sc
strong in European nations, have, among as
be en- affected by the knowledge that vast
and fertile regions in. the West invited occu-
pahcy. Hence result which,. however un-
favorablei in some respects, has had many
counterbalancips advantages. There has
been room for enterprise. adventure: the
soil has been reclaimed; the outlying fast.
tnesses of barbarism hare been subdued; and
the arts, tile sciences and ,theveyirtues have
discovered new spheres forstheir bene6cent
activity. ---..s, =. -,
I'VE might as readily explain, but can not
so.easilS justify, the resolution ayoyed by a
>fewsaf whom We have heard, TO euigrate
from. home. and country,at the present time.
Some!to whom the excitement OF the conflict
was shabitpsl, arc impatient of tie sudden
calm which has succeeded.the storm. Others
are moved by dread oftgreat. socisl changes
and reyerses Of fortune; While others are
oppressed By the fall.t'.f hopes that sustained
sc many hearts, and marsbslled such mighty
hosts in farms-thcir only. hope, now, is TO
save their traditions and recollactions, end
bear them away, astRe Trojan, tseir house
hold gods, 10 some foreign shore2 Islhis
design wise? When the patriarch of Hebrew
history left his country and hiskindred, the
great sacrifice was not made Until be WAS
first assured of-a Divine mandate and the
guidance offa Divine hand. Have any OF US
such call to leave ours?
Yet bow snail one colily. argue upon s;,ch
q theme7 1t is Providence that has placed
us here--that has made ps familiar with all
the conditions necessary to TIE Development
of tho resources Of this broad, fair land-.tbst
has endowed Us With bounteous industry
whereby the nakcdness of the worlShas been
clad hat has revealed the priceless treas
ures of the soil to- our ploughshares. The
soil, the climate, the culture, the society Of
our native land haze made US what we are
We are held 10 it by ancestral and domestic
associations, by the subtle inspiration Of its
mountains and. catsracts, the plenty of its
harvests, and the wild, Tree air of its gulfs
and seas by oil the golden hours of life i;
by the richss, honPlrs and rewards it has
conferred, and the asAcs OF tho dead it has
kcpt inviolate. To forsake our country is to
torsske the better part of life.
And where would the Southern tmigrant
20? 20 Central America? Sonora? Cali
fornia {? Brazil? How few, at such time,
when there is TO money in the country, can
bear the expense Of such journey. What
hardships and RriVstiona to- dsllcately nur-
turcd women and tender children, both-on
the way and at its end A solitary adyen-
,turer, {, making his legs his compasses, might
travel anywhere, and endure every ything; but
What o ,nournful retinue would be :, South
err, houaahold travelling TO regions where
their religion would be under ban-Where
all the civil and social distrsnchisemeuts Of a,
foreigner must bo endnrad-where they
themselves would be loat among new mon,
msnnera. rorals-and where the children
wopld un earn the accents of our sweet Sax
on sneeoh, where all that gave beauty and
.9lory to. domestic life would lie like the ivy
when, torn from its supports, 1t is left to trail
and die upon the ground.
To us it seems that.a manly acceptance of
the situation is far better. II these are
times of peculiar trial, let it be remembered
that it il not the trial Of Providence, hut the
curse of Providence, which. mikes its clj jaet
"a fugitive over the earth" Trials involve
discipline and disciplineis sent to cali forth
tie nobler yirtues-pious submission, dgui,
fed ;Ir.itudc, uncalculating and un8werying
consistency to aprinciple. And why not here
and now display at once the resignation o'
Faith, that bows at the ontspokcn will ol
Cod and the hopefultess Of Experience, tha
discerns His guiding hand and His holy ma
;; iestic purpose in history 2-at once tho mag
nanimify of the warrior who .shesthes tht
sword that can effect no more by slaughter
and the spirit of the patriot who cherishe:
and pcrpetuates what's highest ia uationa
renowu yea, who. estesms the "blesse'
acres' Of his own country more than tn
world beside! =,
The problems yet await solution: Wha
4 shall.bc the fortunes Of cur .country-wha
olg own? The issues Of the future, there
no prophet to foretell. who knows ''whs
newreia.ions are to. be adj listed, what net
order is to be established, what conditions c
life shall exist? Amid such compexide
how can wise plan ;of-lfa be be.adopted?
is not time to embark upon strange advor
tn.es, when the whole surface OF society
lashedsb recent storms Of War, is in sue
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