Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1866-03-02
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the following excellent article from the
Newbury Herald especially those who
feel discontinued with their New England
homes.
Nrw ENGLAND-Wha can induce PEG
pie TO leave New England We hear
them talk of emigration to the South and
West, but unless one goes to The Pacific
coast, when he moves from New England
he goes away from the centre of civilaza-
ton. BY water we are close to Europe
and Africa, the West Indies and the South
ern States and by land to Canada and
through Canada to the Western States
Neither the Middle, or Southern, or West
ern States are so CENTRAL located. Then
1t is the best part of the world. 1t has the
best society, the best means Of education,
and the highest standard of morals. There
is not country or section where home is
so much home as in New England !;
where the houses are better supplied with
al. that is comfortable and pleasant the
tables better set the men more brave Of
heart, or the women more refined in man.
ners. a9gh
Some tell US they are going to the mines
for silver and gold. Don't they know that
there is just as much silver under their
feet, as in Nevada p just as much gold
and more in New England, as in Califor-
MIA or Australia The best place for the
majority Of mankind to dig for wealth is
in the place where they are born. If his
father is farmer, LET him dig on the farm
He will not get the silver ore or grains d.
rect, but he will get the white potato and
the golden corn and when a hundred o.
them strike the balance with hundred Of
their school-boy acquaintance, who went
TO Nevada and California, at the end of
ten years the will find they have as much
of the precious metals as those who have
suffered more, labored harder, and deprv-
ed themselves of half the pleasures of
life.
If they desire 10 entire other other pur-
suits, the factories and the workshops and
the marts OF trade are all open TO them
here. There is scarcely town or village
in the country that cannot, if it will, by the
introduction of manufactures, give en-
ployment to all its sons and daughters, and
obviate the ne cessity of their even going
to the cities Of New England and this
course it is their interest TO pursue, for we
are bound to manufacture for the country,
" however bounded" and become the
workshop of this continent, as England has |
made herself the foundry and factory of
world.
The quicker we understand this the bet
ter. And as our factories and workshops
increase we give value to the farms, for
the worth of farm is not in Itself SO
much as its markets. Our lands will not
compare with those of the West, though
there are whole townships of excellent
soil in which as yet the plough has never
turned furrow, but harder soil and
poorer soil is more desirable in the vicinity
Of seaports and factory towns, than the
best land where corn is worth more for fl-
ell than the market, on account of the cost
Of transportation, and the cattle and swine
mist be sold at half price, because there
IS no demand for them where they are
grown. And these better lands, too, let it
be remembered, are on the frontiers Of CIV
ilization and beyond most of its privileges,
and the jewellers upon them must suffer
from sickness, the shortening of their own
days, and the loss Of their children, for
which nothing can compensate. If our
young men will emigrate to the South or
West or Pacific shores, let them 60, and
we wish them God-speed in their migra-
lion; but we defy any one to slow us how
an honest, Industrious and healthy person
can be better conditioned elsewhere on the |
face of the globe than in New England.
Stay at home, boys!