Buchanan County bulletin and guardian., 1867-08-02

that friend the mother ot family Of small
children--was about to remove from a staid
old Massachusetts neighborhood, to the State
of Ohio.
Ia her ideas Of the West, this good old
lady may be taken as the type Of a large
class Of eastern people, including not only
the poorer and more ignorant, but the teer~
ably well educated and well to do. 4 west
ern rnan, returning to visi, his friend. Of by
gone days, is astoni.he.l and amused at the
questions asked concerning the land Of his
adoption, and the erroneous IDEAS. or the no
IDEAS. entertained regarding its extent, fer
tii;y. population aud general Development
He must labor hard to convince them that
the settler is not in constant danger from
bloodthirsty Indians, or that every taft Of
grass does not conceal Blue Racer or a
Rattlesnake, and that the dreaded fever and
ague aud milk sickness" DO not Turk in
every pool, and linger in every dew-drop. II
seems hardly possible that otherwise geuer-
ally intelligent men and women OF ection
50 intimately connected with another bv com.
mercial intercourse, and the ties Of blood and
friendship, as the Ea1t is with the West.
should really be possessed Of so much igno-
rance concerning il.
We shoald not allude to this state Of af.
fairs, a. this time. bEt for It's recent acknowl-
edgment in two high place. at the East. and
prominent evidence Of it in a third.
The editor Of the Horticulturist, tE. T.
in recent number Of that periodical. de-
votes his leading articles to the subject, en-
deavoring to currect the erroneous estima,
ton il which our section Of country is held.
and enhghten his readers as to its true mag
niiade and importance IN every point Of
view.
Theodore Tilton, OF the New York hide
pendent, who has lately concluded a lectur-
ing tour Of the Western States. pavs. upon
his return home, through his widely crcula,
ted Journal. most eloquent and glowing
tribute TO the West, bringing it in striking.
aud far from unfavorable contrSt with the
Middle and New England States. Listen to
him, as he says
q trip Of four thousand miles through
the heart Of the West awakens a kindliny
thought Of the greatness Of the Republic.
The West is tie Empire fact .cknowl-
edged at the East, because the East knows
not the West. But an impartial traveller
soon perceives tha, The East is not the coun.
try. New York and New England are but
the thumb and forefnger; the West is the
rest of the hand
n @csktEu NirlL III summer Is De-l fgr sPe~
ing the country winter best for seeing the
people. And are they not th. heartiest,
triendlest. most hos pi,able Of the human
race? What - Scotch welcome NAV Be.
We know not but If better than a western
welcome. II is better than a plain man de-
serves. Jostle westerner ii the street and
at once vou are acqGaintances; meet him
the next dav. and you are old friends A
t-n .. e.. - L. -
in it thaa between New York and Bangor |
Child of the East, the West is the chic.
crown Of the parent. The universal New
England element westward is not only the
best par: Of the West. but the best part Of
New England for oaly the courageous. the
energetic. and the conqgering have had the
will to quit Eastern homes for Western prai.
ries. Thus the early Pilgrims of New Eng>
land have their trues, sons in III. latter Pill
grins from New England. A Yankee.
therefore, does not come to his fullest stat.
ure in fankeeland; the grown Yankee is
the westerner. At the East be is perani.
um in a pot, thrifty and prime at the West.
geranium in a garden. where be grows
rank. exuberan,, and generous. New coun.
tries greaten mems souls.
Does the West seek heraldic signe Let
i choose q shock or corn. o bounteous
land of small houses and big barns 50
fertile is the Great Valley that. as Gerrold
said OF Australia, " only tickle the earth with
a hoe, and she laughs with harvest
Though beaten down from their full height
By SHOWS, cornstalks are vet standing in Jan
uary SO high that one riding among them
on tall horse. and rising in the stirrups,
cannot touch the tops The prairies-com-
mon- place. sad and sublime-are the garden
Of the world May they ever make farmers
rich. and cattle fat Il
Western churches, Sunday schools. and
dav-sehools thrive ike sallings. An eastern
man, hearing habitually of western churches
as feeble" seldom hears of any as being
strong. And vet many, like young lions
shake their locks for very strength. Ia St.
Louis ON single Sunday we saw two church
debts killed, each at a stroke-a Methodist
church paving $4,000, and Presbyterian
$4,000. No other citv in the Union can
celed $4,000 of church-debt on that dav
The largest Sunday school in America. iaig-
ing by attendance, not the roll list. is west
of the Mississippi-founded by Brig Gen
Fisk. wao equally well commands an army.
administers department., or conducts
cllldren's meeting. In Chicago, a mission
school. ori riginating in railroad car. is now
larger than any in New York. And the lar.
gest depository of Sunday school books is
neither in Philadelphia nor New York bu,
Chicago. Oftwo millions OF population in
Illinois, half million are in day schools
larger population Of school-going children
than in Connecticut or Massachusetts,
After Robert Morris had proved for him.
self the truth OF . Ten Acres Enough and
so charuingly told us of it. wha. pity il is
that he. SO faclle. interesting aud instructive
a writer. before attempting to tell How to
get farm. and where TO find one,f had not
turned his feet westward, aud better Inform
ed himself Of what actually exists in this
western empire, and come to full real2a>
tien of its progress. its present and prospect
i've greatness. Had he done so. we are sure
that neither q The wild lands OF New Jer.
sey," :. The neglected Lands of Delaware"
nor the Long Island Barrens." would have
been given more pages in lis book than the
entire great West neither would he have
been dependent on the circulars of the Land
Department of the Illinois Central Railroad
Company for the greater share Of the in
formation about the country that be seems
to possess
Bot this ignorance at the East that we
now deplore must pass away under the pos
tent agencies that ere now at work. The
press and the railroads are operatives in the
field Of public opinion. and we lock forward
TO a tiae not far distant. when we Of the
Wes; shall no longer be looked upon rs the
"outside barbariaus that too many OF our
friends now regard us.-ipf ipf..irie Farmer.
Tbs SCIENCE OF framing SENTENCES
A man who was suddenly pressed into the
editorial harncss without being regularly
broken in, having 10 describe the unceremo-
rioas barial Of frendless woman. made a
dash at sarcasm thus: .'She was buried
like dog with her clothes on Seeing
has mistake, he corrected it thus: .She |
was buried with her clothes on like dog"
The third time, exasperated with the pres
yious blunders. be had it thus; Like a