The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1870-12-02

MARIETTA, GEORGIA.
Friday Worm. Dee. =, 1870.
COUNTRY LIFE IN NEW ENGLAND.

COUNTRY LIFE IN NEW ENGLAND.
In passing through New England, the
traveller becomes deeply impressed with
the exhibition of thrift and comfort
(which arc evident throughout the whole
country probably no portion of the
globe, surpasses its country homes, in
the marks of prosperity enjoyed by a
i'dense population; wherever you go in
the Country, neat and convenient farm
houses are to be seen, generally of frame
structures tastcfully painted, with the
Aeeded out buildings and fences, all in
good repair, and well suitable for the
purposes of the farm. At few miles
distance from each other, you find the
lcommodious school houses and the
churches, of convenient access to the
surrounding farmers and their families
each attracting and forming the village
settlement with its post office, tavern, the
doctor and lawyers homes and the mer-
chant, each waiting to serve the farmer
and to divide with hisathe fruits of his
toll So they all seem to be enjoying
| life, happiness and prosperity and from
their midst, very often proceed the lead
ing men of the Nation. as statesmen, d.
vines, teachers, mechanics and mer-
chants.
Seldom does the young New England
cr design to spend his life at his native
home. With all the home comforts, in
which he has been reared, his aspira-
tons seem to go beyond and sewers him
from them; he Graves some more excit-
ing field for his operations, and to seek
his fortune; abandoning his parents
home, he wanders over the face of the
earth, in search of hidden treasures, and
often too forgetful of the purposes for
which life is given.
The blessings Of nature have not been
bountifuIIy bestowed upon New England
Its soil is rocky and sterile, its eli
mate cold, its water courses harden into
ice during the long winter months and
most out door work is necessarily sus-
pended. Such are disadvantages against
which the people Of these States have
had to contend, and which they have
so successfully overcome, as to render
their homes more prosperous than those
of all other nations; and as humiliatng
a reflection as it must be to the other
States of the Union, with superior natur-
al cndowments, and population about
seven times as numerous, New England
is not only absorbing the wealth of, but
rules, the whole nation, and so controls
the national councils as to SECURE the pas
sage of laws promotive of the develop
ment of her various interests, and die
tates terms for the government of her
sister States.
The barren lands of New England,
which, less than halt century ago,
laid in the same condition, as this day
do the poor lands of the middle counties
in Georgia-cut up by the rains, torn
into gullies, the soil washed away, and
the fields abandoned as uselss, and then
almost vaueless in dollars and cents, are
now worth and saleable at $50 to 500
per acre for agricultural purposes. Such
have been the results of country life in
New England while our own more "a
vorod lands, in the mountain regions of
Georgia, upon which God has so bounti
fully bestowed the natural blessings and
advantages for securing greatness, hap
pincss and prosperity, and possessed of
so much more intrinsic value, are only
saleablc at from 81 to $40 per acre.
1t will be a subject of deep interest to
our readers, to consider and understand
the causes which have been in opera
ton to have produced the existing great
difference in the money value of the
landed property in New England and
Georgia. In future articles we will en-
deavor to explain them fully, that our
people may be enabled to initiate and be-
come partakers Of the same benefits
VIM. KING.
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