REMARKS ON EMIGRATION^ 237 



traversed by the great main road communicating with 

 Quebec, &c, and the United States, are circumstances 

 which cannot fail of making these Townships hence- 

 forth, not only valuable to speculators in land, but 

 also of primary importance to emigrants. 



Without wishing to underrate the value of the 

 Upper Province, we think enough has* been said to 

 draw the attention of emigrants to the Lower, or 

 certain parts of it. We have no interest in sending 

 emigrants here and there, all we desire is to see them 

 as happy and comfortable as their means will allow 

 them to be — to make them choose a location for them- 

 selves, from their own personal observation, rather 

 than from the interested and irai^hled statements of 

 others, to proceed wildly, and settle hastily, in some 

 spot, where no other advantage is held out, than that 

 numbers have previously located themselves there. 



Another object was, to remind the emigrant of the 

 great necessity for using his means to the best advan- 

 tage, to adapt his labour and productions to suitable 

 objects and markets ; to make fortunes is a different 

 atfair. In these days, it is something to stand on our 

 own land, and see a certainty o{ absenteeism from pau- 

 perism and the workhouse, to increase our means of 

 support as our necessary wants increase, and, above 

 all, to see no prospect of distress in a family after our 

 days are over. 



These observations are essentially applicable to 

 persons of small means, persons who from habit, and 

 ill-judged attempts to resemble others placed by for- 

 tune in more favoured circumstances, are continually, 

 daily, adding to their troubles — to their own as well 

 as their families* unhappiness. U is no longer safe to 

 give a child a good education, or an expensive profeS' 

 sional education, and turn him into the wide world to 

 seek his fortune by his own exertions, as was once the 

 case, and with almost certainty of success. In lieu 

 of professional and elegant , give him a knowledge of 

 the useful accomplishments. We should be careful 

 that, in trying to make all or too many eminent in 

 one way, we are not for ever injuring them, or pre- 

 venting the beneficial results of some necessary 



