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elasticity of spirit, all your ardour of pursuit, all your 

 compensations of Ibrtune in prospect, and all your gra- 

 tifications of fame in possession, cannot with patience 

 hear the wailings of some of your neighbours, into 

 what source are they to dip for the waters of content 

 and good-humour ? 



577. It is no" cvevy-day evil" that they have to bear. 

 For an English Farmer," and, more especially, an En- 

 glish Farmer's wife, after crossing the sea and travel- 

 ling to the Illinois, Mith the consciousness of having 

 expended a third of their substance, to purchase, as 

 yet, nothing but sufferings ; for such persons to boil 

 their pot in the gipsy-fashion, to have a mere board to 

 eat on, to drink whisky or pure water, to sit and sleep 

 under a shed far inferior to their English cow-pens, 

 to have a mill at twenty miles' distance, an apothe- 

 cary's shop at a hundred, and a doctor no where : these, 

 my dear Sir, are not, to such people, " every-daij evils 

 " of life." You, though in your little " cabin," have 

 your books, yow have vourname circulating in the world, 

 you have it to be given, by and bye, to a city or a 

 county; and, if you fail of brilliant success, you have 

 still a sufficiency of fortune to secure you a safe retreat. 

 Almost the whole of your neighbours must be destitute 

 of all these sources of comfort, hope, and consolation. 

 As they noic are, their change is, and must be, for the 

 M-orse ; and, as to the future, besides the uncertainty 

 attendant, every where, on that which is to come, they 

 ought to be excused, if they, at their age, despair of 

 seeing days as happy as those that they have seen. 



578. It were much better for such people not to emi- 

 grate at all ; for while they are sure to come into a 

 state of some degree of suffering, they leave behind 

 them the chance of happy days ; and, in my opinion, 

 a certainty of such days. 1 think it next to impossible 

 for any man of tolerable information to believe, that 

 the present tyranny of the seat-owners can last another 

 two years. As to ichat change will take place, it would, 

 perhaps, be hard to say : but, that some great change 

 will come is certain ; and, it is also certain, that the 

 change must he for the better. Indeed, one of the mo- 

 tives for the emigration of many is said to be, that they 



