542 *' LETTER TO [PART III. 



safety, tranquillity aiid gain in the Illinois, is, 

 to my rnind, little short of madness. Yet, to 

 this mad enterprize is he allured by your cap 

 tivating statements, and which statements be 

 come decisive in their effects upon his mind, 

 when they are reduced to figures. This, my 

 dear Sir, is the part of your writings, which 

 has given me most pain. You have not meant 

 to deceive ; but you have first practised a de 

 ceit upon yourself, and then upon others. All 

 the disadvantages you state; but, then, you ac 

 company the statement by telling us how quick 

 ly and how easily they will be overcome. Salt, 

 Mr. HULME finds, even at ZANESVILLE, at two 

 dollars and a half a bushel 7 - but, you tell us, 

 that it soon will be at three quarters of a dollar. 

 And thus it goes all through. 



995. 1 am happy, however, that you have 

 given us figures in your account of what an 

 English farmer may do ivith two thousand 

 pounds. It is alluring, it is fallacious, it tends 

 to disappointment, misery, ruin and broken 

 hearts ; but it is open and honest in intention, 

 and it affords us the means of detecting and 

 exposing the fallacy. Many and many a family 

 have returned to New England after having emi 

 grated to the West in search of fine estates. 

 They, able workmen, exemplary livers, have re 

 turned to labour in their native States amongst 



