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He who has a farm already, and is content with it, 

 has no reason to ask, " Whither shall I go ?" and he 

 may rest assured that thoroughly good farming will 

 pay as well in New England as in Kansas or in Min- 

 nesota. I advise no man who has a good farm any- 

 where, and is able to keep it, to sell and migrate. I 

 know men who make money by growing food within 

 twenty miles of this city quite as fast as they could 

 in the West. If you have money to buy and work 

 it, and know how to make the most of it, I believe 

 you may find land really as cheap, all things consid- 

 ered, in Vermont as in Wisconsin or Arkansas. 



And yet I believe in migration believe that there 

 are thousands in the Eastern and the Middle States 

 who would improve their circumstances and prospects 

 by migrating to the cheaper lands and broader oppor- 

 tunities of the West and South. For, in the first 

 place, most men are by migration rendered more en- 

 ergetic and aspiring ; thrown among strangers, they 

 feel the necessity of exertion as they never felt it be- 

 fore. Needing almost everything, and obliged to 

 rely wholly on themselves, they work in their new 

 homes as they never did in their old ; and the conse- 

 quences are soon visible all around them. 



" A stern chase is a long chase," say the sailors ; 

 and he who buys a farm mainly on credit, intending 

 to pay for it out of its proceeds, finds interest, taxes, 

 sickness, bad seasons, hail, frost, drouth, tornadoes, 

 floods, &c., &c., deranging his calculations and im- 

 peding his progress, until he is often impelled to 

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