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business. There are other considerations, not to be overlook, 

 ed in this estimate — we have no slaves in this State; and in^ 

 stead of being disgraceful, labor is honored by all, here. To 

 laboring men, this will always continue to be an inducement 

 to come here, from all the eastern states. Although our in- 

 stitutions, of all sorts, are not yet what we wish them to be, 

 nor what they will be, yet they are decidedly better than they 

 are in any of our western states. Our country, as it respects 

 health, is no longer new — it is as healthful as New England, 

 perhaps even more so, at present. 



As to emigration from this state, it has all along been 

 one of the most emigrating states in the Union. A majority 

 of the people in Indiana, went there from Ohio. So of Illinois. 

 On no route through the settled parts of those states, could we 

 now travel, without meeting, every where, old friends and ac- 

 quaintances from Ohio. We saw them there every where, when 

 in their settlements in 1829. Men, with small farms here, emi- 

 grate, and soon own large ones where they go; but, when the 

 farm is sold here, it is transferred to some man immediately 

 from some eastern state, who comes here to better his condi- 

 tion. Eastern men can get along here, very well; but our 

 Ohio people do best in Indiana and Illinois. Their previous 

 training has fitted them to endure and overcome all the hard- 

 ships incident to a new country — such as a want of mills, 

 roads, schools, good physicians, and the thousand advantages of 

 an older settlement: but sufl^ering, as they must, from the sick- 

 ness, want of good society, without a school for their children, 

 without a physician to heal them when sick, and without a 

 minister of religion to console them amidst their multitude of 

 afflictions of all sorts, we envy not our old friends, in newer 

 countries than this. We wish them well, and pray for their suc- 

 cess, in their new abodes. May God bless them! Many are 

 the tears which they have shed, when they remembered Ohio, 

 and our thousand comforts, compared with their present condi- 

 tion. We have seen them here, and we have seen them where 

 they are; and our tears flowed for them and their children. 

 To speculate upon our future increase in population, may 



