6 MR. iiuntingto.n's address. 



and beautilying New England life, with a richness 

 and variety of coloring found in no other portion of 

 this wide earth ? All this harvest, garnered up 

 among our moral treasures, and justly esteemed by 

 her sons, as the precious stones — the real wealth, 

 and the chief attraction to a New England life, is 

 cast away in the outset by the rash and speculating 

 adventurer, who seeks for riches and repose in the 

 valleys of the west. If he would make one half the 

 real sacrifice here in old Essex, which he voluntarily 

 or involuntarily submits to in seeking a new home, 

 he might remain, and work out for himself a compe- 

 tence and independence far more satisfactory and 

 enduring, than any he will find away from the home 

 of his childhood, and the graves of his fathers. I 

 would not affirm that no young man should emigrate 

 to the west. There may be peculiar circumstances, 

 which would render such a step expedient, but I do 

 affirm that young men and others, who have been 

 induced to make this change, have been operated on 

 by inducements mainly or wholly delusive ; and if 

 we could have the real and honest opinions and ex- 

 perience of emigrants from this county for the last 

 ten years, I believe I should be fully sustained in 

 this remark. The truth is, we have not yet arrived 

 at that point, at which emigration becomes at all ne- 

 cessary or desirable. The resources of the county, 

 with a proper application of skill and industry, might 

 be made ample for sustaining four times our present 

 population. The agricultural productions alone 

 might be quadrupled with the greatest benefit and 

 advantage ; and I believe the younger members of 

 this society may live to see an increase of production 

 something in this proportion. 



If, then, the young Essex farmer wisely determine 

 to build up his fortunes at home, shall he be allured 

 from the useful and honorable employment in which 

 he has been educated, by the gilded prospects of 

 other, and more gainful pursuits ? In other words, 

 shall he risk the certain prospects of a healthful 



