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116 Contrast between Ohio & the States on the Chesapeak. [March 1, 
*¢ In Ohio, fuel,| ** With us, fuel is 
timber, mills, and mill scarce; timber extreme- 
seats, abound. ly. .expensive; mills 
and mill-seats for coun- 
try use rarely to be 
found, 
€¢ In Ohio, choice] “* With us, poor, 
ands are to be procuredjbarren, wornout lands, 
at from two to eighticost from eight to 
dollars per acre. twenty dollars per 
acre. 
$€ In Ohio, an ave-| ‘* With us, an ave- 
Yage acre producesjrage acre produces nine 
twenty-five bushels ofjbushels of wheat, and 
wheat, and forty-five/fourteen of corn. 
of corn. 
‘¢ In Ohio, funds} ‘** In Maryland, 
are already appropri-jthere is no tax for the 
ated, which will bejsupport of govern- 
equal to the support of|ment. 
civil government ; but 
at present the citizen 
pays, for this purpose, 
anaverage tax of twen- 
ty cents per hundred 
acres. : 
‘¢ In Ohio, there is} ** With us, not a 
an adequate fund tojcent is appropriated 
edycate every youth,|/for this purpese, and 
and qualify him forljour gates, our want of 
the common pursuitsjroads, and of bridges, 
of life, form eternal scurces of 
vexation and disap- 
pointment. 
| FINALLY. FINALLY, 
®¢ Ohio is a young! ‘* We have a soil 
’ state, possessed of a/worn out and destroy- 
delightful soil, a heal-jed; our liberty may 
thy climate, and thejbe said to be neminal; 
essence of liberty—-ris-jwe are every day ic 
ing in her glory, likelable to the spasms of 
@ young manapproach-|s/avery 3 and, like an 
ing to manhood. old man, tottering on 
the margin of his 
grave.” 
Our author concludes his interesting 
pamphlet with the following char acter of 
the inhabitants of New Connecticut :— 
“ The people (says he) are princi- 
pally emigrants from Connecticut, Mas- 
sachusetts, Pennsylvania, New York, Ver- 
mont, New Jersey, and a few Gasiliés 
from Maryland. They are an intelligent, 
enterprising, sober, religious, patient, 
persevering, kind, hospitable, and honest 
eople. 
“There the Presbyterian, the Metho- 
dist, the Baptist, the Calvinist, and the 
Quaker, feel that each other is a bro- 
ther, and treat him as such. Every 
sect enjoys (of right) its own mode of 
worship, and deals with all others in.the 
spirit of philanthropy and liberality. 
“ There the spirit of industry and eco- 
nomy is cherished; there the labouring 
man is beloved and respected ; there idle- 
ness and dissipation are held in con- 
tempt, whatever may be the rank or con- 
dition of the persons; there neither slave 
nor black man is to be found. Finally; 
even in this infant country learning is en- 
couraged and patronized; an university 
is founded, with a present fund of thir- 
teen thousand dollars; and there are 
now to be found twenty-four common 
schools, and seven circulating libraries.” 
Having thus ran through the above 
pamphlet, it may be presumed that I en- 
tertain a very high opinion of the coun-= 
try described. I ‘certainly do so. I have 
no doubt but it will, ina very short time, 
become a well peopled country, blessed 
probably with more natural and political 
advantages of any place of equal size in 
aig world. I believe with the Doctor, 
“ that there is no country in nature more 
healthy; there is. none in nature more 
pleasant; there is none in nature more 
fertile;” yet the emigrant there, as well | 
2s to every new country, must expect | 
some inconveniences. [Lam apt to at- 
tribute the disappointment experienced 
by many Europeans who come into the 
United States, to the romantic notions | 
they had indulged previous to their emi+ | 
gration. Whoever guits his native coun- 
try, should remember that he leaves the 
circle in which he was born, those who 
have endeavoured to smooth his passage: 
through life, and that, on his arrival in a 
new country, he must contend with new 
habits and manners fora Jong time alone. 
Rigid attention to the principles of mo- 
rality is necessary to every man, but to 
none more necessary than to the emi- 
grant, who has a character to lose, and 
whose conductis closely and jealously ex- 
amined. This is no country for a man 
without capital to expect to live in indo- 
lence; on the other hand, a less quan- 
tity of labour will guise a greater 
given quantity of comfort than can be 
procured elsewhere. The United States 
only offer to emigrants freedom from 
enormous taxation; the right of speak- 
ing, writing, and printing, any opinions 
which may be entertained; and aftera 
period of five years, the right of becom- 
ing a citizen therein, when they can only 
be operated upon by laws enacted by 
themselves or their immediate represen- 
tatives. I have thought it necessary 
add these suggestions, from having _ 
quently witnessed the disappoint 
persons who by a land of free 
derstood a country where app 
industry were unnecessar 
