Identifier: newpopularpictor00sear (find matches)
Title: A new and popular Pictorial History of the United States
Year: 1848 (1840s)
Authors: Sears Robert, 1810-1892
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Publisher: United States
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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any othersections of the Union; and far betterwould it be for the individuals and thepublic, if the floating population ofour cities would act wisely and sufferthemselves to drift westward with whatlittle pecuniary means they may have.Many foreigners will land upon ourshores with sufficient ready money topurchase land enough to yield them acomfortable subsistence; but instead ofavailing themselves of this advantage,they unwisely seek employment in ourcities, soon spend their small means, andlive year after year amid the miseries ofhopeless poverty. The cost of transition from the Atlan-tic states to the fertile regions of thewestern states, is now quite trifling forso great a distance, and hence emigrantswho come with some money in theirpockets, have no excuse for enduringthe miseries of obtaining a piecariousexistence in our cities. The second illustration, on page 565,represents the halt of the emigrant fam-ily for the night. They may be seenpreparing their frugal meal, and arrang-
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564 DESCRIPTION OF THE 8TATE OF ILLINOIS. insr themselves for vest, to be ready atbreak of* day to start again on theirjmuney, cheered amid the privations andvieissitiides to vvliieh they are snliject ion their toilsome way. hy tlie conscious- Iness that each day lessens the distancebetween them and the land of promise,jind fl>at the fertile soil of the west willr«>compense them for all their troubles. Grotr/.i of the West.—The following rem;irks on this subject were made bya former resident o( the west, now es-tablished ill* the profession of law in IPortsmouth (N. If.), at a public meet- irio- in Boston to take measures in rela- tifui to the late Chicago convention :— I say you can not have been indif- Iferent to the political strength of the Iwest; but have you, until quite recently, ;comprehended the vast commercial re- sources of that region ? Of these you are now compelled totake notice. Every paper that comes ito us. tells of the mighty energies of the jwest. One spe

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