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    ff ^ ile iaam tome persons' © i ? respecta bUity i » this town , but ^ first ^ migrantg are not always of this rank . There at © too many privations to encounter in peopling a ne ^ « tate , to i ^^ t ^ persons ; whose life has been one of something like enjoyment , tp settle in them * and many

    who have visited this western country have returned again J Persons of little property , who have not been used to the refinement ? of society , and ; therefore can put up wil& the incon ^ enten ce& of the first Jour ox five years ,, for the hope of future

    wealth , compose the principal part of out population . . Every year , however , improrea the quality of ! settlers , as it does away with some < inconveniences ; and so we graduate into a town of size , consequence and civilization . . ¦ ¦ ¦ > ¦

    ** We have not 4 yet any place for worship , and until last Sunday no service was performed . I have topes that much unpleasantness relative to this matter will fee 4 one away , and that we shall succeed in raMag a * house of prayer . ' » Ahhowgh we hav £ three Unitarians in the town , it will not be proper to preach upon

    doctrmes yet . To instruct in the duties -of lifts * and Christian faith and charity , must bauyad our present endeavours . Although we have no religious , we have a philosophical society here , in which we lecture aj » 4 debate . This has fifteen members ; and . although all of them are not so well informed as we could wish , yet the principle of the institution is good , and the

    example may be of some service .- This place is about twelve hundred miles west oi Baltimore , stands on a high bank ' of the river Ohio , and promises to become a fdaee of consequence . B— and Flive about fifty miles from us , and I am has

    ^ rry that their settlement been retarded in the progress it was making by the disagreements which have prevailed among them . " To a friend who entertained a , thought of emigrating he writes , ' after having expressed bis obligations to our f ^ iios in George Towi £ to whom he h ^ fl bfeejfy i&iprofliiced tyy letter : / , We airbed in time of distress ; the apeeufotions of the , m 6 r £ hants and the ruin i \ mong the banks > together with the yejlpw feVer , which was raging in many places with frightful n ^ ortality ,-had given t& jthe fa <* e 4 rf- things a : v $ ry > gloomy ap ~ peara ^ iice , and uwistdn ^ fittert time ; have

    < tfsp # i $ d every fairy dream M < fcfcfealtfc and cow ^ rt ,, if any of my eoBapanions had iAilulfcedlu « uch ... ¦ ... Im t x <>\ - •' ¦ ,.-. , ^ My # w ney and subsequent abode Km * im ^ m ^ Mi i nm ; ^^ m 0 ^ m ^

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    will do well not lo c 6 me out tari « t » the vife ^ tern worlds H « JP > . e-very iconifort of lifciM Mfdjtif ^ iJwte titoMmiJm ^ Mm * ? £ * km ^^^§^ m ^^ m ^ i ^ i Wh * % wi « 44 ypu Mm * m * Mt&MMmMtiiatfor

    ibm wpwm- ^ w ^^ tis& ^ WW M $ ® 3 c ^ flfiee ^ ami 0 vin ^ in # » ^ a here , w ^ iere n& duty is lai ^^ n tt / mn b paii in England ? This suirttfier the people have been destitute ¦ oP ^ iour for some

    weeks , and consequently have used no * thing bwt Indian coro- ^ gfe po ^ r substitute , I assure you ! We tod an idea , that when we got west we a ^ oul ^ l ^ ve cheaper . Alasf . J for Mr , Birlibeck ' s accounts ! milk

    § ella all along the river aj 3 irf * per quart , in the spring months , ap 4 ppw It is just the double , and living m general is more expensive than in the Ea $ tferu towns . I pay for indifferent board 15 s * 9 d . per week .

    " No observance Is paid to the Sabbath ; business is done just as on other days . The land in new States is generally purchased by speculators , needy adventurers , a few settlers of property , and all the rest by poor tnetl , wlkieltf aeeounts fm our society being ignoranty- —while a few weeks * acquaintance with eur Row *

    deysj will explain whv It is vtdous . I never beheld so disgusting a reptile as this is , when he " comes to town , visiting the Groceries . ** Whiskey , the only liquor here , finds a plentiful safe . And here let me point 01 & a ' sacrifice of no small account ^ the want- of mal t liquor . Good medicines are BOt to be got—a doctor is not to be found .

    <* The sacrifice tohieh a man endures in hist family is beyond calculation great by emigrating into a new sia , fe , where society is unorganised—he loses tjbie agreeable chit-chat of neighbours , and his children are exposed on every side to depravity and vice . He has no chance of

    educating them to his inclination ; for if he is capable of attending to it himself , time is too valuable where every thing is to be done , to allow his carrying any such design into execution . The farmer in this respect suffers more than / we who are inhabitants of what are called towns .

    He has no possible chance of giving his children an education of Wen the commonest kind ; wMle hifc laborers are for the most part men oflod'ge Wbrajs , from whose corapany it is not possrble to keep

    them . In this country riot only all are equal , but they are practically considered 90 . Tbiitf you i * nay & 0 &igf ^ Ptot ™ the evil ^ Where % o ^ ie ^ y ^ too ^ rude to ifeel h ^ w ^ ai ? -1 % ^ tress and chilcten liTe ^'

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    604 Letters from thd Back Settlement 9 of America

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1820, page 604, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2493/page/40/