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Condition of the early settlers as it respects the mechanic arts Want of skilled mechanics Hominy block and hand-mill Sweeps Gunpowder Water mills Clothing Leather Farm tools Wooden ware Sports Imitating birds Throwing the tomahawk Athletic sports Dancing Shooting at marks Emigration of the present time compared with that of the early settlers Scarcity of iron Costume Dwellings Furniture Employments The women Their character Diet Indian corn The great improvements in facilitating the early settlement of the West Amusements.
During the years of the emigration Madame de la Baudraye, a girl of no fortune, chosen for her noble birth, had patiently reared this sallow, sickly boy, for whom she had the devoted love mothers feel for such changeling creatures. Her death she was a Casteran de la Tour contributed to bring about Monsieur de la Baudraye's return to France.
It was by such decided steps that the English prevented James II. from impeding the establishment of their liberty. They did not amuse themselves with framing petty laws against emigration, but demanded that foreign princes should drive the English princes from their dominions.
The amount of each subscription was limited. In a short time 150 guineas were raised, and presented with a laudatory address. 'Mrs Chisholm accepted the testimonial, in order to expend it in further promoting emigration, in restoring wives to husbands, and children to parents.
She then and there resolved that Dick need not think he would ever get money out of Harry Bent. It was a strange home-coming for the prodigal. His intention to emigrate as soon as he had seen his father and mother was frustrated by an attack of weakness, which made it impossible for him to be moved. He was helped to bed, miserably conscious that self-sacrifice would entail more than emigration.
Nay, it increases the evil, for it secures to our country an ever-increasing number of those who are absolutely unfitted to fulfil the duties of citizenship. Yet emigration might be a beneficent thing if it were wisely conducted on a comprehensive basis, which should include a fair proportion of those that are now excluded because of their unfitness.
The list of motives for emigration ran the whole gamut, from missionary fervor for converting the savages, down through a commendable desire for gain, to the perhaps no less praiseworthy wish to escape a debtor's prison or the pillory. A few of the colonists were rich. Some were beggars or indentured servants. Most of them belonged to the middle class.
There is also much emigration to the Southern Ural and the Steppe provinces.
In 1636 he returned to England, and in concert with Eaton organized a scheme of emigration that included men from Yorkshire, Hertfordshire, and Kent.
The question, whether an extensive plan of emigration shall or shall not be adopted, appears to your Committee to resolve itself into the simple point, whether the wheat-fed population of Great Britain shall or shall not be supplanted by the potato-fed population of Ireland?"
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