They can trace no difference between themselves and the more fortunate individuals of a race whose blood warms their veins, and whose name they bear.
They cannot labour in a menial capacity in the country where they were born and educated to command. But there is a higher motive still, which has its origin in that love of independence which springs up spontaneously in the breasts of the high-souled children of a glorious land. The ordinary motives for the emigration of such persons may be summed up in a few brief words – the emigrant's hope of bettering his condition, and of escaping from the vulgar sarcasms too often hurled at the less wealthy by the purse-proud, common-place people of the world. Nor is it until adversity has pressed sorely upon the proud and wounded spirit of the well-educated sons and daughters of old but impoverished families, that they gird up the loins of the mind, and arm themselves with fortitude to meet and dare the heart-breaking conflict. Emigration may, indeed, generally be regarded as an act of severe duty, performed at the expense of personal enjoyment, and accompanied by the sacrifice of those local attachments which stamp the scenes amid which our childhood grew, in imperishable characters upon the heart. Few educated persons, accustomed to the refinements and luxuries of European society, ever willingly relinquish those advantages, and place themselves beyond the protective influence of the wise and revered institutions of their native land, without the pressure of some urgent cause. IN most instances, emigration is a matter of necessity, not of choice and this is more especially true of the emigration of persons of respectable connections, or of any station or position in the world. CHAPTER XIII: A CHANGE IN OUR PROSPECTS.OH, THE DAYS WHEN I WAS YOUNG! Ī SONG OF PRAISE TO THE CREATOR CHAPTER II: THE WILDERNESS AND OUR INDIAN FRIENDS.CHAPTER IX: PHOEBE H-, AND OUR SECOND MOVING.CHAPTER VI: OLD SATAN AND TOM WILSON'S NOSE.CHAPTER V: OUR FIRST SETTLEMENT, AND THE BORROWING SYSTEM.CHAPTER III: OUR JOURNEY UP THE COUNTRY.
OUR FIRST SETTLEMENT, AND THE BORROWING SYSTEM Roughing It In The Bush by Susanna Moodie (1803-1884).
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