The Emigrant's Informant, Or, a Guide to Upper Canada; Containing Reasons for Emigration, Who Should Emigrate, Necessaries for Outfit, and Charges of Voyage, Travelling Expences [Sic], Manners of the Americans Qualities, and Capabilities, of the Soil, PR (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1834 Excerpt: ... ation is stalking on every side, and not a possibility exists, of ever again returning to those scenes of rural happiness, and domestic ease; that once adorned the smiling cottage of the lowly peasant. Never again, J fear will the rose of Albion, blush with the radiant tint of self dependant power, or the thistle enameled hills of Scotland, carol to the joys of their once loved highland home; never will the daisy-clad meadows of Ireland, rejoice in the blooming fertility of a smiling land. Sanguinary laws, and overwhelming poverty, at this moment are driving thousands of Ireland's bravest sons from those homes, which for centuries have been the possessions of their ancestors, and banishing the fugitives from the green fields of their nativity. The high rentals, together with the abominable and iniquitous system of tithes, are a grievous curse, and hang like a drag-chain on the prosperity of the whole nation. Tithing is a source of perpetual irritation, and bitter quarrel, to the great scandal and injury of religion. And is incessantly acting as a check and embarrassment to the pursuits of agriculture, which being the grand source of supply for the wants of man, should at all times be kept perfectly free from every thin calculated to arrest or retard its progress. How often does it occur, that money, which might be advantageously employed in improving land, is put out to interest, to avoid the goading and painful task, of handing over a tenth part of the produce to an arrogant vicar, who contri buted nothing? but on the contrary, is as a locust, dovouring that portion of the produce of the land, that might otherwise he applied to the support and nourishment of thousands of famishing individuals. Thus the primary pursuits and occupations of the world, are fet...