Letters from Illinois / By Morris Birkbeck.

  • Morris Birkbeck
Date:
1818
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Letters from Illinois / By Morris Birkbeck. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    a transfer from the old establishments of society to the silent waste where it scarcely is begun, that they will find a cure.. Envy or disappointed ambition—have these dis- gusted them with the world? The wilds of Illinois will yield no repose to their per- turbed ‘spirits. The fiends will migrate with them. | As little would I encourage the emigra-— tion of the tribe of grumblers, people who are petulant and discontented under the every-day evils of life. Life has. its petty miseries in all situations and climates, to be mitigated or cured by the continual efforts of an elastic spirit, or to be borne, if incurable, with cheerful patience. But the peevish emigrant is perpetually com- paring the comforts he has quitted, but never could enjoy, with the privations of his new allotment. He overlooks the present good, and broods over the evil with ha-
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