Letters From An American Farmer By Hector St. John De Crevecoeur



















































































































































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I want to observe his first thoughts and feelings, the first essays
of an industry, which hitherto - Page 101
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It Is There I Want To Observe His First Thoughts And Feelings, The First Essays Of An Industry, Which Hitherto Has Been Suppressed.

I wish to see men cut down the first trees, erect their new buildings, till their first fields, reap

Their first crops, and say for the first time in their lives, "This is our own grain, raised from American soil - on it we shall feed and grow fat, and convert the rest into gold and silver." I want to see how the happy effects of their sobriety, honesty, and industry are first displayed: and who would not take a pleasure in seeing these strangers settling as new countrymen, struggling with arduous difficulties, overcoming them, and becoming happy.

Landing on this great continent is like going to sea, they must have a compass, some friendly directing needle; or else they will uselessly err and wander for a long time, even with a fair wind: yet these are the struggles through which our forefathers have waded; and they have left us no other records of them, but the possession of our farms. The reflections I make on these new settlers recall to my mind what my grandfather did in his days; they fill me with gratitude to his memory as well as to that government, which invited him to come, and helped him when he arrived, as well as many others. Can I pass over these reflections without remembering thy name, O Penn! thou best of legislators; who by the wisdom of thy laws hast endowed human nature, within the bounds of thy province, with every dignity it can possibly enjoy in a civilised state; and showed by thy singular establishment, what all men might be if they would follow thy example!

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