Kentucky Gazette

Numerous emigrations are taking place from various parts of Europe to the United States. The mechanics and manufacturers of Britain are daily transporting their skill and industry to America. An English paper states, that there were 12 American ships nearly ready to sail with passengers. Some of the most opulent families of France, finding that under the legitimate government of that country, there is neither security for their person nor property, are preparing to remove where the successful example of democracy opens to them a better field for the employment of capital and a better chance for individual happiness. From Prussia, though the manufacturers there are in a state of tolerable prosperity, emigrations are about to take place to the Brazils, to North America, and particularly to Poland, where, it is said, "they are sure of a good reception from government."

We regard these emigrations with pleasure. Americans must feel proud that their country is sought as an asylum by the oppressed. While, however, these good people bring to our shores their useful and industrious habits; while their laborers and manufacturers may find a sphere for their talents, in the less fertile and more populous states of the union— we are satisfied that the character of our country will never be that of a manufacturing nation. Agriculture will continue to flourish while there is an acre of land to cultivate.— We have ground enough for the employment of a hundredfold of our present number; and it appears an ordinance of our nature, no human pursuit attaches man so strongly to his native soil, as the noble labor of agriculture.

Southern Pat.