The Hesperian, 1839, Vol. 3

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Excerpt from The Hesperian, 1839, Vol. 3: A Monthly Miscellany of General Literature, Original and SelectCunningham was one of a very numerous class of young emigrants to the West: the offspring of honest and industrious parents, in the new-england States, who have been well trained from habit as well as principle, and received a good education as their main, and often their only, patrimony. - With this, and enterprising spirits, they start for the Sunny South, or the Far West, to shape their fortunes as they best can. The new States receive no worthier accessions, and the ingenuity and perseverance of such emigrants, seldom go long unrewarded. With minds well stored and rigidly disci plined, many of them fix their attentions upon the professions - one that of divinity, another that of medicine, a third that of law and being without money, they spread themselves through the interior of the States, and take up such schools as they can get, as a means of support while pursuing their Btu. Dies. Diligent, it may be said by nature, their progress is rapid, notwithstanding the hours devoted to the teaching of others, and in a few years after fixing themselves in their new homes, they may be seen in the pulpit, at the bar, and among the most successful practitioners of the healing art.One of this numerous class, as has been re marked, was Cunningham. He had come to the West, at the age of twenty-one, here to build a fortune, if honorable exertions could achieve so much, and to win a name, if fine talents and untiring assiduity could receive their reward. His present wish was to set tle in some thriving town, and to take upon himself for a time the charge of an Academy.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.