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Henry Eno letters to his father, January 1835-July 1837

1836-02-14 Page 2

very much and perhaps shorten his days I had not the heart to press the payment but shore to leave them as they are for the present some future days something may be obtained and the acknowledgement he made to me would prevent their being obtained. I was only gone from home [illegible] days during which time I fell in company with many western men and obtained much information respecting the country. I have for five year just determined to leave here at such a time when I could do so and have some means after paying my debts to carry me elsewhere. I believe I can do so this spring and when I ask myself why I should not I can give no satisfactory reason against it. It is true I leave behind me a good many friends and am not doing as good law business as I can expect to do here. but this law business will never make me rich, and I have no reason to expect that it will be better but on the contrary as the country grows richer the business will increase. There is now more law business done in this small county than in the large &  County of Ontario - but I can make friends and I can do less business let me go almost when I will and I want to go to some country where I can connect something else with it. there is scarcely a single individual for a number of years past who have engaged in the business of buying and selling government land but what has made money and many have made immense fortunes. Now if I venture nothing I shall gain nothing and in venturing every so much I have but little to lose. I also want to leave this place and the [mountains?] connected with it. it will be to me like publishing as Franklin says a new edition of life I shall have the opportunity in one of our western cities of correcting the error of the first edition. I am acquainted with a lawyer by the name of Mirner of Geneva who went to Michigan and by buying & selling government land to emigrants as they came in made four thousand dollars the last fall. I saw him a short time since and told him of my intentions of leaving here, he said at once that I was a fool to stay and that he would not remain for the business of three of the best lawyers of Ontario. he has located himself at Detroit

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very much and perhaps shorten his days I had not the heart to press the payment but shore to leave them as they are for the present some future days something may be obtained and the acknowledgement he made to me would prevent their being obtained. I was only gone from home [illegible] days during which time I fell in company with many western men and obtained much information respecting the country. I have for five year just determined to leave here at such a time when I could do so and have some means after paying my debts to carry me elsewhere. I believe I can do so this spring and when I ask myself why I should not I can give no satisfactory reason against it. It is true I leave behind me a good many friends and am not doing as good law business as I can expect to do here. but this law business will never make me rich, and I have no reason to expect that it will be better but on the contrary as the country grows richer the business will increase. There is now more law business done in this small county than in the large & County of Ontario - but I can make friends and I can do less business let me go almost when I will and I want to go to some country where I can connect something else with it. there is scarcely a single individual for a number of years past who have engaged in the business of buying and selling government land but what has made money and many have made immense fortunes. Now if I venture nothing I shall gain nothing and in venturing every so much I have but little to lose. I also want to leave this place and the [mountains?] connected with it. it will be to me like publishing as Franklin says a new edition of life I shall have the opportunity in one of our western cities of correcting the error of the first edition. I am acquainted with a lawyer by the name of Mirner of Geneva who went to Michigan and by buying & selling government land to emigrants as they came in made four thousand dollars the last fall. I saw him a short time since and told him of my intentions of leaving here, he said at once that I was a fool to stay and that he would not remain for the business of three of the best lawyers of Ontario. he has located himself at Detroit