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INFORMATION TO THOSE WHO WOULD REMOTE
TO AMERICA.

The husbandman is in honour there, and even
the mechanic, because their employments ere use.
fol. The people have • saying, that 4' God Al-
mighty I • self is a mechanic, the greatest in the
usiserrse, and he is respected and admired more for
the variety, ingenuity, nod usefulness of his handy.
works, than fur the antiquity of his family." They
are pleased with the observation of a Negro, and
frequently mention it, that Buccarorra (meaning
the white men) make de black men workee, make
de horse workee, make des ox worker. tusk* de
every ting workee, only de hog. He, de hog, no
workee, lie eat, he drink. lie walk about. he go to
sleep !lieu he please, he libb like a geotkowat."
According to these opinions of the Americans. one
of them would think himself more obliged to a ge-
nealogist who could prove for him that his slicer-
tors and relations for ten generations haul been
ploughmen, smiths, carpenters, turners, wearers,
tanners, or even shoemakers, and consequently that
they were useful members of society, than if he
could only prove that they were gentlemen, doing
nothing of value, but living idly on the labour of
others, mere /rages eansttotere oast*, and otherwise
good for nothing, till, by their death, their estates.
like the carcass of the negro's gentleman-hog, come
to be ter sp.
With regard to encouragements for strangers,
they are really only what are derived from good
laws sod liberty. Sinnigere are welcome, because
there is room enough fur them all, and therefore
the old inhabitants are nut jealous of them ; the
laws protect them sufficiesitly. so that they have
no heed of the patronage of great men ; and every
one will enjoy securely the profits of his industry.
But if he does not bring a fortune with him, lie
must work and be industrious to live. Out or two
years' residence gives him all the rights of a citi-
zen ; but the Government does not at present,
whatever it may have done in former times, hire
people to become settlers, by paying their pass:ogee,
giving lands, 'legroom. utensils, stock. or any other
kind of emolument whatever. In short, America is
the land of labour. and by no means what the Eng.
lish call Labberhasd, and the French Pays de Co-
mps', where the streets are said to be peed with
half-peck loaves, the houses tiled with poucakes,
amid where the fowls By about ready-roasted, crying
" Come est use I"
Who then are the persons to whom an emigration
to America may be advantageous And what are
the advantages they may reasonably expect ? Land
being cheap in that country. from the east fo.
rests still void of inhabitants, and not likely to be
occupied in an age to come, in so much, that the
propriety of an hundred acres of fertile soil full of
wood. may be obtained near the frontiers in many
places for eight or ten guineas ; hearty labouring
young men, who understand husbandry °lcon" and
cattle, which is nearly the mine in that country me
in Europe. sissy easily establish themselves there.
A little money saved of the good wages they receive
there while they work for others, enables them to boy
the land. and begin their plantation. in which they
are assisted by the good will of their neighbours
and some credit. Multitudes of poor people from
England. Ireland, Scotland, and Germany, have
by this means, in a few years, become wealthy
farmers, who, in their own countries. where all the
lands are fully occupied, and the wages of labour
low, could never have emerged from the mean con-
dition wherein they were born.
From the salubrity of the air. the healthiness of
the climate, the plenty of good provisions, and
the encouragement to early marriages. by the cer-
tainty of subsistence in cultivating the earth, the
increase of inhabitants by mound generation is

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very rapid io America.. end !wattles more . •
by
the accession of strangers; hence there is O come.
uual demand for more hrtirous of all the oecessary
and useful kinds. to sapply those cultivetoro of the
earth with houses and with furniture. and utensils,
of the Moor tort. which esaiiot so well be brought
from Europe. Tolerably good workmen in eery
of those mechanic art% are sure to Ilia employ.
and to be well paid fur their work. there briug no
restraints preventing strangers from exercisfug auy
art they noderstand, nor auy permission sietessory.
If they are poor. they help,' first as servants or
journeymen ; and if they are sober. industrious.
and frugal. they Goon becoin& masters. establish
themselves is business, marry, raise families, and
become respectable citizens.
Lastly. persons of moderate fortunes and °mi-
ta*, who having a number of children to provide
fur, are desirous of bringing them up to industry,
and to secure estates for their posterity, have upper-
tuatara of doieg it in America, which Europe does
nut afford. There they may be taught, sad prac-
tice profitably, mechanic arts, without iucurring
disgrace on that account; but, on the contrary,
acquiring respect by such abilities. There small
capitols laid out on lands, which daily become
more valuable by the increase of people, affords
• solid prospect of onside (odours thereafter for
those children. The writer of !him has known
several large tracts of land bought on what was then
the frontier of Pensisylvaiiiiis fur ten prowls pas heti-
dred acres which, after tefenty years. when the set-
Omen, had been exteuded far beyond them. sold
readily, without any improvement made on them,
for three pounds per acres • The sitle in America is
the same with the 'English acre, of the acre of Nor-
mandy.
Those who desire to understand the state of Go.
vernment in America, would do well to read the
Constitutions of the several States, and the Articles
of Confederation that bind the whole together fur
genera porposes, uniler the direction of one assent.
Lly Called the Congress. • ' • • ' •
Several of the Princes of Europe having of late
years, from an opinion of advantage to arise by
producing all. commodities sad manufactures with-
in their own dominion.. so as to diminish, or ren-
der useless their importations. have endeavoured to
entice workmen from other countries by high sa-
laries, privileges, he. Many persons pretending
to be skilled in various manufactures, imagining
that America must be in want of them, and that
Congress would probably be disposed to imitate
the Princes above mentioned. have proposed to
go over, on condition of having their passages
paid. lands given, salaries appointed, exclusive
privileges for terms of years. &c. &c. Such
persons, on rending tile Articles of Confede-
ration. will Ilia that the Congress have no power
committed to them. or money pot into their fiends
for such purposes; and that if asny such encourage.
ment is given, it must be by the Government of
soine separate State. This, however, has rarely
been done in America : and when it has been done.
it bra rarely succeeded. so as to establish a manu-
facture which the country was not yet so ripe for
as to encounter private persons to get it up, labour
being geoerolly too dear there, and hands difficult
to be kept together, every one desiring to be a
master, and the chemisess of lands inclining many
to leave trades for agriculture.
(7b he mataited.)