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vary from 80 to so deg. Fair, according to
altitude.
There are shops or stores at convenient
distances all through the country, where set
tiers can get at fair rates everything they re-
quire and within reasonable distance of all
habitations in low lands or mountains, there
are churches and schools Perhaps there is
no country in the world where there is so much
religious liberation indifference y as in this
island, or where there is 30 much true freedom
and protection to private rights, or where there
is a happier peasantry. Would could say a
more moral one.
As regards those who come here without
the means Of purchasing land, and depending
entirely on wages for the support of them
selves and families | am confident they will
be kindly received, and welcomed most cor
daily by the gentry of the country and mana
gers of properties. If they are sober and in
duStrious they will meet encouragement and
comfort on all plantations where their services
are required and there are few plantations or
residences here, that do not need industrious
persons more particularly intelligent ones
Houses or places of abode would be furnished,
and wages varying from lS to SO cents per
/ day, given for such days WOrk as our incident
/ people here giUe. But as it is the desire Of all
managers TO get as much work done as posi-
bic, ii wouId be paid for by job or task, when
/ the willing man might without much extra
exertion, double, aye and in many occupa-
tons treble that amount Tradesmen's wages
vary from SO cents to 81 per day: but we have
very few here who are really trGdeSmen. Juve-
niles who are not attending school, will always
find employment and suitable wages. An adult
can get medicine and medical attendance for
: u 90 per annum and for his family in the
same proportion.
"All industrious and frugal labOrers manage,
in one or two years, to save as much money
from their wages as enables them to purchase
IL piece of land. and become independent set
tiers
GAS regards the sickness to which they
might be subject in consequence of Il change
of climate my own opinion is that the change
would be more favorable than detrimental to
their health. The sudden transitions from
heat to cold, and vice versa in America, are,
in my opinion, more apt to generate disease |
than this climate where the temperature is
more even and uniform"
John Clark, Baptist missionary of Browns
town. who labOred earnestly with the slaves,
and who still continues with the emancipated
people, in letter in which he kindly offers his
assistance to emigrants in purchasing land or
procuring employment says: at is right |
should mention that wages are low compared
with what they are in the United States From
one shilling to one and half (25 to 81, cts
per day, is all that is paid for field work. Ar
tisanS and skilled laborcrs get from two to four
shillngs. With these wages, however, the
people live very comfortably, for few depend
entirely upon them. Land being cheap and
productive, almost every one possesses one or
more acres, and raises provisions for the sup
port of himself and family, and generally has
to carry to market so that with
four or five days labor in the week on the es-
tates, and one or two in their own provision
grounds, our people get on as well, believe, as
any peasantry certainly better than the peas
lntry of the Old World of course refer to
the sober and industrious, for the idle and dis
'olute are in poverty and rags here, as else
where
" In proof of the advantageous nature of the
field here open for sober and industrious men,
may mention that the greater part of the
laborers in this neghborhOOd have, since their
purchased land, built cottages,
and established themselves in comfort MANY
Of them have horses and carts, and bid fair to
become thriving people
He also expresses tho belief that colored
persons emigrating from this country to Ja-
maica, will, with the blessing of God on
honest industry be able to live and to bring
up their families in comfort and responsibility;
and if persons of intelligence and piety, they
will exert a beneficial influence on their cman-
cipatcd brethren while We may hope, from
the social privileges and religious advantages
they would have AN opportunity of enjoying
they would not have reason 10 regret their de-
parture from America
Persons wishing to go to that part of the
island should take passage to Falmouth or st.
AIMS Bay.
w. w. Anderson, an eminent lawyer and
of Kingston, in published let
ter to j. Bgelow, says: wish we had u large
very large importation of your colored peo-
pie, who have been accustomed to farming
Our climate and our whole state of society
would suit them infinitely better than Liberia,
and it would be cheaper course for them to
a comfortable home Great bargains of land,
with buildings on it, may still be had here.
The sum expended on the purchase of what is
called an improved farm" in the Western
States, would purchase here in many cases,
a large tract Of land with buildings Visitors
of every taste, and for every variety of object
may probably visit us, now that the way IL
rendered so easy and pleasant by the steamers
The most beautiful secluded retrements, in n
elightful Italian climate in the mountains
may be purchased for trihng amount. say
from 1000 to 1000 dollars. But large tracts
of fine land may be purchased in many dis
trlcts for one or two dollars an acre. and n |
comfortable living may be made out of it by
very small amount of labor When consider
the hardships Of settlers in your new States,
with the cold, frost snow, and damp, they
must encounter, and ice-bound during many
months Of the year ! wonder very much that
all who are not of the most robust frames of
body do not prefer our islands to settle upon
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