Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1854-05-18
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THURSDAY, MAY IS, 1854.
Massachu.etts Emisrnns Alta Company.
obieets Of this COrporation are appar-


Report of the Committee appointed to report q
plan Of Operations.
The objects of this Corporation are appar
ent in its name.
The immense emigration to America from
Europe introduces into our ports cry large
number Of persons eager to pass westward
The fertility of our western regions, and the
cheapne3s Of the public lands, induce many Of
the native born citizens of the old States also
to emigrate thither, At the pre- sent time pub
lie and social considerations OF the gravest
character render it desirable at once to settle
the territories west Of Missouri and Iowa (;
and these considerations are largely increa ing
the amount of westward emigration.
The foreign arrivals in America last year
We're 400,777. In the same year the em'gra-
ton to Western States Of Americans and for
eigners must have amounted to much more
than 100000 pc sous. The emigration thith-
Ell this year will be larger still. And from the
Older Western States large numbers are re-
moving into new teri tory.
Persons who are familiar with the course Of
movement of this large annual throny Of en-
igrants, know that under the arrangement + now
existing they suffer at every turn. The frauds
practiced upon them by "runners and 9TH
er agents of transporting lines in the State Of
New York, amount to a stupendous system
of knayery which has not been broken up
even by the patient endeavors of the State
officers and by very stringent State lie gislation.
The complete Ignorance as to our customs in
which the foreign emigrant finds himself, aud,
in more than half the foreign emigration, h s
complete ignorance of our language, subjects
him to every fraud, and to constant accident.
1t is in the face of almost every conceivable
inconvenience, that the country receives every
year four bundled thousand foreigners into is
sea ports, and sends the larger portion OF then
to its Western Country.
The inconveniences and dangers to health
to which the pioneer is subject who goes out
alone or with his family, only in making
new settlement, are familiar to every Ameri-
can.
The Emigrant Aid Company has been in
corporated to protect emigrants, as far as may
be, from such inconyeniences. Its duty is to
organize emigration to The Rest and bring It
into system. This duty, which should have
been attempted long ago, is particularly essen-
tial now, in the critical position Of the west
ern territories.
The legislature has granted a charter, with
a capital sufficient for these purposes. This
capital is soon to exceed s.. 900, 000 In no
single year are asse ssnents to larses am ount
than ten per cent to be called for. The cor
porators believe that if the Company be or
sali@eu az olce' as soon a s'le SUBSCRIPTION
70 .He stocA ainoSn.s 70 2 A'ooV'Voo' me aAiiu-
a. income 70 De derived nom that amount, ana
the suose lueht SUBSCRIPTIONS may De so ap-
ploPila'eu as 70 rehuer most essential service
70 ING einlsiau. 70 Planta Aree 9iate III han-
sas; ~ 'le last'rs a'l' gnliYt % me country
anu W ietuth WY iahusolne ptoAe 70 t4Ae
stockholders upon their investment.
l. The ern Grant suffers whichever he ooes
Al 'ae ihto nus new nome. ne suhers nom
the frauds o. others-fron nus own ign orance
o. the system " travel, ana O. the couetry
Where ne set'leS ana, aSatn, nom ms want
OF support from helSnoofs-Whlch results III
I4le tlAiossionitS q any cou1olnea. assistance
OF %, Oh any aiVision OF Iapof'
Inc hinlgrant ala company VIII reneVe
MN from all the e enoaras 'melts' by send ng
out emigfahts u companies, aud estaolshlng
them IN cons deranle numbers. lhey VIII
locate these where they please on arrival IN
the new hne, and receive from government
their ttles. Inc company propose TO carry
them TO Their homes more cneaply tnan they
could otherwise go-to enable them to estao-
Hsn themselves Win the lease inconvenience,
ana TO provide the most important PRIME he
eeSsbeS OF new colony. IL VII provide
shepter ana 1904 at the lowest prices after the
arrival Of enlsrants, while they make the ar
fansemeAts necessary Tor their new homes
~ WIZ render an the assistance winch the IN
torinatlon oil IT'S agents can give. And, by
establishing emigrants III large numbers III the
teri torres, u WIN give them the power OF
uslhS at once those social lnIlaence' winch IA
aiate from the churcn' the school, and tho
press III the organization aud development OF
a community.
FOR ehese purposes IL Is recommended, LIST,
thas the Difecsols CONTRACT iihineaiatel with
some one Oh the conFetlnS lliles OIL tray 81, Tor
the conveyance OF zU'uoo persons from Mas
sacnnsells' 70 shat pace IN the Vest which
the directors snal seiect tor tnelr nrst settle
ment.
~ 10 pelleNeu ena1 passage may DC ootaInea,
IN so large contract, at nan the price pad
oy nun luuals, reconnela that emit
grants Reeve Tue run auVahtaSe OF thus d.
ll'llu'ioh o. prizes ah'. enat tney pc forwarded
Ia % companies u ewo huhored, as they apply
i' ehe y. le,.uce ! rates Oh traSel.
- = upposea 'ha' a. secn points a. inc
piluc'oIS sele'' l"r pl'ees o. seS.leineht,they
snau a. oIoo oone.l uo' q 1os'lollS mouse or
leeelsnis ilouse,-in WHICH tnree hundred
persons may lec'ise temporary accommodation
On .loi .ala' sne nuloer 2! such
~ ~ Sla1e 10 nay uAc'ate-
Inc new colhers OF eheH iantnes may thus be