Washington sentinel. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1855, 1854-12-23

it involved an outlay of money. But it has
turned out that this great colonization move
ment, which was represented as pious, patri-
otto, and charitable, is nothing but an Adolf
ton speculation. Our authority for this state
ment is letter published in recent number
of the London Times, and dated from Boston.
From that letter we make the following extract.
The writer says:
"The Massachusetts and New York compa-
MES have larger and more purely business ends
in view. They are, as to the emigrants, only
with no money or aid on the contrary, they
receice from them pay for transporting them to
their new homes, and they have made such
arrangements with the railways and steamboat
companies as enable them to do this work with
greater expedition and cheaper than any other
company can do it. They also propose to be-
come land company, and when any colony
transported by them shall locate' village,
they aoiU at the same time locate q section, or
half or quarter section, as the case may be,
which they will retain to grow in value as the
place shall advance in population. From this
cause they anticipate that there will be return
Of their money to them--thdt the ptildntlsrophic
bread cast apon the aoaters wa return to them
lin the shape Of comfortable diridends. Thus
they have in the pioneer Worcester colony To-
Gated for themselves the best soater-right lands
in the projected city, amounting in all to l60
acres, which they think will in few months
become valuable from the numbers that they
will bring there. In o month from this time
they say they will have placed 1000 young men
in the settlement, and they promise, before
snow and ice block up travel, to carry 10000
to Kansas.
"Their plans, in regard to foreign emigra-
ton, are still more extensive. They propose
nothing less than to control it. They are
building for themselves a line of packets en-
tnely for their oWn use. They then propose to
establish agencies throughout Europe, IN the
manner of the present agencies, aoho shall ticket
not only for America, las at present) bat for
any part Of the aceste,n country to achich the
purchaser may desire to CO. Thus, with ticket
obtained at Mannheim. or Hamburg, or Cork,
the German or Irish peasant will, as they an
ticipate, be able to 60 in comfort and at a rea-
sonable expense from his home in Europe to
the farthest west of America, where, planted on
land near the possessions of the company, he
will, by his industry, soon repay more than any
possible loss the company may suffer in his
Transportation. They will then, they say, take
them on arrival, and, forming them into com.
panies of two hundred each, will carry them
to their new homes. There they will have, at
least while the country is in its rough state,
boarding houses ready to receive them, capable
of accommodating them till they shall be dis
tribdted. They will send forward steam, saw,
and grist mills, to meet the first wants of the
settlement, which will be leased at moderate
rates to the new corners, and will also, as soon
as circumstances will permit, see to the estab.
lishment of a newspaper
The Albany Argus, of the goth instant
makes the following comments on this stupen-
dous scheme:
Heretofore our new Territories have been
left to themselves-left TO fill up in their own
manner and in their own time. But Kansas
and Nebraska are to be subjected, it seems, to
a forcing process. They are to be, not Terri
tories, but colonies. The question of their in
stitutions is to be carried to the banks of the
Elbe and the Lifey and to be decided, not by
those who own themselves, and who feel an in
terest in their future destiny, but by peasants,
imported at so much per head, and expected to
repay that expense by all but servile labor
for their disinterested patrons. For, it is wor-
| thy Of note, as developed by the convenient ad-
vertisement we have quoted, that while the
Company furnishes emigrants to Kansas
from the States, with neither money nor aid,
it intends to transport, at its own expense,
the inmates of European almshouses, and to
take care that these new corners shall be
industrious in their new vocation"
GAIL this is, of course, nicely cloaked under
the cry of Freedom for Kansas and Nebras-
ka" The originators and abettors of this
scheme to outvote and outmaster the free men
of the West, have no purpose but the most
humane, the most philanthropic, the most lib
erty-lovingl Certainly Not. True, some hum
dreds of their emigrants are now in sorry
condition on the bleak plains whittier they have
been transported, dependent upon the gene
rosity Of Missouri shareholders over the border,
for preservation. But what care the stock
holders, so long as the quarter sections are
retained, best water rights secured, steam
saw and grist mills leased in their name, and
comfortable dividends in prospect2 While
the freshly arrived emigrant laborer is clearing
the corn field, and delving the soil, wrestling
with the forest, and warning with the Indians,
the stockholders will be enjoying the comforts
of Boston civilization, and the exhortstions Of
Brother Beecher or Brother Parker, thousand
leagues away"
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THE EMPIRE INCLUDES A PRlNCI-
PIE = NAPOLEON DINAsTY-RELUC-
LANCE OF RUSSIA, PRUSSIA, AND
AUSTRIA TO ACKNOWLEDGES IT.