Weekly hawk-eye and telegraph. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1855-1857, 1857-04-15
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woscsstss, Mass, March ", 1857
Ne. Bgxxnff Dear Sir ~ thank you for
your lucid and able analysis Of the plans and
purposes Of the North American Homestead
Company, a. dsen in the Herald Of February
2sth and of March 10 $ )
You have shown true conception Of the
project, and IL Aeems TO me an accurate APP
probation Of its power and its probable re-
suits ' q So
I assure you that i. Is our purpose to be
strictly q business organization.
We shall abide by the laws, State and .sa-
tional.
We shall adhere with wonderful tenaeity to
the constitation and the Union.
I'VE shall purchase large tracts Of land at
slave state prices; shall give away 70 actual
settlers about aDe.lourth; shall sell about one
fourth n, cost, aud the remainder at Free
Stsse prices thus, probably doubling our
money on each soperation
There 10 no chance for such speculation
except in slave States, and even in them only
in proportion TO the extent Of slavery. For
example: There will be no Indictment for
us u buy land in Hancock, Brooke, Marshall
or Ohio counties, in Western Virginia, for in
those counties it is worth from S20 70 $2I
per acre Those counties, and the bulk Of
others in Western Virginia, are essentially
free Our chances would be much better in
Dinwiddie, southampton, Accomac, and other
Eastern counties, where we can obtain land
for from SO TO S. per acre--such being the
average price in those localities where the
slaves are the majority Of the population =
Now these lands arc more desirable than
those Of the counties first named, and by
planting on them free white colonies we can
make them more valuable. lf IL too much,
therefore, for our Virginia neighbors to cx-
pect Of human nature-and especially Of
Yankee human nature-that We should FORE
20 any such chance as tbissof securing sure
and ample dividends, especially when this
can he done in a m9nner perfectly legal and
constitutional
But very many Of the people of Virginia
actually desire the proposed friendly invasion
of the Old Dominion by this renovating army
Of free white labor. can show you that
even shareholders are on our side and that,
too, in large numbers.
Some have already offered to take stock to
the extent Of their ability in the proposed
company Kentucky and Maryland are al
ready looking with envy on the sublime des-
tnation of Virginia, and are inviting the
same invigorating agency Of free labor to
their own borders.
Missouri, also, has sent delegation for
the purpose Of securing a colony OF one hun
drei Yankees 10 build town upon a good
landing on the Missouri river. These appli-
cations, together with the tone of O large por-
ton of the Southern press make it manifest
that the proposed movement will be admira-
bly, sustained, and our colonies treated with
Kindness and respect But il, on the contra
ry, n portion of the people of Virginia, in de-
fiance other own interests and oil our rights,
should so far stnltify themselves as to follow
the lead of ultra disunionsts and secession
fire eaters in committing outrages against the
lives and property as peaceful settlers, then
they must be met by the constitution and
the laws; and should these fail to give pro
lection, popular sovereignty must he invok-
cd for the Old Dominion, rs it has been for
Kansas. We shall not be inundated. We
are not that kind Of people when good divi-
dends are Mt stake In defiance of danger
We send our whaleships to the Northern
Ocean for money. We send our missiona-
ries among cannbals for principle. We have
deiied ali perils even to sending the Gospel
to the heather without the Indictment of pc
cuniary g,,in but with that induccment the
Gospel of Freedom will have free course,
will run aad be gloriied
We have been charged with participating
in the slave trade, contrary to law, for filthy
lacre Ii this be so, we should probably
participate in making slave States free for
the same filthy lucre.
There is not kidnapper in the country
who will not quit the business of catching
neprocs N trira FIR the Cuba ma rk et when
it shall have been demonstrated that he can
make 10 per cent. more in making Virginia
u free State.
These men are no such bigots in their pro-
fcssion as to adhere to it when lucrative
business protected by law, can be had in ex-
change for hazardous, illegal and less prof
liable traffic
There is no use, then, in talking about
hanging or shooting our colonists, or the
members of our company If half ofus were
hung or shot, the rest would press on towards
the shining dollars, even though they should
rush
'.Into the Jaws of death
t Into the mouth OF hell
Like the six hundred"
Evidence ofapproaching success in this en-
terrrise is every day accommodating. It's seen
in the letters of sympathy from the slave
States, and in the numerous applications of
colonists from the free and, more than ALL in
the readiness of capitalists to invest in the
stock of the company. This, however, is
not unaccountable. Millions ofacres of Nir-
gnia land, owned by the merchants and bro.
kers of New York and Philadelphia will be
made available, at II profit to the present
owners who have heretofore despaired Of