Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1859-12-15
Homes For All

VIE AMERICAN BNIIGRANT AND HOMESTEAD
SoMtANh, having its Headquarters in the City
Of New York, has been organized for tho sole and def
mite purpose of collecting information from all Darts of
tho country wherein desirable lnnds may be had at
low prices and commanding those lands tho atten-.
tton and favor of all who may be induced to purchase
or improve them. 1t has been silently perfctina its
y: aid correspondence for more than year
past; until 1t is now ready to offer to settlers range
LOT selection, embracing more than One Million Acres
o. cheap wild lands with sOmeimprOye farms, mainly
IA tue States OF Virginia, Pennsylvania Tennessee and
other States.
To cInigrants from Europe, to the enersetic youna
men OF our cOmpactly settled States and sections to
the hives of mechanics and laborers who thrOng our
cltes aud live in constant and reasonable dread that
"iC OF peslienct, war reVusiOn, alteration
IN the channels of trade, may at any moment deprive
them OF employment and their families of bread, wo
such perils are unknown.
We mean to sell lands as well as negotiate for pur-
caseFs with those who have largo tracts for SALE In
every part OF the Union but attention is more
especially directed to the ghborfng States-Yirgna
kentucky, Tennessee and Missouri 'VIRoISIG espe-
ClIty profteTs at this time Inducements to
Immigrants. Her climate is temperate and genial
the Peach the Apple, tho Pear the Grape alike thrive
In tit is far better and moro ,leirnbly Timbcred
IMAM almost any new State; its nnYgable rivers and
innumernbe, available streams, waterpower, and pro-
fusion Of tho most valuable minerals-Coa Iron Salt,
Sopber &c.nrc unsurpassed; the State has expended
age sums in constructing mud Iailroads across
its entire breadth, which place almost every county
WlIhn low hours ride either seapOrs Of the
great inland cities of Cincinnati Pittsburgh Wheeling
Louisville &C.; yet fertile inviting land, whether i'm
proven or new Il far cheaper this day in the Mother of
stateS' than It Is in Minnesota Oregon No where
else on earth can lands filled with accessible Coal or
iron Ore covered with choice Timber and excellent
atke Tor Gratn and Grass Fruit and Roots DO obtained
50 cheapy as in Old Virginia. while to men of con-
siderable means sell good firms almost within
sgh OF Washington City for less than the fair cost of
The TABLE LANDS of EAST TENNESSEE present
some OF the most Inviting fields for industry aud enter
PRISE on this Continent. Tho climate is salubCiOu5 and
heathfI The soil is adapted to I'LL agricultural pur-
quits Its unimproved Lands covered with useful
Timber, or present natural openings, and Meadows
PrO9uelnS nutritious Grass The farmer can have his
products on slIpbOard in 80 hours and can buy his
urocer1Cs, Dry Goods, ETC.. at home, cheap any
one i'll New England. Yet, we sell him good Lands
with perfect titles at from to three dollars per acre
, a word rs to the single objection which has kent
these i@ns long uncnltivated, and which keeps
them IN the marketnt bare fraction OF their ntrinsc
Tnlue-That of Slavery. This Company Inns only to
deal with institution as n sulsfitnfinp Grt Evor
whose existence character it has no control Dnt
We say III All confidence to intending settlers Slavery
IN virginia need not and should not longer MS
nnurance to settlement on your part. That grand
discovery OF our age. CONCENTRATE IAMIGR AToN pc-
ticaiy dsoses of it SO far yOu are concerned Let
heads OF families including farmers mechanics mil
erS &C. take counsel together and resolve to seek ne
anu more eligible homes in company. Let them club
Dh iher means send two Of their number to look at
suGh las as we are prepared to sell them Let these
delegates alter sufficient scrutiny, buy from five to
twenty thousand acres in body, embracing all the
g0Od points they require then let them survey tho
whole into farms and lots of convenient size and mt
these up at auction to the highest bidder whether
member of the company or not. Each member will
OF course be entitled to return in land or money nj
the sum previously contributed by him to the conpa-
ny iunds and to his proportion Of any profit realized
from the transaction Thus the Company will form a
sort OF spontaneous township with its ronsybriCcs
stores schools church. &C. substantially After tho New
England Pattern. Such location may easily be made
such already in fact; exists i'll every county of Viz
ginl9 above tide-wntcr; and into such one Slavery
WIZ have neither pretext dcsireto enter The city
OIL W wheeling, the Quaker portion of LOudOn County
not to speak of new experiments, fairly exemplify
the law we hero indicate. Thus before steady and
coplnus influx of Iree-Labor immigration, Slavery
quietly and gradually disappears, without covuson or
hert-bnrnlng and the settlers will find their property
qundrlIpled by tie single net of settlement.
Young men of the Free Statesl a glorious career
opens before You. We profcr you cheap land, ample
timber, Rhealthful climate, absolute immunity from
even the dread of savage incurson and depreciation
adaptation to all the grains grasses and fruits of the
temperate zone, with ready ample and remu-
nerativo markets at all seasons This day. more than
half the arabic land in Virginia never been turned
by 3plow whilO much Of the good lands once Gener-
ousy productive, is but meagerly sO Good treat
ment will readily and cheaply restore them to their
pristine fertility No stronger Inducements to indus
try, no nobler theatre for cxerton is proercd anv
where on earth. -
Call and see Onr maps, descriptions, SURVEYS ETC.
or write to US tenCloSng postage stamps of coursNN
and your inquiries shall be answered AZ far s prnct;
cable. - P'i "
Please address FRANCIS W. TAPPAN, Prcsii.nt
or JOHN c. UNDERWOOD, General Agent Am E1nj
grant Aid and Homestead Company, No i46 Broadway
new YORK: je25'59 "