The weekly Mississippian. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1859-1864, 1859-09-28
Advance Of the Anti-slavery Column

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We have in previous articles alluded 10th
, manifest design of the Abolitionists OF tn
North to colonize the frontier States Of tn
South. In order that our readers may be In
formed of the formidable agency employed b.
them to accomplish this object, we make tn
following extracts from circular of tn
American Emigant Aid and Homestea'
Company" of which Francis w. Tappan
President and John C. Underwood Genera
Agent. We find the circular in the New
York Century" in which paper it appears a
a regular advertisement.
THE AMERICAN EMIGRANT AID AND HOME
STEAD COMPANY.
Having its head quarters in the city of New
York, has been organized for the sole ant
definite purpose of collecting information from
all parts of the country wherein desirable
lands may be had at low prices, and com
inending those lands 10 the attention and faso
of all who may be induced to purchase ant
improve them. 1t is now ready to offer tt
settlers q range for selection embracing mort
than one million acres of timbered lands, with
some improved farms, mainly in the States o.
Virginia, Pennsylvania, Tennessee and Mis-.
souri,; and will soon extend its operations into
other States. Owners of good lands, whether
improved or not, which they are willing to
sell at low rates, are invited to communicate
with us on the subject.
To emigrants from Europe, to the energetic
young men of our compactly settled States
and sections, to the hives of mechanics and ia-
borers who throng our cities and live In coli
slant and reasonable dread that panic or pes
thence. war, revulsion, or some alteration In
the channels of trade, may at any moment ae-
prive them of employment and their amlhes
Of bread, we say, resolve now, while you may,
to seek home where such perils are un-
known
To the inhabitants of those sections OF the
country which are for months locked IN the
icy embraces of winter: to those who have
been disappointed in their crops by nlpplng
frosts, we say, seek homes where the climate
is more genial, and the crops more certain and
abundant. We invite the emigrants from Eu-
rope, or the provinces to call upon US for in
| PRODUCTION to those who will welcome them to
their communities, and aid them in securing
happy and independent homes in this land of
| their adoption.
We mean to sell lands in every part of the
Union; but our attention is more especially
directed to the neighboring States
VIRGINIA, KENTUCKY, TENN ESSEE
AND MISSOURI
Virginia especially proffers at this time re-
markable inducements to emigTants.
The circular proceeds to say that the Com
pany has secured large tracts of the most ell
gible lands in Western and Eastern Virginia,
and in East Tennessee, which it offers to en-
igrants at from one to four dollars per acre,
being fair profit for the Company, it having
purchased its lands in large quantities at low
prices After describing the qualities of the
lands and enumerating the inducements to set
tiers, the circular proceeds:
We wish it, however, distinctly understood
that organized emigration is what we recon-
mend. By forming considerable companies,
and carrying the school, the library, the ne
cessary arts and mechanics, perfect colony
is secured-a highly improved state of society
is soon established. The land rises in value
and price rapidly, and the whole investment
is in short time doubled, or perhaps quadru-
pied In this waya single year accomplishes
the work of generation in the old hap-haz.
zard system of emigration.
A word as to the single objection which kept
these lands so long uncultivated, and which
now keeps them in market at bare fraction
of their intrinsic value-that of slavery. This |
Company has only to deal with any institution |
as a subsisting fact, over whose existence or |
character it has no control But We say in
all confidence to intending settlers, sIauery IL, |
Virginia need not serve longer as a hindrance |
to settlement on yostr part. That grand dis |
couery of o,sr age, concerted immigration prac-
ticaly disposes of it, far as you are concerned.
Let families take counsel together and re- |
solve to seek new and more eligible homes in |
Let them, clubbing their means. |
send two Of their number to look at such |
lands as we are prepared to sell them. Let |
these delegates, after sufficient scrutiny. buy |
from five to twenty thousand acres in a body. |
all the good points they reouite
then let them survey the whole into farms
and lots of convenient size, and put these up
at auction to the highest bidder, whether q |
member of the company or not Each men,
Der will, Of course, be entitled to return in
land or money, of the sum previously contrib
uted by him to the company's funds, and to
his proportion of any profit realized from the
transaction. The colony. will form sort of
spontaneous township, with its roads, bridges,
stores, schools, churches, &c, substantiaYu
after the Nea0 England pattern !; sacjs a location
may easily be made, and into such q one slave-
ry aoitthaue neither prete1t nor desire to enter.
We have already tested the necessity and
value of an institution like ours, to the multi
tudes who desire to find homes in milder eli
mates, or richer soils, where land is at low
prices, and achere they can do their individual
part an the diffusion Of free Christian priinci-
pies.
We will offer no comments on the above,
but will simply invite our Southern readers
to ponder and reflect upon the inevitable con-
sequences of the gigantic scheme which has
been boldly adopted and is being steadily
prosecuted for the undermining of our insti-
tutions, and the usurpation of our soil Let
rejecting men ask themselves what will be
the condition of the South, when Virginia, I
Kentucky, Tennessee, Missouri, and we may
add Maryland, are successfully colonized with
ree population, and when Kansas, Nebraska, |
ind Nevada, with another State to be formed
If the Indian Territory and part of New Mex
w oah14 eAAS eA OC liCC OtSttCS hIlCA DtIldtOI
Douglas, it is said, proposes to form out Of
Texas, are admitted into the Union Thus
'ircumscribed and hemmed in on all sides.
what hope can the South indulge of future
'afety? She should hasten to adopt coun-
eracting system.
SATISFACTORY CONDITION OF THE TREAsU-
Y.-According to official data, the importa-
ions for the present fiscal year will greatly
exceed those Of the year 1857, and will reach
n amount at least $39o,oo0OOO, which, at the
lverage duty of 16 per cent, will yield reve-
lue of $62, 600, or $6,400O00 more than
was estimated for by Secretary Cobb in his
asst annual report to Congress. 1t is an inter-
'sting fact that while the government receipts
'hus exceed the Secretary's estimates, the
public expenditures are falling considerably
below his figures. Thesresult Of this double
operation will be the receipt of a sufficient
revenue not only to meet the current wants
Of the government without any further loan
Or reissue Of Treasury notes, but the speedy
accumulation Of surplus to be again applied
TO the redemption of the public debt. Never
before since the foundation of our government
have the recuperatiye powers of the federal
exchequer been SO forcibly exhibited.
New YoRK.-With great unanimity thirty
Eve delegates and thirty-fv alternatives were
appointed the Charleston Convention by
the Democratic State Convention. They are
to cast the vote of New York as