New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-11-27

shilliups per acre, and to expend the money
paid for it in transporting settlers thltber.
Books and pamphlets without number were
published, in which the fertility of these lands,
the beauty of the climate, and the certainty OF
every settler speedily becoming rich, were set
forth in glowing terms. These publications
produced powerful impression in favor of the
scheme, and the desire to emigrate became with
certain classes almost universal. The difficulty
of obtaining a living which thousands in En-
gland are constantly experiencing, naturally n-
clincd them to embrace so tempting an oller.
Emigration became 4 mania. Companies with
ont number were formed for making settle
ments even in New.Zealand for spectators
Immediately seized upon tho public Juror for
their own profit, and large grants Of land were
OBJ aimed from tho Government. Their Offices
were thrsDged with applicants for land. Law
ycrs, doctors, clergymen, hali-pay officers. with
Others belonging to the educated classes, but
posscssed of small means, coulcnded with each
other for land. Farmers, traders and mochan-
les became equally eager to buy. Fleets OF
ships left England fox The new settlements,
crowded with fashionable household goods,
pianos, aud all the appliances Of an established
civilization. Among the cnligrants were thou
sands OF delicate and hignly educated women.
" hen, after long ,oyaee, they reached their
destination. all the gay dreams of rural enjoy
ment ample crops and speedy independence
I.I loo, ea. hot fi.srt al 4
before the terrible reality. The whole region
was n wilderness inhabited by savage, and to
reclaim it, they must ;LeuisclSes WORK. |ast
sums had been invested IN the enterprise, but
most of it was sunk Multltudes OF tne settlers
" no had been tcuderly reared, died IN poverty,
while rs a whole the attempt at coonlzing a
wilderness became 4 lamcnable failure.
When Raleigh undertook to ccloni-o Roanoke
Island. he seIuced men to his standard By tne
usual deccptions. The soil was OF uurIsalcd
luxuriaucc, the skies we're ever bright and
fair. tho crate was superior 10 that oil tn-
GLAND. YET bis coionlsts persisted misfgably,
md he was himself ruined. Even the founder o!
p,nn.ylynnia fared bat Little better IN a prcu.
mary MIs. ilf flNth tlaAA ''s't q" "''."-
faction of debt oil E30J,o, spent f52, 600
in establishing il, aud was then willing 10
abandon tho whole Tor Ei2,OO0. Raleigh
adaerenis were decayed Gentlemen and worth
les der. The former did not know how to
labor. while the latter wcrr too lazy to do 80.
Penis adhercu;s wee working inru. Gnd thus
pro.perrd. Bu; the uris boring Swedes pre-
ceded him, and by lae,r knowledge of the
coun,rj materially pror otcd Ai' success. The
Nrw.EnglAAd Pilgrim, encountered AArds-nP-
nd TRIALS infinitely more s''orc iAnn tAe 'o.-
lowers OF Penn, Yet both communities sgc-
ceeded, because both were animated with
oiier purpose than the mere acquisition OF
wealth. For no emigration 10 on entirely new
country, Of people able aud willing 70 labor,
has ever been successful, where the acquisition
Of money was the sole object. The position Is
not controyer.ed BY the case OF California, be-
cause that was already an old Spanish settle
meut when our people began to prcciPitate
themsese, upon II.
When supported by the State, great colonie,
have uniformly pro,ed TO be- great curfes. The
colonial system Of England, though she poe.
scsses u superior talent for successful colonzs.
ton. Las been her greatest bane. She owes to
II the lnrgest portion OF her national debt. Her
ablest writers point 10 It Is having been de-
struciiye of untold millions Of capital. and Of
lives without number OF 990oo emcrauts to
Canada in single year. l3,CC0 died oil ship
board. India is 4 yast graveyard. Spain ha,
Jared no better She has been rrtrogradng
ever since she came into possession oil tue gold
mines vi Mexico. Her colonization Of Central
America cost more than Il yielded. The forti-
hcatiOns of Panama cott 30 enormous "A cum
that the Minister on one occasion inquired n
the walls were not built Of gold. The colo.
riza,ion Of Louisiana cost Spain 80 much that
she Was glad to part with it. When France
took possession, she peopled it with thieves
aud prostitutes, but in her turn she was glad
TO give It up. Her Judgement IN Canada was
equally costly, more blood, aud ended in eN-
pulslon. Her settlement IN Algeria is even now
the skeleton behind the door of her treasury,
and viii in the end be gwen up. Lloeria viii
succeed, Kansas has already triumphed be-
cause other impulses than those of money got
ting were the controlling ones with those who
founded the one and colonzed the other
The banishment OF 3,o00, 600 blacks from this
country VIII DO more disastrous to us than
was the expulsion of the liugucnots to france.
The labor of these people cannot be spared.
Il has never existed in excess, and it Is now
moro urgently required than ever. Tho de-
struction and waste Of great war arc TO be
repared The world wants cotton as il never