Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1865-1869, 1865-10-24
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Still $4,000 600
would remain a, net profit" Of which onethirtieth
part c0ilrcc! every year by the payments OF s. PEI.
year, could b. ic.inyested and bring new interest
In addition 10 the foregoing profits. dieady Icinu-
n,laiiya probably equal or greater profit could Lc
obtained To- the company retaining here and there
lots farms amongst each - UO settlers. These 80
reserved lots or farms would soon command many
times higher prices They would BE- sought lDr and
purchased lOl cash by wealthy immigrants, WHO al
WAYS prefer to locate in country already settled.
Ii would De advisable that tie companies oIlcr Ia
each settler of one hundred acres a loan Of one hun
bred dollars, to be furnished in the agricultural I'M
elements Nc., exclusively for farming puposca.
This wOnld he great injucement 10 emgrants to
wend their way SOuth and it would remnncrate the
companies; bat companies Should have their
own stores OF these articles and sell
them at the market prices which would
give them the merchants, profit on the arti-
cles sold besides the legal interest from tho loan al
Vauccd by sold articles.
To secure the Immigrants against the real or ina
gnary eXturt;ons ana otter untaiIneSS of the OIL
cials, they should be allowed 10 purchase what they
want either in the stores OF the companies OF in the
nearest market towns; aud should they choose the
latter places for their purchases, they should have
the privilege of paying for the same by checks on
or orders OF the companies
These aid loans Should lie allowed to he paid in
such instruments, with interest, as would he cOnve-
nient to the immigrants requiring them Or they
paying eight dollars per year during thirty years a.
Tor the land.
would reserve to the immigrants paying eight
dollars per wear during thirty years the privilege of
relieving themselves from il by paying, al any time
in the course of the running Thirty years, the balance
of the unpaid or remaining consideration for their
land. THIS would be great inducemcnt 10 many
cmf,rants, and companies would have speedier re-
turn Of capital for new investments.
Some similar arrangement, and the policy Of OBJ
tanning immigrants through our own agencies, e.
tablished IN Europe and not through the medium of
the Northern cmigIant societies, would At iden-
tfy the immigrants with the interests OF Oursouthcm
popuation ana would make them inaccessible to
the influence OF the Northern fanatics and p0iti-
clans.
Through TIE medium Of the same agencies .estaL-
lslcd i'll Europe the abnItr To supply the planters
could he brought South in requisite numbers. The
planters or farmers should register tie number OF
iaborcrs they want, in the Offices of agencies estab
tablshcd in Our ports to receive cmgrantS here,
and send them 10 their new homes. And arrange
mcnt should he made that the wages of the labOreTs
be fixed here, to make them known in Europe, how
much they can earn here. On registering their
Names the planter should be required To dcpOSitc in
the Office, of the agencies or their banks, sufficient
amount on account of the lahOrcrS' wages, for the
payment of their passage, Sc.
II would he advisable and polite In announce that
the poor, landleSs white natives of the South can
obtain lands on the foregoing terms, too. De.
G. TOCHtIAN