The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1865-07-03
MAYOR UenerhI MEADE.
GEORGE d. RucoIxs, Assistant Adjutant General
Emigration and the settlement Of Our
Public Lands.

TO THE HDIToR OF THE HERALD.
My name has become somewhat identified with immi
grafton and the settlement Of the West during the last
fifteen years and dceming this favorable opportunity
] desire to occupy q brief space with suggestion
or two on this important subject II Is hardly
necessary Mt this late day TO point out the value
Of emigration the importance Of adopting q lbe-
raj policy towards the emigrant The best test Of the
value of healthy and continuous tide Of immigration
the country TO be found in the results which have al
ready been achieved through the agency II will
hardly be credited but IL Is nevertheless fact that
sum equal to five hundred millions Of dollars has been
added national capital during the last twenty
years This comes from four and half millions of
immigrants, in hard cash, In gold its equivalent The
immigration Of the year will hardly fall short Of
two hundred thousand if does exceed that figure
and the brought by them will reach nearly twenty
Millions but this money brought by these people is the
least important feature Of the subject Men and muscle
In shor-labor Is what want to produce wealth, and
to use a homely phrase, "keep the pot boiling"
The settlement OF these people SO that the government
and they may DO mutually and reciprocally benefited
becomes the vital question connected with the whole
subject. The amount Of labor which, that the war
is will find Its way back 10 Its old channels Is in
credible aud only be estimated by the pressure to
which their withdrawal subjected industrial interests
The returned and returning soldiers constitute host OF
workers in themselves. When TO their number add
the unprecedented reaching from abroad
may form an intelligent conception OF what the con-
dtion or the labor market will be at the close Of
the current year. There is, however, no danger
Of ovcrplus. There Is abundant for all these
and many more for years 70 come The area Of the
public domain in the North embraces thousand mil
hons Of acres and that OF the reclaimed territory in the
South to thousand This land Is all open
and invites the hand OF the husbandman The factories
mills foundrcs and machine shops, coal and iron mines
and fisheries OF the Southern and border States present
great inducements both 70 labor and capital The har
invites the husbandmsn Thousands Of industrious
mechanics and laborers who now throng the back
streets lanes and alleys OF New York and our other
large cities, in a state OF restitution worse than
that they left in the Old World, will find in
the sunny South profitable and pleasant ed Of labor
There will be found home and farm for every man
who will take the trouble TO occupy and cultivate H. For
capacity of production the climate and soil are without
parallel in the world The soil has never been more than
partially developed Millions OF acres Of good arabic
land have been touched by the plough or submitted
10 skilled labor. Slavery Is forever abolished. White
labor has longer 10 contend with involuntary servi
ude Never did such golden opportunity offer to those
intending desiring to emigrateto our own Northern
citizens well TO those who nocking TO our shores
from foreign soil.
Another important consideration II this:-Emgration
viii help W pay the expenses Of The war Our debt a.