The national Republican., 1867-08-24
AatinnaI @epahIifat1,
Henry vincent on the United
Sfatee.

TO listen to an address from Henry Vincent 4
on his tour in the United States OF Ameri .
ca. Rowland Hill, on taking the chair, u
said that, as Mr.. Vincent was on q visit to
the town for o few days, his friends thought :
il was a favorable opportunity to hear
from his lips his impressions produced by j
n ten months tour through the United !
States Of America.
Mr.. Vincent delivered q long and interest
ing address, in the course Of which he said
America, after all, is the workman's
Countrywide future home for millions Of
the children Of the sons and daughters Of
toll No dandies should 90 to America;
and yet there were people he should re-
commend to emigrate now-young jour
neymen carpenters, for instance, who
would, in addition 10 carpenters work,
paint, paper, glaze and ROOF, let such men,
II they are sober and industrious, marry
healthy English wives, take them out and
90 west and settle in some small town and
take the first job that comes to hand. Let
them work from the first at house-build-
ing; for most Of the houses in new settle
ments were Of wood. Let them build, or
mend, or paper, or glaze, or roof, or paint
or lay down wooden pavement, and he
would venture to say that in Eve years
they would be emaster.carpenters and build. |
ers upon large and prosperous scale.
Such men would soon buy for few dol
lars their acre Of land, and put up q
wooden house Of their own. They would
soon fill their land with fruits and vege.
tables and poultry, ami they need not fear
if God blesses them with the old English
orthodox number Of sixteen children
Loud laughter and cheers Small Eng
iish farmers should 60 out, especially men
with large families, who can take with
them from $500 to $1,000. They should
only stay night in New York and push
on next day to the West. II asked where
they should go, he would say anywhere.
Laughter Let them go to western
Missouri il they want a lovely climate and
SOIL or to western Illinois, or to Michigan,
Wisconsin, or Minnesota, or to Iowa or
Kansas, or even further West. Let them
not purchase too much land. Let them
buy from seventy.fve to one hundred acres
of cleared or partially cleared land, which
in many places they will get from ten 70
fifteen dollars-paper dollars--per acre.
Let them put up small rough wooden
house. Let them plant, roughly, an acre
Of wheat, little barley and oats. Let
them plant potatoes and vegetables. Let
them purchase half dozen pigs, three or
four cows, fifty chickens, hundred fruit
trees Of various kinds, and resolve for o
year or two to live off the farm; giving up
tea and coffee, drinking milk, cream, and
porridge; and he would venture to say that
in five or ten years they would be prosper.
Gus farmers, able to buy another hundred
or five hundred acres, with a certain
glorious future for all their children.
nf thn g. Da;l ha
anxious that they should note that gigan-
tic enterprise which united the Atlantic
and Pacific by rail. Already were the
l,400 miles west Of New York, while from
240 miles, and the line was being laid now
the line; and in 1870 ii was expected this
great iron route would be completed, when
you would be able to take the train OF
New York and run to San Francisco, O
distance of over three thousand miles
withont changing carriages. And what
territory would the line cross All the
wonderful wealth of the Rocky Mountains
mountains streaked with valuable metals
gold, silver, copper, iron, all brought
within reach Of civilized cities. Applause.
The shores Of the Pacific would be the
route TO the trade Of China, Australia,
New Zealand and the isles of the Pacific
in fact, world of wonder was opening up
that almost exceeded the dream Of Utopia.
Loud cheers. And all this the property
Of freemen-of q race Of men who had
founded the most popular representative
institutions that have ever existed-of Q
race Of enterprising citizens who were
covering the continent with beautiful
cities colleges, universities, museums, Ii
braries workshops, manufactures, churches
and schools. Enthusiastic applause.
And here he might be asked what he
thought Of the working of republican in
sttutions in America. Hear 1t wal
almost impertinent in stranger to offer {
criticism on so great subject after brie
visit to such country. OF course Their
we're many things in American politics
and the workings of American institutions
to starte q stranger. The excitement G
the last fall elections, the strong persona
denunciations Of political opponents, tn
demonstrations in the streets, the boomin
Of cannon, the torchlight professions, a
made him anxious and nervous; but, i
conversng with educated Americans i
Philadelphia they all said: "Oh, we di
count all this this is our method we a
tack our opponents right and left, and tr
and demolish them, as well as their argr
ments. But when the election is over, a
will 60 well again" and he found in Me-
York and Pennsylvania no traces of pal
sion week after the elections were dt
cided. There were evils to be corrected
evils that were incidental to all human ir
stitutions. Sufficient care was not take
to prevent what is called "colonizing"-
that is, bringing in strangers and crowdin
them into houses, with fraudulent votin
declarations before an election; and
thought Americans were too easy in ALLOW
ing foreigners to vote before they had
time and education learned TO understan
American institutions.
lie thought, moreover, that the grea
evil was the little interest felt in the cat
Gus, or preliminary meetings, to nominal
candidates for the local or General Gov
ernment. Some people must attend tbes
meetings, and If intelligent and workin
men would not attend they must not fin