Dallas herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1849-1873, 1867-03-09
LandhOIder's Convention.

| appointed an Executive committee
OF fifteen, with full power TO act for
the Convention. The Committee
has had meetings ut Houston and
Galveston, and after days of deibcr.
alton and discussion, has agreed. to
recommend to the people the follow
ing!
That TO obtain Labor, lmmigra.
ton and u market for their lands,
they must combine, for by combina.
ton only can they rebuild their
broken fortunes and rapidly devel.
ope the great resources of our State,
! Formerly the agriculturist owned
the labor rs well us the land he cpl-
tivated this produced IN indepcnd-
encc of each other that does not now
exist.
CAPITAL must now seek and hire
lubor; heretofore it owned and con-
troled it. The capital of the agri-
cuiturist is now land, which without
labor is not only unproductive, but
comparatively valueiess. 1t can be
made valuable by laying aside that
personal independence of action
that has heretofore characterised
our people arising from their pecu-
liar relation TO both land and labor.
We must now adapt ourselves to the
change in our circumstances. and
by association accomplish by tho
union of two or more, what cannot
be done by one.
We would recommend that the
people of each county, of several
counties, or individuals should as-
sociatc themselves together, appoint
agents, raise funds and do all those
things requisite to bring about
practical results for the settlement,
cultivation and sale Of their lands.
We would suggest, that each
county select its land agent, whose
duty it shall be, to adopt the best
means for bringing immigrants and
labor to the county, on such terms
as may be agreed upon by said agent
and the parties benefited. These
agents should correspond with gen
cral agents, located at principal
points in the State, and these gene
raj agents with agencies in the 9TH
er States and in foreign countries.
BY this system Of combination,
Offices with maps and records Of
lands for sale would be created,
useful information would be dis
seminated on which practical opera
tions could be based.
The Texas Land Labor and I'M
migration Company, Chartered at
the last session of the legislature,
having for its object the promotion
of immigration to Texas, facilitating
the purchase and settlement Of lands
by immigration and the introduc-
ton of laborcrs and skilled opera
tives into the State, can not be too
highly commended to the attention
of the public, nor their active CO.
operation too earnestly urged
Stock hooks being now open for
subscriptions in land, we earnestly
urge all persons desiring to aid in
inducing immigration or to put their
lands advantagcously on the mar
ket, to take stock in the company
at ONCE and be ready to participate
in its organization to take place
soon.
| This company will be good me
dium through which individuals
and small associations can put their
lands into market.
The Legislature should at its next
session enact efficient laws on the
subject of immigration, making
such appropriations of land and
money as would be commensurate
with the great object in view.
Several ofthe Northwestern States
which were q few years ago sparscly
inhabited, have been rapidly settled
up by the efficient aid given to i'm
migration by these States. They
sent out agents and lecturers, pub
iished and advertised in this and in
foreign countries the advantages Of
fered by these States to the immi-
grant.
Texas should do likewise she
should app int commissioner Of
statistics, and by Il bonus ofland and
money, cheaper passage from foreign
countries, appoint her agents for
home, and send competent men
abroad, to publish the glad tidings
to the millions of others and crowd
ed lands, that here in Texas can be
procured cheap homes, with a pro
ductive soil and healthful climate
this can be done under the Con
stitution, and is imperatively de-
manded by the peculiar condition
of the State. We want the capital,
skill, enterprise and labor of the
Northern people, and we invite them
to come and we here assure them
that they will be as safe here in life
and property as we are ourselves.
Guy NJ. Bryan. J. ii. Herndon, J.
Carroll Smith, W. ]. Hgtohims,
]. D. Giddings, J. d. Waters, J
w. Henderson, Ashbel Smith, J.
T. Brady.
.'Judgc II. G. WARMoTH," of New
Orleans, who has figured considera-
bly, at the North, along with JACK
HAMILTON, as a prosecuted south
ern loyafist," was, at the beginning
of the war, a ix-by -niEe lnwyer of
Phelps county, No. He had no in.
luence or standing at homeland
the little reputation he has now,
was gained through his stealing
$4,000 while treasury agent at Gal
weston, and, afterwards, attaching
himself to the Torch and Turpen-
tine Brigade"-an act, in radical
eyes, towering a multitude ofsins." 3"
.-McKinney Enquirer.