Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1868-01-28

dollars, or less, in gold. But the Brazilian
government has an agency there, and an ar
rangement with the United States and Brazi
Mail Steamship Company" by which emf
grants to the number of three hundred montl
will be taken out on credit, each adult becom
ing indebted to the government in the sum o
| fifty dollars for the passage, which he has five
or six years to repay. This applies only to ag
| riculturists. Mechanics and others will be ta
ken out on the same terms but must refund
the money in one year. Persons indebted to
the government or citizens are not permitted
to leave the Empire until their debts are paid
On arriving at Rio, immigrants can 20 to the
Emigrant's Hotel, large, elegant and com
Portable building, where they are fed and lodged
on credit until they are furnished transporta-
ton to the place they select to settle in. Trans
portatlon is again furnished them and their
household goods, farming implements, machin-
cry, &c. Land is then sold them, and six years
allowed them to pay the amount. In many in
stances, believe, houses are erected and seeds
furnished to begin farming operations! Was
llberallty like this ever seen before? 1t is just
as L relate it. Americans are so unaccustomed
to it that they will be apt to suspect there is
some trick at the bottom of it-some design to
lure them from their homes and then take some
unfair advantage of them. | am assured there
is nothing of the kind. I'll tell you how ]
think it is:
Brazil saw that the civil war of the United
States would place thousands of their best cit
izens in a situation which would render it i'm
possible for them to remain in their own coun-
try. They had tried to maintain their indepen-
dence, and had failed The most intelligent
and enterprising had lost the most in the eff
fort They had tried the experiment of re-
publican form of government and had seen it
fail. These men, therefore, were the very ones
needed by the Empire. Poor, they would be
industrious and energetic: intelligent, they
would develop the hidden resources of the coun-
and moderation and flying from despotic
Republic, they would become the staunchest
supporters Of a constitutional Monarchy. Bra
lillian statesmen, therefore, determined to in
vlte these fugitives to their shores, and to fur
nish them means to come. There was room fol
them all in every department of life, and there
was good assurance that the outlay of the Gov
ernment in bringing immigrants to the country
would, in very few years, be amply repaid by
the products of their labor. ingenuity and en-
terprise. | am confident the wisdom Of their
course will soon be seen in the increased pro-
ductlon OF cotton, sugar, tobacco and other ar
ticles Southerners understand, and In the I'M
pulse that will be given to the general industry
of the Empire.
May it not be that Providence intended to
produce this result? Brazil needed this infu
sion of Southern immigration to arouse her in
to action-not only in the development of her
immense resources of agricultural and mineral
wealth, but also in the greater vigilance with
which to guard her constitutional liberties. =
Let us hope she will profit by the example Of
her fallen neighbor, by increasing her industry
and thrift without giving herself up wholly tC
the worship of Mammon-and by guarding
against the encroachments of power while
yielding prompt and cheerful obedience tC
law. [. n. YOUNG.