Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser., 1870-12-23
Immisration to Maryland.
1mmfgfHt1UH 10 71"f5 !"Hu'
To the Hon. the Delegates from the respectire
Counties, and others desirous to promote
LmnaioratiOn to MdrvlQnd

| To the Hon. the Delegates from the respect,re
Counties. and others desirous to promote
| Immigration to Maryland.
GENrLEMEN-I learn from the public pa
pers, that you are about to hold an lmmigra-
tion Convention in Baltimore, with view to
consider the best mode Of securing farm
ilabnrers-in other words. to obtain your fair
share Of the large body of Immigrants wfnch
are steadily seeking homes and employment
in this great country.
| The enormous grants of land which Con-
| gress has made to various railroads intersectins
the Western States and Territories, have
induced them to organize and maintain i'm
migration and Land Agencies to such an ex-
tent that the claims of the Western States
have been unduly thrust on the attention ol
immigrants, to the almost entire exclusion OF
the interest and claims of the older and Middle
States and as a result, the Western States
have almost enj"yed monopoly of the great
stream of immigration. | do not hesitate t.
say. fr"m long and intimate acquaintance with
| the subject, that there are thousands Of com.
paratively poor farmers in the mother country
and in Canada. able and willing to come tt
yon, who would come if they but knew yon'
wants, and their own opportunities; whilst
there are also tens of thousands of the very
men you want, patient, hard-working and
poorly paid farm laborers, receiving not above
500 tn $12O per annum without rations
who would as readily come to you if they
were able to do so.
| Having lived some forty years in Great
Britain, and being well acquainted with all
parts Of it. but particularly with England anc
Scotland l am well acquainted with the CON
dition of the agricultural population through
out those Countries, and am therefore able t,
sav, that there is very large number o
small tenant farmers in the old country will
$1,000 to SO 900 capital, who on account o
the high rental of land there, ranging from
SO to 500 per acre per annum, besides rates
aud taxes, can but barely make living
many uf these are coming to this country all
the time, and they should be encouraged by
timely and proper Information to gointo you1
emply.
Among those coming to our shores are valu
able mechanics and bard-working farmers.
These men are just adapted to supply the
great and growing need in this respect, Of the
Older and Middle States and with little
management you may easily obtain any rea
sopable number of them for the State oil
| Maryland.
There is less difficulty about the subject
than may appear at irst sight. What is need
ed on the part of your respective counties, anc
IN the part of the immigrants, is, to make
your wants and their wishes known in plain
and ineligible manner, each to the other
and with little pin some cases, the present
inequality between your wants and their wish
es will soon right itself. and you will obtain
all you desire. There is. moreover, humane
principle involved 10 this subject, which
should unite all clases of philauthropists in
supporting Of the work. 1t is, in my view.
little short Of expatration and cruelty. to send
so many thousands Of ignorant and deluded
Europeans. as they arrive 10 this country, to
our far off Western States and Territories, to
which region, with its esmi-barbarous sur
roundings, so many of them are totally unfit
ted by early habits, knowledge, or experience.
l believe one month would be quite long
enough both for me to inform myself. whether
could pursue this business satisfactorily, with
sufficient prospect Of success and for you OF
your Committee to judge of my ability to car
~ it out successfully and if both y"u and
were not fully satisfied within that time,
would cheerfully retire from the effort. with
out involving your counties or the State In
any expense on my account.
JAMES MACKENZIE,
No. 488 North Fifth St., Philadelphia.