The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1871-06-09
ORGANIZED EMIGRATION.
BY STEPHEN PAUL ANDREWS.

10 humanity more indebted than to emf
grafton land immigration since Adam and
Eve first emigrated from Eden, or since, at
least the great European families
of nations, poured forth from the plains
of Iran, to inundate Europe and America
with the leading clinical developments OF
the race of man; the impetus towards
dispersion and diffusion has never ceased,
and it will never cease until mankind shall
have effectualy multiplied and replen-
isbed the earth"-not until every nook and
corner of the available surface OF the
earth shall have been ransacked and occu-
pied. ~ .
Thus, while emigration has in all ages
been a leading branch of the business OF
the world, it has never yet, as branch OF
business. been even decently organized.
CAPITAL. guided by an intelligent SELL
interest. has not hitherto concerned itself |
greatly with the transfer of great tribes OF |
men, with their wives and children, and
household goods; and in times of peace,
and for benefcent purposes, from one part
to another on the earth's surface. Emlgra-
ton has always been helter-skelter and
chance-directed affair. Populations have
been hurled pell-mell by the ambitious, or
the disasters of war by overcrowding at
homs by the stringency Of famine, or by
vague hopes of gain upon some new mao
itaI, wholly untitled, most probably to re-
ceive them.
No wise fore-thought, no social protec.
torate has prepared the way no execo,
tive chieftain mo cautious and powerful
directory has watched over the fortunes OF
the enterprising travellers to new land.
EVERYTHING has been left to be provided
for as it might happen after their arrival,
and by themselves, and at every dsadvan-
tage. The settlement of our own Western
and Southwestern States and Cn -
49, s,orifced mora G.----overy ten years,
nas sao. er ugHa war var would have done. The
lack of the economy of life has been enor-
nous. The suffering incurred has been,
and is still recurring history, which never
can be written.
All this wasteful and untidy procedure,
in this matter of merely getting the popu-
lation Of the earth distributed, was doubt
less incident to the primitive and infantile
stage Of human progress. Nobody was to
blame, because nobody knew how to do
things any better. Indeed, the instrument
talities for doing things rightly did not as
yet exist. At this day, even, the surplus
capital of the world is employed in building
roads, and opening the avenues OF travel
and transportation. The use to be made
of the roads, comes next in order.
A noteworthy beginning. in the mere
matter of regulating the existing currents
peeu rnaugururvu ny rne present h'.ffnhns
grafton Societies." But everything that
has been done or attempted, or even talked
of, as desirable, or possible, comes infinite.
" short of it. The need which exists is
for an organization, and the genius of ad.
ministration, in this department of human
affairs. There is hardly another field fol
the future employment of capital, promis-
ing SO much, for the benefit of both the
capitalist and the public, as that of pre-.
pairing the future homes of the coming ar,
mics of population, in new countries. The
capitalist should 60 in advance of the &C
tual emigrant, not merely to buy up thu
soil and speculate from its future
value; not, indeed, merely to oper
up highways and bring the lands
into market but to lay out the plots O
towns and large agricultural settlements
to make concessions of public properties
for schools, commons, parks and play.
grounds; to construct public edifces, no.
tells, and caravansaries ; to build houses Of
all sorts and grades of accommodation as
homes for the coming settlers; to be sold
to them according to the means of the
purchaser, and upon easy terms of credit
and. in fine, to act as social providence
in advance, and continuously, over the
welfare of the colony introducing the
latest modern improvements, as well al
others wholly new and previously I'M
thought of, SO that so far as possible, the
new people shall avoid the follies, and i'm.
prove upon the improvements, OF those
who have preceded them.
To plant, in this manner, a truly organ
lied colony of human beings, in new
country, to impress ones own genius O.
progress and amelioration upon the destinel
of a rising, or even those of an unborn
state; to give new impulse to human
development through the instrumentality
of wealth, and the power which wealth
confers all this is something we'll fitted tt
the qualification Of noble ambition. 1t
a more exalted aim, than even that o
building railroads, or great edfices merely
for humanity itself is nobler material t.
work in than wood, or iron, or stone; ant
the rank of the artist has always ascende
somewhat, with the dignity of the stuff h
wrought in.
How much more exalted the ambition t.
mould a human society into the expression
of higher forms of social beauty, than t.
conquer for the sake of conquest, or to &C
quire for the bare love of acquiring. The
more vulgar ambition of being known a
rich, is beginning to yield to more exalte'
aspiration that of manifesting the power
to bless mankind or rather, perhaps, tina
of reconcilng these two ends in one fo
even the desire for the repute of possessing
power of any sort, is only evil when
binders, or Is made to suffice for the more
worthy use of power.
What Mr.. Lands has accomplished a
Vineland near Philadelphia, and what MI
A. T. Stewart is now doing at Garde
City, Long Island, have some of the lea
lures of organized emigration as herei
sketched and intended, and are full OF pro
mise in respect to what the capitalist elias
will eopauence To Dlan and ACCOMPLISH