The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1872-04-19
THE WELSH IN PATAGONIA STIRRING.
American Welshmen Warned from Be-
ing Led Away by Interested and
Ignorant Parties.

Some six or seven years ago q
few men in Wales. led by the Rev.
NJ. d. joiner, of Bala College, select
ed Patagonia for the purpose, as al
legged, of establishing a Welsh Ma
tionality. Some two hundred
Welsh people-some of them from
America-went. and the result has
proved the folly, If not the GRIM
inslity of those who were at the
head of the movement. After hav-
ing suffered various privatlons, hav-
ing been at one time eight months
without any communication with
the outward world, British vessel
of war visited the colony and offer
ed to take all away. But notwith-
standing a large majority desired to
avail themselves of this humane of
fer, q few of the leading men sue
Gee, ed in prevailing upon them TO
remain, after being suPplied with
various necessities OF which they
were destitute.
And now come official docu-
ments from the British Minister at
Beunos Ayres to Earl Granville,
the British Secretary of State, in
forming him OF the deplorable con-
ditiOn of the Welsh colonists in
Patagonis and the latter writes to
the British Consul in New York,
instrncting him to warn the Welsh
of America not to be deluded into
the same snare. In his dispatch to
Earl Granville the Minister at Bue-
nos Ayers says:
eff the information contained in the
letter Of Mr.. Jones. OF Bala, proves cor
| rect, that q largo number Of immigrants
propose joining the Chupat colony IN its
present. condition, the consequences Of so
unwise 4 step may turn out the most des-
tructiVe. Therefore should these immi-
grants call at Buenos Ayres, or Montevi-
dec on their way, Will, in conjunction
| with Mr.. Parish, use my utmost endeay-
ors 20 dissuade them from prosecuting
their intentions; and though possibly
| they be disappointed in the condition and
prospects offered them in = more central
position, they will, however, be saved
distraction which inevitably waits Who
ever hasten TO the wretched settlement at
Chupat.
| II not too late, would take the lib
erty to suggest that the Welsh be unde-
ceived IL regard to the prospects held out
10 them by particular parties, who seem
to have taken advantage Of Capt. Dennis
towns report (lntended TO prove the pos
sibllity perhaps Of the colony, though 10
q destitute condition, by persistent efforts
TO recover itselr) for the purpose OF repre-
Senting the settlement as prosperous, etc -
With regard to the Indians, who
have always been represented as
most friendly, he says:
Further also, however friendly and
peaceable they may imagine the Indians
to be towards them, It has been so for the
reason that they had nothing to lose, and
IL Is an undoubted fact from the admission
Of the settlers themselves, that the num-
Der OF the cattle given them ut the first
have so largely decreased by the friendly
spoliation of these same Indians, that
they are compelled to appeal to public
charity for additional supply.
The absurdity of the attempt to
establish Nationality in Patagogia,
even should they ultimately pros.
per, apart from all the suffering al
ready endured and the lamentablt
condition of the few settlers on the
Chupat, will be apparent from this
statement of the British Consul In
Buenos Ayres: "The conditions
under which the land is held are sc
uncertain and its value is SO small
that it would be but poor pay fol
the labor bestowed on IT,"
1t is to be hoped that after this ne
Welshman will be SO blinded as t.
be led into leaving this great anC
. glorious country under the delusivt
hope of lettering his condition by
going to Patagonia. Indeed i
would seem that the only kindness
that can be done for the unhappy
victims of this delusive scheme viii
be to send q vessel and bring then
bag and baggage Gf there be any
bag or baggage) to the United
States. J.