The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1872-02-10

ring the last few wears have made their homes
in Virginia. Men of this class will not miSr'se
hithcr if they are to be accompanied oy IN"
classed with what our correspondent terih7
"paupers.' And IL, as he fears, paupers arc
the only class which would be rcachea D!
the States agents, it Is easy to understand
that the kind of immigrants VIC ncce' his'''
he prevented by this consideration from Se'
ling here, We have great many laoorels'
the cheapest and among the best III VI.
world: but we need capital. If we can se.
this. we shall soon make the desert places VI
tbc roof, cid State blossom like the rose:
To he Editors Of The H;ch,nond D'$paIch :
have read with great pleasure your re-
,,.rrs IN thc Dispatch Of February ith re-
spccting immigration. oe.,o
The proposals of the joint committee OF Tue
rcrisl,t,,rc are likely to stop immigration
instead of to promote 1t.
7 came here some time ago, and alter que
investigation | determined TO devote Ger
tain sum of money TO make known the adj
yauiawcs of Virginia to my fcliow-country-
mcn--thc result of which has been so far
highly satisfactory i'll regard to future pros
meets. I am in correspondence with people
in all parts Of Great Britain, and expect
during the present year that a large number
Of settlers of tic right sort will come TO Flr-
gina.
Per last mail / received the following in q
letter from an English gentleman OF large
fortune. who Is cooperating with me:
ave have thousands of Intelligent and IN
dustrious Enclishmcu, having capital Of 4
few thousands of pounds lying idle in banks
ut two per cent. [per annuml, who are at
their Wits end not only for investment but
also for employment. This country Is so
overburdencd with capital and so cut up by
competition that both capital and industry
arc 4 useless drug. A man with three or
four thousand pounds $4,000 to S20,0oo,
IS YOU well know, is nowhere, and must
fight for bread and cheese"
Another Englishnan writes me respecting
4 proposed settlement OF English farmers,
and saws sit is the cheap negro labor that
will attract Englishmeh with money"
Now, Sirs, am new to Virginia, and while
[ want to do what l can for your State,
must naturally look to my own interests
Myself and friends have spent several thou
sand dollars in making known what Virginia
offers. not to idb0rers, for you have enough III
all conscience Of them. but TO country gentle
men and farmers. | came here hoping to
honorabty make my home influence available,
and thus to bring around me circle OF ca
friends. All this is changed by the proposal
of the Legislature to establish Il gigantic gov
eminent estate agency. | suppose l must
lose nv investment, for | know the better
class of Englishmcn will never leave England
if such a scheme is carried out 1t IS hard
any bow TO get man with money to leave
England, and ii can only be accomplished by
pricatc influence. The evil effects Of this
mad scheme are seen already, fora gentleman
who came to this State to buy ten thousand
acres of Emd for a settlement has received Il
telegram not 10 Juy unHt At IS seen ,rheMcr
ne Legislature go on erith Their proposals.
If they do go OIL with them, Ike IS not to tug
al alt!
1t may be said that I write from interested
notices. l do not deny that rs a settler |
an interested in promoting the progress of
Virginia, but before | came here had
offers to go to the West, which would have
been personally far more remunelativc me.
I admit, too. that am interested i'll bringing
in other settlers, and also that do not oclSh
to saddle the State nth any expenses IN so
dOillg
NO QOlnI fTSlilla GILL uo Wei clioiSii
without such people as myself, The "Emi-
grafton Ring" who are controlling the LcgiS-
lature can, have no doubt, bring in thou
sands Of paupcrS. Already the agents of the
Western States in England. who are main-
tanned at Il lavish cost OF hundreds Of thou
sands of dollars per annrm. are warning the
people against pauperizcd Virgini". Ii the
State is to compete with these agents not
So, 600, but three millions OF dollars will be
required, and when all that is spent then the
class OF settlers you need will have been
frightened away.
Voluntary efforts are doing much and will
do a vast deal more if let alone, and the men
who 0u7t the lands Of Virginia will do well
to pause ere they allow the "rin@' to stop
the good work which is going hrlycly OF in
order to provide State offices for men who
never can do anything but import paupers.
Let me also say that the foolish determine
ton Of the Legislature to interfere with the
rate OF interest has, to my knowledge, de-
TERED many foreign capitalists from sending
over money for investment.
/ have never yet seen 4 Nirginian (uncOn-
ncctcd with the "ring'0 who does not con-
denim what the Legislature, led Oh by the
Governor, are going to do.
am, sir, your obedicnt servant,
AN ENGLISH SETTLER.
February SM, 1872.