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either ruin to the producing power of the population through 

 deficiency of industrial power, or the throwing open the land to 

 foreign emigration by means of the most extensive concessions. 

 The longer this is deferred, the more oppressively will the 

 want of manual labour manifest itself; and the more advan- 

 taofes will foreign eraiofration secure. 



Once, however, these important stipulations are conceded, 

 the German emigrants may forthwith bend their steps to the 

 coasts of Brazil, where the glorious dawn of a magnificent 

 future is surely breaking for them. While, in the United 

 States, the problem to be solved by the German emigrants 

 seems to be, to mingle German industry, German capacity, 

 and German knowledge, with the keen spirit of enterprise and 

 restless energy of the Anglo-Saxon race, and gradually to 

 assimilate with it, — on the other hand, in the South American 

 continent, it appears as though the German element were about 

 gradually to gain the upperhand of the Latin stocli, and per- 

 manently to conquer for German industry and German com- 

 merce, one of the fairest countries on the globe with the 

 "Weapons of peace — the spade and plough. 



Brazil is, however, of great interest to Germany not merely 

 on account of the prospects she holds out for its overflowing po- 

 pulation. A market, teeming with the most important colonial 

 products, with an area* of 3,956,800 English square miles, 

 and an annual consumption of nearly £10,000,000, must iii 

 the highest degree attract the attention and excite the most 



* According to the computation of the Historico-Geographicol Institute of Brazil. 



