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liberty to embrace the provisions of this beneficent 

 act. Neither, until very recently, have Europeans 

 been well enough informed of our actual condition 

 during the rebellion, to feel themselves safe in ven- 



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turing among us, even for the purpose of securing 

 the magnificent gift which Government holds out 

 for their acceptance. 



They have been led by rebel emissaries to believe 

 our whole Northern and Western country to be the 

 scene of battle, with desolation everywhere, and 

 safety nowhere. The same dishonest agencies have 

 been employed in leading them to believe that for 

 eigners were conscripted at the moment of their 

 landing among us. As men avoid rather than seek 

 tumult, so, from these causes, the foreigner has been 

 content to remain at home. But when the country 

 shall have become entirely at peace, and when the 

 provisions of the Homestead Law shall be thoroughly 

 known in Europe, we may look with confidence for a 

 revival of the vast stream of immigration which, a 

 few years since, was seen pouring into our country. 



What this influx has already done for us may be 

 learned by looking at the single State of Wisconsin. 

 The Legislature of that State found it necessary, in) 

 1864:, to order the Governor s message to be printed! 

 in eight different languages English, German, Nor-J 

 wegian, Irish, Welsh, Holland, French, and Bohe/ 

 mian. &quot; The North American* remarks, on this 

 singular spectacle, that, in Wisconsin, &quot; the old vig 

 orous Teutonic stock is thus largely represented. 

 The sons of the Jarls and Yikings ; the descendants 

 of Eric and Hengist ; the riders of the sea, and for 



