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vantages of coming here were known, they would flock 

 down here by thousands. 



This matter should be brought to the notice of the 

 Government. / want the man of moderate means, our 

 Western laborers, here. They will be a militia to take 

 care of the country, and our troops can go elsewhere. The 

 persons who cultivate the next cotton crop are the ones who 

 will buy the land here. Shall this land be distributed and 

 owned in small tracts ? For the good of the slaves freed 

 by Mr. Lincoln s proclamation I wish it ; for to a great ex 

 tent the ground will be tilled by their labor, and I want a 

 large population of white people here, so their labor will be 

 in demand and respected, and combinations of a few cap 

 italists cannot be made against them. We have uprooted 

 one aristocracy here ; let us not establish by our own act 

 one of another kind. 



&quot; The question of title to the land must not make timid 

 a man who is thinking to come here. The cultivation of 

 one year is enough to induce him to come. A man that 

 takes only 80 acres can go back home at the end of the 

 year with at least $8,000 in his pocket. Would he make 

 one-tenth that by staying at home \ See what you can do 

 towards sending the thousands to our gold fields, and lo 

 cating a large population on the banks of the Mississippi 

 river. Any man who has seen the emigrants going to Cal 

 ifornia and Pike s Peak knows the inducements and recom 

 mendations for coming here. Every officer I have spoken 

 to on the subject favors it. Those who want to plant 

 largely, and be the future aristocrats here, oppose it. Now 

 is the time to change the destiny of this country. I hope 

 you will work favorably and immediately for it.&quot; 



It will not be doubted that, in multitudes of pri 

 vate circles, in parlor, counting-house, exchange, 

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