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emigrants than it has been, during three years, for 

 natives of her soil. 



The quantity of land to change owners and be 

 settled up is almost incredible. In Virginia alone, 

 according to Judge Underwood, there are more than 

 two hundred million dollars worth of property, 

 chiefly real estate, which ought to be confiscated. 

 Thousands of acres have already been sold to 

 Northern purchasers. &quot;These States,&quot; says Mr. 

 Julian, &quot; constitute one of the fairest portions of the 

 globe. They are larger in area than all the free 

 States of the North. They have a sea and gulf 

 coast of more than six thousand miles in extent, and 

 are drained by more than fifty navigable rivers, 

 which are never closed to navigation by the rigor of 

 the climate. They have at least as rich a soil as the 

 States of the North, yielding great wealth-producing 

 staples peculiar to them, and two or three crops in 

 the year. They have a finer climate, and their agri 

 cultural, manufacturing, and commercial advan 

 tages, are decidedly superior. Their geographical 

 position is better, as respects the great commercial 

 centres of the world. The institution of slavery, 

 which has so long cursed these regions by excluding 

 emigration, degrading labor, and impoverishing the 

 soil, will very soon be expelled. The cry which al 

 ready comes up from these lands is for free laborers. 

 If we offer them free homesteads, and protect their 

 rights, they will come. John Bright, in a recent 

 speech at Birmingham, estimates that within the 

 past year 150,000 people have sailed from England 

 to New York. Let it be settled that slavery is dead, 



