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and that the estates of traitors in the South can be 

 had under the provisions of the Homestead law, 

 and foreign immigration will be quadrupled, if not 

 augmented ten fold. Millions in the Old World, 

 hungering and thirsting after the righteousness of 

 free institutions, will flock to the sunny South, and 

 mingle there with the swarms of our own people in 

 the pursuit of new homes under kindlier skies. Im 

 migration has not slackened, even during this war, 

 and in determining the direction it will take, it must 

 be remembered that settlements have very nearly 

 reached their limits in the ^orth and West. Kansas 

 and Nebraska are border States, and must so con 

 tinue. Their storms, and droughts, and desert 

 plains, give a pretty distinct hint that the emigrant 

 must seek his Eldorado in latitudes further South. 

 In the new northwestern States the richest lands 

 have been purchased, and vast portions of them 

 locked up by speculators. Their distance from the 

 great- markets for their produce, and their severe 

 winters, will also check emigration in that direction, 

 and incline it further South, if lauds can be pro 

 cured there with tolerable facility. The rebel States 

 not only abound in cheap and fertile land, with 

 cheap labor in the persons of the freedmen to assist 

 in its cultivation, but they possess great mineral re 

 sources. They have also extensive lines of railroads, 

 which, in connection with their great rivers, bring 

 almost every portion of their territory into com 

 munication with the sea.&quot; 



With slavery extinct, and peace restored, then, in 

 the eloquent language of Solicitor Whiting, u the 



