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eminently the business of Government :Jirst, be- 

 cause to be carried out on a scale commensurate 

 with even moderate success, except in peculiar cir- 

 cumstances, it can be undertaken only by a body as 

 powerful and wealthy as a Government ; secondly, 

 because to insure those beneficial results to the na- 

 tion and posterity which should flow from the remo- 

 val of population from the over-populous regions of 

 the world to wastes, it must be conducted under 

 such rules and regulations as wise and experienced 

 statesmen alone are competent to frame, and a Go- 

 vernment is able to enforce ; thirdly, because it is 

 Government alone that possesses the power to bestow 

 that for which people in number migrate land ; 

 fourthly, because the benefit derived from such a 

 measure by the Country and the Community or 

 State, is infinitely greater than that derived by in- 

 dividuals ; fifthly, because colonization, when under- 

 taken under proper rules and regulations by a Go- 

 vernment, can not only be made self- supporting-, but 

 eminently remunerative, whereas if undertaken by 

 individuals, it must entail ruinous loss ; sixthly, be- 

 cause independent of all financial considerations, it 

 is the sacred duty of a Government to aid in the 

 distribution of the population which it has pleased 

 God to commit to its care, in such a manner as will 

 best conduce to the prosperity, the welfare, and the 

 happiness of all. 



It is a specious argument to advance, that those 

 who are engaged in a cultivation, the return to the 



