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must entail ruinous loss; sixthly because indepen- 

 dent 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 

 the cost of production of which, is very large, are the 

 proper people, and can well afford, to provide for alt 

 the necessities of their position. But the class of 

 people who emigrate from any country, except as be- 

 fore mentioned under the pressure of peculiar circum- 

 stances are the poor. In the outset at least, all 

 their expenses must be defrayed, and howsoever 

 lucrative the business, trade, or cultivation for 

 which their labor may be required, should these 

 expenses or advances be defrayed by producers or 

 capitalists, they must be given some security that they 

 will recover their advances, or at least that they 

 shall be the people who will reap the benefit of 

 their outlay. Hence the necessity for a Contract 

 law. But here a*aiu we are met by a greater diffi- 

 culty, for however stringent may be the laws framed, 

 no really good security can ever be given to capita- 

 lists, living in a free country, that after having paid 

 all the expenses of importing labor, their laborers 

 will continue to work for them. And this is 



