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ern Florida, aDd combining the superiority of its climate, of \i?, products, 
of its formation, of \X^position, of its joeojy/e, and of its Government, it pre¬ 
sents much greater advantages for an easy productive permanent location 
of our agricultural emigrants than Texas or Cuba, or any Spanish Amer¬ 
ican state or colony, Avhere military anarchy or abject servility prevails ; 
than Jamaica, or any other West India island which is menaced by the 
black cloud of fanatical emancipation ; than any and every portion of the 
whole torrid zone, inhabited by an indolent, ignorant, immoral, and intol¬ 
erant population ; and that it indeed forms the only tropical territory on 
the globe in which tropical vegeculture can be pursued by the best 
species of the human genus under the best Government in the world. 
17. That'your memorialist has not only shown that many valuable 
vegetables of the tropics, after temporary domestication in southern Flor- 
' ida, may be gradually acclimated dvadL profitably propagated in the most 
steril districts oi the Southern States, but also that there may be imme¬ 
diately introduced various productive perennial plants which prop¬ 
agate them^selves in the worst natural soils, and which are still more pro¬ 
ductive when aided b)^ the least care, capital, skill, or labor of man ; that 
he has especially recommended several tropical plants which combine the 
merits of yielding the greatest possible products, with . the least possible 
labor, in the poorest possible soils ; whose introduction will, therefore, be 
an equivalent to the direct addition of absolute fertility to the most sandy, 
stony, and swampy surfaces, or hitherto most steril districts, of pos¬ 
itive ivealth to the youngest, oldest, and feeblest, or hitherto poorest pop¬ 
ulation; that hence flour, sugar, foliaceous fibres may be more profit¬ 
ably produced in the refuse lands of Caroliila and Georgia, than flour, 
sugar, cortical and capsular fibres in the richest sections of Ohio and 
Louisiana; that even their ruined fields will yield greater prosperity in 
the production of foliaceous fibres, than was' ever obtained from their 
virgin by the cultivation of capsular fibres, notwithstanding the 
latter constitute more than one-half of the whole value of the annual ex¬ 
ports of the United States; that, as the narcotic leaves oi one native plant 
of Yucatan (which did take its name from the dependent province of Ta¬ 
basco) do actually afford an annual exportation of six millions of dollars 
in one staple of the South, so ikxo fibrous leaves of dnother native plant of 
this peninsula {which may take its name from the exporting port of Sisal) 
will more probably afford an annual exportation of ten tinres six mdllions 
of dollars in another_ staple of the South, still more important than all her 
present staples combined, not merely for Xho value oiif profit of the prod¬ 
uct itself, but also for the character of xhd lands and of the population 
it will employ ; and that, finally, the propagation of the fibrous Henequen 
Agave, mih farinaceous Jatropha of Yucatan, of the coloring Co¬ 
chineal QcicXob of Oaxaca, and of the saccharine Jaggery Caryota of Ceylon, 
and of other most valuable species of tropical plants of the same hardy 
natural families of Bromeliacese, Euphorbiacese, Cactse.and Palm®, will 
extract inexhaustible materials of agricultural wealth from the actually 
worthless sands and marshes of the Southern States; and which will afford 
correspondingly profitable employment to the actually unoccupied funds 
and laborers of the Northern States ; and which will thus prove to be the 
most effectual remedies for relieving the general distress of our steril 
Atlantic States. 
18. That, as the principal cause of the agricultural distress of the steril 
