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Call for Emigration. 
moderate. Our soil is virgin and rich, —we have large tracts 
of good land, nearly all uncultivated, which only need intelli¬ 
gent workmen to till them. Everything assures you in this 
country of a happy future. For those among you who possess 
capital, it will he easy to find at once a place among us. The 
country offers them immediate resources. They can count on 
the solicitude of the Government, and on its special protection. 
Our society is ready to adopt them, and prepares for them a 
fraternal welcome. They will enjoy here all the considerations 
that they merit; they will occupy the rank that their respecta¬ 
bility assigns them,— all the things that a blind and barbarous 
prejudice refuses to them in countries inhospitable to our race. 
The poorer emigrants shall have the right to all that their sit¬ 
uation demands. The Government will provide for their first 
necessities, and will take the proper measures to secure to them 
a quiet and honorable asylum, as well as to facilitate for them 
the means of obtaining employment. 
It is very natural that you should ask, before coming to an 
unknown country, what are the facilities that will be afforded 
to you, as well for the satisfaction of your first needs, as for 
your definitive settlement. This thought has seriousigr occupied 
the Chief of the Republic and his Government. 
I proceed to state the deter m ination to which it has come :— 
To such of you as are not able to pay the expenses of your 
passage, aid will be given from the public treasury. 
Agents, whom I shall presently appoint in the United States, 
will be charged to make the necessary' arrangements in this 
respect. 
Og. their arrival here, the emigrants will find lodging gratui¬ 
tously, where, during the first few days, their needs will be 
provided for. 
Government will occupy itself from - this time with providing 
means to offer to each person, on arrival, either on private 
estates or the public domains, sufficiently remunerative work. 
Every individual, the issue of African blood, may, immedi- 
