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lt;lt;EMIGRATION TEXAS.’?ALSE. Texas the Governmentwho get9 hisCAUTION.THE Writer of this CAUTION TO THE PUBLIC,is one of three Survivors out of ninety-seven Englishmen who were induced to Emigrate to the inhospitable swamps called Tcxa9, in 1841. To detail the misery and hardships that the present writer and his deluded associates were exposed to on their arrival in the country, and theCERTAIN SICKNESS IP NOT DEATH that awaits thoso who may be tempted to Emigrate to that land of FEVERS and DISEASE of all kinds, would be quite impossible within the limits of this CAUTION; which is meant simply to warn tho WORKING CLASSES, against the manifold schemes now put forth by a base-set ofYANKEE TEXAN LAND SHARKS,to delude them. For this object placards have been posted throughout the Metropolis, descriptive of tho Country; in which itj is stated that 14 Texas is nearly three times as large as France.” This is F is but very little larger than France. It is also stated that44 of Texas is Republican.” It is false.TEXAS IS A LAND OF SLAVERY,not only to the African race, but every white man bread by labour is called a Whitb-NIGGER, (see 44 Maillard's History of Texas,”) and is THOUGHT A SLAVE. It is stated, jtbat 44 Texas is one of the finest and most healthy countries in the world,” and that44 a vast extent of pasturage is open and free for every man's stock.” Both these statements are false. The country i9 open, but at the same time desolate, being thinly peopled, and most unhealthy. In the winter season, the WHOLE FACE of the country, now in possession of the Texans, is under water, and in summer the power of the sun renders the climate sickly, and consequently labour impossible. The pasturage is as coarse and worthless as the‘Saltings” on our English marshes. TheTEXAN LAND JOBBERS again state that 44 tho soil is admirably adapted for every description of European cultivation.” This is also false, for Jwheat, oats, .or barley cannot be grown in the country. 44 Good . working horses,” - say these lovers of truth, 44 may be bought for 40s. [each., cows and calves from 8s. to 12s.” This is false again ! There are no good working horses in Texas, except thoso imported from the United States, and these cannot be bought for less than 200 or 300 dollars each. Tho wild horses of the country arc nothing moro than worthless ponieB, and these cannot be bought for less than 25 dollars, which is more than double the amount stated by those whoWISH TO DELUDE THE PUBLIC.Cows and calves also cannot be purchased at less than 12 dollkrs, instead of 12s. Falsehood does not end hero ! They say,44 Texas is only four or five weeks' sail from Englandwhereas the fast sailing ship Ironsidesj is thought a great deal of because she made one voyage in ten weeks, the shortest voyago that has ever yet been made from England to Texas. IThe real object of putting forth such statements as the [foregoing and following, must be too plain to be mistaken by any thinking Englishman :—44 To Emigrants, whether Farmers, Mechanics, Speculators, Artizans, or Labourers, Texas bolds out the strongest inducements to leave the useless apd heartless struggles against the giant competition in old countries, and to proceed where human labour and capital are estimated at, and command the highest value; and where competence, with ordinary industry and perseverance, is within the reach of every one.” , . f .There is nothing more infamous in the whole history of humbug than this. But these Texan Land-jobbers not only want to sell the land, which they, the Slaveholders of Texas, have stolen from the Republic of Mexico, but they want to get Englishmen into the country to fight in the war now raging in Texas between the Republicans of Mexico and tlio Slave-holders of Texas.The object of this war, on the part of the Texans, is not to do away with a system of despotism, and to establish a form of Government better suited to the advancement of civilization and civil and religious freedom. No. The object of the .Texans is to Murder the Natives of the country, in order to possess themselves of their lands,'and to force Slavery in! its worst form, on the Republicans of Mexico, in order to secure its cultivation ! This base design tie Texans cannot execute of themselves, and therefore they want to get Englishmen to do it for them! * And mark how they propose to do this: First by selling you land to which they have no moral, political, or legal title. The laud is tho fruit of treachery, rapine; and murder, and when you buy it, and they get you into the country, they will'compel you take up arms, or leave the country, in which caso the purchased land is forfeited to the State!Let the Public Beware of this Scheme! Let them but read with moderate caution the tempting baits held out to *hem, and they will at once detect that the Texan Emigration Scheme is ^oo good to be true; but should any poor Englishman fall into the Texan trap!, let him not forget this ‘ • * jCAUTION FROM A RETURNED EMIGRANT; while those who want historical and general information of Texas, can obtain it in almost every CotFee-shop, and at any Circulating-library-, by asking for 44 Maillard’s History of the Republic of Texas,” mauy copies of which work have recently been distributed gratuitously by tho Author] for the benefit of the Working-classes.London, June 16,1842.
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Emigration Gazette and Colonial Advocate
London, Middlesex, GB
Sat, Jun 18, 1842
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Jennifer L.
TX, USA 22 Jan 2017
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