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people to emigrate from Europe with the view of purchasing lands in the United States; but experience has convinced them of the deception; for besides the expenses of transportation, and the inconveniences always attendant upon new and remote establishments, the labour is immensely arduous, and wages very high. Instead of the large fortunes which they expected, and which at first were really made, the adventurers and settlers who have latterly gone from Europe to America, have generally found nothing but misery or death. When at the conclusion of the war in Europe, an enthusiasm for emigrating to America was excited, ships successively sailed for the United States, loaded with miserable wretches, principally from Switzerland, Holland, and Germany: these unhappy beings were obliged to sell or bind themselves for a certain number of years, to pay the cost of their transportation and maintenance; and finding purchasers with difficulty, they at last become discontented and groan with repentance, at having abandoned their own country.[1]
- ↑ This is, indeed, enough to deter the most oppressed and wretched of the natives of Europe, from seeking an amelioration of their condition, in the New World! But, fortunately for those of every country who groan under the despotism of legitimate tyrants, Don Luis De Onis here speaks as a diplomatist, not as an historian. The fact is, that not three instances have occurred, for the last thirty
