The Emigrants' New Guide Author:John Howe Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: If' Emigrants' New Guide. In sending forth this work to the world, 1; am actuated solely by the motive of benefiting those who are about to emigrate from t... more »his country to America, with the view of becoming permanent settlers ; by giving that information which my experience and long residence on that continent, enables me to do. The information I shall give, will be applicable to emigrants generally, from the affluent capitalist to the poor redemptionist. It is with painful feelings I have read some writings on the subject 1 am about to treat; and with sorrow have I witnessed the lamentable Consequences. I can find no language sufficiently .strong to deprecate the conduct of some writers, who by holding out fallacious hopes, delude the poor emigrant, and induce him to leave his country, to become an inhabitant of the southern States of America. One of my. objects is to point put to the poor man that part he ought to emigrate to, and thereby enables him to escape those fatal disasters, which, bjr adhering to the advice of some writers, he will assuredly experience. I have been where in the southern States of America, I have met the poor emigrants, natives of the country where first I drew my breath, languishing in sickness and in want, beneath calamities he never thought existed. I think I have seen numbers, in whose breast, if Writing on the score of humanity, it would have been more merciful to plunge a dagger, when at home, than to have enticed them to go to that part of America, where disease and pestilential air consume their health, and consign them to the silent grave, far from the land where rest the remains of their forefathers, in a country, where no friend or kindred lets fall the tear of pity on their mournful bier, or one is found to compassionate their fate....« less