ing charity. In such a country it is that a poor man can be happy. But even those who live in poverty in other states, startle at the idea of moving. "What! leave my friends and relations to go to a new country, and that so far off," is the general cry. Reflect for a moment on the difference between toiling to pay a heavy rent, and working for that which will soon be your own. In the first place there is a certainty of entailing poverty on your family, which you may leave behind you. In the other that most pleasing of all reflections, that you leave behind you a comfortable home for your family to enjoy. The great number of families which are daily moving to this state, shew that people are beginning to think of themselves instead of friends and relations; and when I reflect that my lands which are now a wilderness will soon assume a different aspect, exhibiting smiling fields and comfortable Cottages, and also reflect that I have in some degree contributed to place in such a situation so many of my fellow-citizens, it will, independent of the advantages of the sale, give me a pleasure and satisfaction which can only be felt by those who are in the habit of feeling pleasure from seeing others happy.

Governor Jackson in his Message to both branches of the Legislature, on the fourth day of November 1799, in speaking of an observation of the Commissioners respecting the line that has been run between the United States and the Spaniards, through the present Indian territory, says, "It is said that the lands through which the boundary between us and Spain runs, and far above it are of a poor piney quality; yet it may be doubted if the Commissioners of the United States, from whom this information is said to be derived, are proper Judges of a Pine soil in a Southern climate. Among ourselves it is well known that large tracts of this kind of land produce good crops of wheat and corn, and answer very well for Cotton, an article which is rapidly advancing to the head of American Exports, and which (called Georgia Cotton) is taking the lead and preference of that staple in most foreign mar

merits its attention and encouragement. Supposing it therefore, Pine Land, it is nevertheless of incalculable value to the Union."

The many frauds which have been committed in the sale of titles to large bodies of Land which never existed, and those bodies of Land which do really exist, held by people to the Northward and in many parts of Europe, is so far as respects population, truly a national misfortune; for the holder of them has either too much business of his own at home to look after them in person, or determines to let them lay for his children, while others, from the uncertainty of title and laying out of large sums of money paid for them, and daily paying in taxes, are by no means willing to make other advances for making settlements on them, or to create a value by their encouragement. They generally begin to count the costs of Agents, Surveyors, &c. and find themselves going into an advance of still more money; besides this species of property is rising every day, and in a few years to come will have attained an additional value: thus many of them argue. Some indeed have sent out Agents, but they are sent from the large Cities to the Commercial towns of this state, and generally pass in the Stage from Savannah to Augusta, where the road passes as I before observed, on a barren ridge, and from this they form an opinion of the value of all Pine Lands, which is not unfrequently confirmed by persons residing in Savannah and Augusta, who perhaps have never travelled any other road than the Stage road between those Cities, and are perfectly unacquainted with the situation of the country: thus from prejudice and the opinion of others their minds are improperly impressed with regard to the value of property which they ought to have seen, and frequently go home with a good or bad tale as circumstances may have given it to them.

A man who has been used to enjoy the luxuries of a large City don't like to spend his time in the woods, where the manners and customs of the people do not exactly correspond with those he has left behind him; he finds, if he goes at all into the woods, only

a hardy race of freemen, whose only happiness is procuring plenty and making provision for a numerous family: this society don't suit him, and his stay among them is no longer than he can ride post over the land, taking care never to quit the main road.

Owning large bodies of Pine Land in Washington, Montgomery, and Bullock Counties, my exertions have been as great as an Individual's could be, to induce Emigrants to those Counties. The Surveys I hold are well known in this State to have been the first Land that was surveyed in large tracts. Many families have removed on my lands from South and North-Carolina and Virginia; but the Emigration has not been equal to what is necessary to insure an immediate settlement of them.

The situation of the poor Inhabitants of Europe has for a long time excited the Commiseration of all men of feeling. As one of the great family of mankind I have felt that kind of Commiseration for their sufferings, which has led me into many plans for turning the tide of Emigration to the Pine Lands of this State, instead of the large Cities, where misery and sickness too frequently await them, and where property is hard to be obtained. Interest and inclination have induced me to form many plans; but all have failed for want of active resources to carry any extensive one into effect, having always considered how much interested the whole State is in bringng about an object of this kind, to settle the lands laying above Savannah towards Ogechee river, where the gradual swelling of the hills point out health, a kind soil and good water.

This land commences about thirty miles above Savannah, and some within twenty-five miles, which if settled by a hardy race of men, would surely be advantageous to the lower parts of the State. Savannah market would reap the advantage of their settlement, and the lower Country would find an interest, which

All the Land between Ogechee and Canuchee rivers, thence to the Ohoopee river, and thence to the Oconee and Altamaha Rivers, is held in large Surveys, and years would not effect a settlement of them by the exertion of an Individual, if people cannot be brought from Europe. For an Individual to advance fifteen or twenty thousand dollars a year to carry such an object into effect, is not to be expected; because where a man has that income he will hardly enter into the wide and troublesome field of exertion to better his fortune, already equal to his wishes.

This being the case, I have with the advice of a number of my friends formed a plan of emigration, which will enable me to bring about fifty families a year, which may be supposed to contain in the aggregate from two hundred to three hundred persons, on those lands, besides those who will naturally follow, who have the means of emigrating within themselves, when once the current of emigration is turned to the Southern states. And here I must turn my attention to the suffering poor of Europe, where misery and wretchedness walk hand in hand; where distress and famine are making ravages even greater than war itself; where manufactures are almost suspended, and where the poor are willing to work for a morsel of bread to keep themselves from starving, and even that cannot be obtained. What a contrast between the suffering poor of that country and America, the World's best hope! Here every man enjoys smiling plenty.

To provide a comfortable asylum for those whom fortune has turned her back on, is the intention of the following plan of Emigration, which once commenced will be soon followed by those to whom fortune has been more kind, and who have the means of removal within themselves. The tide of Emigration once turned it will not be diverted from its course by the rough blasts of the inhospitable North, but will flow like a placid stream to the shores of Georgia, and enrich our Land with thousands of valuable Citi

zens.

PLAN

OF AN ASSOCIATION,

For the Purpose of Encouraging the Immediate Settlement of the
PINE LANDS OF GEORGIA,

And to Promote the same by EMIGRATIONS from EUROPE,
and the NORTHERN STATES.

TH

HIS Plan from its nature and extent, cannot be carried into effect by the exertions of an Individual, particularly one whose active resources are not equal to such an undertaking. It is therefore proposed by GEORGE SIBBALD, of Augusta, in the state of Georgia, to establish a Company for the purpose of interesting Individuals in the advantages of a large quantity of Land of which he is possessed, and of thereby encouraging the settlement thereof, under the following articles of ASSOCIATION.

ARTICLE I.

The said Company shall be known and stiled, the GEORGIA ASYLUM COMPANY.

ARTICLE II.

The property upon which this plan is founded, consists of the following tracts, bodies or parcels of Land, to wit, One hundred and seven thousand four hundred and five acres of Land, granted to Joseph Ryan, lying in Bullock County.

Two hundred and twelve thousand, four hundred and sixtynine acres, granted to Charles Ryan, lying in Bullock County.

Sixty thousand acres of Land granted to Francis Tennelle, lying in Montgomery County.

One hundred and twelve thousand, seven hundred acres,