Richmond Enquirer

[From the Dublin Evening Post.]

ENCOURAGEMENT TO EMIGRATION.

In the last article we published on Emigration to America, we sufficiently explained ourselves as to the description of emigrants would find ample employment there

We now put negatively the kind of people whom we recommend to starve at home, as they are thrown off of bread.

In the first place, then, all idlers had better stay at home.

To all fortune-hunters of all descriptions, whether looking for a wife or speculating in the funds, we recommend the same advice.

America cannot afford to support an idler—she has no sinecures or pensions to bestow—no political adventurer can hope to succeed in that Country.

There is no Parliamentary Trade carrying on there.

But it is to the Working Man, the Artisan, the Mechanic the Labourer, that we would wish particularly to apply ourselves.

Re Stone Cutters of Ireland—Ye men of the Chissel and Mallet, be silent and attend to the following advertisement.

It is taken from a New-York Journal, called by the way of its title, The Columbian. It is dated about the middle of May.

"To Stone Cutters.

"Wanted immediately, in the City of New-York, Forty Journeymen Stone Cutters, to whom liberal wages will be given at the rate of one dollar and eighty-seven cents per day, comprising ten hours, by the Subscribers—

John Myer,

Aaron Sergeant,

John Collard,

Norris & Kain,

Thos. Chisholm,

James Douglass,

Francis Cochran,

John Daw,

Peter Devor,

Crighton & McClo,

Christie & Moore,

John Crichton,

Robt. Pitcarthy,

Robt. Tate."

Biake & Labagh,

Observe, ye choppers of limestone, that one dollar and eighty-seven cents, make nearly ten shillings of his Britannic Majesty's Coin; ten shillings per diem for ten hours per day. This is pretty well, the eighty-seven cents would enable a man to visit the boxes of a play house in America, as the following advertisement will shew:—

CIRCUS.—NEW-YORK.

Mr. Chesebrough's first appearance in the Circus.

"This evening, Thursday, May 23, the Circus will be open, with numerous Feats of HORSEMANSHIP, and other Amusements, the whole of which will be expressed in the bills of the day.

"Doors open at half past six, performance to commence at seven o'clock.

"Box Tickets, 75 Cents—Pit, 37 1-2."

So that you see, ye Stone Cutters, that you might go to the most fashionable part of the play-house for a fractional part of your day's pay. What does this prove? That the price of luxuries, contrary to the system in Europe, bears a very rational proportion to the price of labour.

Yet the American Stone-Cutters are by no means satisfied with their ten shillings. Inordinate, unconscionable dogs—they have turned out—for what? Only guess, you men of Erin; why, verily, for seventeen shillings British, in Irish money eighteen shillings and five pence per day, by this hand.

It is not necessary to extend this view. We shall only observe, that Bread is in New-York not two pence per pound: in Dublin it is three pence.

But then we shall be told that Commerce is very dead in America, &c.; in short, she is suffering as much as England is. That she is suffering very considerably on account of the failures in England, is most certain, and that many houses in America have failed, is also true: but the price of labour is a fact undeniable; it proves this, that though external commerce has declined, internal improvement is beyond all imagination flourishing.

The Speculatist may starve—the poor Gentleman may hang himself, if he go to look for a fortune in America; but beyond a doubt, beyond the possibility of a cavil or a question, the mechanic, the labourer, when he touches the shores of the Republic, steps into comparative paradise.

London, July 12.