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LEIPZIG, DECEMBER 5, 1866.
WM. R. COLE, ESQ.,

Commissioner of Immigration, Baltimore.

Dear Sir:—Mr. P. G. Kaestner, in Weimer, communicated
to us your letter to him.

We fully share your opinion, especially since slavery has
ceased to exist in Maryland, that your State is well adapted
tor German settlement, and if you will be so kind as to send
some of your pamphlets to our house in New York, they will
forward them to us and we will destribute them.

Respectfully,

KNAUTH, NACHOD & KAHNE.

THE STATE OF MARYLAND.

Citizens of foreign countries, who are contemplating a set-
tlement in the United States, are naturally solicitous of ob-
taining correct information in regard to the country of their
proposed adoption. A great deal has been written in a gen-
eral way about this country, and some particular localities,
especially the States of the western section, have received
their full mead and very often greatly exagerated praise from
the pen of interested writers. Little or nothing i known
abroad about the State of Maryland, because, hitherto, its
system of labor was antagonistic to immigration, and hence,
any attempt to enlighten the foreigner in regard to its vast
resources seemed to be considered a useless labor.

Now that this system has passed away by the voluntary
act of its own people in giving freedom to its slaves, immi-
gration from all parts of the world is invited, and, as the
first step towards encouraging it, it is considered important
to present a truthful statement of what may be expected by
the emigrant seeking a home in Maryland.

It must not be supposed that because little effort has been
made to invite foreign immigration, none of that class have
settled within its limits, on the contrary, a very large nnm-
ber, amounting in 1860, to an aggregate of 77,529; 43,884 of