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tages which the Tide-Water section of the State of Maryland
offers, to those who desire tranquil, happy homes, full and
direct rewards for labor and quick and permanent returns for
capital invested. It gives no promise of magic wealth sud-
denly acquired, as in the oil regions and gold placers, to end
in chagrin and loss, but it does promise, and is|capable of
verifying the promise to the very letter, of giving certain and
sure rewards to this and succeeding generations in all of
those things which render existence comfortable and happy,
—freedom from want, abundant and certain rewards for labor,
free communication, if desired, with the world abroad, and
at home social intercourse with refined, just and generous
neighbors. In all of these the writer of this with much ex-
perience of association and travel, and gratefully sensible of
well-remembered kindness which he has experienced from the
citizens of almost every State in the Union by their own fire-
sides, knows not its superior in the United States or in the
world.

To a residence here, to a home in our midst we invite hon-
est labor, skill and industry, let it come from whatever section
of the Union; with the full assurance, that a true knowledge
of Maryland character will cause for it proper respect and
consideration, and with the certain conviction that the climate,
soil, and intrinsic advantages will repay labor and make re-
munerative returns for capital employed.

Nor is this all, the immigrant will find whilst living here
a home and when death comes can be solaced with the thought
that those whom he leaves behind, are not in a wild wilderness
or amongst a barbarous people, but are where the sympathies of
the good, and true, and merciful exist to temper the wind
to the shorn lamb—and that they are one of a people on
whose name and fame there has been no reproach. Let the
honest laborers and farmers of Pennsylvania, New York and
of the whole country, whenever they may wish to change
their places of abode, direct their footsteps to our borders and
not to the uncultivated wilds and bleak, remote regions of the
far west. Here will be found homes worthy of the best and
noblest in the land.
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