ABSTRACT
We desire, preliminary, to caution you against entertaining any fantastic idea, such as that magnificence, ease, and wealth, are universally enjoyed in this country. We are apprehensive that you may be deluded by tales of prosperity delineated as princely, and declared certain of attainment; originated on the one hand by men who criminally do so with a selfish purpose, and upon the other, by those who thoughtlessly do so to gratify their own vanity. Thus they may be indirectly suggested through unsuspected agencies, by the influence of parties, who, if they secure your passage money, are utterly indifferent, should you be landed here diseased and poverty-stricken, with no prospect save a lingering sickness, a loathsome death, and a pauper’s grave.
