n. A servant who is nothing but a servant, would be, with them,
disagreeable and inconvenient. They like to educate their own "help."
With their overflowing supply of food also, each new mouth in the
household brings no drain on their means. Children are a blessing, and
the mere feeding of a young boy or girl is not considered at all.

With this fortunate state of things, it was but a natural inference that
the important movement now inaugurating for the benefit of the
unfortunate children of New York should at once strike upon a plan of

EMIGRATION.

Simple and most effective as this ingenious scheme now seems--which has
accomplished more in relieving New York of youthful crime and misery
than all other charities together--at the outset it seemed as difficult
and perplexing as does the similar cure proposed now in Great Britain
for a more terrible condition of the children of the poor.

Among other objections, it was feared that the farmers would not want
the children for help; that, if they took them, the latter would be
liable to ill-treatment, or, if well treated, would corrupt the virtuous
children around them, and thus New York would be scattering seeds of
vice and corruption all over the land. Accidents might occur to the
unhappy little ones thus sent, bringing odium on the benevolent persons
who were dispatching them to the country. How were places to be found?
How were the demand and supply for children's labor to be connected? How
were the right employers to be selected? And, when the children were
placed, how were their interests to be watched over, and acts of
oppression or hard dealing prevented or punished? Were they to be
indentured, or not? If this was the right scheme, why had it not been
tried long ago in our cities or in England?

These and innumerable similar difficulties and objections were offered
to this projected plan of relieving the city of its youthful pauperism
and suffering. They all fell to the ground before the confident efforts
to carry out a well-laid scheme; and practical experience has justified
none of them.

To awaken the demand for these children, circulars were sent out through
the city weeklies and the rural papers to the country districts.
Hundreds of applications poured in at once from the farmers and
mechanics all through the Union. At first, we made the effort to meet
individual applications by sending just the kind of children wanted; but
t