| Title: | Jacob Harvey, New York, to the Editor of The Nation. |
|---|---|
| ID | 1345 |
| Collection | Irish Emigration Database |
| File | Harvey, Jacob/23 |
| Year | 1848 |
| Sender | Harvey, Jacob |
| Sender Gender | male |
| Sender Occupation | merchant |
| Sender Religion | unknown |
| Origin | New York, USA |
| Destination | Ireland |
| Recipient | the Editor of The Nation |
| Recipient Gender | male |
| Relationship | reader writes letter to newspaper |
| Source | The Nation, Dublin, Saturday, 8 January, 1848. |
| Archive | The Linenhall Library, Belfast. |
| Doc. No. | 9601079 |
| Date | 08/01/1848 |
| Partial Date | |
| Doc. Type | EMG Log : |
| Log | unknown |
| Word Count | 225 |
| Genre | |
| Note | |
| Transcript | ADVICE TO EMIGRANTS. A letter from Jacob Harvey, of New York, an Irish merchant of the highest character in that city, and a member of the family of Harvey, of Limerick, contains the following advice to his countrymen emigrating to the States, which we hope every means will be taken to make known to all those who are disposed to emigrate :- I wish it could be made known to all emigrants leaving Ireland for New York, that they are liable to great imposition on their arrival at quarantine (seven miles from town), by listening to the runners of boarding-houses, who try, by every specie of persuasion, to get possession of them and their luggage, and when once obtained they charge what they like for their entertainment. They should ask for the "Agent of the Commissioners, or of the Irish Emigrant Society," and follow his advice, as to the proper boarding-houses to select. All those who come out with the intention of settling in the interior should not remain in the city one hour longer than is actually necessary; there are plenty of steam-boats daily to Albany, which will carry them for a very small sum, and we have an agent there for the express purpose of preventing impositions on their journey west. It would be presumptous in me to offer any opinion as to the measures which Ireland requires to emancipate her from the evils which have made her a bye-word among nations, when wiser heads than mine have almost given it up in despair - "America for the Irish," where every honest and industrious labourer is sure to obtain all the comforts of life, and quite as many political rights as are good for him. |
