The Sun.
London, England, 1865-12-26 00:00:00

Emigration our only Hope.

We want more labouring people in our glorious
State, says the Savannah Republican. We want
more brains and muscle to lift up our people from
the slough of despondency into which they have very
naturally been thrown by the terrible calamities of the
war. We want capital in Georgia. We want our lands
tilled and placed under proper cultivation immediately
ere it is too late. We want a portion of these dense forests,
comprising the finest timber in the world, to vanish under
the steady blows of the sturdy pioneer's sharp axe. Wo
want these majestic forests to resound with the cheerful
voices of lumbermen as they sally forth to their daily
labor. We want the numerous precious metals that aro
hidden deep beneath the rich soil of our State unearthed
and brought to light. Every city in our State requires
hundreds of experienced mechanics, while citizens of most
every grade can find constant and remunerative employ-
ment. We want free schools and churches established in
every village. We must have a free labor system quickly
and thoroughly organised, if we would avert untold
horrors and hardships for both races in our State. These,
then, briefly stated, are our present sore and pressing
wants. How are they to be supplied? Only by the con-
stant flow of an enterprising, intelligent, and thrifty popu-
lation from the North and from England. It is high time
the first instalment had reached our shores, for every
hour spent in the lethargy that now clothes so many of
our people is adding more bitterness to the cup of woe
from which our unfortunate people have, by the. decrees of

fate, been ordained to drink too deep. Our hearts are
filled with sadness as we cast a timid glance at war's rude
desolation painted on nearly every homestead in our once
prosperous and happy State. Fields that five years ago
were whitened with the oriental wealth of the greatest of
all staples—cotton—are blackened with the scars of civil
war. What power will lift these sombre clouds from off
our State and inspire the forlorn hearts of our dis-
tressed people with hope ? Emigration, and emigration
alone.
With an increase of Northern population distributed
throughout our State we are positive the free labor system
would soon bo put into practical operation, and prove,
what its most sanguine advocates claim for it, a perfect
success. The freedmen are a little suspicious of their
former masters, and especially where they were unkindly
treated by cruel overseers. The presence of Northern
laborers would not only give them great confidence, but it
would encourage them to labor assiduously, and force
upon the more ignorant class of freedmen, who dream of
indolence and freedom from work, the imperative necessity
for constant hard labor. All the wild and unfeasible
schemes of enthusiastic experimentalists in regard to free
labor will amount to nothing, unless we have plenty of
emigration—this is the only solution to our problem. We
prefer practical emigration to absurd theories and specu-
lations. To talk of recuperating or resurrecting the South
by sagacious suggestions from Massachusetts and New
York philanthropists is all very pretty on paper, and may
sound well before humane audiences, but in our opinion it
would have been as easy a matter to suppress the rebellion
by proclamations and newspaper bullets as to give us a
dime's worth of prosperity through any such channel.
Give us emigrants of the right stamp, and in one year the
mill-stone that now hangs around the necks of our people
will be removed.

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