The Sun.
London, England, 1866-06-23 00:00:00

Sonthern Immigration.

While the officials at Washington are puzzling
their brains upon the subject of " reconstruction,"
it is gratifying to observe that hattheciwtizeh no littlensofthe
States lately in rebellion are engaged, with
their and rs
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nto,
develope the agricultural
resourceseaonfs
and revive,
as speedily as possible,
theory that voluntary
prosperity. Adopting the
their former
servitude, so far as the blacks are concerned, is not
the speediest means of recuperation, there appears
to be a general disposition on the part of the
planters to encourage the introduction of white
labour from Europe, and already we are advised of
the organisation of Immigration Societies in most
of the Southern States, similar to those which have
existed for many years in the North. Whether or
not the assumption that negro labour cannot be
rendered as profitable in their new relation as in
the old we shall not stop to argue, believing
that in either case the necessity exists for urgent
efforts to increase the white population of the South
by opening the way for au industrious and enter-
prising class of emigrants.
That the proposed enterprise will be favourably
entertained on this side of the Atlantic we have not
the slightest doubt, as the abolishment of slavery
has obliterated the prejudic.3s existing in the minds
of Europeans against the Southern States ; and if
the necessary inducements are offered it will not be
long before the tide of immigration will be partially
diverted from the North to the land of cotton,
sugar, and tobacco.

The South not only requires labour : she requires
citizens ; and, therefore; it is highly important that
in inaugurating her immigration policy she should
exercise a certain degree of care in the selection of
what, in the course of time, will constitute an impor-
tant element of her society. The working classes
of England and Scotland will perhaps offer the
most desirable material, taking this view of the
case, of any portion of Europe, Inasmuch as Che.y
speak the same language, and would readily assimi-
late with the people among whom they would be
thrown. Possessing in an eminent degree the
energy, industry, and intelligence requisite for the
proper development of the resources of a country
not surpassed in the world for fertility of soil and
salubrity of climate, there seems to be a natural
reason for the Southern States in future receiving
a liberal share of the surplus population of Great
Britain.

ADVANCE OF THE PRUSSIANS ON
GOTTINGEN.

(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)

BERLIN, Juue 22.
•
The two Prussian corps under the command of
Generals Falkenstein and Manteuffel, coming from
Hanover, and the corps under General Beyer,
coming from Cassel, are now marching towards
Gottingen. The Prussians have occupied all the
available passages of the river Worra.

CASSEL, June 22.
The Electoral Hessian Minister of 'War has been
arrested by the Prussians and conveyed to the for-
tress of Minden (Prussia).

THE BANK O.P. FiILNKFOR.T.
FRANKFORT, June 22.
The Bank of Frankfort has reduced its rate of
discount from 7 to 6 per cent.

Germany and America.

England and America are united to the German
Fatherland by closer ties than those of the common
brotherhood of the human race. The vast com-
mercial intercourse which this century has deve-
loped has drawn them together in a more than
ordinary community of interests. But, above and
beyond -these, there is a close affinity of race--a
cousinship of these three great nations—and much
that is common in the genius, and thoughts, and
feelings of the peoples. England and Germany
were cousins from time immemorial. Americans
are principally of Saxon blood, but the German
element in the race has been reinforced in the United
States by the immigration and commingling of
millions of our cousins from the old German
Fatherland. In this great crisis of the destiny of
the world we cannot think of these affinities with-
out strong emotion. How much that is great and
good in the world do we owe to Germany and to
England, and how vast are our expectations for the
future of the United States ! In America a great
crisis has just gone by—in Germany a great crisis
has just begun. And these crises are not so unlike
as the superficial might suppose. Omitting for the
present the Italian question, which is an unfortu-
nate outside complication, the ptesent struggle in
Germany has many points of similarity to that which
has happily closed in America. Prussia has defied
law and justice for unholy ends, as did the Southern
States for the barbarous institution of Slavery. In
doing this the rulers have gone contrary to the
wishes of the people as did the Southern leaders.
But the German war will make the Prussians prac-
tically unanimous, as the American war did the
people of the South. They have been dragged in—
they can see no other course than to fight their way
out. The American war was a rebellion of several
States against the constitution and common law of
the nation --the German war is no less the rebellion
of a mighty offender, against the laws which bound
him to the German nation. It is very true that the
is
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closer
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ct, lawsa nodf the
union ; but, nevertheless, there are definite laws
atGte,hremAanmCeroincaledn ie
having their foundations in the strictest justice, and
these laws have been defied by Prussia. The
Southern leaders not only defied the laws, but they
seized Federal property—they took forcible posses-
sion of Federal forts—they overran neighbouring
states with military forces before the Federal Go-
vernment had time to act, and the Prussians in
Germany have, in all these respects, followed pre-
cisely in their footsteps. Prussian, like Southern
audacity, has secured vast advantages at the very
commencement of the war—it remains to be seen
whether the parallel of final defeat will hold equally
true. In this respect we cannot venture a predic-
tion. The outside complications are so numerous
that a general war seems inevitable. As the cir-
cumstances vary, our hopes, and fears, and sym-
pathies must, in some degree, change, but as far
as the present is an internal 'German war, our sym-
pathies are, and must necessarily continue to be,
wholly on the side of Federal law and justice.--
Anglo-American Times.