Dallas herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1849-1873, 1859-03-02

We publish the suloircd communication to the
Galveston News 1t is from the pen of an able and
experienced writer, but withhold an expression of
our views on the subject discussed for the present
Southern Emigration to Arizona and Sonora.
The almost alarming exodus of the slaves
from the border States of Virginia, Kentucky,
and Missouri, TO more Southern field OF la
bor, whilst it awaLeus upprehensions for the
stability of the institution in those States,
should arouse attention to the necessity OF ac.
auiring more extended Southern area Tor
their profitable occupation in the future;
The States enumerated are hemp and tobnc-
co raising localities, and the future will develop
no fact with more certainty than that the de-
mand for cotton culture, and the eXhoroltont
value of slaves as cotton producers, couP'ed
with the insecurity of the property in those
border States, will inevitably drain them ol
their slave population. 1t is result (however
dlsagreeabe to contemplate and how muchso-
ever dened,) slowly but surely taking place
The region comprises the Gulf States OF the
South, and that portion of the temperate zone
Included within the same latitude, embracing
Texas and the Northern States Of Mexico, to
the Pacific, is the only portion of the Inhnbta-
bic globe where cotton has been successfully
and profi,ably grown Upon the black upland
pralries of Northern Texas, in Ellis county,
/ 400 pounds of cotton have been produced to
the acre, during the three past years OF ex.
IRENE drouth. And it is fact worthy of OBJ
seryation, that two cotton factories are at this
time in successful operation in Chihuahua,
manufacturing an excellent article OF brown
sheetinc from the productions IF their o1cn soil.
The treaties recently ratified with the empires
of China and Japan have opened up new
theatre fol commercial enterprise. We do not
mt this day produce sufficient cotton to furnish
a cotton garment to each lnhabant of those
vast empires, comprising as they do more than
o third of the population of the globe. The
enormously increased consumption of cotton
fabrics will create corresponding demand for
an increased production of the raw material.
The increased production, whilst steadily
enhancing in value, will eventually require
more e.rtenAed area Of cotton territory. Then
il is, that circumscribed as we may be, to the
narrow margin Of the States of the Gulf, the
South will repent, ,chen TOO late, that she had
not extended her domestic institutions over the
territory now so invitingy open to our occu-
pancy.
There is one prevalent objection to the con-
struction of new States out Of Mexican terri
tory, in which tire writer has participated, and
that is, the necessity imposed of including the
Mexican population with the soil. This OBJ
-uoxious feature of The question is fully dispos-
ed of BY the fact that the frontier States OF
Mexico-Sonora and chihuahua, including
Arizona, which was but recently part of So
uora-were almost depopulated by the incur
sions of the Apache Indians, shortly after the
revolt of Mexico from Spain, in 1925. Since
that period, the predatory bands of this warke
tribe have extended THAR ravages even into the
interior states and the dilapidated ruins OF de-
serted ranches, and numerous evidences oil once
well worked prolific mines, attest the almost
utter abandonment of the country. Sonora
and Misunderstanding the Gadsden pur-
chase of $4,000 square miles, now known as
Ar:zona-have an area Of 275,OOO square
miles. The population Of this immense scope
is about 100000, consisting of three-hiths In
dian, about one-third of the remainder puEe
European, and the balance mongrel, or pure
Mexican. IF this region were settled with the
American people, the mongrel population would
bear about the same proportion TO the resident
voters as they do in Texas.
We have absained from almost even an al
lusiou 10 the mineral wealth Of this coveted re-
zion. we believe.that the most prolific and
numerous silver beds of the world lie scattered
from the Gila River. throughout the Northern
.stsza slexico, upon either slope Of the Ser
!. ffrom the almost incredible resour-
ieEd from The precious metals, VIC
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