The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1865-09-15

! their improvidence Besides, the habits
and ties of life time, nay, of generations,
though rudely shattered, cannot all at once
b. totally destroyed; and even those, who
think the presence of the race curse, feel
kindly towards many individuals. It is,
conclusions we would that it were otherwise,
but we cannot shut our eyes. Aud, while
firmly confident Of the ultimate result are
still determined to deal justly with these
people and as kindly as we cdn consistently
with self preservation and our duties to
Our:Clvcs.
OF the obstacles which present themselves
to white emigration, the first is the pre-
sent military rule and the consequent inse-
curity of all civil rights. AS there is every
reason to hope that this will soon be re-
moved, it may be counted as the least seri-
Gus, and we may pass to the consideration
of those which existed in time past, and
may, therefore, more properly be deemed
permanent The world generally said that
our climate was too hot and too unhealthy,
and we agreed with the world nay. I an,
not sure bat we helped to cram this opinion
down the worlds throat, by declaring that
only tho negro could labor in orr fields
remember still, with amusement, meeting,
some ten years ago, Sir Francis Head at
LANCER hchmalbach, in Germany, and his
| look OF utter aStonishmoilt at learning that
so healthy Il man w;lS Il native of Carolina.
:" Charleston, sir; Il wonderful clear COM
plcxlon for that sickly locality" There was
not so great ignorance among educated and
travelled mon nearer home. but still great
ln1sconception existed OH the subject, not
only among the masses Of the North, but
even III our own communities That this
opinion has had some effect in dctcrring i'm
migrants from coming among us, is true
but by no means so great an effect has
been usually supposed. The average health
of those who have come has been such :,s
TO serve, III 4 great measure, to countcract
the oplnion of the general unhcalthincss of
the climate. And assuredly, although the
heats of summer last longer with U.s. they are
neither more intense nor more enorvating
than in the Northern States. At least one
half of this State, (all that which lies North
and West of a line drawn through Edgcfield
Columbia and Cheraw,) rejoiccs in Il climate
equal i'll sal1briety to any in the world; the
| sok Is excellent for farming, and the culture
of the vine and fruit trees, and it possesses
an extent of water power and sites for man.
ufactur1ng purposes, not surpassed by the
same extent of territory in any other Dor
ton of the United States. A more healthy,
vigorous race does not exist than the inha-
hltants of these portions of the State Be
tween this line and the sea coast, lies a
country mostly covered with pine with oc-
rivers. With a climate possibly not so brac-
ing as that before spoken of, it is generally
healthy and even those localities which arc
not, will become SO When the forests are
cleared, the lands drained and put in a
proper state-of cultivation. The third sec
ton OF the State, that directly adjoining
the sea, is, in many places, unhealthy, but
not to the extent that has been generally
supposed. This the experience of the wal
has demonstrated. The contendins forces
of either army have 4,ivouacled done pick
ct duty and fought, during the late war, III
places that were considered totally uni,-
habitable before. They have spent whole
summers i'll localities, to spend a night in
! which, previous to 1860, was deemed dealt!
| for u white man. And these men have en-
! joyed, OF the whole, comparatively gooG
health. Even those portions of this rres;ol
! generally considered among the most nm
! healthy, the rice lands on the Pee Dee
! Waccamaw, Santrc, Cooper, Combahec ;lut
AShepoo rivers, are not much moro SO, a
1Vhe present time, than the low lands on the
delaware, the Chesapeake and the northern
Nllcs. Besides, thcrc is scarcely spot il
the whole low country. however unhealthy
within g mile of which some healthy loca
ton for residence may not be found, eithc,
in the pine land or on the ocean beach
The cNperncc of the past, nay, the eXperi
cnce OF men of only twenty-five or thirt,
years of age, demonstrates that in proper
tion the lands arc cleared and drained
the health improves, that the improve
ment of the country in point OF health vii
go hand in hand with its material prosper
ty. These certainly not reasons suiii
cicnt to account for the absence Of immi
grafton to this State.
Ag,in, it is not only in this State; in nj
the Southern States foreign immigration
has, in no respect, compared with what i
has been in the Northern and North western
States; and that, too, in portions of countr
adjoining the Ohio, Mississippi and Mis-
souri, notoriolsly unhealthy. Virginia, pos
scssins, probably, the most healthy, delight
ful and bracin;s climate, has, in the respcc
of the increase of her population by imlni
p,.atiOn fallen far bchinl States infinitcI