The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1865-05-13

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northern capital in the southern cities. New
Orleans, Savannah, Charleston, Norfolk,
Richmond, Memphis and Nashville also
feel the infusion of 8 strong northern eie-
ment Of enterprise and labor. A similar
result will soon occur in all the cities and
towns Of the South. This viii be trade
movement, and it will have the effect Of
carrying northern goods, northern prinei-
pies, and northern enterprise all through
| the southern interior. Doubtless a eonsid-
erabIo portion Of the wave Of emigration
will be composed Of southern refugees who
during the war havs been enjoying the
| protection Of northern communities. These
will embrace the earliest opportunity of
returning 10 their old homes or Of seeking
new ones. Thousands Of soathern born
people who, in past years, were forced to
seek q subsistence at the north, will be apt
under the new regime, 70 60 back sgain to
try their chances. But the great and over
-shadowing want of the south is skilled la
Dor, for they have been robbing the facto-
ries and workshops of their valuable hands
to make soldiers Of them, and the casualties
of the war have left very few Of them
available again.
1t is, therefore, manifest that all the
Workmen at the North thrown out Of en-
plOy by the stoppage of the government
contracts, and the return of volunteers to
crowd every avenue of work with addition
al hands, may find ample demand for them
at the South. This will be worth while re-
membering in view Of the unusual number
Of emigrants Of this class expected to arrive
this season from England, as well as the
prospect of another huge influx of both
Irish and Germans. The Southern factories
were, before the war, beginning to rise into
consequence, and though the war has de-
strOyed many of them, yet the contracts
inseparable from the war have been Profta-
/ bic, and the factorieswill undoubtedly be
70 Established.
In addition to the factories, the opera
tives needed for working railroads, the re-
pair of engines and ears, the rebuilding Of
luihed towns and cities, the management
OF machinery in workshops and mines, and
many other occupations, will afford profit
able employment for ell the trained free
labor the north Of Europe can now send to
the South. Doubtless there viii be no
scarcity in this line, for no class of emil
grants more readily find out a prOfta-
bic field of occupation than mechanics.
Bat as there Will be abundance Of profess
sionsl men, mechanics, traders, and sPecu-
latOrs going south on the keen scent after
an opening, perhaps we should endeavor to
call attention more particularly to that
great element of emigration which is the
real lie OF the West. We refer to the far
mers.
The South needs al Of these we can send
her. There is the land lying idle awaiting
them. livery planter in past years had
more land taau he could cultivate, and yet
over and above all this, there was half the
surface Of the South mere waste. The
Door whites of the southern interior need
the influence and example Of Northern
farmers Of education, intelligence and in
1 dustry, in order 10 arouse them TO the fu-
turs that lies before them. 1t cannot be
expected that our Northern farmers will
20 on exploring trips through the South,
when they can find such advantageous To-
cations at the West without taking much
trouble. II must be the work Of land
agents to throw open Southern lands to
Northern buyers of this class. And here
we perceive vast field for the operations
Of real estate dealers, land agents, brokers,
and spectators generally. They must dis
cover available lands, divide them into
small farms, invite the attention of farmers
to them and thus induce emigration.
When movement Of this kind once
gets well under way in any particular
quarter, it always succeeds. We do not now
merely refer to the border States, where
northern emigration has been gradually
settling for many years past, but we apply
our remarks TO the whole southern interior.
slavery being at an end, the whole future
lies open to us. Sentiment is released
{ from tho letters under which it formerly
labored at the south It is no longer a
crime TO talk against the Institution, nor to
, denounce iniquities connected with it. The
teeming north must seizs the fsvoriug mo
mont, and pour forth her millions to regen-
crate the ruined States and infuBe new life
into them.
For four years past she has sent forth her
hosts to conquer. Now she must send them
2 forth 70 save. The south is perishing for
the total lack Of sll which gives sustenance
10 a civilized community. Her commerce
! has been annihilated, her civil government
wiped out, her laws abolished, her manu-
faetures stopped, her highways destroyed
a her agriculture almost ruined and her f.
. nanoial system bankrupted. She wants
everything, but most of al the re-estab-
ilishment of order where all Is now anarchy
! 4 Our northern emigration carriss law anc
order in its train. Itimproves government
in the rudest wilds Of the Rocky Noun
tains aud establishes there all the blessing
Of civilization. 50 it must do at the South
z There society has been hitherto restrainet
by a system Of terror. It requires new
men and new habitudes to do away witt
p the reliance upon the pistol, the knife, tn
rife, the lash and the bloodhound. Thes
2 are the things of the past. Their system
: has been exploded. We must inaug urat
our own down there, and show the worl
what northern institutions can do at Ia
south, in contrast with the state Of thing
40 which has hitherto prevailed in that un
IN happy section.