The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1865-06-10
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The Southern States are now open,
under the new dispensation Of peace, to
the industry and enterprise of the
country. and will, no doubt, also invite
much of the skill and labor which is
crowding Upon us from abroad That
there viii be large emigration to the
South there can be no question And
that it viii combine the most Yaluable
elements in the development of that
region is equally true. The climate and
soil of the South are without parallel
perhaps in the world Under the sys-
tenn of slave laboT-now happily de-
funct--the soil was never half develop
ed Millions of acres of good arabic
land have never been touched by the
plough or submitted TO skilled labor.
Whole tracts of country in Virginia,
Maryland, and the Caroiinas, which
have lain from immemoriaI time IN
der dense forests, have been
cleared -sby-our armies, from the
NECESSITIES of war. and thus. prepared
for culture These are but 3 Few OF the
reasons why the South presents at this
time splendid field for the .emigrant
whether from the North or from Eur
rope The Southern States are reliev-
red forever from the incubus Of slavery.
White labor has no longer to contend
with involuntary seryjtude. Therefore
the white iaborer has an advantage
never before enjoyed. The disenthrall.
ed negroes, or at least the industriously
inclined portion of them, will give their
labor at comparatively modest rates,
for they must earn living, and viii be
glad to obtain it; and hence those who
settle upon the farms can procure the
services Of skilled sgricultur;sts among
the free negroes very readily. fa-
The idea that white men could not
endure the climate of the Southern
States has been dispelled in very
great degree by what our Northern
soldiers have gone through without
permanently affecting their health, and
but slightly impairing their comfort
Men who could endure the march IN
der Sherman from the Mississippi TO
the Atlantic, or who could come out of
the campaigns under Gilmore and
Foster in South Carolina with very
light bills of mortality, are certainly not
unsuited to agricultural and industrial
pursuits in the South. We have heard,
it said, and we believe with truth
that white laborers in the sugar houses
of this city and in many of the iron
fcunderies and rolling mills of the
Northern States endure an amount
of heat as great as the laborer
on 3 Southern plantation is subs
jected to. The severity of the
climate, then, can be no serious obsta-
Gle to the deYelopment Of the Southern
States by white labor There. is a golden
opportunity now offering for large
emigration to the reconstructed South
ern States which. we have no doubt,
will be very generally aeailed OF. The
old pseudo-aristocracy is obliterated
Industry and Intelligence viii find
their proper appreciation hencefoFth IN
Virginia, Georgia, Alabans, the Caro-
linas, and the other Southern States, as
they now enjoy in New York, Masss-
chusetts, Pennsylvania, Ohio and Indi-
ana, and men must be more dull TO
their interest than the progressive
spirit Of this age indicates if they do
not avail themselves of the chance to
make the half desolated South bios
som like garden under the new dis
pensation Of peace and freedom which
Providence has vouchsafed 10 Us.-N.
7. Herald