Baton Rouge tri-weekly gazette & comet. [volume] (Baton Rouge, La.) 1865-18??, 1865-08-01
Tlle 0azette &Golllet
Northern Immigration.

other States involved in the late re-
bel.ion, the Faneuile Hall Address
asserts ''They will not encourage
Northern immigration with system
of small freeholds and free labor; nor
will capital and labor 90 there from
the free States under present auspi-
ces." 1cf1a4 4s'3
A single glance at she Southern
press, from North Carolina to Texas,
decisively refutes the first of the above
assertions, The Journals Of all the
Southern States which have suffered
the rayages of war denote their want
Of labor and manifest an eager desire
for Industrious and peaceful immi-
grants, from the North or from Eu
rope, to settle in them and contribute
to their agricultural and commercial
prosperity and to their social welfare
and stability. 1t is true they do not
wish the presence of political incendi
aries they prefer the room to the
company of pes lien. ioterlopers who
would come, not to build up, but to
destroy; whose track is as poisonous
AS ce"tipede' and whose mission
would be, as that of the school whose
poisonous inspirations they have im-
lotd has ever been, to SOW the upas
st, d of haired, suapicions and plot.
'lngs, of wr, ng and vengeance, strife
a d anarchy. TIE disciples of this
creed whose VII ls religion is a NAL
edlcriou, hayesrever thought Of iden-
t fl = tie ,elvet with the fate of tha
reop'e they aspire to ruin. Their
Immigration Is like that of Satan when
he crossed the wilds of chaos TO curse
she earth, and when he entered Para
disc, vi h a spirit almost as malignant
as theirs, to oepopula,e it, not to live
IN l.. The South can we'll dispense
With these sciviIizers who know only
now TO organize dssolation, with these
reconstruc,ors whose work is the arcLi-
lecture Of ruin. .
But there is no place in the South
where tue Immigrant who may come
.u good faith will not be gladly receiv
ed. On every hand a freehold and
homestead await him. He will be
grudged nothing which labor may
honestly earn or talent fairly win. 1t
will be no matter of quarrel if he seek
only to advance his personal fortunes,
for in doing that by justiGable means
he would necessarily assist to build
up the general prosperity. Fixed
residence and the accumulation Uf the
fruits OF Wholesome labor and legitl-
mate enterprise would be sufficient
guarantee against incivism. L. is not
IN the nature of a man to hate the
land in which be lives, and loves and
honestly tolls. With true manhood,
with the generous soul and the loyal
heart, home is the sweetest name of
patriotism. Let Immigrants from
whatever quarter, from Massachu-
setts even, where the prinaiple element
of political education is Ignorance and
hatred to the South establish them
selves IN Southern homes as part of
the Southern p pulatlon having inter
ssts in common and involved in the
same destiny, and they will assuredly
becouoe Southern enough for all the
needs of good citizenship and practi,
cal patriotism. The old proverb
would not be oontradicted here birds
are not given to de6ling their own
nests, But there are winged creatures
of evil omen and horrid appetite,
which nidifcate among lofty crags or
in dark and inaccessibl, recesses, and
60 fo~th through the valleys and over
the plains to feast on death and putre-
faction, then fly back, "dappiug from
out their condor wings invisible wo."
Such may symbollze the character OF
those Northern men who concern
about the South no further
than to make it the theatre of destruc
tive sche nes, by which thay are ever
ready to benefit as thief may benefit
by fire but of whose dangers they
are careful to keep out of the reach.
This is the kind of prudence ex.
pressed in the latter clause of the pas
age we have quoted from the Faneuil
Hall address. "Nor will capital and
abor 60 there (tothe South from the
res States under present auspices"
'ay the authors of the address, while;
zone hav. been more efficient than
hey and their co laborers 10 bringing
bout the condition TO which they
IIu ie There is nothing NV. or in
he future, to make the South, 10 any
spect, inau-picious to capital and la I