The daily clarion. [volume] (Meridian, Miss.) 1863-1866, 1865-11-26
ANOTHER PLAN.

The Rev. G. K. Marshall, of Mississippi
whose name has become as revered for
practical humanity during the bloody
period just passed, it has always been for
plety and eloquence, has lately submit
ted plan to the people of Mississippi
| for encouraging immigration into that
State from the North and from Europe.
The question of filling up the gaps in
our system of labor, which have been nnx
casioned by war and emancipation. ought
to engross the serious attention of 0nr
lawglvers; and as the Legislature is to
meet to day, we deem it our duty to Law
before them all the lights obtainable, in
order that the true way to remedy NAV
as clear as experience and INQUIRY can
make il.
DIR. Marshall proposes Joint Stock Com
panies, OF whose operations lands must
oe the oasis, and recommends to the own.
ers 70 snbscrlbe, into common fund, as
much OF their lands as they find them
serves al present without m cans to Guilt
Vate. BY this process hundreds of thou.
sands OF acres, once under cultivation but
now choked up with weeds and briars
and as useless as ifthe waves of the ocean
rolled over them, could by liberal in.
ducements to the people-who are al
ready focking in from other regions r.
common centre-be in a yerv few
years, made lar more remuneratiye thai,
tney were ever hitherto. Doctor Marshall
recommends that the land -holde,s should
mass together In every county, so as To
OTTER an uninterrupted extent of soil sniff
oient for colonies of one language. one ro-
ilgion, and of harmonious social relations.
and shows the advantage of having the |
lands surveyed and properly laid out into |
lots and roads, and of furnishing water
privileges for mill sites for villages and
eligible grounds for churches and institn-
tons OF learning, etc.
agents should be sent to open Offices in
Europe, steamers oharterd, and emigrants
engaged, whilst 1t Is urged upon the State
legislature 10 advance the means for the
purchase OF two or three steamers to ia
ollltate the objects of the COMPANIES
The stock should be transferable hv
which capitalists would invest largoIy
md as soon as great body of plantations
belonged to Company, it could show i
oild basls for energetic and business on. $
erations.
?, Lands Tor raising hops in the Mohawk q
alley, New York, are worth from $500 +
o ?ooo per acre; the same quality of land b
'ltn u.s. on which hops, the castor bean.
otton' sorghum, rice, tobacco, corn, a
,neat' barley, potatoes. peaches, beans, $
tc., grow to perfection, can now be nnr n
hased for So and S. per acre. With Ib. .
raj ana Judicious land companies these =
cres could in ten years be made as vain
ole as those in the Mohawk Valley.
1t Is foolish to say the white Iaborer ia
OF stable enough to be relied on for the in
aitlVatlon OF our great staples. Give him o
interest, either for life or for wears
the soil which he tills, and he will
we no reason for comp plaint on that
ore. And as to the belief that The
hIte man could not make cotton DR.
arshall affirms they have always made so
!; ne has known Germans, Italians if
merlcans and Irishmqn to make crons
the less fertile and affiuept distrints' y
Ithout. negro labor at all.
by all means let us encoura 90 ;p,r,;
atIon-it is the surest and speed;ast -
al to National power and wealth r. i'm
Ppiylng the demands of agriculture Z So
|! open other fields of industry to The sa'
lizan and the manufacturer. We will gai
ssess In ourselves all the requisites of
e, and where we now use articles of o No
'elgn production, we will be able ~ :
,nlsh other nations with them.-Trne
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