The day book. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1857-1867, 1865-08-16
COME OVER AND HELP US.

the blacks, who were with US before the
war, are still to be found on our soil, the
thousands of deserted homes of the white
man, and our furrowed hills and valleys,
holding his remains, attest the fearful
inEoad which the war has made on our
population. From returns recently made
we find that in the State of Alabama
alone, over seventy thousand of her white
men have been killed or manned. Upon
this data an estimate may be formed Of
the loss of the South in men, during the
war. The present disturbed state Of
black labor, may be to some extent, cor.
rected in few years. But who shall
fill the void which our losses on the bat
tie field and disease, has brought upon
us? We earnestly call the attention of
our brethren of the Northern press to
this condition of our affairs. We think
it can be shown that thousands of Norths
ern farmers and mechanics, who are
ekeing out a miserable existence at the
North can improve their. condition by.
coming South In tho first place, our
climate offers many inducements to the.
n1an who has to make his '''bread BY, the
sweat of-his brow" 1t is mild and tenn
perate''s d requires but little additional eff
fort and proportion to live as comfortable
through the winter, as you do in the mil
der seasons. How different stands the
case in the Northern States. There Won
see the small farmer struggling through
tho spring and summer, to make enough
to feed him through the long winter
wh9l heis bousedand can do no out door
work. During six months Of the year,
for all practical purposes, he1had better
be in bis grave, for there he would con-
sumo nothing. 1t will be said that we
have a miasmatic climate, and that we
are afflicted with bilious diseases; this is
SO to'sonae extent, but how mild in com
parlson, are these diseases. to the terrible
scourges, consumption and plurisy sand
pneumonia, with which the Northern
people are aflictcds -. n-.-s 4
Aud, then, as to our lands. From Eu.
rope and the Northern States, we find
thousands of men ,hooking to the great
West. In what condition do they find
themselves when they get there! They
must eater upon new lands, clear away
the forest and build a log hut to shelter
their wives and children. For years their
earnings amount to a mere subsistence.
They are deprived, to great extent, of
churches and schools, and in the low
lands OF Indiana and Illinois, and in the
higher latitude Of the remote territories,
they will encounter diseases, in COMPARE
son with which the forms of sickness in
our climate sink into insigniicance. 3,
How different with the Northern far
mer or the emigrant coming South Fl
Let him traverce the country from the
Potomac to the Rio Grande, and he will
lind hundreds of thousands of acres of |
good cleared lands, standing idle, and but
awaiting his touch, to spring into fertili. |
ty and beauty. Here he will find houses
and barns and fences and bitches, sur
rounded by schools and churches, and |
organized, we'll regulated society, he mayI
enter at once upon a career of prosperity |
and usefulness. This last sentence NAV
sound strange to the ear of. the Northern |
man, who imagines that all is disorder
and confusion in the South, but contrast
for moment, the condition of society in
the two sections. The Northern and
Western papers come to us, teeming with
murders and rapes and robberies. Not so
the papers of the South. In some few
instances, we find the black man over
stepping the bounds of law, but in the
great mass OF the people of the South, we
find peaceble, virtuous, abiding citi-
zens. and this, too, Immediately following
commissions that have shaken Southern /
society and Southern institutions, to their
lowest depths. Isl" 4, i".''.a
Ask your sons, particularly those who
have traversed the South under Sherman:
thew will tell YOU of a land IF heaut,,