The daily clarion. [volume] (Meridian, Miss.) 1863-1866, 1865-12-17
EMIGRATION TO RRAzIL

EMIGRATION TO BRAZIL.
II the following extraordinary account
Of the condition of the Empire of Brazil,
which we copy from an article in the
Vicksburg Herald, should happen to be
correct, it would certainly prove great
obstacle to Southern emigration to that
country.
We do not believe tho interests Of any
class Of our people will be benefited by
the schemes of Brazilian emigration about
which SO much have been said. From all
we have been able to learn of the soil,
productions and climate of Brazil, greater
advantages for industry and enterprise
are presented, in any of the gulf states,
than can be found in the most favored
parts OF this vast empire. However, we
believe most of those who were affected
with the Brazilian fever" have aband-
oned all idea of emigration, and are en-
gagirg In business near their old homes
We are gratifcd to know that no con-
siderable number from the South propose
tuaes. A few adventures will endeavor
10 win notoriety by such schemes, but the
good sense of the people will reject all
such chimeTical undertakings, No coun-
try in the world, needs labor and enter
piise more than the South and instead
Of abandoning the country, we should
not only go to work ourselves, but en-
courage immigration here, to develop the
resources of our own native land, which
we belive far superior to Brazil, and
which with an Industrious and thrifty
population, will become the most nIagni-
dcent and prosperous country on the con-
tinsnt:
THH SOUTHERN MECCA.
The papers say that Mr.. Wood agent
for six hundred Southern families who
desire 20 emigrate to Brazil, has been
cordially received by the Emperor, at
Rio de Janeiro, and that he is making
most favorable arrangements, for trans
planting the six hundred from North to
South America. We wonder if this Mr..
Wool, is not the redoubtable William
Wallace Washington Wood, ex Editor,
ex NJ tior General of the Militia of Mis-
sissippl, aud ex-officer of the late G.. S. A.
If 50, now it must please his patriotic
South'rn heart, after his late failure to |
establish pure Republic in the Southern |
States, 10 bow bown before the Imperial |
purple of the dingy Emperor of Brazil, |
surrounded by his ven-colored Ministry,
liza statement we find in the Freeman's |
Sournal, an able Catholic newspaper, is
correct, those of our Southern fellow
citizens who are revolving schemes OF
emigration 10 that country are reckoning
without their host. The climate of por.
uons Of Brazil is all that could be de-
sired indeed that country, in the main,
presents the most alluring attractions in
ltS almost Incompatible advantages of
climate and soil. The Emperor, if Pro
lessor Agassiz, now on visit to Brazil,
may be credited, it both a gentleman
and scholar. Such, indeed, are his
scientific Attninments that Professor
Agassiz, alter spending day with him
IN the Royal Observatory in making OBJ .
serVs ions of an eclipse, declared that he
was the first monarch he had seen, after ,
enjoying interviews with those of Eu- {
rope, tor whose scientific attainments he {
felt sincere respect. The inducements I
held out by this cultivated monarch to 6
is one great difficulty, according to the '
Freeman's Journal, which processes to a
derive its information from credible &
sources in Brazil, and which is thus T
stated by that journal: care they (the l
proposed Souther emigrants) aware that G
the shIEet, or ministry, of the Emperor, c
o eh'.Tly composed of negroes q
10 they know 1T sometimes happens {
HaH there Is not one man of pure white c
blood In the ministry under the Empe t
orr Do they know that the Judges that a
preside IN the courts, before which they O
vii have to appear, in civil or criminal 9
uits' are as stten, or oftener, negroes, as n
White men Z" ~
These are surprising facts, if true, and q
re known, we presume, to but few, if ft
ny OF those who contemplate emigra. O
ing TO Brazil, in consequence of their at ii
achment TO the institution of slavery.
here 10 one more important fact which Il
ueh persons should well consider. While d
Is true that slavery is a law of that G
.mplre, there are causes now at work W
hat will, DO doubt, accomplish the down D,
All OF that institution, certainly within a ts
teume. The Emperor is, himself. an al
ivocate of emancipation. s,
with these facts established, there will in
e. we opine, an end put to these South. fe
I'd schemes of emigration, to Brazil. at pt
saat: Instead of white emigrants to Dc
'raHl' ther should be a strong tide of Sc
egFo emigration to that country. The
innate certainly suits the negro, and the liz
oh''eal car and social advantages of which te
40 Ffeeman's Journal speaks, would or
is0e mem IN that position there which ou
ielr leaders SO much covet. but can frc
ever gain' In this scountry-that of equal laI
= with the whites. tn tn