Daily union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1865-1866, 1866-06-16
ANSWER TO An INQUIRER.

The postmaster at Gallstin, Tennessee, en-
closes US letter from Kewanna, Indiana, of
date June 9th, 1866, addressed 10 himself,
making certain inquiries regarding the con-
dition Of affairs in this State, and soliciting
information valuable to persons proposing to
immigrate. The postmaster desires that the
answer TO this letter should be given in the
form Of an article in some responsible and
creditable newspaper, as he is in daily re-
ceipt of such letters, and cannot find time to
answer them.
We are very glad to learn that the post
masters correspondence with honest in
quirers after the facts, ard those disposed to
seek homes in our State, is SO extensive and
take pleasure in giving what information we
possess, and correcting the misapprehen-
sions and fears under which they may
labor. The gentleman who writes from Ke-
wanna states that he was greatly impressed
with the beauty, the salubrity, and produc-
tiveness of this section during his stay, and
that a goodly number of men of wealth in
the region from which he writes are closing
up business, with view of prospecting for
quarters in the South. There is a frank,
straightforward tone'in his letter, which in
duces us to suppose that he is not one of
those who presume that the misfortunes of
war have so reduced our people that they
will part with their lands for mere pit
lance, or that they have abated a title oftheir
adherence for that class of men who come
among us and conduct themselves as if they
thought we were class of slave trading bar
barians, and who assume to teach us as if
we were unacquainted with the rudiments of
civilization. His queries are directed tothe
matter of peace, quietude and securi-
ty from indiscriminate robbery and plum
der, and in regard to the prices Of
property in the country and city, and the
yield which the farmer may expect from
the produce of the soil. He writes lik can
earnest, practical man who is in search of a
home in which his industry will thrive bet
ter than in his present location.
We can assure him that if he is the man
We have taken him to be, all like him will
receive a warm welcome to this community,
and that he and they will find
this region all that the prepossessions
he speaks of, induced him to suppose. He
will find the war over, and the people striv
ing to forget it in the pursuits of peace; that
the species of crime which he. and others
perhaps, expected to prevail, is as unfrequent
as in any section of the Northern States;
that lands can be purchased at a fair price,
and that their produce always commands
remunerative values; that the community
desires the immigration of energetic, indus
trious people, and that they can plant, and
SOW, and reap, and sit in the shadow of their
own vine and fig tree without fear of moles-
tation; that there are thousands of acres
that want hands; and that agriculturally or
in any other avocation, Tennessee offers in
ducements unsurpassed by no portion of the
continent.
We do not know that we can say anything
more in behalf of our State, as a field for
immigrants, but this is truly said. Let all
come who will 1t would be better if those
from the North would discard their preju-
dices, and leave behind them all feeling
which may have been engendered by recent
events, but we open wide the doors to every
one. From whatever cline or country they
may come, they will find a soil teeming with
the rewards vouchsafed to honest toll, a eli
mate promotive of health and comfort, and
a people whose intelligence, sincerity and
courage is as equal to the duty of living
down unjust and unmerited reproach, as it
is of understanding and asserting their
rights and privileges as freemen.