The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-02-10
Inducements to Immixra,ion.

a New York journal, which has eX-
hibited friendly desire to assist the
South in the introduction of immi-
grants, says that we make serious
mistake In our plans for the intro
ductlon OF laborers from Europe when
we expect them to work by the year.
1t IS probable that labor will arrange
itself here as it did in the West.
When that section was thinly popula-
ted, 1t was for years almost impossible
to hire farm laborers by the year, or
even by the month. Lands were
cheap and abundant labor was high
and scarce, and all preferred to till
their own small farms rather than
work for hire upon another mans.
1t made the farmers life hard until
his son grew up to d useful age, and
this gave rise to common saying in
the West, when a son was born in q
farmers house, that this was as good
as thousand dollars to him.
The plan which, under these cir
cumstances, the West took to encou-
rage immigration was this: They did
not offer to hire ''white labor" by the
year; but they made it known, far
and wide, that with them land was
cheap and fertile; that forty acre
farm could be bought for very small
sum; that o man who, in Europe,
would be all his life dependent and
living from hand to mouth, with no
better future for his children, might,
m the West, in q few years, pay for
his farm, be an independent man for
the rest of his days and educate his
chile rem in free school. They held
out the inducement of cheap lands,
purchasable in small lots, at easy
rates, and opportunities for educa-
tlon. This plan was immensely sue
cessful, because it held out Just the
inducements which tempt the class
which emigrates from Europe The
stupid, thriftless and ignorant class of
Europeans do not emigrate from
Europe. 1t is the thrifty, the ener-
getic, the aspiring, who wish to bet
ter their condition; who desire q
happier future than their own for
their children; who leave their Eng
and German homes in the Old
orld to find new bones in America.
1t IS these men-the picked men of
Europe-who have gone by tens of
thousands to the West, and whose
mere presence has, in q few years,
quadrupled the selling price of lands
III some States But these men will
not hire themselves to work out by
the year. We have only to hold out
the inducements to immigration that
the West has held out, and we shall
have the same success.
Wilmington Times.
The correspondent Of the Baltimore
San, under date of Washington.
February 5, writes: The prospect of
the admission of attorneys and coun-
sci to the bar of the United States
courts, without subscribing to the
test oath, is not SO good as it was
some weeks ago. The Supreme
Court delays its decision, which it is
believed was adverse to the constitu-
tlonallty of the law extending the
test to this class of citizens. The
court is probacly unwilling to decide
question which is identified with
politics, especially rs there was some
expectation that Congress would
repeal the law in regard to counsel
practicing in the Federal courts.
Opposition has arisen in the House.
and 1t is now believed that Congress
will not act upon the subject at all
until the time shall arrive for the
repeal of the test oath in application
to members Of that body.
There is no sign of any relaxation
OF the stringent policy of Congress
IN regard to the E'seceded States,'
and their members elect. Not until
the committee on reconstruction shall
have completed their system for the
future government Of the lately re-
volted States, and witnessed its ac-
ceptance and practical application,
will those States be represented in
Congress, and then no member will
be admitted who cannot subscribe to
the test oath. AS ninety-nine out of
hundred of the Southern people
South of the Potomac were more or
less engaged in the rebellion, it is
quite uncertain whether, during the
present generation, those States can
be represented at all-unless, indeed,
a great change in the representation
of the Northern States in Congress
shall take place. The many intelli-
gent citizens of the South, who have
visited Washington of late, have come
to this conclusion.
The financial measures, which
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