The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1866-10-11
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/ lCH 4 R lie S I ON
annnonAy MORNING, OCTOBER II, 1866.
|7i7I7eR1T70N AND EN1qRA74oN
! shall hall the people Of the South em'gra'e
f,om The land Of their fathers and leave II 70 =
fall into the hands Of strangers, or snall
thav invite Immigrants from all parts OF the
world to settle in their midst and join them
IN enabling the country to recover from ens =
ha,af,l effects Of civil war /? In favor Oh
the former policy are all those who are 90
wadded to the things that have passed away
.hat thew can see no hope for US in the future.
Disheartened by the results of the war; they
would leave the homo of their nativity ana
try their fortune in unknown lands. These
people are blinded Iby passion and preJudloe'
and become the easy victims Of emigration
societies and their agents. The home which
was once luxurious, but is 30 no longer-but
which requires only industry to make s it 1 com.
Portable, and enterprise to make it luxurious
aeain-is abandoned for life in the wilder.
ness, where it will take the hard work OF two
generations to accumulate the comforts which
have been wantonly sacrificed. The object
Of this moyement--the advantage proposed to
be gained by the exchange-is said to be
freedom from Northern control. Nowhere on
the American continent can tho emigrant
from the South be sure Of that freedom, and
| in the Old World there is certainly no room
for him. We are, therefore, constrained to
believe that ell schemes for the emigration
Of the Southern people are wrong, and only
beneficial to the e1nigrant societies and their
agents.
The number Of people that will emigrate
from South Carolina will be smsll-not only
because there are not great many who want
to 90, but because even Of those who do want
to 90, the greater part are compelled, by want
Of means, to stay. Strange to say, however,
Of the large majotity who will remain in the
State, q great many are opposed to immigra-
tion--thatis is to say, they object to large
Iinaux of foreign nQpluation into the State.
tThey take the ground that it will deprive
the native population Of the control Of the
country, and that the foreigners, combining
with the negroes, will throw the State into
the control Of the Radicals. Now, these
objections ore weak in the extreme. Expe-
rience shows that foreign settlers foil into
the opinions Of the people among whom
they live, and become strongly attached
even to their prejudioes. In the lato war,
Irish, Germans and French fought on the
side Of the South with as much ardor as
their oounarymep fought for the North, and
hated our enemies with all the passionate
earnestneas Of natives. The truth is, then,
that large immigration is the true way OF
regaining our political equality and when
we consider, in addition, the vast material
wealth which their industry would create,
and the great amount Of land now lying waste
which it would put under cultivation, we
cannot but conclude that the best thing that
could happen for our State and her people
would be the rapid increase of hee foreign
population.
THE CHARLESTON AND SAV4lNNAH FAIL.
+ ROAD.
By an advertisement in the city papers
The public have been informed that the
Charleston and Savannah Railroad will be
: offered at public sale on the Goth Of Noyem.
Der next. The City of Charleston depending
as she does almost entirely, on tho railroads
which connect her with the interior for the
limited prosperity she at present enjoys, it is
OF the utmost Importance to her interests
: that they should be owned and managed by
those who, while they may be jealous to de-
clare good dividends, will also take care to
pursue such policy as will advance the
trade Of this city. In the hands of enter.
f prising men, the Savannah Raiiroad can be
made Of IN importance second to no avenue
OF communication at present leading into the
interior from this point 1t should, at the
earliest moment, be connected with the Geor
gla Central Road at or near Millen, when WE