The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1866-03-27

n We have already cautioned the public
against the swindlng Gift Enterprise operations
OF Northern sharpers, who are deceiving the peo-
pie by their fraudulant promises. A Washing
ton correspondent thus speaks of the business:
:. The postmaster at Rhinebeck. Dutchess
county. New York, sends a letter to the Senate
Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads. in
closing lot of circulars to show by what means
the swinding gift enterprise business is carried
on by firms in New York and elsewhere. They,
he says, are but samples of similar documents
arriving daily, and although he warns every one
receiving them, every few days some dupe sends
off SO or 800 He also encloses circular to
show how the names of parties are obtained from
postmasters, not aware of the object sought to be
accomplished"
And the New York Record says:
1--WE would advise our Southern friends to
keep sharp lookout for gift lotteries. We are
satisfied that, if not in all cases. certainly in the
majority. they nothing but unmitigated swim
dies to entrap the confding and unwary. and to
cheat them out of their money. Don't trust
them; they are the latest Yankee notion"
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~ Gov. Orr of South Carolina. has written
letter to German Society in New York, to in
duce immigration to South Carolina. He asserts
that the people of South Carolina are disposed to
welcome immigrants among them. BY the pro-
visions of the new Constitution adopted last Sum-
mer, foreigners who have declared their intention
to become citizens of the United States per-
mitted.to vote two years from the date of their
declaration, and three ears before naturalization
There is no distinction whatever between natives
an naturalzed citizens as to the enjoyment OF
civil or political rights and privileges The Gov
ernor says the experiment of German lmmigra-
ton to South Carolina has been tried with mark
ed success. In the District of Pickens, near the
Blue Ridge mountains, there is very hourishing
colony numbering about four thousand souls.
About seventeen years ago company purchased
some twenty thousand acres of land, which they
divided into small tracts, and sold to German i'm
migrants. These immigrants have greatly i'm
proved their lands. and have been a very valuable
accession to the country. In the centre OF this
settlement is the prosperous little town of Wal
halla containing about fifteen hundred souls.
ERTY.!-Twenty five thousand dollars are
wanted Immediately to keep fifteen thousand ne
groes in the District Of Columbia from starving.
Now these negroes free, and if as anxious to
work as they are to vote. the twenty five thou
sand dollars would not be wanted. Paupers.
white or black, have but very little interest in
government. and beggars should not insolently
demand the right to control the hand that gives
them charity We hope to see the blacks edu
cate themselves, learn habits of industry. virtue
and economy, and improve their condition gene
rally, but to do this first of all they must learn to
work. They must learn to rely on SELF and not
look to he-ssovernment to supply their wants.
Raleigh Progress.
Sensible talk, indeed; but what better can be
expected of the freedmen while the Government
supports them, to a certain extent, in ideness.
The Freedman's Bureau is proving positive
curse to the colored man, and, if continued in
operation much longer. will cause his everlasting
ruin. We assert without hesitation, that the
Southern white man would if untrameled by
Northern fanatics. prove the best and truest
friend to the negro. because the Southerner
knows the nature Of the negro and how to induce
him to work ndustriously and Systematically
something that never can be accomplished while
he is interfered with by Bureaus. &c.