The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1866-12-21

laborer, and offer no security to the
employer, and can only benefit the
middle man or agents, whose interest
it is to deceive both parties. The
system opens the door to misrepre-
sentations, if not to actual fraud,
and generally ends in dissatisfaction
on one side. or disappointment on the
other. It should be abandoned and
the emigrant left free to make his own
selection of locality and employer
To enable him, however, to do this,
Offices should be established in oil
the principal seaports, principal in
terror cities and rail road centres,
where parties wishing to hire could
leave their address, stating what kind
Of labor they require, what wages
they are willing to pay, and on what
terms they wish to make engagements.
These Offices should keep a descrip-
tive list of the farms and lands offer
ed for sale or rent in their districts,
and should furnish advice and assis-
tance to all requiring the same
These Offices should be under the con-
troll Or supervision of prominent dis
interested men, or still better, might
be connected with private benevolent
societies established expressly for the
purpose Of advising, assisting and
protecting immigrants. Wherever
there are, respectable citizens Of Ger
man origin, they should be urged to
establish such societies. x * X
As soon as we have been informed
of the establishment of such Offices
as here recommended, and have been
notified by them what kind of labor
crs are required, and on what terms
they can find employment, We will
influence the right kind of emigration
to those localities which desire it. .
* In reply to many inquiries and
offers in regard to taking a more ac.
tive participation in the business Of
engaging emigrants, I would say, that
as purely benevolent, institution,
without any pecuniary object in view,
the German Society cannot act as
an.agcnt for any person or associa-
ton making a business Of emigration,
nor can it buy or sell lands, or cm-
ploy merccnary parties as agents.
From letter received from Liver
pool, England, from the British agcn-
Of 4 ri ic,rrr ;;sant Cnmpa=
ny, We copy the following:
I think it likely that Germans
would be better suited to settlement
in the Southern States than the Irish,
but both these nationalitics will, doubt
less, be attracted to. the South, if
they are assured that in respect to
pay and of social position, the advan-
tagcs offered in the South are equal
to those in Western and Northwestern
States. The emigration from Ire
land, alone, for the coming season,
will probably not be less than 5000
per week. These might be influenced
to 90 South if sufficient induccmcnt
was offered them, and even before
leaving, ireland information of this
kind might be set before them to adj
vantage. * = I am not, at pres
cnt, in a position to- form Judgment
of the attractions which South Caro-
lima offers to European laborers.-
There is an impression here that the
former cultiyators of the soil are still,
to u large extent, available, if prop
crly treated and fairly rcmuneratcd,
and European laborcrs will not like
the idea of coming into competition
with the freedmen as laborcrs.
"Rcfcrring to the position of Irish
>emigrants, may say that some, by
no means large proportion, are pos
sesscd of moderate means, and emf
CRATE with view of settling in Wes-
tern lands, but the great majority are
laborers, ready to take employment
wherever they can best procure it.
Your committee have endeavored
to ascertain the views and measures
of our sister States in regard to i'm
migration. Although most of them
have seen and partly appreciated the
great value Of immigration, their laws
have simply consulted their own i'm
mediate interest, without caring much
for that of the immigrant. Whilstsomc
of them have appointed agents and
commissioners to hold forth their ad-
vantages in cheap lands, favorable
climate, variety Of productions, bene-
fcial institutions, &C., but very few
of them, in fact, as far as we could
learn, New York only, have deemed