The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1866-11-08
Observation-Disclosures.

to venture down this way, that they
will be prescribed, insulted and even
murdered if they attempt to settle
in our rebeilious section. SO frequent
" do these erroneous statements find
their way into the newspapers, that a
number of Northern gentlemen who
bought and leased lands in the adjoin-
ing county of Madison, since the close
of the war, felt called upon in Justice
to our people, to write letter giving
the lie to the radical stories. This
letter is before us in the New York
Evening Post and for the benefit of
our readers we make an extract
from it:
/. We have noticed many letters in the
Northern papers, which, so~far as our
locality is concerned, we consider de
famatory, exaggerated and uncalled
for; and, should we remain silent to
Misrepresentation of our locality and
its old citizens, it would be unjust to
those who have received us Hospitality
and treated us with civility.
In our neighborhoods are many who
have suffered losses of mules and hOT-
ses-among them some of the under
signed. But old residents have suf
fered from such losses more severely
than new settlers thus proving that
mule thieves will steal mules, no mat
Ton l,
we have had no difficulties, and none
but satisfactory business relations.
The freedmen work for whom they
please to contract with, in the same
manner as farm laborers at the North !;
in numerous instances are employed
by Northern men, who are their old
masters nearest neighbOrs. We think
our lives and property as safe as those
Of old residents; that we can obtain
justice in the courts, if obliged to take
that course; and that new Corners cam
feel as secure here as in any sparsely-
settled agricultural community of our
western States.
The truth is told in this extract. The
energy and worth of man is what the
South is looking after now, and not
political faith. We have dabbled in
politics enough. We have been almost
ruined by political agitation, and are
now willing to turn our attention to
manufactures, agriculture and com
merce. We want immigrants from all
Il Il
thrifty people for our waste lands, and
all who come will find q welcome. To
quote from the Richmond Inquirer,
immigrants from the North of the sub
stantial sort, will find an amicable re-
ception here
The South is greatly in need of cap
tai to re- establish its industry and de
velop its crest resources. We want
the capital to come, but we want the
capitalists to come with it. OF all the
ills that can aftiict a country, absentee
ism is the worst To have our State
under mortgage to New York; to have
our productive properties owned there
and to have our merchants and farmers
and manufacturers paying enormous
annual tributes of interest, to be spent
not here, but in the North, is to make
the South what England has made of
Ireland. We do not want absenteeism
we want the income derived from the
capital employed here to be spent here,
and therefore we want capitalists as
well as capital to come among us. We
doubt whether the Southern people
would not do better rather to struggle
with their difficulties as best they may,
relying wholly upon their own resour-
ces, and developing these as they in
crease, than to seek loans which will
drain away our life blood forever,
through the evils of absenteeism. But
if capitalists will come among us and
take hold of enterprises here, and will
spend their revenues here, we are i'm
PEELED by every consideration of neces-
sity, and of prudence and wisdom, to
give them a warm and hearty welcome.
a HEAVY FAILURE.-The Albany
papers say that the failure of Alden,
Frirk & Weston, at CohOes, n. Y, is
severe blow to the business prosper
ity Of that thriving village. The firm
was considered the heaviest manufac-
turers ofknit wollen goods in the Uni
ted States, and their axe factory.
nomlnally carried on by W. j. Ten
Eyck d Co, was the second largest in
Cohoes. The four wollen mills which
they ran were named the Wateryliet
Hosiery Mills, the Atlantic, Halcyon
and State Mills, all of which contained
machinery of the most modern and
expensive description. There were
tWenty-three sets of wollen knitting
in each, and the goods
turned out were sent to almost every
market throughout the country. The
axe and tool factory was also carried
on upon the most extensive scale,
turning out daily over one thousand
axes and edge-tools of various de-
scriptons.
The Masonic Fraternity of the Uni
ted States are invited by the Grand
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