The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1866-06-04
What the South Wants.

of a recent date says:
The South wants Observation-Disclosures
Gus population working population.
Where is this population to come from
We answer, from the North and West.
Will they be welcome ? We answer, yes.
It is only those interested to keep up a
show of power who denyit Northern and
Western men, with good habits, with in
dustry, with capital, are wanted. We have
to fill up the room of one million blacks
and one million whites slaughtered during
the war. They were producers, and must
be replaced.
The lying reports of petty officials, who,
in peace times, would not dare to utter
one-tenth part of the falsehoods they
swore to before the Reconstruction Com
mittee, are only intended to keep up those
low fellows in Office, who otherwise would
starve, or do worse. ave- -.ws.x WFEr
The Northern and Western man who
comes amongst us as an equal, is not only
welcome, but he is desired. He will popu-
late our cities, he will cultivate our fields,
he will develop our mineral resources. If
he is capitalist, he will build up our
trade.
Mobile, so far behind the age in the race
unwise legislation, so much hampered by
monopolies-Mobile wants an addition of
at least twenty five thousand inhabitants,
settling amongst us as bona tide residents,
and ready to take hand in the manage
ment OF public affairs.
For the spirit that will animate them,
we can trust the workings of interest and
nature, they will soon be all right, by
which we Observation-Disclosures.
The Times is slightly mistaken on
this subject. The people of the North
west will not be so readily transformed
into Southerners = as the Times may
suppose. With the exception of those
scuryy Democratic politicians street
corner loafers-who are not work
ing population" the people of the
North and West are. an intelligent,
independent, liberty loving people
have mind of their own, and will
carry with them and maintain their
sentiments wherever they go, and
such men will not readily become
"Southerners"
If public sentiment was such in the
South as would tolerate liberal, indie
pendent thought, and full freedom of
expression, the South might draw
from the North and West popula-
ton that would give political power,
as we'll as material wealth and respect
ability, to Mobile and the State of Ala
bama--men who would develop there
sources of the State, build manufacto-
ries, run their railroads and improve the
morals of the original or native born
inhabitants. IF the South simply
wants political power-a voting popu-
lation it might draw from the
North and West many thousand
such men as DAN VOORHEES,, BAY
LESS W.atHANNA, and such pot house
and whisky-shop politicians, on con-
dition that the offices would be turned
over to them, and they would be sup
ported by the labor ofothers. Evans
vile could send large delegation of.
such, but we can assure the people of
Mobile that they won't work. They
have all the lower instincts of the
Southern nabob, but nothing to run
the machine upon. If such popu-
lation would suit the people of Mo-
bile, they can be supplied on the
above terms We would cheerfully
spare them from the North and West,
but could not recommend them. Our
free, independent, intelligent, liberty
loving working men we have use for
at home, and propose to keep
them. The street corner scallawags
and the pot-house politicians you are
welcome to you can use such rub
bish. They will profess to believe
anything, and be ever so servile and
truculent if you will let them have the
Offices Our industrious classes would