Daily union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1865-1866, 1866-01-21


The people Of Tennessee are not hostile to
an increase Of population by immigration.
They earnestly desire, and viii extend the
hand of welcome to all honest, virtuots and
intelligent settlers. OF the hundreds of
thousands Of strangers who were brought
into and through the State by the events Of
the late war, both from the North and the
South, there were few who were not sur
prised and delighted with the soil, with the
people, and with the manifest advantages the
State offers for prosperous and happy homes.
In provision-producing capacity, Tennessee
unquesaionabIy presents resources and pow
ers which no other tract of territory Of equal
extent upon the American continent affords.
This assertion is not made in a boastfni
spirit, but upou thorough investigation Of
statistics and personal knowledge of facts.
The God Of nature has lavished upen that
spot on the earth's surface called Tennessee
those gifts which are best calculated TO pro-
mote the temporal comforts of His creatures.
Shall we recount them? five 60 TO the
Eastern Division of the State we shall find
a surface soil Of great fertility divided into
mountain, valley and plain, Astounding in
fruits, the vine and grain. The mountains
are full Of minerals, iron copper and lead,
and yet others undeveloped. In Middle
Tennessee will be found the same teeming
fields yielding by the labor of one man suffi-
cient provisions Of all sorts TO sustain twenty,
with hill, dale and plain supplying all
known fruits suitable to the climate,
and offering from the Western slopes
Of the Cumberland mountains and The
subsidiary hills a profusion of rich
ores, and giving to the country its true
and richest oil deposits. The accounts APP
pearing in these columns yesterday embody-
ing facts, show that the Western shed Of the
Cumberland range contains wealth of oil
which will eclipse the production of this
article in other favored localities. The
bluffs and hills ranging along the Cumberland
river in its entire course through the State
offer 10 the iron-master field for enterprise
and profit superior to any that we know Of.
Passing to West Tennessee we approach
region equally fertile, and well adapted to,
the growth of the great American staple,
cotton, in which il has competed in the
great markets Of the country successfully
with the most favored regions further South.
With such resources the forty-fve thou
sand square miles enclosed within our
boundaries is capable Of sustaining and en-
riching larger population than any other
area of equal extent in the world. Stock of
all kinds thrive to a remarkable degree, and
there is no branch of productive enterprise
which is not amply remunerated.
Our natural endowments are of character
to minister TO the most healthful and profit
able development Of manufacturing industry.
We have unlimited water-power in the
smaller streams throughout the State, with
navigation by way Of the Tennessee from the
same great internal artery TO Burksville,
Kentucky, Assistance Of six oreight hundred
miles.
With such resources and facilities Tennes-
see invites, needs large, energetic and in
dustrions population. She wants farmers,
stock-raisers, miners, colliers, and mechan-
ics--a vast increase of sober, frugal, indus
trious and virtuoas people. To all such she
offers homes and employment
We have seen publications In the papers
that immigrants have been deferred from
coming by the condition of our State affairs.
1t seems that the creditable witnesses from
this State to persons abroad are those who
represent the Government as unsettled, and
that persons Of the North or the SOUTH COM
ing to the Statewould be Immediately robbed
or murdered. Whatever grounds there may
have been TO sustain such supposition in
the past, we beg leaveto notify all who desire
to make their homes, in this State, thatupon
the part Of the people Of Tennessee there is
no opposition to their coming. There is
small and insignificant coterie of persons
temporarily entrusted with the manage
ment of affairs that would keep the State in
territorial condition, and obstruct in all
ways possible to them, the true interests and
prosperity of the people; but this is tempo
ry, and those choosing to come to the State
may be assured that by the time they are
settled they may expect to enjoy all the
rights and privileges of citizens.
We therefore invite all who want to pro-
mote their interests by honest industry to
Tennessee--farmers, gardners mechanics,
workers in the various minerals. and all
others who desire-to earn an honest living |
by honest industry. And if they shall be |
obstructed in any shape or form, we shall
feel obliged to become their defenders.
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