New Orleans daily crescent., 1866-11-01
rnart5 kRN alEgs M rgE SOUTH.


A Northern newspaper commences an ar
ticle on the subject of 6 Northern men IN the
South, by saying that "of the considerable
number of Northern men who, at the close OF
the war, either remained in the South, Went
thither for the purpose of oultiyating the sol,
or engaging in other legitimate business, most
of them have prospered; some have large
fortunes in growing crops or in well founded
commercial relations few have barely made
expenses, Others have failed Sensible men
| in the South have already learned that the
hope and prosperity of the country are greatly
dependent on immigration from the North
Capitalists will not risk their money where
/ their persons would be unsafe. The PROSTATE
planters, merchants and manufacturers have
experienced the full weight of the folly that
repels the introduction Of men and money
from the North, and they are becoming less
inclined to inquire into the political faith, but
look more to the financial and practical force
of the new settler"
Could it be supposed that this paragraph is
1 taken from the New York Tribune, paper
4 which, day after day, tries to persuade its
readers that the lives of Union men are un-
i safe in the South, and that Northern men are
4 insulted, prescribed, and even murdered,
/ whenever they venture to engage in CONNER
cial OF agricultural enterprisesl Yet such is
the fact, strange as it may appear That such
o confession should have made its way into
the columns of the Tribune can only be &C
i counted for by that irrepressible force Of
truth through which it sometimes develops
itself in very unexpected quarters. In spite
Of the daily declarations Of the Tribune cor
respondent that general massacre Of Union
men is contemplated in the South; that
a freedman has been insulted IN one
parish. and Northern planter warned away
from another parish, it is now admitted that
most Of the Northern men who remained IN
! the South, or came hither after the war have
prospered, and that many Of them have made
large fortunes. The Southern people who
but yesterday: were SO hostile to the Union
that they would not permit & Yankees" TO
come among them, are now clamoring for i'm
!, migration, and vociferous for Northern capi-
tai The people who took an exquisite de-
i Hight in assasinating Union men, are now
little inclined to inquire into the political
faith of the newcomers, g but look more K
their financial and practical force. Wonder
; full transformation! So extraordinary meta
i morphosis Of character, and opinion, ant
. conduct has never before been witnessed il
the history of the world.
But this is not ali. The Tribune goes OF
to say that prescription is unpaying
Z starvation and nakedness are therefore
working conviction where the logic Of bay
9 onets failed to convince. The
I people, even in the South, are growing sicl
on promises, and lean on hopes deferred
! They must have bread, and, failing to obtair
it through presidential reconstruction, come
> now, with direct and reasonable appeal tc
the great North, beseeching it to send down
! men and money to purchase and cultivate
lands, to open mines, establish factories giye
labor to the idle and food to the starving. In
parts Of Georgia, Texas and Arkansas, meet
ings Of citizens have been held, and resolu-
i tions passed inviting immigration, and pledg-
ing protection to Northern men who may
settle in those communities.
If the Tribune had said Congressional in
stead Of presidential reconstruction it
would have come nearer to true description
| of Southern sentiment. But We can let that
4 pass. The great radical organ has atslast go
a glimpse of the TRUTH and begins to see tina
the Southern people are really reasoning hu
man beings, and not gfbbering idiots, or ray
ing lunatics. 1t discovers what is the fact
that we have tired of all this clatter of ''recon
structionn and all this cnafaring about terms
and that conditions of one kind or another
as to representation in Congress, are of little
moment to q people who are struggling t
gain their daily bread and to accommodate
themselves to the exigenoies of new socia
condition. And in this connection thc
Tribune quotes the following from the Rich
mond Enquirer
! Immigrants from the North, of the substantial
sort will not only find an amicable reception here
i but leelconle. The South is greatly in need o.
capital to reestablsh its industry and develop III
great resources. We want the capital TO come
9 but we want the capitalists to come with it. o
i all the ills that can afHict country, dbSe,teeisn
. | is the worst. To have our State under mortgage
q to New York; to have our productive propaTtie
a owned there, and to have our merchants and far
meTs and manufacturers paying enormous annua
tributes OF interest," to bespent not here, but il
= tha North is TO make the South what England ha
i made Of Ireland. We donot want absenteeism-
= we want the income derived from the capital EN-
u ployed here to be spent here, and therefore ",
. want capitalists as well as capital to among
| as. We doubt whether the Southern peopie Wou
not do better rather to struggle with their diff
cnltes as best they may, relying wholly upon thei
/ own resources, and developing as these increase
than to seek loans which will drain away our lif
y blood forever through the evils of absenteeisn
Z But if capitalists will come among US and tax
hold Of enterprises here, and will spend their rev
enues here, we are impeled by every considera
I, tion of necessity aud of prudence and wisdom
t 10 give them warm and hearty welcome.
All of which has been saia over and owe
d again in the CRESCENT. Weare glad that
+ begins to take effect at last.
THE BOARD OF HEALTH.