New Orleans daily crescent., 1866-11-21
EMIGRATION.


EMIGRATION.
There has always been, and will always be,
an irrepressible and violent wish on the part
of afflicted humanity to escape from the fry
ing pan of present and known evils into some
fire whose fortunes are supposed to be more
tolerable Profoundly impressed with the
annoyances endured, men are always in search
Of some method to escape from them. Con
tentment with the lot assigned by fortune is
rarest among the minor virtues of mankind,
The never-ceasing desire is to find u better
fortune and an easier couch by change Of
business or by seeking new locality. The
pains and evils actually encountered are mag
nifed by constant brooding and reflection.
Tho pleasures and immunities hoped for in
another vocation, or at another place. are
equally magnifed by tho hazy medium
| through which they are viewed, and by the
proyeIbial enchantment which distance lends
to all that is remote, Deceived by the desire
| for unalloyed comfort, which dwells in every
breast, and BY the rainbow hues which hope
casts around what is unknown and untried,
men are always anxious to find haven from
their storms ana Solace for their ills in some
far off land.
| Such is the discomfort, and such are the de-
lusive hopes Of our compahiots of the South
who. propose to enligrate to Mexico or Brazil
4 late number of the Claiborne Advocate an
nounces that the people of that parish have
held meeting with the purpose of organizing
an emigration company, Distinguished and
able citizens were in attendance, among whom
were Gen. Henry Gray, Judge Egan, Hon W.
T. Moreand, Col. Henry Jones and Major
Blaelslnan. Resolutions were adopted nam
ing a committee Of five worthy ana capable
citizens to be sent to Brazil to confer with The
government to select proper location for
colony from North Louisiana In the event
of a favorable report from this committee the
citizens present pledged themselves to emf
CRATE thither and to form an emigrant associa-
ton for that purpose.
The gentlemen whose names are connected
with this movement are precisely of the class
which the South can least afford to lose. 1t
unfortunately happens that tis the best order
Of men who are most anxious to get away,
those who were most devoted to that cause
which has failed and who feel the poverty and
humiliation Of our present status with pro
found grief which true patroits can alone ox-
perience or appreciate These are the very
men we cannot well spare. Their services, |
their example and their counsel are needed at
home. In past times of prosperity they have
shown themselves large-hearted, liberal and |
hospitable, adorning society by their many viz
tues and strengthening the commonwealth by
their wisdom and experience. In the strug-
glo for independence they met danger and
bore losses with heroic fortitude. They cam
not now well be spared from the circle Of our
Confederate guild. We cannot afford TO
strike from the rolls Of the fraternity tie
names Of any true patriots. Sucb men arc
too good for Brazilian subjects and too pre-
cions to be willingly parted with Yet it is
this class OF men who seem to be most desir-
GUS to find quiet home in some foreign land.
II all the white inhabitants Of the Southern
States except the insignificant and ignoble
few who did not aid us or sympathise with us
in our cause could so together to some dis
tant land We should not object to leaving a
country threatened with radical despotisn
though going to no Canaan Of prosperity and
peace. But this is simply impossible. Six
millions of men, women and children mostly
poor, cannot emigrate. Not one in twenty Of
our people have the means to get away. Their
fixed home and inevitable destiny are here in
these States. Whatever of good or evil the
future may have in store for us we must await
it among the hills and in the valleys Of the
South Though We should be ruled by a