The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-08-19
COLUMBIA
Sunday Morning, August 49, 9a1S86
Emigration from tl.e soath.


We have on several occasions lifted
our voice against the various emf.
grafton schemes set afoat at an early
period after the close of the war, and
a careful Investigation of all that has
been written and published on the
subject, our opinion remains un-
changed. .---- ..,.,,-.... M
Several gentlemen and among them
some from our own State, have visit
ed Brazil, one of the most favored
lands of promise held out to the
Southern emigrant; but a calm pc
rusal Of the reports brought from that
country convinces us that there will
be found obstacles to the prosperity
of those who may settle there, which
will counterbalance alleged advan-
tages. Professor Agassiz has been in
the country lying on the shores of the
Amazon, and says that while the
opening of that magnificent river
will bring to its borders number of
enterprising. industrious men, yet ga
great emigration, such us rapidly
augments 9 population, will never
gather there, so long as the order of
things which have observed in the
Provinces of Para and Amazon exist. ="
The obstacles the Professor alludes to
are various forms of petty tyranny.
Two gentlemen from Edgefeld
District have also visited Brazil, and
make their report through the me-
dunn of DeBoao's Recie,o. They say
that, in the latitude of Pernanbuco,
cotton is raised, rated Id. to I'D.
higher than any other in Liverpool,
and that the sugar and tobacco were
perfect; but they say ''that the eli
mate would not suit, as the -everlast-
ing heat must enervate the system
and break the constitution. There
are other objections, such as an cs-
tablished religion. (Catholic;) other
religions, however, are tolerated: the
language, the mixed classes of popu-
lation, and the want of the proper
facilities for education.
But the most serious objection that
we can conceive of to the Southern
emigrant, is found in the fact, that
during the stay of the committee
aforesaid, the prices Of negroes de-
cls''ed one Aay, and that all classes oqree
thof the day IS not distant srAe,a en.a,,ci
patton naalst come. Now, surely. the
Southerner has had enough Of this at
home, and has tasted sufficiently the
benefit OF freed labor, even among
the race referred to, born and raised
under their own roof-trees, to be
tempted to go through the same
ordeal in strange land and among
strange freedmen, with whose habits
and customs he must be compare
lively unacquainted., This argument
against Brazil, we think, must be
potent with the Southerner.
AS to another place-Cordosa; that
land of promise is pretty well played
out. A Mr.. Lane, from this country.
one of q colony who went there to
settle, has returned. He describes
the treatment and cruelty that he and
5wenty-six of his companions received
1t the hands of liberals, which were
sufficient to cause them to be glad to
cave the country in q hurry. He
lvers, that to say he considers the
Mexicans the repository of all the
surplus treachery of the world, con-
7eys but very faint idea of his dis
gust with his experience in their
Whatever discouragements or dis
'eartening trials the people of the
south may have had to pass through
Turing the closing scenes of the war.
nd whatever may have been its dis
strous results pecuniarily, yet we af
lrm that no other country-taking
nto consideration the breaking ND of
Id associations, the troubles, trials
nd expenses of an emigrating jour
ey; the difficulties they will have to
ontend with when they reach their