The tri-weekly news. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1865-1876, 1866-03-03
FFom the Richmond Dispatch.
Our Young Men.

"a j..
1t is stated by DeBow that at least
fifty thousand Southern men have been
added to the population. Of New York
city since the close of the war
We regret that SO many of our young
men Shouts deem it necessary TO leave
their native section, which stands so
much in need now of all her children.
We have 10 doubt that the desire of
employment the necessity of it in many
cases, has compelled This large emigra
tion from ahe South. But where il is
not essential to life itself that is the
duty ofall who loveliheir native soil to
stand by it in its saaversity as in its
prosperity. The pride which they feel
in the spot Of their birth, the obligations
Of gratitude and affection, sympathy
with its. sorrows, and aspirations for it's
future happiness, unite 10 invoke them
not to desert their old mother in the
].our ofadversity.
the young men of the Sot1ti, are
Its jewels-all Of its treasure that Il
desolating war has left. !. Much olr THE
treasure has gone forever, buried be-.
meath the soil which it once adorned,
and making that soa dearer than ever
before to its possessors. Hundreds OF
thousands of these Young men have
gone to land from which there IS no
return, Will hose who remain leave
the family hearthstohe, shrouded who re-
main leave the family hearthstone utterly
solitary and desolate? They would have
deemed tan ignominious thing to desert
their colors,in the hour of battle, and
would have preferred death to such Il
deed of shame. Is it less ruinous TO
forsake now the land lor which. they
have made such struggles ? Can they
not exercise, iQ the peaceful efforts SHE
is making fora restoration OF her former
prosperity, the same self,denial, patience,
perseverance, and energy, which they
exhibit in wer? At a TIME when we
are endeavoring to invite Immigration
iron. all the world, and when our great
necessity is labor, shall the emigration
from the South far surpass that witch is
ertering her borders? Is the land that
was once the garden of the earth to be.
come a solitary and desolate place,
abandoned by the flower of it's enter.
; prise and energy, and left to-. relapse in.
to n wilderness.
AS southern men, we care not SO
much for the decline in material. great
ness which must be involved in the
abandonment ofthe South by any con.
sideiable number of its young men.
Our people have never been ambitious
of great wealth.. They have bo,ne
with heroic fortitude the loss of their
worldly possessions. They look with.
out a tear upon the havoc which the
war has made in their personal fortunes.
The natuE,l emotions which such losses
might arouse'are swallowed up in the
deeper grief over the loss of their best
aud bravest IN battle. But If to these
10 to be added the loss by emigration of
those who survive, the Sonth may well
be inconsolable. Then, indeed, may
she take up the plaintive lamentation
ot the patriarch Jacob when, in the
famine of Canaan, he refused to permit
his youngest son TO 60 down to Egypt.
ME have ye bereaved Of my children
Joseph is not, aud Sim ON is. not, and
9 we will'take Benjamin 9 .ay: all these
; 'tiiihgs are against me. Ii I,be be.
sreayed Of my children, lam bereaved. -
ut indeed, tlte Southern people. like
the jewish patrlarch,t could move the
whole Southern household, withthcir
women and little ones, to- a land of peace
and plenty, we might look with more
compes',re upon such All exodus. Bnt
thesc must remain. eIThe old men aud