New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-06-16
WHAT WE NEED

salace. but after all, what is she going to DO
about it if the majority in Congress1 persist IN
excluding her from participation in governmental
affairs? The struggle for independence has been
made and has failed. Another struggle for the
privilege Of ratifying the despotc acts of Winds
i've majority by an Intellectual protest in Congress-
would be not worth the trying, even if it. fere not
plainly hopeless. Nothing remains fos the south
ern States but to wait for the development OF
events in The political world ead to turn Their at
tention entirely and earnestly to the development
of their material resources. Their needs at this
moment are industrial. They require to re-
suseitate their agriculture, their commerce, their
manufactures. They need to make cotton and
corn. and tobacco and rice to reorganize their IN
dustrisI system, and to prepare for their future
iouffey in the new path which events have marked
ont for them. For the moment, it is of very little
consequence to us that Louisiana Senator be
ON hand to rebut Summers malicious accusations
against the South, or that Virginia representa-
tive be permitted to cast vote against stevens's
reconstruction programme. The overflow in Louis
lana does US infinitely more harm than all the Re-
publican philippics that are uttered against in
Congress: and an average cotton crop would do US
far more good than fifty speeches in the Capitol.
We repeat that what we want is industry, labor
and population. Give US enough of these and we
can stand goodly share Of radical tyranny.
Leave Us without them, and the privilege of vot-
ing in Congress would avail us very little, and
when we say that we want population we use the
word in no restricted sense. We do not, it is true
want the kind Of people whom Sumner and Stevens
would send among us-political emissaries, hired
spies and informers, wicked instruments of base
and wicked purpose but we do wish those who
come to labor in any way whatever, to cultivate
the SOIL to establish factories, to invest capital
in mercantile pursuits. We want them whether they
come from England or California, from Germany
or New England. Such people will always be
sure Of hearty welcome in any part of the South.
We have been induced to make these remarks
by reading an article in a Northern paper, advis-
ing persons in that section to emigrate tothe
South, and stating the advantages which are
offered to them in this part of the country. That
paper says that those who have already come here
and who have fused reasonable Judgment in
selecting and stocking plantations" have sent
back encouraging reports. "The inducements u
remarks the journal from which we quote, "to EN-.
bark in the enterprise remain about the same as
at the beginning Of the year.. There is no immedi-
ate prospect of material decline in the price of
cotton and there is much good land ready for the
| pillow, lying uneultiyated, awaiting capital and
labor to make it productive. .
Most plantations not now under cultivation
are destitute Of everything but good soil and an
abundance Of timber. The requirements to con-
vert these to use are, first of ali, capta-at least
s500O with which to procure and support ten
laborers, six mules, three plows, two wagons and
If laIf oh
every hundred acres of land to be cultivated. In
possession Of the money, the planter can procure
all the other articles in the South. There is no
scarcity Of labor enterprising, merchants have
shipped to every Southern city and considerable
Village plantation supplies Of every kind and
droyes Of mules, from Texas and the West, are
offered for sale in every county and parish where
there is money to buy them.n
| The same paper then goes on to say that Sin
the Southern States, as elsewhere, some sections
are settled by intelligent industrious and law
abiding people, who would gladly welcome mer
| from the North who come with capital and indus
| try to cultivate the soil Other portions Of the
country are settled BY ignorant, selfconceited
braggarts, who affect to despse honest labor, and
are hostile to any and all who by precept or ex-
ample run counter to their own narrow notions.
It will not be difficult to pick out the desirable
communities; they are found in almost every one
OF Tie cotton States, and will readily be dstin-
guished by an intelligent agent who may be sent
out to select place for the formation Of settle
ment. Georgia, Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana
and Texas are settled in all their NEST fertile and
desirable tracts by hospitable people. In Cen
trail Alabama, from Montgomery to Gainesville
on the Tombigbee river, is one of those localities
where both the people and the soil would be
acceptable. On Bayou B@1i, in Louisiana, and
| if the overflow can be prevented on Bayous De
Glaze and Teche, and in the Red River country
from Alexandra to the Texas line, the inhabitants
would rejoice at the opportunity to revive the
prosperity Of their beautiful gardenIike countries
| by the aid of Northern capital and slSilI.n
we have purposely abstained from naming the
paper ID which these remarks appear for fear of
exciting the suspicious and ineredulity of oul
readers; but, when we inform them that the jour
nal in question is the New ork Tribune, they vii
wonder how it happened that so much truth, and
so much good sense could have been admitted into
columns which are daily devoted to the task Of
proving that the Southern people are all set o.
assassins among whom the life Of Yankee is moi
worth d minutes purchase. For months the Fri
bune has been replete with stories of Southern
"disioyalty, Y Southern barbarism, Southern hatred
of negroes and of Northern men, all intended tc
prove the absolute unfitness of the white people
of the South to govern themselves and the neees,
sity of subjecting them to the regime of radical
directory and the freedmen's bureau.
Now we are told that Georgia, Alabama, Ar
Kansas Louisiana and Texas are settled in all thei
most fertile and desirable tracts by d hospitable
people, J" and that Central Alabama, from Mont
gomery to GAINESVILLE, is one of those localities
where both the people and the soil would be &C
eeptahle j" and that on the bayous of Louisiana
and in the Red River country from Alexandria tc
the Texas line the Inhabitants would rejoice at the
opportunity to revive the prosperity of their beau
tiiu garden.like countries by the aid Of Northern
capital and skill. That is to say, those districts
in which the Confederate cause was strongest and
IN which il j. said that the people are even now
busy from morning till night in staying negroes
and running of Yankees. are precisely the dis
trigts whittier ID is most desirable for a Northern
man to bring his person and his capital.
SERIOUS AoOIDEET.---We learn that Mr., EsBridee,
assistant foreman Of the news room Of the Houston
Telegraph fell from the third story Of the Tel.
egraph Office to the ground en- Sunday night last.
He was alone at the time, and as he fell from the
back part of the haiding, no one discovered him
or 1tnaw of the caGualtV till mornup Wbsn 6rst