The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1866-12-17

ssuth Casslinx E@sgrasins % Texas.
Texas journal, pabi1hed at Crockett, re
ports twelve hundred eaigrant wagons as hay
ing lately passed through that place from
South Carolina bound for different points in
Texl@. This exodus might inspire some South.
ern bavd to write another 'Tale of Acadie,' 2
not lesy pathetic than Longfeilow's "Evange-
line" These exiles, like the Acadians, have
left behind them their dead and many vii
lage in ruins. The fiery breath Of war has
swept over thsir homes
Waste those pleasant farms aad the farmers forever
departed.
But like the Acadlans also. they may find on their
distant journey tho compass Hower"-a guide
to new and happy homes. phe vast and ter
tile State of Texas abounds I'M undeveloped re-
sources. Its future wealth Is incalculable.
Emigration Is precisely what 1t requires at
present to hasten and assure its progress. II
the selfexiled South Carolinians have not
foolishly slowed away with their luggage
and household gods their Old political
hereses and prejudices, which the war must
have smashed into quite useless lumber, their
twelve hundred wagons may bear them safely
to points in Texas where they shall start airesh
and hopefully towards . future as bright as
their recent past has been gloomy. Even
during the war its burdens and woes fell but
lightly upon Texas. For long time it seemed
to be directly benefited. A tide of emigra-
ton early set in towards it from several Of the
Southwestern and Southern States. Large
numbers of slaves were sent there for safety
and much movable wealth was carried there
by families from Louisiana, Arkansas Mis-
souri, Tennessee, Kentucky, as well as other
States, even from so far of as Virginia.
In some portions Of the State neither blue
jacket nor gray jacket, neither greenback
nor grayback, neither Stars and Stripes nor
Stars and Bars were seen during the entire
war. There and elsewhere, Notwithstanding
the hosts OF Texans who hurried of to war, in
dustry was scarcely interrupted, and in many
respects it was stimulated to degree which
before. The blockade business was brisk
and profitable, and steady and in
creasing flow of munitions of war and
provisions of all sorts for the South
ern armies was uninterrupted until Texas
was pretty nearly cut off from the confederacy
in 1862, when the upper fiotilla Of the Missis-
sippi joined the squadron ofFarragut, who had
moved up from New Orleans to Vicksburg
Texas was effectually cut of. the next year,
when Grant took Vicksburg and Banks Port
Hudson. The emigration to Texas was then
stopped which South Carolina is renewing
now. Mostly confined, as il appears to be, TO
the whites, it bids fair ere long to leave behind
it in South Carolina only black population.
Unless the radicals in Congress desire such
in order to try on larger scale
than In the District Of Columbia what seems to
be their pet project Of a model negro republic,
the rapid depopulation of South Carolina, which
is indicated by the fact that twelve hundred
emigrant wagons from the Palmetto State lately
passed through single little town in Texas,
calls for serious consideration from the Con-
gressional Committee on Reconstruction.